Dyoxidon is hailing from United States and this is third full length opus. This one man band is in fact spawn of one m_psymorgh and as you might have guessed it, music is different than your average black or death metal band. Dyoxidon delivers armageddon. Point. It delivers apocalyptic vision of man’s future, where machines and meat are equal parts of one, where coldness of space and coldness of surgical steel became prevalent in relation to blood, muscle and meat. This is dark album, pretty chaotic in some song parts, reminding me of harsher version of Norwegian Mysticum, or Italian Aborym, yet lot harsher and even colder. Songs are pretty long and this relentlessness continues grinding all in its path. But, I can hear some melancholic, almost symphonic synth melody coming through the cold machine sound delivering almost cry for help or sigh of conquered humanity for past times, when all was much more simple and better for them. But I love this machine inferno, I love this chaos, I love the synthesis of man and machine and this album is a killer. My personal favorites are ‘Extinction(Errata)’, ‘Parasite Communion’ and ‘Spectravore’.
New Omega Infinity opus is upon us! This is their second one, out through Season of Mist. What to expect? I must admit I haven’t listened to this international two men band/project before, so I did not know how they sound like. This is basically black metal with lots of blackened death metal influences, but also sounding very raw and aggressive. Vocals are mixture of death metal growling, black metal screaming, eerie chanting voices, some whispering and almost spoken words. Music ranges from blast beat fast oriented aggression pure to more slower and atmospheric stuff like excellent ‘Iron Age’ featuring guest performance by Adrienne Cowan(Seven Spires) who provides clean vocals and screams on this one sounding just awesome. Omega Infinity cleverly mixes industrial and electronica into their song structures thus creating something cold and sinister, but also there are subtle melodies underneath all of brutality. There are also guest performances, like Lindsay Schoolcraft(ex Cradle of Filth, Antiqva) delivering her speech and screams of fantastic ‘Death Rays’ and Andras Nagy of Hungarian Sear Bliss singing on ‘Voices From The End Of Time’ and ‘Night Journey’ and Marta J. Braun (TODTGELICHTER, VYRE) delivering clean vocals of Emperor cover ‘Ye Entranceempirium’. Yes, there are two covers on this one as bonus, one being aforementioned Emperor song, on whom this band reminds me in their progressive black metal elements and variety of songwriting. Other is a Sear Bliss cover. Songs are long but they do not get boring for one second because this is various and aggressive, but also smart and progressive black metal opus.
Industrial musician and artist (creator of the AEW superstars ‘The House of Black’ masks) Ivan King, has released a new single named “Extinction” with a sci-fi/horror themed video, directed by himself, at the following link:
The songs is the first of the new singles following up the success of the debut EP “The Ballad of the Dead Man” released in 2020, which is reaching 1M listens. You can follow and find more about the artist at the following link:
