No me gusta el Death Metal y no me ha gustado nunca. Para mi, que me he forjado en la ansiedad del punk y el garage de los Stooges, todo esto es demasiado barroco y demasiado turra. Le falta urgencia. Sin embargo, el año pasado las cosas cambiaron un poco con la llegada de Tomb Mold y esa reinterpretación del jazz que practican. Este Absolute Elsewhere ahonda, aun mas si cabe, en ese interés. Aquí, de nuevo, encontramos un puro ejercicio de bastardía, en el que death técnico, aun presente, juega a prog y a una suerte de psicodelia que es tan hipnótica como apabullante. Es un discazo.
It is breathtakingly good. It picks you up, puts you among the stars and hits you with interstellar power. From atmospheric to straight up death metal and everything inbetween. Record of the year for me.
everything they do on here, they do so well. can't remember the last time a year was so full of great and exciting metal releases. happy to be having fun listening to metal again.
There's not really much I can say that will add meaningful discourse to this record. It's perfect for me. It combines everything I love about music from multiple eras of my listening / taste history, but also did not realize how much I need a 70s prog rock informed cosmic death metal record (yes I did). Believe the hype, this is going to be an all-timer!!
Rather than the middle ground of the two ends of their range, instead it switches between them and more in a way that absolutely works for me. Not how I was expecting to realise that I should listen to more 70s prog.
As lead singer and guitarist Paul Riedl mentioned in an interview, this album could indeed be described as “a ’70s prog album played by a ’90s death metal band from the future.” However, this description is purely neutral, and even if it were an accurate portrayal, it wouldn’t guarantee the album’s greatness. Blood Incantation has been one of the most attention-grabbing death metal bands of the 2010s and 2020s, especially among genre enthusiasts—excluding the major bands active since the ‘80s and ‘90s. Since their second album, Hidden History of the Human Race, they’ve expanded their audience beyond death metal fans to include even indie music listeners. As if foreshadowed by that album, the band has since… More