{"id":102100,"date":"2023-12-08T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=102100"},"modified":"2023-12-22T12:23:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T12:23:21","slug":"ep-review-ominum-war-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-ominum-war-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"OMINUM – War For Peace EP (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

OMINUM
War For Peace EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Last year, Swedish thrashers Ominum released a sturdy debut full-length album with Monument<\/em><\/a>; a solid thrash offering that sounded like Testament at their most aggressive. Those details are present again as the Gothenburg trio throws out three hefty tracks which bring plenty of bone-crunching riffs.<\/p>\n

You can slot this band in the death-thrash category because it has that sort of barking vocal chops, but the chesty spits from guitarist Berno Jozi\u0107 remain a sticking point for me. Even so, musically you get a punky energy not too far removed from Anthrax or Testament \u2013 the bass has a crystal clear crunch and the drums rip with vigour.<\/p>\n

The guitar solos delightfully squirm and the band really does have an eye for a melody as opening tune \u2018Divided We Stand\u2019 proves. \u2018Land Of Hate\u2019 brings more of that mid-paced riff crunch, although the melody leaves me craving a less generic and less contemporary growl. But it is what is, and by the time the closing title track steams in my attention span has waned.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a shame because I really enjoyed the music which at times is very groove-based and crisp. I can\u2019t see the band ever moving away from this style vocally, but this isn\u2019t the progression I was expecting.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OMINUMWar For Peace EP Self-released (2023)Rating: 6\/10 Last year, Swedish thrashers Ominum released a sturdy debut full-length album with Monument; a solid thrash offering that sounded like Testament at their most aggressive. Those details are present again as the Gothenburg trio throws out three hefty tracks which bring plenty of bone-crunching riffs. You can slot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4957],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-ominum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102101,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102100\/revisions\/102101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}