Album Type:
Album
Date Released:
6th
October 2014
Label:
Holy Roar Records
BLOOM - track
listing:
1.Bad Seeds
2.Rise Of The
Herbivore
Review:
I
originally featured OHHMM back in March 2014 as a band to look out
for with their blend of progressive stoner metal riffs that stood out
from the crowd. Well since then OHHMS have been hard at work on their début album – Bloom – to be released on Holy Roar Records. OHHMS
got signed to Holy Roar Records by sending them music and only one
other band has done that before. THROATS.
Now
don't go thinking that these guys are a flash in the pan hipster band
latching onto the current fave sound within the Sludge/Doom/Stoner
Metal scene. As OHHMS are anything but. Let me tell you now that
BLOOM is an incredible début album.
32
minutes of loud, bombastic and finely tuned
sludge/stoner/doom/post-metal/psych-rock/noise carnage that makes you
fall in love with music in the first place. How the hell does a band
like OHHMS exist. As they sound like a weird supergroup rock
collective though only if that supergroup consist members of ISIS,
Pink Floyd, Torche, Monster Magnet, Mastodon and Baroness. First
track – Bad Seeds – is an epic 18 minute thrill ride that pays
homage to those great bands but OHHMS pull it off with great style
and substance of their very own. It proves what a great talent OHHMS
actually are as their ideas are bursting with manic violent addictive
energy to impress you with.
The
riffs are deafening with lead vocalist Paul leading the charge with
loud as hell destructive vocals of his own. It's a rare thing for a
band to release such an overly confident début album such as this.
The styles of sounds that OHHMS have created here shouldn't really
work but to their credit, the band take you on action packed journey
where there is no turning back.
I
still don't know what genre these guys fall under. When I first
featured them I thought they were a instrumental rock band as the
track I featured was purely instrumental. Thank fuck that OHHMS have
turned out to be something different as Paul's vocals along with the
riffs offer something very different that make you feel alive. OHHMS
do include long passages of ambient based instrumental rock within
their music from time to time. Mainly at the end of BLOOM which sees
the band drift into post-metal territory.
Rise
of The Herbivore is the 2nd epic track that BLOOM has to
offer. 14:25 minutes of experimental Sludge/Stoner/Noise/Doom Metal
craziness that once again shouldn't really work but OHHMS impress yet
again. It features the same path as the first track with ambient
based vibes slowly building up the atmosphere. Wait until the 5
minute mark when OHHMS unleash a loud and violent assault on your
senses. Paul's vocals have a crazed slightly deranged mad-man feel
about them which even scared me at times.
BLOOM
is a brilliant and thrilling début album from a band who are going
to be HUGE in the years to come.
Thanks
to OHHMS for sending me a promo to review. Bloom will be released via
Holy Roar Records on Vinyl/DD/CD on 6th October 2014.
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the Band from Links Below
Written
by Steve Howe
