That single string death metal riff is definitely Incantation, it's not specifically an Incantation riff, but that was the idea.
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The Arizona outfit's acclaimed first album, Sonoran Deprivation, dropped in 2016, the same year that Denver's Blood Incantation released their landmark first LP, Starspawn (Blood Incantation released a live cassette this year).
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I'm not afraid of any devil or demon or incantation.
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Hutcherson: [laughs] Man, that Blood Incantation album is so fucking good.
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I always want Incantation to be respected as truly death metal.
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The more recent incantation, in NBA JAMS, is a little manic.
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The incantation is like a prayer – like a wing and a prayer.
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Or depending on the device, you have to say a different incantation.
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Many manuscripts also concerned other subjects, such as magic and incantation spells.
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It cannot just be a pledge, it cannot be just an incantation.
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So we started Incantation, kind of as a 'fuck you' to everyone.
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I stared off into space and repeated it to myself like an incantation.
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An incantation for "night" will take away the light from your wand. 8.
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Jeanne kept saying, "Manman, Manman," like an incantation, until it brought her back.
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Of course, there's a lot more going on here than mere Incantation aping.
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The message may be materialistic, but Burna Boy delivers it like an incantation.
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A meditation teacher walked onstage, closed her eyes, and began a gerund-based incantation.
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As a result, it has a uniquely "live" feel, alighting with invigorating, cybernetic incantation.
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Trudell passed away in December of last year shortly after recording the album's opening incantation.
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Eventually, Tony won the game for all time with his almost haiku-like incantation: 'Elizabeth!
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The songs sound like Incantation but they don't sound like we're mimicking our older stuff.
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I've got a lot more, like Blood Incantation, Hellbringer, Urfaust, Ill Omen… there's so many.
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If Woodsman had only said the haunting incantation once, it wouldn't have been that bad.
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Finally I get it: Stuttering is a violent incantation that can break open normal conversation.
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A Muslim cleric stands ready to oversee the incantation that ensures each carcass will be halal.
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No incantation to recite at half past midnight on the third full moon of the year.
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" Her favorite phrase, uttered almost like an incantation: "Good vibes, good vibes, I'm getting good vibes.
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There is a numbing incantation of faults attributed to the troika (did they do anything right?).
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Dickens will teach any writer how to plot and can turn a sentence into an incantation.
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But the words are more an incantation than an accurate description, built on hope not history.
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" Since then, Wheeler also has regularly touted what quickly became a monotonous incantation: "Competition, competition, competition.
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Later on in "I Need You," Cave simply repeats the title with different inflections, like an incantation.
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I think a lot of rock and roll music, or just Western pop music, has an incantation.
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He was the subject of a solo exhibition, Crypto-Somatic Incantation, at Studio10, Brooklyn, in February 2016.
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Some may even wonder whom Beijing is kidding with its constant incantation of the "win-win" mantra.
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He'd never voted before, but now he wanted to — "for Beto," he kept repeating, like an incantation.
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Mr. Trump has denied this, repeating "no quid pro quo" as though it were a magical incantation.
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Each story starts with the same line, which by the end has the effect of an incantation.
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Incantation is a death metal band, and as long as I can contribute to the genre I will.
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"This is not the equivalent of magically punching a Nazi," the Medium post containing the ritual incantation stressed.
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In better moments, the blurred landscape and timescape allow the language to become as lulling as an incantation.
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They relied heavily on the idea that President Obama could defeat ISIS through rote incantation of magic words.
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"This is not the equivalent of magically punching a Nazi," the Medium post containing the ritual incantation stressed.
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J.P. Kailee Morgue's debut single, "Medusa," is an eerie, floating incantation that's not as skeletal as it seems.
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Her songs draw upon incantation and repetition — sometimes issuing subtle social critiques, other times simply heightening the senses.
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What's "Google" but an incantation, a funny word that signifies a shift in perception, a change in reality?
