{"id":18130,"date":"2014-01-31T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=18130"},"modified":"2014-03-20T22:28:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T22:28:45","slug":"album-review-omnizide-death-metal-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-omnizide-death-metal-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"OMNIZIDE – Death Metal Holocaust (2014) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

OMNIZIDE
Death Metal Holocaust<\/strong><\/span>
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\nCarnal (2014)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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After emerging from the murky depths of the River Styx, Swedish maniacs Omnizide have dried themselves down and presented to us their debut record, Death Metal Holocaust<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The band has existed in some form since 1995 (initially under the moniker of Belzen), although you\u2019ll recognise vocalist Mikael Nox from his work with black metallers Craft. Now a full line-up has been assembled we can truly appreciate the ghoulish allure of Omnizide, a ferocious beast of a band featuring Jesper and Anders (aka AE) on guitars, Gaddur on drums, and B-Force on bass (although bass duties on the album are handled by Anders). If their stony glare is not enough to make you fill your pants with your innards, their ten-track debut of primitive metal should. <\/p>\n

As first albums go, Death Metal Holocaust<\/em> is both cold and clammy, and rakes itself across the ears and face as if it were strands of mist on a boggy moor. This lethal platter combines raw black metal with squalid death metal, making for a rather oily experience by the time its last nail has been driven into the skull. <\/p>\n

The album opens with the thrashing \u2018Rotting Flesh Parade\u2019, which features rather recognisable Swedish structures, particularly in those catchy riffs. This isn\u2019t just a record paying homage to classic Swedish death metal, however. In fact, it\u2019s nowhere near paying homage, as the quartet belch out numerous crude compositions blessed with clattering drums and raw guitars which accompany Nox\u2019s vocal sneers. There is of course that crusty punk feel at times too, especially with some of Gaddur\u2019s frightful drumming.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all rather catchy throughout nonetheless, despite its despicable twists and turns. \u2018No Remorse\u2019 is about as subtle as a spike up the backside and \u2018Monolith\u2019 follows suit as a simple yet barbaric knife to the guts, bolstered by an annihilating riff and cold vocal rasp. <\/p>\n

Omnizide\u2019s aim is clearly to render the listener frozen, ash-covered and suffocated by fumes belched from its own orifice. \u2018The Eternally Damned\u2019 creeps up on you with the tiptoe effect of a rusty bulldozer, and the glorious rattle of \u2018Dead Planet\u2019 spits out the rest of the bones in a haze of grey devastation.<\/p>\n

However, the album isn\u2019t just about nasty speed. The immense \u2018Nuclear Strike\u2019 is one of 2014\u2019s greatest and most sinister horror stories; the track begins as an ode to Slayer<\/a> circa the black vengeance of Reign In Blood<\/em> (1986) and South Of Heaven<\/em><\/a> (1988) before it resorts to type, and vomits out a pile of nails and gore through Nox\u2019s wretched groans and gasps.<\/p>\n

\u2018Pleasure From Death\u2019 and \u2018Desecration Art\u2019 (both taken from Omnizide\u2019s 2011 \u2018Pleasure From Death\u2019 single) finish off the grisly job; executed with grim perfection and malice, ending a record that will have you coughing up shards of rust for months afterwards.<\/p>\n

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

OMNIZIDEDeath Metal Holocaust Carnal (2014)Rating: 8\/10 After emerging from the murky depths of the River Styx, Swedish maniacs Omnizide have dried themselves down and presented to us their debut record, Death Metal Holocaust. The band has existed in some form since 1995 (initially under the moniker of Belzen), although you\u2019ll recognise vocalist Mikael Nox from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-omnizide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18130","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=18130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18133,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18130\/revisions\/18133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}