Review by Michael on October 6, 2024.

Blood Incantation are one of the most discussed death metal bands in the last five years or so (at least since they released Hidden History Of The Human Race and the obscure EP and single releases afterward) and accompanying with that also one of the most polarizing ones. Nevertheless, I invite you to an absolutely crazy trip through the universe and beyond, you won't be disappointed!

So here I am sitting now at the restaurant at the end of the universe, listening to Absolute Elsewhere and have to find out where the trip will take me this time. Alright, time to sip my pan-galactic gargle blaster, and off we go…

Uargh, this wasn't the best idea to do. 'The Stargate' I entered sucked me into a black hole where I am almost torn apart into billions of single molecules. This is really mind-boggling and scary at the same time. Every single pore in my body wants to escape from this here somehow but also does not at the same time. I am trapped in a brutal inferno of darkness but hey, hold on….there is some light and hope. Something is stretching out its saving arm to me and rips me out of this nothingness. Whoa, this is some strange Krautrock alien with some fancy hippie clothes, smoking some pot. And now we're flying through time and space and he is playing some spacey keyboard tunes. Nothing can harm us, this is fantastic. Oh, hold on the gravity of the black hole is sucking me into this singularity again…noooo!!! Again, there is darkness and the feeling that there is something evil lurking in there. But right now I am safe. All is fine, all is peaceful. Some house music is played, and somebody is talking to me. Or is it the Voyager probe that was also captured?? I don't know. I am confused. Time for meditation, a flute is calming my mind down. But now…again, I am almost torn apart. This hurts, this isn't nice. Only the flute is keeping me alive, the vortex of darkness is almost overwhelming. Wow, seems I have trespassed another threshold to reach another dimension. Are there some pyramids to see on the horizon? And Camels?? Am I in Egypt? Or is the movie “Stargate” not just fiction? Hypnotic chants and some sick Morbid Angel riffs confuse me more and more. But here I am, stepping out of 'The Stargate' again and I am still alive.

And I have to spread a message – 'The Message' that was etched into my brain by whoever. I still have to find out how to tell and how to sort all the information that goes along with it but I will get it. All is still a little bit chaotic and kind of hectic, it still doesn't fit together somehow and I have the feeling that this message isn't the thing you'd like to hear from me because all is have in my head is dark and hopeless. But hold on a second, there is something that sounds like R2-D2. Maybe he is the solution for that? Oh, no, he just got blown away by a Tusken Raider. Hmm, too bad. But he dropped me some tranquilizers obviously. I'd better take them to relax. Oh yes, this is much better. I am lying on a beautiful beach on the fifth closest moon to Betelgeuse called “Bellatrix #5”. Why? Well, the Orion space surveyors were pretty drunk when they mapped their constellation, so shit happens. But unfortunately, that tranquilizer has some severe side effects, obviously hallucinations. A flood wave washes me away from that lovely beach into a deep and cold ocean with stark tides. I cannot swim anymore….ah, all is calm and so clear. I want to stay here. But a giant animal (is it a whale?) lifts me out of the water again. Nothing is peaceful again, I just feel pain and desperation. It brings me to the beach again to warm my almost dead body in the sun, some roaring thunder somewhere on the horizon. This is both beautiful and confusing. But I am alive and have to spread the message still. But to whom? And what is it? I guess you have to find out for yourself.

Rating: 10 out of 10