Old Man's Child - Born of the Flickering

[M.Lehto]

I haven't listen this in a long time, but damn this sounds good. This and In The Shades Of Life MCD gets way too little respect from people, when talking about older bm-releases, no matter how shitty their newer records are. Hell, BotF was released in '95 and ItSoL in '96 and then there wasn't too many bands like this yet.

 

[spaffe]

I've always written them off as a crappy Borgir clone, pretty unjustified I guess since I've only heard a few songs from their latest. What's their older stuff like then?

 

[J.]

same here; always thought they were a second rate Dimmu

 

[NAD]

Me three, and I've never heard them.

 

[Henrik Main]

Agreed, Old Man's Child's two first efforts are very good, and the other albums ("The Pagan Prosperity", "Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion", "Revelation 666: The Curse Of Damnation" and "In Defiance Of Existance") have a fair deal of good songs too. They DO sound like Dimmu, however, and Galder, the mastermind behind OMC, has been a member of Dimmu for quite a long time. But still. I bet fotmbm and Erik will verbally rip the band to pieces.

 

[M.Lehto]

Well the most likely thing to say about OMC is that they're DB-clones, but that's not very fair judgement. The keyboards are not too present on the first releases as they are on later ones. Musically I can't say what they sound like in the first releases, but IF you wan't to compare them to Dimmu, then somewhere near Stormblåst's first track, which I also like very much. In The Shades Of Life has no bad songs on it and Born of the Flickering only have few of them.

So maybe it sounds a bit like a cross between Vargnatt era Ulver and Stormblåst era DB, only better.

 

[Hell Mike]

I bet fotmbm and Erik will verbally rip the band to pieces.

I wasn't really planning to, but hey, if the fag norwegian asks for it, here we go!

OMC is scheisse and they released a split with DB and the re-issue is PINK! And they are gay and bald! And crap!

 

[spaffe]

So maybe it sounds a bit like a cross between Vargnatt era Ulver and Stormblåst era DB, only better.

Hm, well I don't like Stormblåst and I wasn't that impressed with Vargnatt... I think I'll pass