Review: James Norbert Ivanyi – Omen Faustum
A dark instrumental prog album that can hold its own.
A dark instrumental prog album that can hold its own.
Imagine spinning a wheel with 8 genres on it, the wheel breaking, and deciding you can probably get a bit of each of them into an instrumental album just to be safe.
If Mastodon and Gojira had a tightly written and skillfully produced punk-baby. This album packs a punch and is over before you know it.
A surprisingly tasteful slice of melodic and progressive metal from Romania.
Hailing from Russia, My Lonely Sea delivers a post-black adventure that proves they can stand on their own two feet.
Come for the pipe organ intro, stay for the deathcore carnage.
An album made for the current moment: Post-Metal that reflects feelings of loneliness and isolation.
The Encounter seems to be an apt name for this album, seeing as this blend of jazz and almost death/tech style metal does seem to come from its own little planet outside of the rest of the scene.
This is the kind of album that just sort of rips out your throat, shows it to you, and says “isn’t this gnarly as hell?”.