Blood Incantation – announces their first ever Irish show at The Academy, Dublin

American death metal band Blood Incantation announces their first ever Irish show at The Academy, Dublin on Tuesday 7^TH October 2025 as part of their Absolute Elsetour Part II, alongside special guests Oranssi Pazuzu &  Sijjin.

Blood Incantation latest album, Absolute Elsewhere that came out last year, is unlike anything you ‘ever heard before. Yes, that’s an audacious, possibly hyperbolic claim, but few can claim a sonic watershed as readily as this Denver, Colorado quartet. Hovering at nearly 45 minutes, their longest full length recording yet, the album’s two sprawling movements – “The Stargate” and “The Message” – are as confounding as they are engaging, exponentially expanding upon the formulas laid down by their scene-shattering debut Starspawn (2016) and landmark follow up Hidden History of the Human Race (2019).

As Blood Incantation’s Paul Riedl tells, “‘Absolute Elsewhere’ is our most potent audial extract/musical trip yet; like the soundtrack to a Herzog-style Sci-Fi epic about the history

of/battle for human consciousness itself, via a 70s Prog album played by a 90s Death Meta band from the future. ” For inspiration, the group looked to the mid-70’s progressive rock

collective, Absolute Elsewhere (best known as a celestial stopover for King Crimson drummer, Bill Bruford) as the album’s namesake. For the uninitiated, Absolute Elsewhere’s obscure 1976 album, In Search of Ancient Gods, was constructed as a musical accompaniment to the works of Chariots of the Gods author, Erich Von Daniken, and his theories of non-terrestrial humanoid prompts towards mankind’s evolution. The subject matter of which should serve as no surprise to anyone familiar with Blood Incantation’s cosmically philosophical leanings. But make no mistake, the four musicians working under the Blood Incantation banner for the past decade – guitarist and vocalist Paul Riedl, drummer Isaac Faulk, guitarist Morris Kolontyrsky and bassist Jeff Barrett– have successfully left the microgravity of genre behind and are re-writing the Rosetta Stone of extreme music with a new language entirely. Demonstrations like their 2022 all-synth show or 2024’s Roadburn Festival headlining appearance where they played back-to-back death metal and ambient made it clear: Blood Incantation have honed their abilities to go boldly where few bands have gone before, and reveal no signs of slowing down.

BLOOD INCANTATION
Absolute Elsetour Part II

Plus Special Guests:
ORANSSI PAZUZU &  SIJJIN
Tuesday 7^th October 2025
The Academy, Dublin
Tickets on sale Friday May 9^th, 2025 @ 9am

Tickets from €41 (inc booking fee & venue facility fee) from Ticketmaster.ie