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The vocal lines unite pop simplicity, medieval-style incantation and a singsong spoken style borrowed from Robert Ashley.
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He says that the medicine has been made through natural herbs obtained from the forest and hours of incantation.
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Every word intimidates, but when placed together, they become evocative poetry, an unforgettable incantation of cheap and dirty horror.
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This mystical incantation is probably familiar to you as something magicians say on stage when pulling rabbits out of hats.
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Eyes closed and face clenched, Carmen rises toward the ceiling, hovering in the air until her incantation rouses her friend.
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She denied it all, adamantly, in that Vanderpump way where she said "no," over and over again, like an incantation.
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What you'll need for your simple nightly incantation is as follows: black obsidian, clear quartz, rose quartz, and an intention.
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It is some type of incantation where my mother becomes a god and the men who hurt me falls away.
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"Unshaken" is lonely cowboy-western soul, produced by Daniel Lanois — an incantation for those with bleary eyes and unswerving defiance.
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Plath wrote memory like an incantation, hoping that by capturing remembered feelings and experiences in writing, she might conjure them back.
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Though "Reabracadabra" riffs off the magical incantation Abracadabra, nothing magical happens in the piece, but it's still delightful and historically significant.
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Then, early adopters (like Gatecreeper and Blood Incantation, for example) dig deeper into the sound proper, and gain a little popularity.
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Even the repetition in those tweets—WITCH HUNT, WITCH HUNT, WITCH HUNT—is a kind of incantation, calling itself into being.
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What happened during the years between his birth and death has been the source of even more speculation and cultural incantation.
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"Mafé, yassa, ragoût de porc, Guadeloupe poisson, chicken with 40 cloves of garlic, boeuf bourgignon," Ms. Salvant recited, almost in incantation.
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The words were the modern wrestling equivalent of "let there be light," a declaration of naissance, an incantation of the new.
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"I see this as the second incantation of Hangouts," Scott Johnston, director of product management at Google, said in an interview.
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She stood onstage with her lips pulled back tightly in an excruciating wince, often repeating individual words in a breathy incantation.
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In this campaign, he has repeated the phrase "Get Brexit done" so often that it has become a kind of incantation.
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The words are like an incantation, a spell — intoxicating for children and mercifully unannoying for parents, even on the hundredth reading.
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His smile is a gold-plated incantation as we drift by women on bar stools, with nothing leftin them but approachlessness.
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But instead of tapping a single button to cast a spell, you're typing out the incantation, as if you're speaking it yourself.
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With this particular spell, it may be a good idea to attempt the incantation within or near a pool of water. Why?
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"Fernand," a Jacques Brel song, was a raspy, witchy incantation, with its oom-pah-pah speeding and slowing to wring out drama.
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It's a powerful truth and an incantation against myths of racial equality and colorblindness that have become ingrained in the American imagination.
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The result is deceptively laconic, an accumulation of impressions reiterating the same incantation on the primacy of death — even in society's upper echelons.
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Twenty years later, I carry that nonword around like a sacred incantation, a prayer I say to the rising sun each day: DEODOTANT.
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However, part of a spell's magic is knowing the true meaning behind the incantation — which all happen to be derivatives of latin words.
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Rather than a cosmopolitan form of jazz with Ethiopian influence, Mr. Mekurya made a music of gruff, earthy incantation, rooted in folkloric custom.
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In 22014, after Germany's surprise attack on the Soviet western front, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church recited it like an incantation.
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Introspection gradually, and naturally, evolved into drama or exultancy; a percussive incantation, "Don't Unplug My Body," went through variations both assertive and seductive.
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But when the attraction is turned into Haunted Mansion Holiday, Madame Leota's incantation is actually Imagineer Kim Irvine, the daughter of Leota Toombs.
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" The syllables of those backing vocals matched perfectly with the incantation my homie had filled me in on: "Lu-ci-fer, you're my king.
