I think it's interesting though, because normally parts like the non-black metal parts of the album kinda kill it for me, but for this record, they seem to help. They're boring, but they make the force of the actual black metal FAR more anticipated, and for more appreciated.

Om was the best album I heard last year.

http://www.metalreviews.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7750

I posted about it a few months back but I got hardly any response.

I think a couple of the interludes are a little pointless too but it is an extremely minor issue.

Yeah, I find that with a lot of interludes too. They sort of create a downtime for your brain to absorb what it just heard and prepare for what's coming next, like those panning shots of cities and landscapes in movies.

I've always found it weird that people get depressed or cry from music, even the sad songs that I like give me an uplifting, "that hit the spot" feeling rather than making me sad.

LOL, you heard it first, you get the cool points.

Someone respect this guy.

But, in terms of the interludes, a band that has released something with the with same tactic of an electronic interlude every other song is Mithras... Worlds behind the Veil does it, and it's done right... like, it's Morbid Angel, meets Negura Bunget's interludes, and they actually kick ass. Highly recommended. Forever Advancing Legions = Awesome as well. MOST BIZARRE ALBUM EVER. I don't care how orthadox or done the approach is, it always weirds me the fuck out.

Good album. It's been growing on me. I now think it's the best bm album of 2006, after Klage. I bought the digipack with the DVD too, pretty cool stuff.

Btw, I saw Terrorizer put Om in fourth place on its annual top, which is good for NB. Though the rest of that top is pretty shitty.

Bullshit!! best top 40 of the year! it contained enslaved, negura bunget, i, nachtmystium, anaal nathrakh, gorgoroth, antaeus, blut aus nord, meads of asphodel, and drudkh.

thats a lot of bm for a mainstream mag to say is some of the best music of the year. there are heaps of more mainstream records that could easily have filled a top 40 in a less quality mag!!

ps: if thos post sounds angry it shouldnt

I wasn't asking for cool points(You've got them all already for blasting Nachtmystium), just wondering where everyone was at the time. Mithras is great, I love some of their transitions, but sometimes I wish that they'd use more metal.

Side note: I LOVE Nachtmystium. I was blasting the man behind it, ie Blake. He's a primodanna. "We were never really black metal..." It's like how Jim Sadist put it, and it's so true, "I love Venom, etc etc, (stuff about how much he loved Venom), but I don't wanna meet Cronos... He might turn out to be a dick, and I might not like the music as much." Not saying I like or dislike the music anymore or less than before, but Blake's a dick. I didn't explain myself back when I posted, because he'd shown just as little respect for black metal, where he got his sound, and Chicago, where his craft was born. I just felt like insulting him. Oh, and if it makes you feel any better, I remember your thread, and it made me look into getting Om, but lack o $$$ for a while resulted in a response to the album coming up now. So don't worry, your cool points are safe.

I'd have agreed on the Mithras thing after my first few listens, but I think they have a good equillibrium now that I've given their material a fair number of spins.