Blood Incantation have announced a tour across North America this Summer in continuation of their Absolute Elsetour. The run kicks off with a unique experiential show at the world-renowned subterranean venue, The Caverns in Pelham, Tennessee. From there the band cross the East Coast to the Midwest, playing Chicago’s Bohemian National Cemetery, followed by two performances at this year’s Fire in the Mountains Festival in Montana. The tour runs down the Pacific Northwest and concludes with a headlining show at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. Steve Roach, Cynic, Pallbearer and Krallice will join as special guests. Blood Incantation will perform selections from across their catalog including their recent highly lauded album, Absolute Elsewhere.
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Blood Incantation’s new album Absolute Elsewhere is the sound of a star born.
“The Stargate” Side One: A violent storm invokes the familiar before a grand cosmic key turn for a hint of sweeping scope to come with spiritual acknowledgement and accompaniment by Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning on synths on the song’s second tablet. Musically as violent as it is mediative, with subtle spoken passages flitting between Nicklas Malmqvist’s (Hällas) busy synthesizer keys and Mellotron strings invoking both the modern and ancient, and it is all given sharp focus by Arthur Rizk’s powerfully dynamic and enveloping mix. Blood Incantation depart Extreme Metal’s traditionally antiquated waystation, warping their way towards “Genre of One” stature, as “The Stargate” intones the disembodiment of consciousness itself, careening through the stargate towards Samsara-like reincarnation, punctuated by the occasional growl from Sijjin/ex-Necros Christos mainman, Malte Gericke.
“The Message” Side Two: A step through doorways of unearthly beauty, playfulness, quirk and horror. As if David Gilmour jams beside Chick Corea and Trey Azagthoth melting together through psychedelic hyperspace, eliciting mystical vibes and a tangible metaphysical transcendence. Dalos briefly reengages with this track in his native language, alongside star-riding Malmqvist, whose iconic synth/keys work throughout the album adds to the unearthly atmospherics that with Absolute Elsewhere defines a new musical epoch for Blood Incantation, as much as 21st century Metal itself.
In total the piece hovers at nearly 45 minutes, their longest full length recording yet, the album’s two movements 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).
