Óreiða, by ÓREIÐA

Óreiða

by ÓREIÐA

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bjornvegan It is, quite simply, mindblowingly amazing. So many bands try to deliver trance-like experiences within a black metal framework but óreida actually succeeds. And how. There should be a picture of this album next to the word 'immersive' in the illustrated dictionary.

la_porte Oddly soothing, trance-inducing, shimmering washes of intensity. Some potent results for anyone who truly abandons oneself. Some kind of spiritual experience. Variations and increments are subtly implemented throughout the whole songs, aka tectonic ondulations, to great effect. I have never heard anything like it, and most likely, neither have you.

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HARVEST OF DEATH is proud to present ÓREIÐA's striking debut album, simply self-titled Óreiða, on LP and Cassette.

Hailing from the modern black metal hotbed of Iceland, ÓREIÐA are an enigma within a scene rife with enigmas. A nameless but by no means faceless entity, ÓREIÐA made its/their first public recording with Demó I in 2016, which was soon released on cassette and 7" vinyl formats at the beginning of 2017 by HARVEST OF DEATH. Ensorcelled by the entity's monolithic trance-out black metal, HARVEST OF DEATH released in late 2017 ÓREIÐA's one-track/20-minute Demó II on cassette, which was soon followed by a split 10" with Portuguese comrades HOLOCAUSTO EM CHAMAS the following year.

With these but all-too-fleeting glimpses into true, brilliant madness, ÓREIÐA at last delivers its/their first full-length recording, Óreiða. Its self-titled designation is significant, as this four-song/35-minute tome serves as both Ground Zero for the ÓREIÐA experience and also a statement of intent. With a sort of paradoxically "enlightened" primitivism, each of the album's four icy, component screeds surges into being and locks onto near-stasis, hovering and taunting in equal measure. Deceptively, each of those four epics seems comprised of one or perhaps two riffs total; delve deeper - or deliver thyself to TOTAL IMMERSION - and discover a wealth of textural magick, subtly dynamic details in which to drown and rearrange one's mental parameters. Likewise, the seemingly wholesale lack of vocals is both stark and stratifying; allow that immersion, that submission to drowning, and then truly hear reverse voices of the dead wafting up from the soundfield to whisper buried secrets. Through it all, a shimmering, stained-glass style of melodicism emerges (synth? more guitars? both?), simultaneously at odds with the lifelessly pulsing black metal at hand and making perfect, alternate-world sense.

Once again, HARVEST OF DEATH points the way for the future by dragging it beyond a primitive past: here lies, and arises, ÓREIÐA's Óreiða.

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released May 13, 2019

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Óreiða Iceland

Psychedelic, atmospheric black metal from Iceland.

www.instagram.com/oreida666

discography

The Eternal

May 2023
Nóttin

Nov 2022
Óreiða

May 2019
Split w/Holocausto Em Chamas

Mar 2018
Demó II

Dec 2017
Demó I

Sep 2016
Demó

Sep 2016
Demó I-II

Sep 2016
Skjálfti

Jan 2017

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