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Hey Eyeteeth...I have three of Old Man's Childs albums:
Vermin (8/10) A stand out
Ill Natured Spiritual Invasion...I need more time as I end up listening to the other two...
In Defiance of Existence (9/10) One of their great ones
A little taste of "In Defiance of Existence":
"Black Seeds on Virgin Soils" has some unbelievable double bass and machinegun riffs (ok, the whole album does) and is a great song on the album. The album's title song is just so layered it is hard not to just fall back into and get carried away by ....(I love the intro of "War of Fidelity" on the Vermin album as well). Old Man's Child to me is just like hitting a wall of sound, perfect for some moments in life but their sound is just so heavy....just plain dense, thick...they just drag you down sometimes....but on that day when you want that heavy wave of metal that reaches out and grabs your lungs and squeezes....their sound is perfect. The best equation for me is like having a chain around your neck with a cinder block at the other end and you are going into the deep....you are looking up at the sunlight pouring through the water on your way down and it is bueatiful like track 7 " In Question of Enigmatic Dreams" and then track 8 "The Underworld Domains" hits in and you realize that you need to start swimming for your life...lol...track 9 "Life Derived" is that final frantic point when you are close to the surface but this is not horse shoes. I would recommend taking a listen to In Defiance of Existence as they just take the album so many places well that it is great but some of the others can be hard to take from start to finish IMHO. I will say, that the better my rig gets, the better these guys sound as there is just so much going on in every song. Don't forget to breathe!
I was in an Old Man's Child mood tonight and they didn't let me down...
I stole this as I thought that it was a great review (see credit at bottom):
In 2003, three years after Old Man's Child's last album and two years after Dimmu Borgir's latest, Galder returned with two new discs (the sixth C.D. from his side project, OMC's "In Defiance Of Existence," and Dimmu Borgir's "Death Cult Armageddon"). As on other Old Man's Child releases, Galder handled nearly every instrument on this album: second guitar, vocals, bass guitar, and synthesizers. But he is, unexpectedly, not the only one on here who really gets to show off his talents: Dimmu Borgir/Cradle Of Filth/Benediction alumni Nicholas Barker (who had been hired to pound the skins on this album), goes completely nuts, beating the stuffing out of his trapkit, and driving most of these rhythms with remarkable, fast, thumping blast beats.
Like all great melodic black metal, "In Defiance Of Existence" has several pretty, tranquil parts, but it's first and foremost brutal. The heavy parts feature Galder spewing his venomous, kind of snarly vocals over cold, opaque soundscapes of fiery guitars and ultra fast double kick drumming.
But this album also has a lot of great, very refined texture and variety because several of these songs subtly slip in a touch of moody keyboards and/or acoustic guitars. And OMC aren't like some dark metal bands who either make a song completely melodic or completely heavy (with no middle ground), because many of these tracks, like "Agony Of Fallen Grace" (which has a walloping, machine gun rhythm but also includes some spacey synths), are brutal and ambient at the same time.
The record's best song might be "Black Seeds On Virgin Soil." After a melodic intro, a surging, whiplash onslaught made up of a hurricane of guitar riffs and extremely busy double bass work bursts onto the scene. Similarly, "The Soul Receiver" begins with the sounds of a symphony, but then catapults into a heavily churning, pummeling rhythm. Track seven, "In Quest Of Enigmatic Dreams," is an interlude consisting of a very pretty string arrangement, but the album goes out with a bang: "The Underworld Domains" and "Life Deprived" are both scorchers, bursting with thrashy, scalding riffs and ultra-fast, skull-cracking blast beats.
