Just think it over carefully with me. Get a band with their open minds to all music worth playing and listening. Of course, besides Metal music. So, put in blender Extreme Metal amenities, Jazz influences, Prog Rock prowess, Art Rock beautie, some dashes of obscure etheral sounds and some influences of Space Rock. Get also some sci-fi influences and ethereal ideas. Mix them hard. Voilà! Here you’ve got Blood Incantation with “Absolute Elsewhere,” an album that will surprise my dear child of the night all the way. An album that has no half way. It’s love it or hate it.
As my dear child of the night must have realized I pay absolute no attention to album tittles or band names or everything related – pay attention, there is heavy irony included. Thinking it over after hearing all the album, I guess there is no album tittle that it’s so related to the music inside it as “Absolute Elsewhere” is. Absolute Elsewhere is musically everything Blood Incantation planned for the album. The band goes absolute everywhere musically worth. I’m not kidding at all. As I said before, “Absolute Elsewhere” is love it or hate it.
“Absolute Elsewhere” commences with “The Stargate [Tablet I],” by the way, all the six tracks in the album are called The Stargate or The Message and they are somehow connected. This track almost tricks my dear child of the night with an esotheric and ethereal Space Rock until a grow that comes from the deepest places of outer space changes all the mood introducing the Extreme Metal amenities I told before. Attention to the instrumentals that vary a lot here with some jazzy chords and a keyboard that starts sounding like it’s playing “House of the Rising Sun.” Ok, but of course it’s not. For the initial six minutes – the track is eight minutes – it’s possible to say Prog Rock takes over the scene. However, suddenly Extreme Metal toughens the game up and take it over. Interestingly, it was possible to realized Blood Incantation‘s songs are made of separate parts that are glued together. It’s like building musical puzzles. Following track “The Stargate [Tablet II]” has some Queensrÿche in it mixed with a Black Sabbath flute that bursts into the violent sound of a guitar being raped. That’s what I really call experimental. Again Extreme Metal enhardens the scene, but now in a more normal and regular way – if it’s possible talking about Blood Incantation – mixed with some keyboards. Sometimes, I said sometimes, it is possible to recognize some Celtic Frost influence. The three The Stargate series are connected by the ethereal sound and Space Rock influences while The Message are more Progressive Rock with some Death Metal passages with some touches of Chick Corea. More avant-garde than this is really impossivel. It’s an album that are to
Uau, this is an album that will surprise all my dear children of the night. It’s a spoonful of experimentalism. As I said before, “Absolute Elsewhere” is love it or hate it. I love it!
Blood Incantation “Absolute Elsewhere” was released on October 04th via Century Media Records.
Track Listing:
- The Stargate [Tablet I]
- The Stargate [Tablet II]
- The Stargate [Tablet III]
- The Message [Tablet I]
- The Message [Tablet II]
- The Message [Tablet III]
Watch “The Stargate [Tablet I],” lyric video here:
I’m just a lucky guy who has chosen metal to live with for a long time. Metal changed my life for good. It made me more confident and stronger. Metalheads are naturally far away from the mass mediocrity and don’t accept impostures from anybody else. Metal is more than music, it’s a life changing oportunity!