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Omnerod - Ivory Dune



6.8 | 16 votes |
Release date: 9 March 2014
Style: Extreme progressive metal

Owners:

8 have it
2 want it


01. Fingerprint
02. Plastic
03. Vatnajökull
04. Dry Feet
05. Etheric Drifting - Datura
06. Etheric Drifting - Ascension
07. 40 seconds
08. Apeirophobia
09. Eye Of Koala
10. Panspermia

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27.01.2015 - 03:22
Rating: 7
LeKiwi
High Fist Prog
Here's a little something I wrote for the album while it was on my list:

Pounding death metal, proggy riffs, explosive tech death, soothing ambient and jazz interludes, goose bump-inducing post-metal, bi-polar vocals?yet somehow?refined into a cohesive style. Ostensibly impulsive, yet meticulous. Regrettably, this overt detail-orientation, combined with their whimsicality, causes the songwriting to suffer from frequent indulgence in technical progsturbation. Tracks 3 and 5, for example, are anticlimactic to a level whereupon the listener is obligated to feel frustrated. There's no question that these guys possess the chops required to craft a masterpiece, but such a feat would require more focus on the song progression rather than treating the constituent riffs as separate entities. On a more positive note, the outro to the closing track features a perfectly executed build-up that they should have extrapolated on throughout the album. Features long passages of atmospheric and ambient music - *points to the 1st and 9th track* - and fleeting leanings of melodeath and Meshuggah-like djent. Enslaved's Monumension rings a bell during some of the more intense moments in the album.
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03.02.2015 - 23:48
Rating: 7
gopherhawk2@gmail.co

What a weird album.
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Follow your heart, not trends.
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07.02.2015 - 12:18
Reaper_Redeemer

Nice riffs and nice ideas. Check this album you won't miss!
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07.02.2015 - 12:47
!J.O.O.E.!
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Yeah looking forward to these guy's sophomore. There's lots of amazing ideas but they don't quite bring it all together. Hopefully they're tighten their shit up and get a good production job to go with it.
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07.02.2015 - 12:49
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Written by Guest on 07.02.2015 at 12:47

Yeah looking forward to these guy's sophomore. There's lots of amazing ideas but they don't quite bring it all together. Hopefully they're tighten their shit up and get a good production job to go with it.


Hmmm. Honestly, I think the only point that plays against them is the production. The songwriting itself is, to me, very good and full of fresh ideas. They just need a bit more polish here and there.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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07.02.2015 - 12:52
!J.O.O.E.!
Account deleted
Written by X-Ray Rod on 07.02.2015 at 12:49


Hmmm. Honestly, I think the only point that plays against them is the production. The songwriting itself is, to me, very good and full of fresh ideas. They just need a bit more polish here and there.
I agree for the most part, but I still think they need to reign the ideas in a little so they mean more in the context of a song, or a whole album. In it's current state it's just trying too much in one go for me. Basically lacks focus.
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07.02.2015 - 13:00
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Written by Guest on 07.02.2015 at 12:52

Written by X-Ray Rod on 07.02.2015 at 12:49


Hmmm. Honestly, I think the only point that plays against them is the production. The songwriting itself is, to me, very good and full of fresh ideas. They just need a bit more polish here and there.
I agree for the most part, but I still think they need to reign the ideas in a little so they mean more in the context of a song, or a whole album. In it's current state it's just trying too much in one go for me. Basically lacks focus.


Hmmm yeah I can see that. the jumps in between genres is a bit too abrupt most of the time and some of the genre influences are so far appart that it makes the whole formula unstable. I mean... there were black metal sections and djent ones. That's pretty unstable. But they totally gain an A for daring from me.

Oh, and I can't get over how amazing that artwork is.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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07.02.2015 - 13:02
!J.O.O.E.!
Account deleted
Written by X-Ray Rod on 07.02.2015 at 13:00

Hmmm yeah I can see that. the jumps in between genres is a bit too abrupt most of the time and some of the genre influences are so far appart that it makes the whole formula unstable. I mean... there were black metal sections and djent ones. That's pretty unstable. But they totally gain an A for daring from me.

Oh, and I can't get over how amazing that artwork is.

Ha yep. The potential here is immense.

I agree, I love the artwork. How you do digital, photoshop imagery effectively (for a change).
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