Ofermod - Tiamtü out Sept 29.

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Tiamtü, the debut album by legends OFERMOD, is scheduled for a CD release on the 29th of September 2008. LP coming sometimes in late October.

Returning with the original line-up, OFERMOD is more sublime than ever, unleashing their Kliphotic incantations in utter sinister perfection. Only Death is Sacred!

Tiamtü consists of following material:

TIAMTÜ

PRALAYIC WIHDRAWAL

DEATH CANTATA

EU ANGELION

DREAMING IN THE VEINS OF KINGU

Topethian Cleansing : FURNACE OF MOLOCH

KHABS AM PEKHT

MAASSEH NECHUSHTAN


Holy shit... I'm speechless.... this album has been announced for so long (like 5 years?) and came out of nowhere... there's a little voice inside me telling me "come on it must be an april fool or something". Have respect for the creators of the orthodox genre guys!
 
I'll listen to this, but Ofermod wasn't the first band to play "orthodox" black metal.
 
Ofermod, Malign, Nefandus and Funeral Mist were among the first.

The Black might be the first but Ofermod defined the overall "sound" of the genre.
 
Wasn't this originally supposed to be called "Pentagrammaton"?

Either way, interesting news. My hopes aren't too high- Khabs am Pekht was no where near as good as the "original" Mysterion Tes Anomias material- but this like the black metal Chinese Democracy.
 
I've managed to download it. My thoughts after listening to a couple of songs:

The style here is a bit different than on "Netiva Ha Chokmah" or the unfinished "Pentagrammaton" tracks I heard, although it shares some material with both of them ("Khabs Am Pekht is obviously from "Netiva..." while "Tiamatu" was on "Pentagrammaton"). It's a bit slower and more crushing, rather than the faster rushes that those two releases were. It works well, IMO. Khabs Am Pekht, while still not the strongest Ofermod song, works much better like this- some of that manic energy is turned into a much more menacing atmosphere- and the title track sounds fucking HUGE.

It'll take more listens to see if this'll withstand the test of time, of course.
 
I'm currently on my first listen. My immediate thoughts about this are positive, and although sounding quite different to Mysterion tes Anomias, I'm pleased that this is immediately recognizable as the Ofermod I know. Like Cynical stated, mid-paced and crushing with huge production. Good stuff.
 
This is the only album I've listened to in the last two days, and at this point, I can say that it's really fucking good. The first half is stronger than the second, containing the absolutely fucking amazing "Pralaya Withdrawl", which is strongly reminiscent of "Chained to Redemption" from their classic EP, and "Death Cantana", which, to me, sounds like what Watain's "Sworn to the Dark" should have been. The album's sole fault is that the last three songs lose focus a bit- "Tophetian Cleansing: Furnace of Moloch" is a timewaster like you'd expect on a later Morbid Angel album, "Khabs Am Pekht" is the weakest song on the album BY FAR (although much better than the old version, thanks to being played so that its contrast is much more marked), and "Maasseh Nechushtan" is cool, but is still "just an outro". Had this been released as a five song EP, or maybe as a short full-length with "Masseh Nechustan", it would probably be more effective than it is now.
 
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