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BARDO. RELATIVE REALITY

Odradek Room

Experimental/Post Metal


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Studio Album, released in 2013

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Theatre of Forms (8:31)
2. Inflorescence of Silence (6:25)
3. A Painting (Digging into the Canvas with Oil) (12:26)
4. Suffocation (7:54)
5. Faded Reality (9:55)
6. River (5:22)
7. Cold Light (7:27)

Total Time 58:00

Line-up / Musicians

- Artyom Krikhtenko / vocals, guitars, keyboards, sampling
- Ilya Zernitsky / guitars
- Sergey Kuznetsov / bass, keyboards, sampling
- Roman Borovikov / drums

Releases information

CD Hypnotic Dirge Records - HDR-207 (2013, Canada)
Digital album

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Review by UMUR
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3 stars "Bardo. Relative Reality" is the debut full-length studio album by Ukranian doom/detah metal act Odradek Room. The album was released through Hypnotic Dirge Records in March 2013. The bandīs name derives from "Die Sorge des Hausvaters", which is a short story by Franz Kafka, featuring a creature named "Odradek".

The Kafka linked band name is actually pretty well chosen as Odradek Roomīs music share a bit of the same surreal expression as some of Kafkaīs work. Stylistically the music on "Bardo. Relative Reality" is at itīs root doom/death metal, but there is a semi-progressive quality to the songwriting and especially the track structures that make this more than just another doom/death metal release. The music is generally not that complex but the band still display an adventurous songwriting style. The music features both slow doomy riffing, atmospheric post rock/metal sections and more melodic tinged sections. The vocals vary between death metal growls, occasional clean singing and melancholy drenched spoken word sections.

Odradek Room donīt really remind me of any particular doom/death artist and therefore references are hard to make, but despite that they are not wildly original either. I donīt hear anything on "Bardo. Relative Reality", that I havenīt heard before, but the way the band combine the elements is pretty effective. The band are well playing and thatīs a positive too. The sound production is a bit of a show stopper though. Itīs not terrible by any means, but the guitar sound could have been better. Especially the clean guitars, which sound slightly underproduced (demo sounding). Itīs not a major issue though.

"Bardo. Relative Reality" wasnīt an album that impressed me right off the bat, but the longer I got into the album, the music unfolded with rich variation and melancholic depth. So upon conclusion I can say that itīs an interesting doom/death metal album. Itīs not perfect to my ears and especially the sound production could have been better, but Odradek Room profits on their varied songwriting and a 3.5 star (70%) rating is deserved.

(Originally posted on Metal Music Archives)

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