{"id":104043,"date":"2024-10-04T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=104043"},"modified":"2024-10-11T11:09:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T10:09:58","slug":"album-review-blood-incantation-absolute-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-blood-incantation-absolute-elsewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"BLOOD INCANTATION – Absolute Elsewhere (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

BLOOD INCANTATION
Absolute Elsewhere<\/strong><\/span>
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\nCentury Media (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Continuing to baffle and astound, Denver, Colorado-based death metal experimentalists Blood Incantation reach further into the unknown with their first full-length album in five years.<\/p>\n

The first time I listened to this opus I wanted to immediately rename the band Blood Floyd, such are the cosmic variations and forever twisting landscape trips. Sure, you\u2019ll get your death metal injection, but such robust notions are few and far between as the celestial combo concentrates on crafting colossal, cinematic somewhere in-between John Zorn and David Lynch.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the album\u2019s release, Blood Incantation dropped a 20 minute video for \u2018The Stargate\u2019, a mesmeric black and white film punctuated by jarring death metal outbursts which drift into pastoral trickles hinting towards Tangerine Dream which prompt me to start reading Carl Sagan.<\/p>\n

Absolute Elsewhere<\/em> is an incredibly immersive experience featuring some truly innovative death metal alongside the blisters of palatial surrealism. Throughout this album the guys seamlessly drift between dollops of cold black metal, jazzy prog, crushing death metal and daring emotive and eerie displays.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing inaccessible about such constructions; each chapter may be unpredictable but the layering is so soft and creative that you end up frothing with excitement and anticipation at the next plateau. However, the real reason Blood Incantation should be praised so highly is their ability to sew all this together as one wholesome structure because in less capable hands this would so easily be a mess of loose ends and art for arts sake pretension and self indulgence.<\/p>\n

Many \u2013 especially death metal fans \u2013 have been highly critical of some of Blood Incantation\u2019s manoeuvres, but the band cares not for limitations and restriction as shades of Opeth merge with Cynic where a flutter of bongo drums cavort with a mesmeric dissonant chord while a firmly plucked bass line accompanies a haunting sweep.<\/p>\n

Blood Incantation has become a difficult beast to review but not to listen to, so be thankful then that such avant garde meandering has occurred to save us from the ever festering swamp of gore bands. Grab your headphones and dive into this sprawling void. There\u2019s no other place like it at the moment.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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