Strange and unique!

Seeing as I listened to this album heaps today, heres a review.

I recall being played In The Wood's debut Heart of Ages by the friendly staff at the now long defunct Warhead records in Parammatta. I could see the potential but it didn't grab me.

A few years later, the same band produced Omnio, which abandoned much of the elements that were present on Heart of Ages, suprising me by how much their sound improved.

On the surface it seems like they abandoned all vestiges of their black metal heritage with Omnio, however if you listen further one finds these elements muted and mutated to better mesh with the whole.

Definitely an album to listen to as a whole, the strongest single influence is Pink Floyd and the general field of epic 70s prog and psychadelic rock.

Opener 297 796 km/s (better known as the speed of light in a vacum) begins at a rocking pace but soon segues into glorious strings. Testing the pop listeners patience this track clocks in at the 14+ minute mark. Utilising both male clean vocals and near operatic female vocals, which mostly form backing but play lead later in the album. Both vocalists have lovely voices, some might find the male voice a bit difficult as it's not as trained as the female voice but the small imperfections and slight air raid tendancies work with the music.

In keeping with the black metal spirit there are a couple of glorious screams littered throughout the album, the first appearing 5 minutes into the second track - I am your Flesh.

In keeping with the trend of the later black metal releases the album features top notch engineering with one of the best recorded bass sounds ever seen in the genre.

Like all great compositions the music ebbs and flows between differing moods and tones exhibiting great depth and emotion within each piece.

An album which grows and grows on you, don't give up after the first listen, this is a masterpiece of a release.
- http://www.olethros.com/omnio.html

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Label: Misanthropy | Item Code: AMAZON 011 | Country: Norway | Year: 1997 | Genre: Metal

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