Blood Incantation’s new album “Absolute Elsewhere” will see its release via Century Media on October 4. The band has launched pre-orders and has detailed all physical and digital formats worldwide alongside the trailer for their documentary “All Gates Open: In Search Of Absolute Elsewhere.”
The 73-minute feature film tells the story of Blood Incantation‘s time in Berlin during the summer of 2023, recording Absolute Elsewhere at the legendary Hansa Studios. It will be available on Blu-Ray with the album’s deluxe mediabook package and will also include the documentary’s original soundtrack, “All Gates Open: In Search Of Absolute Elsewhere.“
This special edition will also include Blood Incantation‘s 2023 maxi-single, “Luminescent Bridge” for the first time on CD, and of course, “Absolute Elsewhere” in both standard and Dolby Atmos / 5.1 mixes, alongside exclusive liner notes, exclusive interviews, behind the scenes photos and a forward by Ross Dolan of Immolation.
Pre-order “Absolute Elsewhere” HERE and watch the documentary trailer below.
Hovering at nearly 45 minutes, their longest full-length recording yet, the “Absolute Elsewhere”’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.”
For inspiration, the group looked to the mid-70s progressive rock collective, Absolute Elsewhere (best known as a celestial stopover for King Crimson drummer, Bill Bruford) as the album’s namesake. For the uninitiated, Absolute Elsewhere’s obscure 1976 album, “In Search of Ancient Gods,” was constructed as a musical accompaniment to the works of Chariots of the Gods author, Erich Von Daniken, and his theories of non-terrestrial humanoid prompts towards mankind’s evolution.
The subject matter should serve as no surprise to anyone familiar with Blood Incantation’s cosmically philosophical leanings. But make no mistake, the four musicians working under the Blood Incantation’s banner for the past decade – guitarist and vocalist Paul Riedl, drummer Isaac Faulk, guitarist Morris Kolontyrsky, and bassist Jeff Barrett – have successfully left the microgravity of genre behind and are re-writing the Rosetta Stone of extreme music with a new language entirely. Demonstrations like their 2022 all-synth show or 2024’s Roadburn Festival headlining appearance where they played back-to-back death metal and ambient made it clear: Blood Incantation have honed their abilities to go boldly where few bands have gone before, and reveal no signs of slowing down.
