Ommadon - End Times (2018)
With their latest album, the Scottish
duo of Ommadon deliver about forty minutes of concentrated doom,
split into two parts for vinyl formatting. If you've heard the
band's work before, you'll have a general idea of what to expect this
time around, but if you're new to Ommadon, buckle in for some
crushing heaviness that takes its time hoisting the slabs of its
tunes into place.
Part one of End Times
grinds its way up that hill with steady deliberation, threading in
further layers of oppressive atmosphere every few minutes or so, and
it's a good fourteen minutes before the vocals make their first
craggy entrance. The morass of bass vibrations and superb
under-textures is something which just can't be done justice with
second-hand description; you've got to load this into your stereo and
soak up all those bad vibrations yourself to appreciate the uncanny
creepiness, depression, anger, and hunger that fill the experience.
The
second half rumbles on in much the same way, with a short pause in
the activities marking the point at which physical copies will need
to be flipped. While there's just as much variance to this portion
as the first, the guitar does seem to be more prominent in part B,
giving things a sharper edge at points, while the waves of bass
reverb gnaw away at the edge of feeling. It's big, it swings for the
skull, it beats. Heavy music fans, get in and hold on.
~ Gabriel
For Fans Of; Bell Witch, Bongripper,
first-era Godflesh, Skullflower, Ufomammut
~
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