Otherworld
“Upon The Wreckage”
2017
Ominous and foreboding, there’s an eerie rumble of the ocean air off in the dark distance as waves crash around your vessel. Arriving alongside the wreckage, you’re swallowed whole by the waves around you and pull into a deep, dark despair from which there is no return. That’s how the fuck this album starts off!
Otherworld is a heavy metal quartet from Florida bring forth a dark, heavy, and melodic album that shares elements of bands like Soen, Vangough, and Baroness to name a few. there’s a very unique blend of styles at work here that make this hard to define, which is honestly what you’d want in a album/band. The atmosphere alone pulls you in and crushes you under the weight of darkness. a real embodiment of the famous quote from German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche: “…And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”
But of course, it can’t all be wine and roses. There’s a few weak spots like sections of Ashes To Ashes, Ghost, and the eleventh track (it was unnamed on my copy) which is a poorly recorded demo of what sounds to me like an older song that’s no longer in their live rotation. Having a demo of a song at the end of an album that had up to that point kicked your ass up and down, it makes it sorta spoil the ending. But in the grand scheme of things, these are very minor points from a nit picky album reviewer, and will easily be overlooked for whats really important here: If this is what the abyss sounds like, I’m there!
Overall: Dark, atmospheric, heavy, and progressive. The burden of despair portrayed here cuts you down with surgeon-like precision.
Tracklist:
1, Phantom Limb
2. I For An I
3. The Lantern
4. Ashes To Ashes
5. Unto The Void
6. Ghost
7. Our Wasteland
8. Into The Shadows
9. Never To Rise
10. Crown Of Thorns
11. Track 11
https://www.facebook.com/Otherworldofficial
https://www.otherworldmetal.com/
Members:
Ty “Yeti” Lindsay – Bass/Keyboards
Conner Lindsay – Guitars/Vocals
Chris Sammy – Drums
Austin Baxter – Guitars
Rating: 9 out of 10
~Deaf Guardian