Customer Reviews

The Red Shift

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omnium gatherum have arrived with their new album. It is simply amazing. after their last 2 albums just simply not holding a flame to their amazing debut album *spirits and august light* I was getting anxious for OG to release another stellar album, and this new album does not only hold a torch to the debut it far surpasses it. The production is great and was mixed and mastered by the man "Dan Swano". The music on this album brings back allot of the melodys missing on their last album. It is actually one of the best mixes of melody and agression i have heard. The band is top of their game on this album even pushing their technical playing a bit further. The guitar playing is amazing the solos are great as usual! and the drum playig is awesome as always. keyboards stand out much more on this album. I also noticed a huge improvement on the vocals. his growls and clean vocals have bolth gotten much better. jukka has a very different unique voice. so what your getting here is melodic death metal with a bit of a proggy touch.

give it a listen true melodic death metal here. wont be a better melodic death metal album out any time soon. This is quality stuff..

I heard about Omnium Gatherum through the grapevine. They were described to me as Scandnavian metal done right, so naturally, I went out and grabbed this. The person who reccommended it was right on the money. This disc is awesome.

The guitar work, while not overly complex in sound, provides most of the melody. Keyboards add atmosphere. The vocals sound like melodic death metal to a T, nice and gutteral. Not that the singer doesn't have a nice, rangy, clean vocal section mixed in now and then. My first impression on more than one song was "very Dark Tranquillity-esqe".

If you, like me, are a fan of DT, pick this one up. You will not be disappointed. I'm very impressed with this one. The Red Shift gets 4.5 out of 5 stars.

I only just heard OG recently via New World Shadows, which has a bunch of good, catchy songs on it. So, now I'm working my way back to see what I missed. I just finished listening to this entire album for the first time today. It's pretty much what I expected, which is well-done, well-produced melodic death metal. Nothing revolutionary, but I wasn't asking for that either. Variations of a theme are OK for this genre because I like the genre. They still do their own thing with it.

I found this on Amazon on the Insomnium pages, and I'll say OG is a great find for anyone who likes Insomnium. OG is different, but it has a similar feel to it. Neither band is trying to be the next virtuoso on guitar, or being some technical genius, and I'm OK with that. The vibe they create is thoughtful and expansive. It's kind of a "Thinking Man's Metal". I tend to like that stuff, including Scar Symmetry, Skyfire, In Flames, Opeth, etc. Just some good, quality thought-music with some depth.

I think there are a handful of songs that stand out on this album, like I think for NWS. Perhaps more on NWS, but it took a few listens for that to grow on me... and maybe this will.

I like these guys though. Glad I found them.

(For anyone interested in how much metal-experience I have, I'm 34. I think all reviews should require an age. :D )

Why someone would give this album a one star rating is obviously beyond the rest of us, just insane! Anyone who writes a review here should at least listen to the album first...

There has always been something intangibly relevant in the way Omnium Gatherum puts together a bunch of notes and beats and makes it flow like a river disturbance. Beautiful, fluid, ever changing and evolving. It keeps pace and direction yet stays just fresh enough to surprise even after many listens. Sometimes composition can make all the difference in the world. "The Red Shift" is just one of those albums that fires on all the right cylinders for me. The right hooks, the right time changes, the right vocal variations...it simply moves me in all the right directions. Dan Swano produces this album and leaves me wanting more...right now!

5 stars, yeah that's right...5!

I just cant imagine why and how "Fiberking" below gave this masterpiece a one star rating - i almost feel sorry for him/her, but hey everyone to his own liking. This CD is a killer of melodic death metal sound. It defines its routes and makes it their own. They don't sound like any other. If you like Dark tranquility, eternal tears of sorrow or Mors principium est, and bands of the genre you'll love this one, actually i can say i love this CD on top of all the others before mentioned. Its just one of those cd's you can tell they put so much time and effort. Their previous releases i can say i didn't like as much, but this just defied all odds.

From the drums to guitars and the range of the singers voice matched all components of the songs to such work of gruesome and yet beautiful art.

I cant tell you how much this album means to me. I own hundreds of metal cds and this one is definitely a top 10. The new eternal tears of sorrow is a good one too if you liked this one.

I'll be blasting this cd as i ride through a long suburban road on a fresh and cloudy evening and marvel on its imagery and imagination in one big metal BLAST of perfection!!

This band gives metal a bad name - it's just plan bad music - if you want atmosphere and melody, try something like Wolves in the Throne Room. Stay away from this. Flushed my money down the toilet with this one.