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It's not enough to make a "talismanic incantation" of a general national-security interest, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said in the spring.
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In a genre that values loyalty to principle and a dedication to extremity, Incantation might be the truest death metal band on the planet.
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But [former Incantation guitarist Sonny "Darkie"] Lombarozzi knew all the trouble, so it was natural for us to just ask him to come in.
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That modesty is a hallmark of the album's first single, "Yummy," a lithe sensual incantation that (despite occasionally ridiculous lyrics) never breaks a sweat.
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The objects are prerequisites for a binding spell, an incantation typically used to keep someone from harming themselves or others, like a magical straitjacket.
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But the food is distinct: Burmese dishes rarely found in New York City, each an incantation of ingredients chosen and prepared for maximal juxtaposition.
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The two questions that, like some sort of protective incantation, are to be asked over and over again to credulous Facebook denizens across the land.
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And there was a nagging voice I heard at the same time every day, like some sort of chant or incantation, unnerving in its consistency.
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Instead, Incantation have done what any metal band worth its gas money dreams of—they've released nine albums of uncompromising, unapologetic, ripping fucking death metal.
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Only then will the phrase 'Never Again!' be anything but a pious and useless incantation that will neither raise the dead nor save the living.
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It's the origin story of how a foster child, Billy Batson (Asher Angel), uses the titular incantation to transform into the namesake superhero (Zachary Levi).
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Along this blighted landscape parents walked children home wearing big buttons proclaiming "SAFE WAY" as both warning to thugs and an incantation to the Almighty.
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Occasionally the songs' lyrics overlap, returning to insoluble obsessions; they wander among observation, parable, reminiscence and incantation, sometimes infusing the most commonplace sentiments with mystery.
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The title essay, "The White Album," which begins with the famous incantation, "We tell ourselves stories in order to live," is a fragmentary bit of work.
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They know that Incantation is just as refreshing to gulp down as Morbid Angel, thanks to guitarist Todd Nief, the band's primary songwriter and riff machine.
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They're part of WWE's corporate branding now: the WrestleMania moment, invoked by wrestlers like an incantation meant to ward off injury and excuse their 1099 status.
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With cleareyed vocals, drone harmonies and string-section glissandos, "Foreign Car" carries an old pop metaphor — "wanna drive you" — into realms of weightlessness, experimentation and incantation.
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But it begins with the incantation of the voice of the narrative — not always the same as the voice of a character or point of view.
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Somewhere in between are what the former White House adviser John Bolton called "panda-huggers" and "wet noodles," and their incantation about fuzzy U.S.-China cooperation.
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It's less an incantation than a last-ditch effort; the staff is her mother's, so she knows that it's magic, she just doesn't know how it's magic.
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Part notebook, part incantation, part primal therapy, it is so esoteric it sometimes seems as if it were written in a language with just one speaker left.
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After attacking the upward-zipping melody from "Configuration," Mr. Lovano and Mr. Coltrane took turns in the solo spotlight, offering two equally gripping versions of cathartic incantation.
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The test, produced with 3D animation and written by Ms. Rowling herself, quickly excited fans online, who used the social media incantation #ExpectoPatronum to share their results.
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Poem Paul Celan's harrowing Holocaust incantation, "Death Fugue," is the apparent inspiration for this poem by Marilyn Chin, a withering takedown of our so-called global diplomacy.
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Like Camus's The Stranger, whose famous opening line—"Today, Maman died"—is repeated like a choral incantation throughout the novel, Inheritance From Mother begins with a mother's death.
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Meanwhile Shaked himself had previously worked for several years on the Schøyen incantation bowls, a set of hundreds of unprovenanced artifacts likely looted from Iraq in the 1990s.
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The problem is that they're often repeated like an incantation, with little reflection on the extent to which they still ring true in America, and are still exceptionally American.
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The band stripped away its frantic, d-beat-driven bursts of aggression in favor of a cavernous death assault that harkens back to Incantation, Autopsy, and early Cannibal Corpse.
