All Gates Open: In Search of Absolute Elsewhere

From the very beginning, Denver, Colorado’s Blood Incantation has upended orthodoxy and expectation with inexhaustible forward thought and ample amounts of audacity. Their iconoclastic attitude and tendency towards the daring started with them being a Morbid Angel-inspired death metal band that exercised the gall to open their 2013 demo with singing bowls, and has led to them sharing the stage with Opeth at the ancient ruins of Pompei’s Anfiteatro Degli Scaviin later this summer. Along the way, there have been worldwide sold-out tours, enormous festival gigs, genre-defying and defining albums, and an explosive expansion of the boundaries of what extreme music is and the potential of what it could be. Fall 2024 saw the release of the band’s third album, Absolute Elsewhere , two lengthy songs that corralled ambient, prog, and Komische Musik with ‘90s death metal and hurled the melange towards a universe coloured by ‘70s sci-fi. The deliberate, delicate architecture and logistical heavy lifting that went into four dudes from the Mile High City (and one Swedish keyboardist) decamping to Berlin’s legendary Hansa Studios for a month to capture the 44-minute behemoth was captured in ALL GATES OPEN, a 73-minute documentary directed by Niklas Tschaikowsky and Tammo Dehn.

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From the very beginning, Denver, Colorado’s Blood Incantation has upended orthodoxy and expectation with inexhaustible forward thought and ample amounts of audacity. Their iconoclastic attitude and tendency towards the daring started with them being a Morbid Angel-inspired death metal band that exercised the gall to open their 2013 demo with singing bowls, and has led to them sharing the stage with Opeth at the ancient ruins of Pompei’s Anfiteatro Degli Scaviin later this summer. Along the way, there have been worldwide sold-out tours, enormous festival gigs, genre-defying and defining albums, and an explosive expansion of the boundaries of what extreme music is and the potential of what it could be. Fall 2024 saw the release of the band’s t