Blood Incantation

The new Blood Incantation album, Absolute Elsewhere, is unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. Yes, that’s an audacious, possibly hyperbolic claim, but few can claim a sonic watershed as readily as this Denver, Colorado quartet. Hovering at nearly 45 minutes, their longest full-length recording yet, the album’s two sprawling movements—“The Stargate” and “The Message”—are as confounding as they are engaging, exponentially expanding upon the formulas laid down by their scene-shattering debut Starspawn (2016) and landmark follow-up Hidden History of the Human Race (2019).

As Blood Incantation’s Paul Riedl tells, “'Absolute Elsewhere' is our most potent audial extract/musical trip yet; like the soundtrack to a Herzog-style sci-fi epic about the history of/battle for human consciousness itself, via a 70s prog album played by a 90s death metal band from the future.”