It doesn't get much better than this, December 6, 2006
By A. Stutheit "andreaabs" (Littleton, CO USA)
Amazon.com review
| Originally Posted by eyeteeth /img/forum/go_quote.gif Thanks, I'll get that MDB. When they shift gears and step on the gas, they're pretty great. I've got everything by Emperor and enough of Dissection. Come to think of it, there isn't any band of any genre that sounds very much like another....unless it's one of those truly awful things like boy bands *shudder* I'll get some Old Man's Child. I like Galder a lot and I think I recall Mr.PD (lost in the wilds of Oregon!) mentioning them and we had similar taste. |
Hey Eyeteeth...I have three of Old Man's Childs albums:
Vermin (8/10) A stand out
Ill Natured Spiritual Invasion...I need more time as I end up listening to the other two...
In Defiance of Existence (9/10) One of their great ones
A little taste of "In Defiance of Existence":
"Black Seeds on Virgin Soils" has some unbelievable double bass and machinegun riffs (ok, the whole album does) and is a great song on the album. The album's title song is just so layered it is hard not to just fall back into and get carried away by ....(I love the intro of "War of Fidelity" on the Vermin album as well). Old Man's Child to me is just like hitting a wall of sound, perfect for some moments in life but their sound is just so heavy....just plain dense, thick...they just drag you down sometimes....but on that day when you want that heavy wave of metal that reaches out and grabs your lungs and squeezes....their sound is perfect. The best equation for me is like having a chain around your neck with a cinder block at the other end and you are going into the deep....you are looking up at the sunlight pouring through the water on your way down and it is bueatiful like track 7 " In Question of Enigmatic Dreams" and then track 8 "The Underworld Domains" hits in and you realize that you need to start swimming for your life...lol...track 9 "Life Derived" is that final frantic point when you are close to the surface but this is not horse shoes. I would recommend taking a listen to In Defiance of Existence as they just take the album so many places well that it is great but some of the others can be hard to take from start to finish IMHO. I will say, that the better my rig gets, the better these guys sound as there is just so much going on in every song. Don't forget to breathe!
I was in an Old Man's Child mood tonight and they didn't let me down...
I stole this as I thought that it was a great review (see credit at bottom):
In 2003, three years after Old Man's Child's last album and two years after Dimmu Borgir's latest, Galder returned with two new discs (the sixth C.D. from his side project, OMC's "In Defiance Of Existence," and Dimmu Borgir's "Death Cult Armageddon"). As on other Old Man's Child releases, Galder handled nearly every instrument on this album: second guitar, vocals, bass guitar, and synthesizers. But he is, unexpectedly, not the only one on here who really gets to show off his talents: Dimmu Borgir/Cradle Of Filth/Benediction alumni Nicholas Barker (who had been hired to pound the skins on this album), goes completely nuts, beating the stuffing out of his trapkit, and driving most of these rhythms with remarkable, fast, thumping blast beats.
Like all great melodic black metal, "In Defiance Of Existence" has several pretty, tranquil parts, but it's first and foremost brutal. The heavy parts feature Galder spewing his venomous, kind of snarly vocals over cold, opaque soundscapes of fiery guitars and ultra fast double kick drumming.
But this album also has a lot of great, very refined texture and variety because several of these songs subtly slip in a touch of moody keyboards and/or acoustic guitars. And OMC aren't like some dark metal bands who either make a song completely melodic or completely heavy (with no middle ground), because many of these tracks, like "Agony Of Fallen Grace" (which has a walloping, machine gun rhythm but also includes some spacey synths), are brutal and ambient at the same time.
The record's best song might be "Black Seeds On Virgin Soil." After a melodic intro, a surging, whiplash onslaught made up of a hurricane of guitar riffs and extremely busy double bass work bursts onto the scene. Similarly, "The Soul Receiver" begins with the sounds of a symphony, but then catapults into a heavily churning, pummeling rhythm. Track seven, "In Quest Of Enigmatic Dreams," is an interlude consisting of a very pretty string arrangement, but the album goes out with a bang: "The Underworld Domains" and "Life Deprived" are both scorchers, bursting with thrashy, scalding riffs and ultra-fast, skull-cracking blast beats.
It doesn't get much better than this, December 6, 2006
By A. Stutheit "andreaabs" (Littleton, CO USA)
Amazon.com review
