Blood Incantation Announce New Album Absolute Elsewhere
It’s been a few years, but death metal outfit Blood Incantation are back and releasing what looks to be their longest album yet on October 4. Clocking in at a robust “nearly 45 minutes,” this new offering will feature a total of two new tracks.
Set as their follow up to 2019’s full-length album Hidden History of the Human Race and their 2023 maxi-single Luminescent Bridge, the new album dubbed Absolute Elsewhere sees the Denver-based quartet creating something they claim is “unlike anything you’ve ever heard before.” Paul Reidl explains:
“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.”
In fact, the band apparently got the album’s title from a mid-70s prog rock band of the same name. Given that original band’s propensity for writing spaced-out tunes like their 1976 album In Search of Ancient Gods, it makes sense that Blood Incantation would find some kindred connection with them so many years later.
And when I said that the album’s just two tracks at nearly 45 minutes a piece, I meant it. The first track, titled “The Stargate” apparently has a runtime of 20:20, while the second track “The Message” clocks in at 23:23.
Though it would have been great if we could get some sort of audio snippet or something, the band announced that they’ve launched what they’re calling the Elsewhere Searcher app, as well as their Stargate Research Society Discord server. In both new services, fans can apparently talk about how researchers at the society “recently unearthed an 80’s era floppy disk containing vintage celestial tracker software.”
“The researchers were able to re-activate the space tracker and through meticulous study of the visible solar system have noticed the appearance of a new red planet in the vicinity of Orion’s Belt. The researchers also claim that the new planet is intermittently emitting signals, although no recordings of these transmissions have been captured yet. The society has made their research available to the public in an effort to warn citizens of the planet’s rapid approach toward Earth, with a possible collision occurring in October 2024. The tracker is open for public use at www.stargateresearchsociety.app.”
So there ya have it. Blood Incantation’s on their super sci-fi spaced out bullshit again, only this time they’re hoping you’ll join ’em for the ride.
Absolute Elsewhere will be released on October 4 via Century Media.
