"Odes of the Occult" had a way different perspective, that tells about some experimenting ambitions. However, the music is far from being experimenting in the ordinary way: it's not some path searching endeavour like in case of young bands, Execration sounds very deteremined about what they want to do and how. Slow downs became more frequent, but they're only partly doom influenced. In cases when slow downs are happening, and they lack heavier doom-related themes, mostly atmospheric sound used to be involved, but not in this case. There's nothing to fill the void when it occours, and since the album have excellent sound quality, even the basic distortion is unable to create any atmosphere. This sometimes leads to a pretty anxius feeling, and at other times it reminds to extended slow and sinister themes of old Autopsy. This solution might seem simple, but still it's quite rare to find, since most bands applying atmospheric sound like a good old thing that always could work. Of course "Odes of the Occult" didn't lack brutality either, and the radical theme and speed switches creating enjoyable contrast. But because these switches having no "atmospheric guide", the album sounds pretty cold and it's not so easy to go into. Still this ended up as an advantageous outcome, since according to the main concept, "Odes of the Occult" supposed to sound could, unfiendly, and it needs more listening to discover it's plenty of great themes.
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