[ATTENDED: November 25, 2024] Blood Incantation
My brother-in-law Ben told me about Blood Incantation a couple of weeks before this show. So I grabbed a ticket just before it sold out!
With a name (and logo) like that, I assumed they were just a bludgeoning death metal band but they display all kinds of interesting progressive rock tendencies. And those are fully explored on their newest album Absolute Elsewhere.
The album is 43 minutes long and consists of two songs. Each song has three parts. And they played the album in full for this show.
When I walked in I saw that there were an obelisk on either side of the stage. It had characters carved into it and just before the band took the stage the characters lit up red.
When the band came out I couldn’t get over how the lead singer looked. Paul Riedl has a mustache and long hair (balding on top) he looked like a manager at Staples. But then he stepped up to the mic and went “OOH” and the growl was perfect.
Knowing that the album was a bit more trippy (with lots of synths and quiet parts) I wasn’t sure how moshy the crowd would be. But as soon as the band started, and the opening bludgeoning began, I quickly had to move several feet to the right.
The song starts out with some pounding guitars and Isaac Faulk using all of his drum kit. And after a squealing guitar and a bug grunted Oooh, the band took off with some seriously fast double bass drums and wild guitar soloing.
After 2 minutes of furiousness, the song slowed down dramatically with picked guitars and quiet washes of synths. Three minutes later it’s back to the heaviness with some growled lyrics and wild soloing from Morris Kolontyrsky.
Jeff Barrett played bass and while I couldn’t seem him from where I was, his low end was felt from the speakers.
After 8 minutes, the song segued into Tablet II. (more…)
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