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10” on red vinyl with booklet. Limited 666 copies

Every story has a beginning… Mind you, technically speaking, this wasn’t exactly the beginning for the Blood Incantation guys. By that time, the Colorado lot been together for roughly three years and had put low-key, limited and rough sounding material and friends and family only. But one could say that it’s truly on the Astral Spells demo that the band fully became Blood Incantation. Compiling two rough unmixed demo versions of Hovering Lifeless and Mephitic Effluvia and an even rougher live versions of both The Vth Tablet and Obfuscating The Linear Threshold it’s here for the first time that the cosmic vibe, weird guitar patterns and overall this uncanny if hard to pinpoint oddness were all but ones, with then session member Damon Good from the mighty Mourful Congregation and Stargazer, added his personal touch on fretless bass. Originally released as a cassette in a run of 100 copies with the meaning to serve as a basis for what would become their debut EP Interdimensional Extinction but due to the sound engineer losing the basic tracks, the whole things had to be remixed, thus making those first versions quite exclusive. Now these first cassette version has been pressed as a limited 10” vinyl with a 6-panel booklet with all the lyrics, two interviews from 2013 and 2014, archive photos and even testimonials from both Paul Riedl (guitar and vocals) and Damon Good.

Track list:
1. Hovering Lifeless-raw unmixed rough studio transmission
2. Mephitic Effluvia-raw unmixed rough studio transmission
3. The Vth Tablet (Of Enuma Elis)-live necrosis
4. Obfuscating The Linear Threshold-live necrosis