There is a certain
charm to a band who have the sheer ballsiness it takes to name
themselves Opium Lord. It shows a depraved and fucked up reality that
the dudes in this band must be exposed too. It makes for some
extremely brutal listening too with crushing riffs coming in side by
side with strange additional sounds. It creates an all around sonic
exploration that means their newest opus, the gloriously fucked up
Eye Of Earth is clearly worth
many a listen.
What
Opium Lord managed to communicate in their bitter vocal lines and
bleak progressions is a sense of apocalyptic fury that goes on to
define almost all of their music once you really get to thinking
about it. There is something strangely charming about Eye
Of Earth though, as if with
every crushing note you find yourself a little deeper in a demented
reality – one that the band have only been able to craft after
years of effort and composition. It means that in the long run Eye
Of Earth are going to leave you
tearing at your hair and grasping for sanity – they speak to the
torment of the human condition better than almost anyone else.
With blues oriented riffs that aren't afraid to belie a Lord
Mantis-like sense of evil Opium Lord have clearly found their own
sound. The way they simply tear your throat out and then make it all
all right again with tracks like Pink Mass is delicious and proves
the bands songwriting prowess. While this may not be for everybody it
seems fairly certain to me that any doom metal devotee will find a
lot to pick apart with this. After all – how often do you find a
band with a unique sense of self driving themselves forward in this
overcrowded scene?
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