Release Date: March 07th 2025. Record Label: Self Released. Formats: CD/DD
Liminal Mass - Tracklisting
1.Chromosphere 29:53
2.Black Flare 14:13
Members
Brad Frye (Guitar One)
Ronaldo Baca (Guitar Two)
Review
Liminal Mass is the debut album from Meditative Doom/Drone Metallers Droni Eye Omi who use an instrumental blend of Doom, Drone and Ambient measures to conjure up a storm of distorted noises, moods within a spaced out environment. Consisting of two tracks across forty four minutes, the band contain a lot of different styles of meditative doomed out ambience into their music with a slight shift to Middle Eastern passages.
The record is quite minimal and has a linear fashion to how Droni Eye Omi deliver their music. This closely resembles SUNN 0))) at times but with the band still allowing themselves their own creative freedom to experiment with certain noises and psychedelic hysteria coming from the amplified airwaves from every corner. The production values are quite solitary that allows Liminal Mass to have a unpolished vibe and a feeling that it was recorded live.
The opening track of Chromosphere is a mammoth thirty minute number with Droni Eye Omi polluting the Drone Metal airwaves with a drone heavy style of long drawn out grooves, intense psychedelic sounds and a ton of guitar reverb from both Brad Frye and Ronaldo Baca. This is the sound of the DESERT being scorched into oblivion and wiped out of existence altogether.
There is a sense of eternal dread amplifying from the speakers as the band permanently filters out any moments of uplifting vibes for a song that retains its destructive and depressing energy to the very end. I was surprised at how riff-centred and focused this track actually is with multiple different methods being used to bring a sense of heavy grooves to the mix. Imagine OM jamming with SUNN 0))) and that’s the best way to describe the band on this track alone.
Second track Black Flare continues a similar message to the opening track but with Droni Eye Omi using their collective musical space on a more minimal and smaller level with the track only running at a compact fifteen minutes. However, that still doesn’t stop the band conjuring up more gloomy and downbeat experimental rhythms, fractured notes and distorted melodies that are brilliantly drawn out for a highly dramatic conclusion.
Liminal Mass is the ultimate experience of expression and minimalism if you’re a true fan of the Drone/Doom Metal sound. Be prepared for Droni Eye Omi to go off on a mystical tangent and play some standout sludgy guitar solos along the way.
Yeah, I kinda loved this mystical odyssey of destructive energy. Brilliant stuff. End Of.
Words by Steve Howe
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