Deathspell Omega

01. Deathspell Omega - Infernal Battles, 2000 CD Album      Northern Heritage - NH-008 02. Clandestine Blaze, Deathspell Omega - Split CD, 2003 CD      Northern Heritage, Northern Heritage, Northern Heritage - NH-011 / CD, NH-011/CD, NH-011 , Compilation      Contains 7 songs by: Clandestine Blaze, Deathspell Omega 03. Deathspell Omega - Inquisitors Of Satan, 2003 CD Album      Northern Heritage - NH 017 04. Deathspell Omega - Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice., 2004 CD Album      Norma Evangelium Diaboli - NED 005 05. Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum, 2007 CD Album      Norma Evangelium Diaboli - NED 012 06. Deathspell Omega - Manifestations 2002, 2008 CD Compilation      Northern Heritage - NH-056 07. Deathspell Omega - Veritas Diaboli Manet In Aeternum: Chaining The Katechon, 2008 CD Mini-Album      Norma Evangelium Diaboli - NED 021 08. Deathspell Omega - Manifestations 2000-2001, 2008 CD Compilation      Northern Heritage - NH-055 09. Deathspell Omega - Paracletus, 2010 CD Album      Norma Evangelium Diaboli - NED026 10. Deathspell Omega - Drought, 2012 CD Mini-Album      Season Of Mist - SOM 810 11. Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy Of Molten Bones, 2016 CD Album      Norma Evangelium Diaboli - NED041 12. Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces Of Palingenesia, 2019 CD Album      Norma Evangelium Diaboli - NED047 13. Deathspell Omega - The Long Defeat, 2022 CD Album      Norma Evangelium Diaboli - NED056 Eat fish and black metal! The output from the infamous Deathspell Omega can be separated in two distinct sections, as if two bands were sporting the same name before and after 2004. The early stuff until 2003 is generic 90s raw black metal photocopied from Darkthrone and Mayhem's Deathcrush. The excitement level at the Church does not take off significantly when playing that segment of the DO discography, although as unoriginal as they are these raw and vicious releases are competent in their standard satanic mid-tempo roughness and even distill sometimes a glimpse of the personality DO developed after that adolescent phase. Then there is the earthquake of Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice, which is the start of a whole new black hole. From this point on, DO only made over the top masterpieces in multidimensional blackness and neurotic metal of monumental proportions. There is a high degree of sophistication in this madness, that echoes a lot of the Eastern European sound, especially that evil sound from Poland. Did DO inspire Poland, or vice-versa, or did bot both enter a symbiotic retroaction loop? Who cares? Fans of DO must worship Furia, Mord A Stigmata, Kriegsmaschine, Morrow and all the other heroes of the Church like Imperial Triumphant, and vice-versa. Complex and dissonant blackness that uses a seed of Voïvod to propel infinite headbanging evil in all directions is one thing, but such mastery in song writing and execution does put DO at the forefront of the avant-garde. It is really difficult to select a favorite in the post-2004 DO literal apocalypse, aka revelation of the ultimate. Drought is quite exceptional, but Paracletus is too - manic speed is not forgotten in the maze of hypnotic riffs. The last two releases might be superior even with less of that blast-bombing and more of the drug-addiction riffing where all instruments conspire to lose the innocent meat in its own aural conduits. It all depends on the wanted effect. Mind and body feed on DO, body and mind become slaves to DO. We are far beyond black metal here. In France one is supposed to take Gojira as the cream of the metal scene, but this is only media hype and low level gossip. The true force of metal advancement and the crown of domination from that country is Deathspell Omega. Submit and bang that skull! Break your brain and your skeleton against the triplazering black star of the insaniverse! Remove brackets and unzip: [fatanic acids] !ZER Deathspell Omega ZER!