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He is among Jewish refugees who tell him, in a repetitive incantation, that they have carried him from train to train, truck to truck, across a war-scarred continent.
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Putting a finer point on it: "[n]ational security is not a 'talismanic incantation' that, once invoked, can support any and all exercise of executive power under Sect. 1182(f)".
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You all and some of the dudes from Spectral Voice (who are in Blood Incantation) are having big 2016s, so who do you think has the better album this year?
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One game, described by The Evening Public Ledger in 1914, called for a participant to walk backward in bright moonlight while staring into a hand mirror and reciting an incantation.
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But, as befits a show about black magic, they are a fierce incantation, a shield and a vow that speak volumes about surviving the truly terrifying world that waits outside.
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When a butcher refuses to sell her a goats head for an incantation she gets more than a little agitated and demands to speak to the manager of the grocery store.
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Sounds like this is all going swell, and is not at all another thinly veiled attempt to invoke "blockchain" as a magical incantation to conjure up piles of cash or something.
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But back to earth: Superpowers aren't real, you can't buy an invisibility cloak at Zara, and there's no known incantation one can mutter to erase all their zits just like that.
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Redmayne, the lead actor of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," asked the audience to shout the incantation for the light-up spell "Lumos Maxima" to unveil a new trailer.
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I started to feel lightheaded when the house began dreaming about its own deconstructed past, but so long as the embers of Freedman's incantation continue to glow, I'm in no rush.
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While the rest of the group recites an incantation to welcome the Goddess into the circle, the "vessel" is expected to enter a meditative state so intense that it's almost a trance.
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With the flame reflected in the water, we recited an incantation in unison: By the gods I ask of thee, Universal let me see, I ask this question be answered to me.
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He heard the word "abolition," for instance, as a mysterious, forbidden incantation; he didn't know precisely what "abolition" meant, but he could tell from the murmur around it that it mattered enormously.
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For example, this year's edition will showcase the likes of Marduk, Taake, Archgoat, Doom, Jucifer, Grave, Incantation, Misþyrming, Usnea, Inverloch, Conan, Naðra, and Severe Torture alongside tons of hungry young Portuguese bands.
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Trump's tariffs (under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962), the travel ban and his abrogation of the Iran nuclear deal were all made under the incantation of national security.
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The affirmation of Indigenous ownership at public events has become little more than a ritual incantation that allows white Australians to assuage guilt without taking the action necessary to challenge racist marginalization.
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"Fertility declines at 241," she repeated like an incantation in a post-exam interview, information she had picked up at a medical conference she attended as part of her research for Freeze.
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Miss Wardwell says it's dark and dangerous and that Sabrina shouldn't go anywhere near it, but if she does, she lets slip that she keeps the incantation in a book in her office.
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The four-woman band played nine shows in 19 days rotating among three clubs, testing out new material onstage that moved with post-punk impact amid melody, incantation, sinewy groove and formidable noise.
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In any case it never hurts to be reminded of the power of what the critic Albert Murray described as "that artful and sometimes seemingly magical combination of idiomatic incantation and percussion," i.e.
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Hoffman has written about Jews under siege before: in her 2006 novel for younger readers, "Incantation," set during the Spanish Inquisition, and in 2011's "The Dovekeepers," about the Roman siege of Masada.
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Hoffman has written about Jews under siege before: in her 2006 novel for younger readers, "Incantation," set during the Spanish Inquisition, and in 2011's "The Dovekeepers," about the Roman siege of Masada.
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Part lyrical narrative, part bluesy riff, part schoolyard chant and part holy incantation, the book is an unflinching investigation of otherness and a dead-sexy exploration of the intersection of identity and desire.
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"Attitude: Lucy Negro Redux" was a beautifully choreographed ballet, but it was more than a ballet: It was also a spoken-word incantation and a showcase for the musical genius of Rhiannon Giddens.
