![]() ![]() I'll say this much for it: where on past albums not all of Dødheimsgard's experiments succeeded unanimously, A Umbra Omega is consistently dazzling the entire way through. To call A Umbra Omega DHG's finest album may be tempting exaggeration, but the fact that I want to go out and say that should be testament to the album's jaw-dropping creativity. No Dødheimsgard record could be complete without taunting the listener's sanity to some forsaken degree, and a consistent standard of musicianship far beyond the par of their contemporaries would be virtually a granted fact. The major waiting period makes it so that it would seem inappropriate to call this latest DHG opus a real follow-up to their past material nonetheless, there were things I'd expect from any new work of theirs. The sheer rarity of their output makes A Umbra Omega feel that much more like a cherished event there would be few other circumstances I'd be openly embrace a 70 minute metal album without reservations. Supervillain Outcast dropped eight years later in 2007, and it's now been seven years since that. ![]() When it's become relatively 'normal' to hear bands constantly pushing the boundaries, it's woefully easy to forget there was once a time things of an experimental nature were major risks to take in a scene that took pride in its own obscurity.Īll things considered, Dødheimsgard's been pretty quiet in the years since they changed the game. Of course, by the time we're at now, black metal is practically old enough as a genre to have settled down, possibly had kids, and otherwise aged enough to have seen each one of its potential permutations realized into some shape or form. 666 International's bold push to twist the sound with industrial interference and jazz-based intuition did for black metal what Atheist's Unquestionable Presence did for its death metal counterpart several years prior. I think it's difficult nowadays to appreciate just how far Dødheimsgard took black metal at the end of the 1990s.
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