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Lethal Scissor Records
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In the process of listening and evaluating a record, an important factor is pure personal pleasure, even if we sometimes tend to hide it.
Let’s explain: listening to and telling an audience about a record implies a certain degree of responsibility, even if it doesn’t seem like it. The writer is convinced that it is necessary to frame what one is listening to, as far as possible, even outside of one’s own enthusiasm, imagining having to propose it also to an audience that may be less ‘predisposed’ or ‘dedicated’: in short, knowing how to involve even those who perhaps chew little of a specific style.
Likewise, addressing a non-specific audience, we must try to honestly point out when a record is more or less representative of a certain subgenre, when it stands out in some way.
In this sense, it’s better to say it straight away, Olamot’s “Path Of Divinity” certainly doesn’t reinvent the wheel, on the contrary. For once the biography that accompanies the album is honest and indicates the three vertices of a hypothetical triangle in which to insert ours: Cryptopsy, Shadow Of Intent and Fleshgod Apocalypse.
Of the former there are certainly the birthplace of technical brutality, also accompanied by hints of Dying Fetus, Decrepit Birth and old Psycroptic. Regarding the comparison with Fleshgod Apocalypse, Olamot do not try to be particularly baroque, but what is undeniable is a sound research that is very attentive to details in the arrangements, to different vocal styles albeit ‘screamed’ and in general, to a desire to highlight melodies and hooks that are pretty recognizable to the listener.
The third summit is, as mentioned, Shadow Of Intent, who emerge in the more ‘core’ approach present in all the songs.
Returning to the initial discussion, Olamot manage to put more or less all these influences into each song, making them both structurally complex but also varied and even easily memorable, as in the case of “Everlasting Chains Of Darkness”, “Soul Harvest” and “Where Chaos Reigns ”.
Having started as a creature in the hands of the couple Edoardo Casini and Daniele Boccali, as far as we understand Olamot can now count on an expanded lineup which seems to have benefited them in some way, given that the compositions of this first full house largely surpass those of the mini in quality.” Realms” already published. The performances of the singles are all very good but if we want to mention someone, we were struck by the versatility of Matteo Vitelli’s voice and the guitars of the two Casini and Boccali.
In conclusion, “Path Of Divinity” does not particularly shine for innovation, but it is able to sustain itself with its spectacular shot that makes you want to hear it over and over again. It’s useless, we realized that we had listened to “Path Of Divinity” many times, many more than necessary to tell it to readers, but this time our listening pleasure was considerable.
