Black Metal History Month- Omega Infinity : "the Anticurrent"

 

The project's sophomore album focuses on the chaos spawned from the Big Bang. In doing this they have created chaos with a bizarre style of black metal. It is dissonant and noisy. It converges into something more musical as the song progresses but the buzz of it is somewhat unnerving. I appreciate experimentation , but you gotta give me a song , no matter what style of music you are playing. The second song is an even more infuriated lashing. The are pretty much full blast ahead which is only going to work for so long with me. To their credit this is a different take on the concept of atmospheric black metal I am not sure that it is really much in the way of songwriting.  There is more of an attempt to make actual music on the second song than the more punishing opening track.

On "Iron Age" the addition of female vocals help bring another melodic element and some conformity into the realms of metal for the less marginal in sanity, Though it is not until things go weird in another way that the really stumble into song writing . The bass player finds a groove that is very outside the bounds of black metal but it works well. They had already begun to push the blasting thing as far as they could take it with me before it became annoying. The main harsh vocals are low growls with other screaming thrown in. With "Banish Us From Eden" there is the first hint of everything gelling into a song that makes the blasting more tolerable. 

The title of the song "To the Stars" are the first real lyrics I have been able to make out on this album so far. There is a wide array of space ambience thanks to the synths in play   This offsets some of the harsher qualities. "Death Rays' comes closer to having more of a riff to it and combines all the elements of what they have done on this album into a more effective package. The growled vocals have more direction and purpose. The spoken female vocals provide the needed contrast. They return to something closer to your typical blasting black metal on "Voices From the End of Time". Then things shift a minute and half into the song and take a more atmospheric direction. The roaring vocals are more articulate in their bellow. Seven and half minutes into the song things get weird and chaotic. Even if this is not what I would normally listen to when it comes to black metal , I will give this album an 8 as it pushes boundaries into the weird and sounds great. Being released on Season of Mist