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She would begin the essay with a long incantation about how the "center was not holding," then trek into the widening abyss to find people who would reveal themselves in a line or two.
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"Bloom," a psychedelic tangle of a song from the 2011 album "The King of Limbs" — a ballad, rocker and incantation layered with polyrhythms — swelled to arena scale without losing any of its labyrinthine obsessiveness.
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"Since day one, the most important thing was to not have some high expectations," says guitarist/vocalist John McEntee, the only member of the band to have remained in Incantation since its inception in 1989.
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Stick groups — sitting groups opened and closed with the ceremonial breaking of a stick and a few words of incantation — are the most serious of all, reserved for heavy and notable moments in group therapy.
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Dated to 1921, Kitāb-i ʻAjāʾib-i makhlūqāt (Wonders of Creation) includes an illustrated manuscript on magic and astrology, a book of spells listing incantation and talismans, and 56 painted illustrations of demons and angels.
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Archaeologist Morag Kersel, a professor at DePaul University who studies Middle Eastern antiquities trafficking, has noted that incantation bowls suddenly started appearing in Jerusalem antiquities shops around 2003 — that is, the year the Iraq war began.
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But they don't love it as much as I do—an adoration that borders on religious in which "a soft serve swirl in a cone with rainbow sprinkles" is the only incantation necessary to reach nirvana.
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Being told I was reminiscent of the most dysfunctional woman on a show filled with dysfunctional women felt like an incantation, a twisted love spell put on me, making the series the subject of my heart.
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"Stonewave," a ritual incantation by Rolf Wallin, is up first; then "Quartett," another sign of the growing acceptance of Beat Furrer's works on these shores; and last, "Tempus ex Machina," Gerard Grisey's study on musical time.
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" The second episode of "Legion" opens less with narration than with an incantation — prose calculated to conjure up a sense of wonder and terror straight out of a Galadriel speech in "The Lord of the Rings.
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In the end, the mother's instructions were an incantation more suited to a Renaissance patron than a contemporary client: "She told me, 'I want you to achieve your dream; that would be my dream,' " he recalls.
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The film builds to a blackout, an incantation, and a projection of NBC's inaugural "picture on air" as Leckey names Felix the "avatar of the tail" and spells out his nine "consciousnesses" rather than nine lives.
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It is not a two-letter incantation that can be used to summon venture capital and institutional confidence at a whim; nor is it fairy dust that can be sprinkled over products and institutions for instant improvements.
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In other stories, gamblers and murderers and other unwholesome people would be told to accept Christ just before their death, and so long as they repeated the magic incantation, their reward would be eternal bliss in heaven.
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This is the Day is a kind of summons, a kind of incantation, a throaty invocation for a people who are animated by love and curiosity and do not fear death — those who are yet to be.
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On "Slow Blues," Coltrane lights into split-toned incantation almost immediately, then carries a steady improvisation forward for nearly the entire 11-and-a-half minutes of the track, interrupted only by a brief Tyner solo. Impulse!
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And Sbongiseni Duma, known as Bongi, and Tshidi Manye — you may have seen them both in "The Lion King" on Broadway, where Ms. Manye delivers the memorable opening incantation — will demonstrate the distinctive rhythms of Zulu tradition.
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The overall atmosphere was incredibly friendly and welcoming, down to the hand-drawn signs that were whisked out of pockets and purses to welcome death metal gods Incantation back to the fest after an 11-year gap.
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If he said he didn't like a print or a silhouette, one of the staffers would ask him why, and he would patiently explain himself: He repeated the phrase "This just doesn't feel new enough" like an incantation.
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Instead the words I love you come tumbling out of my mouth in an incantation the first time you fuck me in the ass, my face smashed against the cement floor of your dank and charming bachelor pad.
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Blood Incantation will tour in the spring of 2019 with Necrot, a punky death metal brigade that shares members Acephalix, Vasum, and Scolex, all members of a Death Metal scene that has persisted in the San Francisco Bay area.
