Name: Omens
Brand: Elder

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-05-01

Signed copies

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Forte

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4046661668827

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Double 180 Gram Vinyl.

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Artist

Elder

Genre GB

Metal

Label GB

Stickman Records

Elder is a Heavy Psych / Stoner / Progressive Metal band that was formed in Massachusetts in 2005. With their unique blend of genres, they have gained a loyal following and have become known for their captivating live performances.
Since their formation, Elder has been pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved within the metal genre. Their music is characterized by its heavy riffs, intricate melodies, and thought-provoking lyrics.
Although originally from Massachusetts, Elder is currently based in Berlin, Germany. This move has allowed them to further expand their musical horizons and collaborate with artists from around the world.

In the last dozen years, Elder has stepped out of the shadows of their peers in the heavy rock underground to emerge a unique voice, delivering album after album of almost unparalleled consistency and creativity. Omens, the band‘s fifth full-length record, is the newest pillar in the construction of their own musical universe. 

In five cinematic songs, lush, intricately interwoven melodies grow and dissolve into spaced-out jams. Massive riffs thunder down into a churning sea of psychedelic sounds and unpredictable grooves carry away the listener. Elder paints pictures with their music, and Omens shows the band experimenting with an even more colorful palette – with good reason. After thirteen years, this is the first full-length recorded with a new lineup including guitarist Michael Risberg and new drummer Georg Edert, along with guest performances by Fabio Cuomo on Rhodes piano and synthesizers. This is music for a vacation from reality – to lose oneself in another world. And yet Omens is not purely an exercise in escapism, but also reflects the increasingly bleak, confusing and antagonistic times in which it was written. Composed as a concept album spanning the lifespan of a civilization, the album also reads as a commentary on our own society hell-bent on profitability at the expense of our own lives and environment.

Omens was recorded and mixed at Black Box Studios in France with engineer Peter Deimel (Shellac, dEUS, Motorpsycho) and mastered by Carl Saff in Chicago. The result is an album that is rich, warm and dynamic, presenting the many layers of Elder’s complex sound clearly and offering new discoveries with every listen.

Omens

Music GB

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