Blood Incantation ‎– Hidden History Of The Human Race

Hidden History of the Human Race is the second studio album of Denver-based death metal group Blood Incantation, consisting of vocalist and guitarist Paul Riedl, guitarist Morris Kolontyrsky, drummer Isaac Faulk and bassist Jeff Barrett.

All of the tracks from Hidden History of the Human Race were first performed live at the Fire In The Mountains festival in Jackson, Wyoming on July 13, 2019, and the recorded album was released in all formats on November 22, 2019 by Dark Descent Records in North America and Century Media Records in all other countries. The artwork consists of Bruce Pennington’s front cover for the Brian Aldiss novel Space, Time and Nathaniel (1957) with the band logo and the name of the album superimposed onto it – incidentally this image was previously used for the cover artwork of both Alec Empire’s 1996 album Hypermodern Jazz 2000.5 and the 1995 album Apocalyptic Dawning from Montréal death metal group Agony. Commercially, the LP was a Billboard United States Heatseekers Albums chart-topper and a top 40 hit on the same magazine’s Current Albums chart. It also was claimed by several critics to be the metal album of the year and made the year-end lists of publications such as Stereogum, Pitchfork, Metal Hammer, Consequence of Sound, BrooklynVegan, and The Quietus.