V

Ommadon

Wow. Just wow. Out of this world. I've started to listen to the first song […]
By Alex Kirmayer
October 14, 2014
Ommadon - V album cover

Wow. Just wow. Out of this world.

I've started to listen to the first song of the promo, and understood how it must feel when a meteorite crashes into you. Pictures from my life started to move slowly in the back of my head, and I've felt that this is the end. Definitely a job well done by the standards of this group, I guess. This is the longest journey I've had to go through and definitely the hardest. My army boot camp or the whole 3-year service was not as hard on me as these 2 hours are. Super heavy, super low tuned guitars, filled with fuzz, fuzz, and nothing but fuzz, a drone of basically turned up white noise, and the tempo rises steadily (but very very slowly) up, just to drop down again, and deal you another almost fatal blow to the mind and soul.

The guys definitely know what they are doing, as they succeed in delivering the intended atmosphere of unapologetic, heavy (as hell), drone doom metal.

The second song continues along the same path of destruction. A wind/white noise drone, with non-melodic, just a pure heavy, in your face guitar line. About one quarter into the song, a second guitar line (doubling the first) and drums enter. And continue doing what they do best; destroy everything in their path. I should say that I never was a drone doom metal, and I must admit that I never will be now.The upsides if one can call them that of this album are that it delivers everything that it aims at delivering. Desperation? Check. Feeling that the whole world is crumbling around you? Check. Seeing your life move slowly in the back of your head towards the climatic ending which is this album? Check.

The downsides, not even on the other hand are the same. It is way too hard on the untrained ear. Which is mine. I respect what they are doing, but can definitely say that I do not like it.

6 / 10

Had Potential

"V" Track-listing:

1. V1
2. V2

Ommadon Lineup:

David Tobin - Guitar
Ewan Mackenzie - Keyboards, Drums

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