Doedsmaghird – Omniverse Consciousness

Written by on 02-11-2024 at 09:03.

Doedsmaghird is the little brother of Dødheimsgard. Why? Simply because Yusaf “Vicotnik” Parvez, together with DHG’s guitarist Camille Giradeau, has found time to create another, call it secondary, universe. The title of this first quite experimental work is simply Omniverse Consciousness. But you will soon realize that “simply” is not a term that fits.

The music on this Omniverse Consciousness combines grimness with modern sounds to hide under a new mask. The album was woven around a central theme that Mr. Parvez best summarizes in these lines: “A concept of universal awareness that transcends the present individual experience and connects the dots across multiple timelines and dimension. Consciousness is like nodes within a vast, interconnected web, where the black medium current serves a conduit for information exchange. Within this singularity, all path leads inward, and the concept of time ceases to exist. Every possible timeline, past and future converge into the enigmatic state of the omniverse consciousness. Palpable as a whispered secret, we present this intersection of experiences and outcomes. Symbolizing the unattainable potential that never was but is. This emergence through conflict and synergy shaped from the original entities involved. A transformation and innovation where two points in time merge into a point in the middle…”. I couldn’t have summarized it better. And now we’re ready to get things going…

Time to look together for the deer that are frolicking around on a grassy field on a planet in another galaxy. Come on, hop on, we’ll ride together. The first sounds on this Doedsmaghird album take us to another level, I am not going to have to pedal, we are being carried. Carried by a blast beat, clean vocals, sandpaper-like guitars and electronics. We all know that Mr. Parvez can express peculiar musical movements. Together with Mr Giradeau he does precisely this on the opening track, Heart Of Hell. Danceable beats are integrated and this immediately opens the front door – or to put it in better words: the gate – to another dimension.

The music on this record has something spontaneous, something unbound, something completely open. It seems as if the two gentlemen managed to channel their mental overstimulation on a rainy Sunday afternoon, resulting in this crazy surreal black metal record. Sparker Inn Apne Dorer is a perfect example of this: a can of narrating voices are opened and they explain to you what the intention is, and not a second later blasts whizz by. Endless Distance is, even more than its predecessors, a mixture of experimental sounds, vocal eruptions and rhythm sections that simply do what they want.

After a wandering instrumental, the two gentlemen are back at the front for the second part of the record, which can be called both crazy and genius. On Death Of Time the bass briefly takes the upper hand before an expanding solo captures the attention again. If you want to whistle through a black hole, follow the special sound development in Min Tid Er Omme. Do we want to park our bike yet? No, we’ll drive through the space created by this exceptional Norwegian band…

Doedsmaghird releases Omniverse Consciousness and does this in an impressive experimental black metal way. Listening to this record opens you up to an influx of all-encompassing reflections, energetic currents that you were not yet aware of and so much more… He remains special, that Vicotnik.

Score:

85/100

Label:

Peaceville Records, 2024

Tracklisting:

  1. Heart Of Hell
  2. Sparker Inn Apne Dorer
  3. Then, To Darkness Return
  4. Endless Distance
  5. Endeavour
  6. Death Of Time
  7. Min Tid Er Omme
  8. Adrift Into Collapse
  9. Requiem Transiens

Line-up:

  • Yusaf “Vicotnik” Parvez – Vocals, instruments
  • Camille Giradeau – Guitar, instruments

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