Release
date: April 8th 2016. Label: Burning World Records / Dry CoughRecords / Medusa Crush Recordings. Released. Format: DD/Vinyl
OMMADON
– S/T– Tracklisting
1.OMMADON
41:39
Band
Members:
David
Tobin (guitar)
Ewan
Mackenzie (drums, keyboards)
Review:
An
ominous wailing of dense feedback announces the arrival of the latest
release from lords of bleakness Ommadon and this new album in keeping
with the rest of their back catalogue is short on the number of songs
but long on their length. This self titled behemoth is only one song
but is over forty minutes long and has many musical twists and turns
along the way.
That
wail of feedback creates a long intro that you keep waiting and
waiting to explode before, finally, a tribal-esque drum kicks in and
pounds tensely, adding to an already anxious atmosphere by pushing
the listener further and further to the edge of some sort of dark
aural abyss where they will get restless, apprehensive and even upset
and what is happening to their ears. This is lesson in aural
perseverance in the heaviest way imaginable.
In
fact, to say that Ommadon's music is not only heavy but in fact
crushingly heavy would be a severe understatement and there is no
trace of melody here at all and this combined with the massive
apocalyptic riffs that are as punishing as it gets and resonate
frequently throughout. While other heavy bands can talk the talk when
they say that their music is heavy but not follow it up, Ommadon
really do walk the walk and only need to let their music do its far
from insignificant talking, there is a sense of negativity and sheer
nothingness that just can't be faked contained on this album and it
sounds all the better for it.
This
is primal music at its base level, the mogadon pace of the music
makes it all the more menacing and the whole feeling of the record is
one of utter darkness. This is not music for the faint hearted, this
is music for people who want or in fact need to be pushed over the
edges of sanity and sounds like the entire world collapsing in on
itself and as the album ends as it began with that evil sounding
feedback, a sense of relief may come over you but your ears may never
be the same again.
Turn
on, tune in and let the harshness of Ommadon consume you, this is the
sound of musical evil incarnate and for those that can handle it,
enjoy the ride.
Words
by Gavin Brown
