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Review: Deathspell Omega - The Long Defeat
Deathspell Omega
The Long Defeat

Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli
Year released: 2022
Duration: 44:11
Tracks: 5
Genre: Black Metal

Rating:
1/5


Review online: May 23, 2022
Reviewed by: Sargon the Terrible
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I haven't heard a Deathspell Omega album in years, since their third album, which has a long-ass Latin title I am not going to type out here. This is always a band whose reach seemed to exceed their grasp, as they were highly ambitious, but never able to really pull off the extent of that ambition.

I find that hasn't changed, as this is very much an album that is too busy being pretentious to kick ass. I don't object to intellectual pleasures in music, but I still want some substance to things, and this is all style and very little actual meat. Every song here feels like some excruciatingly long buildup to a song that never actually gets going. You have long, meandering melodic parts, acoustic plinking, and constant, CONSTANT vocal gargling that I assume is supposed to be meaningful. Even when this gets going, it is just kind of lurching and shapeless, without any snap to the songwriting and a muddy production job that doesn't do it any favors. This is a slow, dull, tiresome album that was a chore to sit through.

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