Deathspell Omega:
(2004-2011)
Deathspell Omega is among the most fascinating, bizarre and intense metal acts out there; even surpassing their peers within extreme, avant-garde black metal. They are not weird and wickedly contorted and dissonant out of a lust to be confusing, cute or clever; they create pure beauty out of distorted parts that barely fit together, but upon concluded composition tend to become such beautiful tapestries that they own a league of their very own.
Their discography encompasses a wide range, with fairly standard output early on, from 1998 up to their genre classic, the formidable yet still somewhat generically styled Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice (one of the highest rated LPs on RateYourMusic), which presents its weirdest component, the title, to frighten your standard metalhead. Then came 2005's sudden, violent lapse into territory mostly inhabited by such acts as Negură Bunget of Romania; epic-length, strenuously dissonant compositions, with a rapid, mechanical attack, holstered in an organic sense of discordant harmony. That EP, Kenose, is seen by many as their crowning achievement. For my part, 2007's Fas – Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum (yet a ridiculous title for your Ridiculous Black Metal Battle Card Deck© - collect them and battle your friends and cocaine addiction with your heroes!) is their reckoning release, a totally violent blizzard of nearly dysfunctional genius. Fas ... was a paradigm of ultra-violent, frenetic weaponry. Me and my friends listened to it during a car ride, all fucked up, in a stuffed car ... I bet the people driving past us had never seen heads swivelling quite so fast, or people moshing on their inch of space inside a car, going 90 MPH.
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(2004-2011)
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| their 2011 EP Diabolus Absconditus |
Deathspell Omega is among the most fascinating, bizarre and intense metal acts out there; even surpassing their peers within extreme, avant-garde black metal. They are not weird and wickedly contorted and dissonant out of a lust to be confusing, cute or clever; they create pure beauty out of distorted parts that barely fit together, but upon concluded composition tend to become such beautiful tapestries that they own a league of their very own.
Their discography encompasses a wide range, with fairly standard output early on, from 1998 up to their genre classic, the formidable yet still somewhat generically styled Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice (one of the highest rated LPs on RateYourMusic), which presents its weirdest component, the title, to frighten your standard metalhead. Then came 2005's sudden, violent lapse into territory mostly inhabited by such acts as Negură Bunget of Romania; epic-length, strenuously dissonant compositions, with a rapid, mechanical attack, holstered in an organic sense of discordant harmony. That EP, Kenose, is seen by many as their crowning achievement. For my part, 2007's Fas – Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum (yet a ridiculous title for your Ridiculous Black Metal Battle Card Deck© - collect them and battle your friends and cocaine addiction with your heroes!) is their reckoning release, a totally violent blizzard of nearly dysfunctional genius. Fas ... was a paradigm of ultra-violent, frenetic weaponry. Me and my friends listened to it during a car ride, all fucked up, in a stuffed car ... I bet the people driving past us had never seen heads swivelling quite so fast, or people moshing on their inch of space inside a car, going 90 MPH.
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