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Plenty of massively interesting things have been going on within the genre's bloodied borders (hello, Blood Incantation), but losing Bolt Thrower hit us hard, and no one band has stepped forward yet to fill that gap—until, perhaps, now.
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They could even be unaccompanied incantation, like the breathtaking flow of her spoken-word B-side "Babelfield," which still feels as riveting as it did when I played it as a late-night college radio D.J. in the '80s.
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The terms of service for every social network amount to little more than a nonsense incantation, he writes — Instagram users this week were merely fighting fire with fire: All the big social apps explain themselves to us this way.
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Those words, like a Proustian madeleine composed of garbage and hatred, whisked me back to another time when that line was a regular refrain of the Gamergate debacle, an incantation intended to dispel any statements the self-anointed "gamer" disagreed with.
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The little pooch has learned more than 15 different Harry Potter spell tricks, all of which he shows off in the video that now has more than 250,000 views on YouTube — he can even pee on command with the "Aguamenti" incantation.
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As participants entered the ballroom in which the incantation was to take place, they were greeted by four witches dressed in black wearing traditional pointed hats, holding brooms in an arch over the attendees' heads to bless and purify them.
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And then there are the words themselves, like an incantation opening up the sweeping vistas of life that summer promises in a way that other times of year just cannot: I just know that something good is going to happen.
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At the University of Exeter, the Museum of the Bible has funded a Ph.D. student under the direction of Professor Siam Bhayro to study Aramaic incantation bowls from late antique Iraq in the longstanding collection of the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin.
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Zola Jesus, gives a full-throated wail of an incantation, answered by her own banshee choir, over dark low strings along with electronics and percussion that starts out twitchy and ratchety and ends up at a throng-of-Cossacks gallop.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the final days of actress Cynthia Nixon's insurgent campaign against incumbent New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, she and her supporters have taken to repeating three names as if an incantation: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Andrew Gillum and Ayanna Pressley.
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On August 2823, 2016, Orthodox activists sent a statement to the Russian police urging them to permanently ban American death-metal icons Incantation, Austrian black/death metallers Belphegor, and American dark-folk act King Dude, insisting that the bands promote Satanism and blasphemy.
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While Incantation seemed to have little trouble at its Russia dates, protesters appeared outside its Moscow show, and band members complained of being prohibited from saying their "blasphemous" song titles onstage, a provision that King Dude also encountered on a more recent run.
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He is always looking to transform, even sabotage, his own set, veering off on tangents, interrupting, latching on to a phrase that tickles him, repeating it over and over until it becomes a kind of incantation whose repetition becomes its own bizarre joke.
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Grave Plague seem to be a new prospect with a delightfully caveman-esque outlook; their approach to death metal comes straight outta the early 90s, brewed from a rotten mash of Swedish and Floridian influences (as well as the obvious hat-tip to Incantation).
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The heart of the work is a trio for Jennifer Kjos, Alice MacDonald and Eleanor Smith, who take a simple turning sequence and repeat it so many times, in so many traveling formations and anti-formations, that its rhythm becomes a kind of bodily incantation.
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From the day the Mueller investigation began, opponents of the president have hungered for that report, or an indictment waiting just around the corner, as the source text for an incantation to whisk Mr. Trump out of office and set everything back to normal again.
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Like a tiny, effervescent Mary Poppins, she arrives with her translator in a black Dodge van, brimming with good will and an incantation of the method, which requires adherents to dig out all their belongings, starting with clothes, and put them in a giant pile.
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It might also be useful to speak the ancient Egyptian incantation to rid the world of Apep's destructive powers:Spitting upon Apep, Defiling Apep with the left foot, Taking a lance to smite Apep, Fettering Apep, Taking a knife to smite Apep, Putting fire upon Apep...[Nature Astronomy]
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I hope that they aren't actually using a kind of liturgical language, in which the incantation that "we haven't come to terms" is the end in itself, a generalized expression of anger about the past and dissatisfaction with the present, disconnected from any plan for the future.
