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Call
it a single or an EP, the new twenty-two minute one song
release by French Satan lovers Deathspell Omega crams
more ideas, structure and arrangements than most
full-lengths. And clearly, it is one package that could
have been sliced and diced into four or five songs.
There are even blank spaces and clear radical riff
changes that could have been split into separate songs.
However, it is the intention of this secretive band to
enhance the ‘journey’ by offering one long track
instead. As to why the nineteen minute one song EP
Mass Grave Aesthetics (also released in 2008) wasn’t
appended to this I don’t know. They are two different
journeys with different destinations, I guess.
Musically,
Deathspell Omega remains absolutely stellar. Chaining the
Katechon is at once intense, pretty and intricate enough to
be called progressive. Like any pretentious long song should, it
shifts speed frequently and goes from blinding velocity to a
violent stop, from dynamic and agile to slow and totally obtuse.
The instrumental structure is harmonious and disharmonious, at
times flowing accordingly and at others with the instruments at
odds with each other. It works well. There are moments of chaos
and moments where the music only verges on the chaotic. It is
precisely during the latter when Deathspell Omega let go of the
speed and focus on details that they show how much they’ve grown
as true artists of the underground.
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