In just the last two years, the varying threads heard in the sound of Blood Incantation came to be fully realized in a synergy of their affinity for synthesizer and kosmische sounds alongside the death metal and technical proficiency of their earlier work. Producing in the album "Absolute Elsewhere", a maximal music and culmination of all of their broadly heterogeneous styles and forms. This masterful feat of genre fusion found great praise in the pages of The Quietus, and in a rare moment of unrestrained ebullience, The Wire proclaimed; "It belongs on the shelf alongside Pestilence’s "Testimony of The Ancients and Spheres", The Orb’s "UFOrb", and Pink Floyd’s "Wish You Were Here". It’s a goddamn masterpiece". For many, the first awareness of Blood Incantation came with their 2019 Albums of the Year charting, "Hidden History Of The Human Race". This assembly of tracks took their sound into truly progressive, inventive death metal with intermittent passages of song structures and a haunting intergalactic bent to the lyrical themes. Technical and occasionally delirious in its precision, the performances are precise without being flashy, and occasionally ornate in their psychedelia without the encumbrances of gaudiness. Tangents are taken into doom and meditative synth workouts, which then return to death metal riffs and unexpected structural shifts, all executed with assurance. All of the above are considered in their exploration of influences and newly formed manifestations of form by The Quietus, in their "Expanding the Circle: Blood Incantation Interviewed". In recent years with the advent of their "Timewave Zero", the band have leaned harder into the realms of progressive rock and German kosmische which they had previously only hinted at, delivering a work of unadulterated cosmic synthesizer workouts with 2023's, "Luminescent Bridge". Speaking with The Guardian, they map the trajectory which brought them to this far fringe of the metal world, "‘Subtlety is the Hardest Part’: Blood Incantation Trade Extremes for Ambience". Returning on tour again, after a stopover at Montana's Fire in the Mountains, Blood Incantation arrive with a succession of nights at Tacoma's Temple Threatre. The second of the two will be a return to last year's excellent "Absolute Elsewhere", while the first is explicitly a showcase for their cosmic side, promising an ambient opening set by Krallice, and a full night of cosmic journeying to distant and desolate stars, billed simply as "Timewave Zero".
