Time will be the ultimate judge of whether Absolute Elsewhere, Blood Incantation’s latest and most audacious work of cosmic death metal, will be an all-time genre classic, but in the here and now, some six months after its release, it feels like it is on that trajectory, revealing more of itself with each spin.
This protean union of death metal, krautrock and prog has been years in the making, an evolutionary pathway that can be traced back to the musical progressivism secreted in the primordial old-school death metal sludge of the Denver, Colorado quartet’s 2016 debut album, Starspawn.
