Blood Incantation has already opened the bloody gates of new music after sharing the wonder news of their upcoming album Absolute Elsewhere but they’re adding to it by announcing a new documentary that shows what the whole process was like for them.
All Gates Open: In Search Of Absolute Elsewhere is a 73-minute feature film that follows the band through the time they spent recording Absolute Elsewhere in 2023 at Berlin’s Hansa Studios. Watch the official trailer for it below.
It’s only a touch longer than the album itself, surprisingly enough. Apparently, Blood Incantation incanted their way into their longest album yet, since Absolute Elsewhere clocks in at a whopping 45 minutes. It may not seem like a lot, but if you know Blood Incantion, you’ll know it’s a lot for them. It’s also only two behemoth-length songs long, which seems to track for them.
Vocalist and guitarist Paul Riedl says of the album
“’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.”
Don’t forget that the band is also randomly tech-savvy now, having also launched their Discord channel Stargate Research Society, as well as the Elsewhere Searcher app. The app serves as a place for all of the band’s fans to congregate and shit talk in the best way, while the researchers a part of the Discord society found some vintage tracker software on a floppy disk. That’s just so… hipster.
Absolute Elsewhere comes out October 4 via Century Media. You can pre-order it here.