Sometimes, more is more. Take Blood Incantation, for example: with the release of their third album, Absolute Elsewhere, they’re officially the most thrilling prog-death-psych-ambient band on this planet or any other. Equal parts crushing riffs, muso moustache-twirling and brain-cratering meditations on quantum physics, conspiracy theories and the untapped power of the human mind, the Denver four-piece play like rock gods and talk like geodesic dome-dwelling disciples of a future religion.
“We live a very New Age-y, esoteric kind of lifestyle,” says impressively moustachio’d frontman Paul Riedl. He’s perched in front of his towering record collection, holding forth with the eloquent intensity of a professor who’s barged through the doors of perception in order to connect the dots between a vast array of disparate disciplines, sciences and histories. Guitarist Morris Kolontyrsky is on the same call, but he barely gets a word in during our conversation, such is his bandmate’s volubility.