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She heard church music, so faint on the wind that it was like something at the very bottom of a half-remembered dream: not beautiful but mysterious, a toiling incantation, with voices surging under it and a lone voice shouting over it, vibrating between supplication and command.
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Hidden History of the Human Race obliterates skepticism and puts Blood Incantation in the elite pantheon, upholding one of death metal's secret traditions as the true successor to psychedelic music, another means of bludgeoning your brain, filling it with butterflies, and opening it to new dimensions.
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Cannibal Corpse, Death, and Obituary were my first faves, and judging from an impromptu Twitter poll I conducted on that hell platform, for most people, they still reign supreme (alongside Bolt Thrower, Autopsy, Carcass, Incantation, Necrophagia, and Intestine Baalism—a name I haven't heard in years, but wholly appreciate).
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Incantation Since we time-travel into the futureat a blistering sixty-minutes-an-hour,I get you to sit down and write meone beautiful sentence I might carryin my inside pocket when I go,and held in the departure lounge unfold There is more than enough to go round.
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Nearby a flyer advertises Metal Mondays, a vinyl night running from 10 PM to 2 AM. The DJs were crowdsourcing their set on Facebook: "Feel free to bring your Morbid Angel/Cannibal Corpse/Necrot/Blood Incantation records," celebrating the death-metal titans and upstarts' first stop on the Decibel Tour.
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This insistence is willful, a declaration that despite the blight of the 1970s, the children playing with hypodermic needles like toys, the menace of Child Protective Services and the ever-present threat of pregnancy and sexual abuse, there was beauty, even amazing beauty; the repeated word becoming a defiant, poetic incantation.
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Sports Bra, released in September 2017, is a tight, smart alt-emo record that made its statement of intent very clear from the get-go—the phrase "No Gods, no masters, gender is fake, fuck cops" is scrawled around the edge of the album cover like a motto or incantation.
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" (And yes, the name does tend to come in threes, as if the incantation of his name might summon the man himself.) Shortly after the election, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate crimes, published a report called "The Trump Effect: The Impact of the 2016 Election on Our Nation's Schools.
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My scene partner and I were too far to hear what the notes were, but when "Action!" was called again, the Polish man's eyes widened into a trance, and he began spit-whispering a fierce incantation, his sausage-like fingers tracing some ancient spell in the air at the woman seated across from him.
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For fans living at the surface of death metal, the Pennsylvania-based band's nearly 30-year career might not seem like the most exciting or astonishing one—Incantation has never had a breakout record that sparked mainstream media pandering, and the dudes in the band have never posed for Playgirl or incited riots on tour.
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At her funeral last spring — she died at age 100 — every eulogy was an incantation of the bounty she'd fed us all our lives, from bistek, steak exalted by soy sauce and a sunny kiss of calamansi, to Christmas ensaymadas, sweet butter-soaked rolls thatched with queso de bola, a red-skinned Edam cheese.
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But "Gun Love" is lifted by its language, as in this simple, shocking incantation of the smuggled weaponry loaded onto a bus: In the belly of the Greyhound bus there was a Smith & Wesson M&P assault rifle, DPMS Panther Arms assault rifle, Smith & Wesson handgun, Llama handgun, Glock pistol, Smith & Wesson pistol, Taurus pistol, Del-Ton assault rifle, .
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From a real-life bezoar stone and the tombstone of Nicolas Flamel (the medieval alchemist who inspired the eponymous character in Rowling's first book) in Potions, to the first written record of the incantation "abracadabra" in Charms, history lovers and fans alike will learn about the history of magic as it ties to the Harry Potter world.
