Today, the enigmatic Ill Omen stream the entirety of their highly anticipated new mini-album, The Grande Usurper. Set for international release on August 10th via Iron Bonehead Productions, hear Ill Omen’s The Grande Usurper in its entirety exclusively HERE.
A prolific force within the Australian black metal underground, Ill Omen has built a canon of enviably massive proportions – and not just “massive” in size, but rather in the heights/depths to which mainman IV aims. Much like he has in his death metal-oriented vehicle Temple Nightside, IV scours the murk with single-minded intent, but with Ill Omen, he pursues a vision of black metal that’s ceremonial and sinuous, often slowly drifting like fog lingering across an empty grave. Such was the case with 2016’s massive Æ.Thy.Rift – arguably, IV’s perfection of slo-mo blackdoom – and here, he returns with his first recording since that critically acclaimed third album.
And yet, The Grande Usurper is a grand break from the gooey, stretched-out expanses of Æ.Thy.Rift. No less murky, instead, IV sends the listener on a wild ride through the most bestial recesses of the characteristic Ill Omen sound. Across its four-song/25-minute runtime, The Grande Usurper roils and revels among the filth, pulsing with barely contained rage, as mind-melting solos yawn slowly up from the crypt, invoking that same sense of delirium as Æ.Thy.Rift but faster. Altogether, it’s a record that consolidates all the gnarled ‘n’ gnarling weapons within the Ill Omen arsenal, but wields them in obscene and horrifyingly new ways. Hideous energy, slipstreaming songwriting, coffin-bound atmosphere crushed: here is revealed The Grande Usurper.
Now, The Grande Usurper is revealed in full exclusively HERE
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Ill Omen’s The Grande Usurper
1. The Ruinous Drear
2. Sentenced Suffering
3. An Eld Living Darkness
4. A Thousand Yawning Graves
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www.illomenvoid.bandcamp.com
