Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere album cover, tour poster, promotional material
Absolute Elsewhere is the fourth studio album by American death metal and progressive metal band Blood Incantation. It was recorded at Hansa Studios in Berlin and released on October 4, 2024, through Century Media.
The album artwork is credited to Steve R Dodd. There are some versions of the artwork where his signature appears. The vinyl release contains photographs taken by Nissa Lai and Julian Weigand.
Windsweep by Rodney Matthews is in use for the title on the album cover. It’s credited as “Wind Sweep”. Chances are the font in use is actually Rick W. Mueller’s digitization named Windswept MF [edit: no, it’s composed from a scans of the original alphabet, see the comments]. The typeface is also used on other promotional material such as tour posters and T-Shirts, alongside Hightower by Tobias Frere-Jones.
The band released a documentary about the making of the album on Youtube, called All Gates Open: In Search of Absolute Elsewhere. The typeface is used for the title cards of each chapter of the documentary.
Web poster with the dates of the Europen leg of the tour
4 Comments on “Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere album cover, tour poster, promotional material”
Thank you, Antoine!
The Windsweep alphabet by Rodney Matthews is reproduced in his Voyages extrêmes monograph from 1990, with a 1984 design date, showing a set of capitals and numerals plus basic punctuation. I don’t know if it was ever produced and released as a font before Rick Mueller digitized it as Windswept MF.
Hi there, great site. This font was used with Mr. Matthews’ consent and was scanned directly from the aforementioned book, not using the digitized Windswept MF. Each title in the documentary as well as any promotional materials was individually assembled from the original scans.
Paul, great to hear from you! Thanks for the clarification. I added a note to the article. Kudos for reaching out to Rodney Matthews.
Hello Paul,
Thank you very much for the explanation (and this incredible album that I’ve listened to a lot in the past few months)
And awesome choice and work with the font it looks wonderful! (Especially the documentary title cards with “liquid light show” type backdrops)