ILL OMEN
Spear of salvation

Australian black metal band Ill Omen has been releasing some of the more intriguing material out there in recent years, with sprawling instrumentation that takes on a more mysterious and ritualistic feel. These elements have been expanded further than ever before on the newest full length ‘Æ.Thy.Rift’, which feels like it could be a funeral doom effort ran through a black metal filter. Each of the songs builds a thick atmosphere that feels like it’s going to pull you directly into the void, and it’s handled in such a way that uses the longer song lengths to its advantage rather than letting them feel as though they are dragged out.
 

Enthroning The Bonds Of Abhorrence’ is a crushing experience. Haunting, ethereal Black Metal imbued with the desperate pathos and hopeless despair of funeral doom, Ill Omen’s second full-length constitutes a bleak and harrowing journey. Destination: darkness, death, dejection. If the void had a sound, this would be it.
 

Ltd to 500

Tracks 1-6 from "Ill Omen" demo
Tracks 7-11 from "Black Esoterica" demo
Tracks 12-18 from "Adverse Order" demo
1. Adverse
2. Crimson Temples
3. Black Moon Harrow
4. Tenebrous
5. Ash & Wound
6. Three Suns
7. Chants of the Darkened Sceptre
8. Black Esoterica
9. Scribes of the Unlight
10. Burning Stars
11. The Serpent / The Eye
12. Harvest
13. Ruptured Earth Ablaze
14. Revelations of Suffering and Flesh
15. Adverse Order
16. Etched in Ash and Twilight
17. Black Prophets of Misery
18. Trumpets of Oblivion