Denver’s cosmic death metal visionaries Blood Incantation release All Gates Open (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) today via Century Media. Their first-ever soundtrack vividly captures the documentary and making of their boundary-shattering 2024 opus Absolute Elsewhere.
Originally only available as part of the deluxe Absolute Elsewhere Artbook, All Gates Open now emerges as a standalone release for the very first time, featuring both the full soundtrack and the accompanying 73-minute documentary. The release is available today in multiple formats including a Blu-ray edition, vinyl variants and digital album, following Blood Incantation’s nationwide takeover of Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas last month.
More than a companion piece, All Gates Open (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) captures the very genesis of Absolute Elsewhere. Composed in 2021, the four immersive tracks reveal a radically different dimension of Blood Incantation’s sonic identity: pastoral, ambient, and deeply introspective. Built from synth improvisations, acoustic instrumentation, and exploratory studio sessions, the material represents what guitarist/vocalist Paul Riedl describes as the “yang energy” to the shadowed atmospheres of Timewave Zero.
Blood Incantation have revealed their stunning new video for “Dawn” which was directed and produced by Miles Skarin of Crystal Spotlight. Skarin details, “‘Dawn’ takes you to the dusty surface of a faraway desert planet. Remnants of a lost civilisation are found across the desert badlands. The sun rises, planets and moons march overhead in the sky. Gravitational anomalies create pockets of floating rocks as the proximity of the neighbouring planets increases. A doorway to another reality opens…”
“‘Dawn’ was filmed on-location, with the plan being to travel to and spend a few days in a desert location rather than opt for a fully digital animation approach as we have done previously for ‘Inner Paths’ and the opening of ‘Luminescent Bridge‘. ‘Dawn’ continues the journey of ‘Luminescent Bridge’, exploring more of the distant planet Elsewhere…”
The documentary included in All Gates Open (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) takes viewers inside Berlin’s legendary Hansa Tonstudios, where the band relocated for a month to write and record Absolute Elsewhere. Directed by Niklas Tschaikowsky and Tammo Dehn, the film offers an intimate and unfiltered look at the band’s creative process, daily life, and immersion into Berlin’s cultural fabric—featuring appearances by members of Tangerine Dream, Hällas and Sijjin.
Paul Riedl comments:
“It’s not the next album or follow-up to ‘Absolute Elsewhere’, it’s the soundtrack to the documentary about making the album with songs that are from before.” He further adds: “The documentary deserves to be experienced, not just as content for the internet. The soundtrack captures the very first seed of what led to Absolute Elsewhere. This is where that era started.”
Together, the soundtrack and film form a complete artistic statement – one that not only documents a pivotal moment in the band’s evolution, but also preserves the initial spark that ignited their most ambitious work to date.
Mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk and featuring retro-futuristic analog collage artwork by Jodie Day, All Gates Open (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) stands as a vital piece in Blood Incantation’s ever-expanding universe. It completes the creative arc that led to Absolute Elsewhere and closes one chapter before moving into the unknown.
