Omnium Gatherum-The Redshift-2008

Год: 2008
Стиль: Melodic Death Metal
Страна: Finland (Karhula)
Качество: mp3@VBR225
Размер: 77,4 Мб
Общее время звучания: 47:51





Трек-лист:

01. Nail ( 3:44)
02. A Shadowkey ( 4:29)
03. Chameleon Skin ( 4:56)
04. No Breaking Point ( 3:47)
05. The Return ( 5:28)
06. Shapes And Shades ( 4:51)
07. The Redshifter ( 3:41)
08. Greeneyes ( 4:39)
09. The Second Flame ( 4:24)
10. Song For December ( 2:19)
11. Distant Light Highway ( 5:34)

Состав:

Jukka Pelkonen - Vocals (Elenium (Fin))
Markus Vanhala - Guitar (Gore Penetration, Malpractice (Fin), Manitou (Fin))
Harri Pikka - Guitar (Kaihoro, Total Devastation)
Eerik Purdon - Bass (Crystal Blaze, Amoral)
Jarmo Pikka - Drums (Gore Penetration, Total Devastation)
Aapo Koivisto - Synth (Breeding Chamber)




OMNIUM GATHERUM is a band of many directions and styles, some of them clearly
visible while others more unseen. Namely working and keeping it all together
under the monicker of melodic life-and-death metal and bastardizing it by
various influences from a whole lot of genres and sub-genres, OG produce
complex but accessible death metal that incorporates elements of thrash and
tradl metal without ever sounding derivate. Top quality Finnish steel, in
other words. It has said also that if you mix At The Gates, Katatonia, Death
and Judas Priest theres the recipe to OMNIUM GATHERUM stuff!

Thorsten Zahn, chief editor of METAL HAMMER GERMANY: Nobody can deny that
the metal scene is thriving and blooming. Fresh new bands carry the spirit
and give new impulses to the genre - or at least leave their fingerprints.
One of these young and hungry bands is called Omnium Gatherum. The Finnish
six-piece creates complex yet accessible death metal with traditional
influences and a massive dose of thrash metal. This puts Omnium Gatherum in
line with Finnish high-class metal forgers.

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OMNIUM GATHERUM was brought to life in Kotka, Finland in Autumn 1996 by
guitarist Markus Vanhala and ex-vocalist Olli Lappalainen. At that time they
were influenced a lot from the northern death metal. After a year of hard
training and songwriting OG recorded their first demo tape Forbidden Decay
containing atmospheric melodic death metal, in the Spring of 1997. Two
self-financed releases followed: the OG cd EP in 1998 and Gardens,
Templesthis Hell! MCD in 1999. Especially Gardens... demo caused some
positive stir in the metal underground, but no good record deals were
offered.

It was not until the fourth demo Wastrel, that was released in May 2001,
and a vocalist change (Antti Filppu steps into the band) before the band
signed a recording contract. The demo review in Terrorizer summed up nicley
what was going on: there is a sense of something special happening here.
Technically the sextet have got it all worked out, but if I could apply the
word beautiful to metal songs then I would do so here because they are as
complete as would be expected from any top class album.

In December 2001, a new and growing label Rage of Achilles from England
offered a deal that sounded reasonable, and after signing it OG were sent
straight to the Sonic Pump studios to Helsinki in late December to re-record
the Wastrel demo, to be released as a debut MCD. The title was changed to
Steal the Light so that no one would mistake it for the demo. Released in
September 2002, despite the ageing songs, both the critics and the audience
seemed to like it. Kerrang magazine even featured the band on their column
Top 21 new bands you should hear! The musical atmosphere was light and the
sound close to power metal, with half-crazy hysteria and despair balancing
the scales.

In August 2002 Omnium Gatherum entered the Sonic Pump studios again to record
their first full-length album Spirits and August Light. Released after a
long, long wait in April 2003 through Rage Of Achilles and gave the band some
well deserved attention within the underground metal community and the press.
The album showed another side to the light: despite the clear melodies and
the stable rhythm all along the way it had a lifelike taste of dirtiness to
it, with desperate love and uninvited hate searching for an outlet, like
something you didnt want to see happen but it did none the less. The reviews
were unbelievable, considering that the band thought they had failed on the
recording process. OG appeared in Kerrang! a few times, being the only
Finnish band ever with a debut of 5/5, and all the major metal magazines
followed in the same vein. Metal Hammer introduced the band to be A new
wave of death metal:Classically inclined operatic metal at its most
snobbish. Lead breaks to make metal gods Judas Priest weep, and vocals that
lift them out of any black metal pit. If Opeth are the Pink Floyd of this
scene, then Omnium are likely to turn into Rush at the very least. The
British were not the only friends, Germany agreed also (Rock hard gave 9,5/10
and hoped OG to become the next big thing from Finland). So far, so good...
so what.

After the Spirits.. album, after the music video from Writhen, after
recruiting the new keyboard player Jukka Perl and after the successful
Finnish tours the band was searching for something new. More technical, more
progressive, more sophisticated but at the same time colder and moving away
from the listener the new recipe was completed with themes from the wasted
youth, depression and soul-loss, shamanistic metaphors leading the twofold
way back in time while the moon shone stranger than ever. It is always
darkest right before the morning. The second album Years in Waste was under
construction in June-July 2004, and during those studio sessions Rage of
Achilles called it a day. Luckily, German label Nuclear Blast signed the band
as soon as they heard the new album.

In November 2004 Years in Waste came into this world, surrounded by a dim and
mythical climate. The response was more diversified than before, just like
the music itself. Still, Years In Waste again got lots of words of praise in
the media and the biggest American metal magazine BW&BK stated on their
8,5/10 review that OG is one of the most underrated bands of Europe and
everybody should check the band out! Nuclear Blast also re-released the
Spirits and August Light album filled with Steal the Light EP. All albums
were also licensed worldwide. After the album release, the keyboard player
Jukka Perl parted ways with the band and Aapo Koivisto joined the crew. The
band toured among others with Dismember after the release and played gigs at
some big festivals, even in Germany and played gigs for example with Cannibal
Corpse, Entombed, Children Of Bodom, Zyklon and Napalm Death. Also two music
videos were made from the tracks The Fall Went Right Through Here and The
Nolans Fati and they were released among else on the famous Monsters of
Metal/Death DVD-compilations.

The year 2006 ended an era in Omnium Gatherum as problems started to arise
first the band parted ways with their label Nuclear Blast and after that the
band parted ways with their long-time singer Antti Filppu due to musical /
personal reasons.

Jukka Pelkonen, also known as J, from the band Elenium, joined the band at
Spring 2006 and the band continued to compose a new material for the third
album and search a new label home. OG played few gigs in Finland to test the
new line-up that turned out to be the really best line-up so far. In
September the band headed to make its first headliner tour in England and
played the Bloodstock Festival in England. The tour was a success and after
that Omnium Gatherum signed a new deal with English Candlelight Records
label. The band have had a bad luck with record labels third album third
label, also third vocalist, but as we in Finland say third time says the
TRUTH!

The third magnum opus of the band will be released at spring 2007 and Omnium
Gatherum are going stronger than ever, 10 years after the creation of the
band!