Review Summary: Take a ride on the spiritual journey to space with Paul and company. His large rocket has enough room for us all to ride to the stars and experience spirituality.
Timewave Zero is a spiritual release in two ways. First, it is a release by death metal titans Blood Incantation that is very spiritual, and it is also a spiritual release for the soul itself. It's hard not to feel like one is in space listening to this album, it is like a church for the stars. Paul lives up to his namesake by channeling the vibes of a pot-smoking alien, and it's hard for the listener not to want to take a rocket ride on this man's large spaceship when one hears the mystical DMT grooves of the only current death metal band to take the world and the universe itself seriously.
Paul Riedl's exclusive goal since Blood Incantation's inception has been to spread spiritual awareness and vibes to the once nihilistic death metal scene. It used to be about not caring, just drinking beer, working at Autozone or some place like that. Not much spirituality there. Paul says dream on and dream big. From the opening notes of
Timewave Zero I am reminded of
Star Wars,
Star Trek, and Ace Frehley. Smoke some space weed from Jupiter, close your eyes, take a spiritual ride to the stars. Open your third eye while your first two eyes are closed and you might see dancing aliens, machine elves, smiling clowns. Paul Riedl himself is like a clown of the stars, his skullet and general demeanor seeming quite silly to the uninitiated but those who have done LSD, shrooms, DMT, mescaline, 25i-nbome, 2ci, 2cb, k2, diphenhydramine, jimson weed, PCP, delta 8, and other eye opening substances will see that Paul acts like the jesters of old. Only Paul can get away with telling spiritual truths to the kings and queens, who are now of course our presidents and officials, our reality show stars tweeting themselves into oblivion while never truly experiencing true oblivion and bliss. Well, Paul says he doesn't give much of a crap, and neither do I.
The death metal crowd of today might be a bunch of teeny boppers wearing their expensive long sleeve shirts, sitting around tweeting and snapchatting the familiar refrain of Mr. Cobain: "here we are now, entertain us." Well, Paul's not here for that. Blood Incantation is about spritual enlightenment, and sometimes that's not always what the zoomers of today would call fun. Paul Reidl knows truth doesn't have to be fun, and that spiritual vibe is what Blood Incantation and true cosmic music is about.