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Stein is a great choice for a sound-heavy show because she was a most musical writer, with her use of repetition, the literary equivalent of, say, Steve Reich's loops or the incremental changes, in Terry Riley's composition "In C." Via incantation, the three artists aimed to change not just our perceptions but our very consciousness.
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This trend-that's-not-really-a-trend has proved to be something of a double-edged sword, though, because while I'm a firm believer that the world has room for an infinite number of Incantation clones, after five years of saturation, all those murky tones and cavernous atmospheres and Golgothan riffs have left things sounding a bit, well... clone-y.
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BBF's introductory incantation (the pitched-down voice of Craig David intoning "This makes me proud to be British" over and over) and the intentionally terrible Oxford Street tat-shop aesthetic the record came draped in may seem like surreal goofs, but dig into—and past—these pointed jokes, and you'll find one of the most baldly and boldly affecting albums of 2016.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads "Speak, memory," an incantation-command that became the title of Vladimir Nabokov's 1951 memoir, might be one of the best names ever assigned to an autobiography, evoking both the conjuring tricks and the struggles necessary to summon accurate details of past actions, feelings, and events that the effort to look back at the unfolding of a life entails.
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Occurring between those two phenomena, there was a brief but enthusiastic propagation of bands who tried on the murky and obscure end of old school death metal—bands like Grave Miasma, Dead Congregation, and Necros Christos took on the gurgling sound of Pennsylvania's Incantation, and made it sound so vile and cavernous that it skirted the line between ambient music and death metal proper.
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While many of those OGs continue to hoist that bloody torch for good old-fashioned metal of death, a particularly potent crop of young guns have sprouted as of late, and I wanted to take a minute to make note of them—from Tomb Mold to Blood Incantation to Horrendous to Witch Vomit, the kids are alright (and immaculately turned-out in the finest of longsleeves).
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In "Who By Fire," from 1974, one of his many songs that is both a list and an incantation, he itemized causes and sites of death, getting morbid while keeping a hint of puckishness: Who by fire, who by water,Who in the sunshine, who in the nighttime,Who by high ordeal, who by common trial,Who in your merry, merry month of May,Who by very slow decay.
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The monolithic riffs (and rolling clouds of smoke) that doom titans like Usnea, Conan, Inverloch (who added liberal doses of ugly, decimating death metal) and Monolord called forth from the void were aptly balanced by fast, cold, ugly blasts of black metal from Naðra, Misþyrming, Taake, Balmog, Infra, and Marduk, while Possession and the mighty Incantation held it down for pure death metal destruction amd Doom kept the punks bouncing.
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JON PARELES It's hard to imagine a more despondent breakup song than Anonhi's "I Don't Love You Anymore," which circles through loneliness, near-suicidal sorrow, bittersweet memories, anger and a final unfinished hypothetical: "If you showed up at my door..." Reverential organ chords and a muffled rhythm like a heartbeat are pressured, gradually but relentlessly, by increasingly stormy electronics; a melody that starts as an incantation rises as the lyrics offer painful details.
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While medical professionals and government officials have advised that face masks are generally ineffective (about as helpful at preventing the public spread of illnesses as a pillow in a car crash), at the same time, what is being advised — washing our hands, staying home if we feel ill, not touching our face — feels almost magical, more like performing an incantation than taking any concrete action, though the science more than supports its efficacy.
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BAP's introduction to the book is an incantation of sorts, the haunting final sentence of which ends without a terminal period; a detail that is unlikely to have been omitted by mistake: I want to prepare you to receive this old spirit—old spirits are moving from behind the reeds... the silhouette shimmers against a river in late summer, and I see already men who know how to honor such uncanny old friends.
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The old assumptions — that truth matters, that lies shame the liar, that in a democracy the press and the public must have a right to interrogate those who seek the top jobs — have all been swept aside by the Tories' conviction that in an inattentive, dissatisfied, cacophonous world, victory will go to the most compelling entertainer, the most plausible and shameless deceiver, the leader who can drill home a repetitive and seductive incantation.
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