ILL OMEN Divinity Through Un-creation LP

ILL OMEN Divinity Through Un-creation LP

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(Analog Worship)
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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
     Started to work my way back through the output of Australian black metallers Ill Omen (a one man band from sole member IV, who has also worked with other notable Aussie black metal outfits like Nazxul, Temple Nightshade and Pestilential Shadows), which led to the band's first proper album, 2011's Divinity Through Un-Creation . First released on Aussie imprint Adverse Order and here reissued on vinyl via the Stateside label Analog Worship, Divinity delivers nine aggressive tracks of swirling, reverb-rich black metal with a murky production style and dissonant guitar sound that manages to position this somewhere in between the depraved gloom emitted from the Australian "depressive" black metal crowd, and the churning discordance and cavernous atmosphere that comes from certain sectors of that country's death metal underground. The result is effectively chilling, marrying repetitious, straightforward blackened churn with some really striking atonal melodies delivered through slow, sweeping tremolo riffs, which writhe and worm their way through the hiss-soaked gloom permeating such tracks as opener "Utterance Befell The Curse". Classic Scandinavian black metal fuels Ill Omen's sound here, but it's slightly twisted just so, stretched out into those hypnotically droning tremolo riffs and then slowed to crawling, doom-laden dirges, weaving in these simple but totally stunning harmonies.
     There's almost a perverseness to the way that Ill Omen employs some extremely catchy songwriting to create these sprawling odes to rot and misanthropy and abject despair, layers of morose melody buried in the roiling murk of each of these songs, interlaced in interesting and creative ways that definitely give this a unique touch feel. The few times when the music truly erupts into a violent vortex of dissonant heaviness, there's a vaguely Portal-esque vibe, but those moments are brief and fleeting; there are also parts of this that trail out into gorgeous driftscapes of distant female vocals and hazy black drift, as if the raging black metal suddenly dissolves into a dimly lit blissout of muffled blackened sound, almost like hearing an old Dead Can Dance record being sucked into a black hole. Fuckin' epic stuff for the band's first proper release, though it's still only a hint of the powerful black depths that this project would eventually lead into...   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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