American Tech-Death Juggernaut, Ominous Ruin, have released new album, Requiem, on Willowtip! The album is available on CD, vinyl, and digital formats. Click to purchase/stream below!
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“The whole album is simply outstanding.”
– Teeth of the Divine
“A great album!” (10/10)
– Necromance
“Ominous Ruin have somehow done it again, and this, in my mind, is the standard for others in the same arena to aim for.” (100/100)
– Cult Metal Flix
“Requiem is a blunt and solid-as-a-mountain release, dense as could be expected and containing enough to discover that you’ll be searching out the ole’ musical mining helmet once again to go spelunking.”
– No Clean Singing
“Enthralling, captivating and immersive, Ominous Ruin have hit another home run here.” (9/10)
– Metal Noise
“Requiem is intricate, punishing, and unique.” (4.5/5)
– Metal Epidemic
“A relentless blast of inherently addictive intensity, measured and detailed, Ominous Ruin have delivered something downright impressive here.”
– Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life
“Think Spawn Of Possession’s labyrinthine torment, Decrepit Birth‘s precision carved into chaos, and Ulcerate‘s suffocating dread—all stitched together with trem-picked madness that induces polyrhythmic panic attacks.”
– All Father Metal
“Technical death metal that is memorable as it is brutal.” (9/10)
– Dead Rhetoric
“Brutal, technically brilliant death metal – intense, precise, and full of sonic contrasts.” (4.5/5)
– Metalunderground.at
“Their musicianship is off the charts, and their technical prowess is hard to match. Intense, brutal, and punishing.”
– Metal Temple
“If you love death metal, and love extremely tech versions of it with a progressive edge, then you really need to check this album out.”
– Canadian Assault
“This album isn’t like a storm, but rather like a cyclone that builds up threateningly, then unloads on you, collapses, and then strikes again.”
– Metal-Only
“The album might be a new phase in the band’s career, but their core savagery, violence and intricacy is intact.” (4/5)
– The Headbanging Moose
“Ominous Ruin‘s line-up may have changed, but the band’s determination to offer brutal, complex music has not! Requiem picks up where its predecessor left off and hits us with its own jerky riffs with the same rage.”
– Acta Infernalis
“If all tech death albums were as good as Ominous Ruin’s Requiem, then I would like the genre a lot more.”
– Doomed For Metal
“Ominous Ruin have put out another solid and satisfying record in Requiem, and the band remain an above average modern technical death metal band.“
– Wonderbox Metal
“Ominous Ruin are laying down tech death that is not so much redefining the genre as it is refining it.”
– Heavy Music HQ
A formidable leap forward in both musical complexity and emotional depth, Requiem is a powerful exploration of the human psyche, the ravages of time, and the inevitable descent into oblivion. Requiem is at its core, a continuation of Ominous Ruin’s first release, Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone. Beyond that, its conception spawned from the raw emotion of personal issues and turmoil, as it was created during a dark time in the band’s lives.
The album begins with a direct continuation from the final song off Ominous Ruin’s first album, an emotional guitar and piano ballad that brings the mood to somber, yet melodic. It immediately transitions to an explosion of chaos with the first song, “Seeds of Entropy. “
The musicianship on Requiem is, as expected, nothing short of exceptional. Guitarists Alex Bacey and Joel Guernsey showcase their technical brilliance in every track, with blistering solos and complex, interwoven riffs that keep listeners on their toes. The rhythm section, comprised of Mitch Yoesle (bass) and Harley Blandford (drums), is hardly just a rhythm section, that provides a relentless foundation of precision, power and creativity, anchoring the music as it constantly shifts between ferocity and atmospheric beauty.
The production, handled by Alex Bacey is pristine yet dense, allowing every instrument to shine through the brutal wall of sound without sacrificing the intensity of the compositions. The layering of ambient soundscapes and acoustic passages throughout the album provides an immersive listening experience, allowing the heavier elements to hit even harder when they arrive.
Track Listing:
1 – Intro
2 – Seeds of Entropy [Video]
3 – Eternal [Video]
4 – Bane of Syzygial Triality
5 – Divergent Anomaly
6 – Fractal Abhorrence
7 – Architect of Undoing
8 – Staring into the Abysm [Video]
9 – Requiem
Credits:
Written & Produced By: Alex Bacey
Lyrics & Concepts By: Adam Rosado
Vocals Performed By: Crystal Rose
Bass Written By: Mitch Yoesle
Drums Written By: Harley Blandford
Additional Solos And Song Writing By: Joel Guernsey
Drums Recorded By: Cody Fuentes/Rapture Recordings
Vocals Recorded By: Petr Oplatka [Petropolys Media]
Mixed/Mastered By: Alex Bacey
Artwork By: Pär Olofsson
Emblem Logo By: Alejandro Morales [Imperfect Designs]
Photography By: Catalino [Kitty] Alvarez [Cateyeview]
Management By: Joel Spielman
Line-Up:
Alex Bacey: Guitars
Mitch Yoesle: Bass
Crystal Rose: Vocals
Harley Blandford: Drum
Joel Guernsey: Guitars