L'Orchestre
Noir
Complices
Dying in Berlin
Reward the Guilty, Punish the Innocent
Les Altérations Cadavériques
L'Alliance Nouvelle et Eternelle
Stahlnebel
Hate, Revenge, Power and Blood
Triumph of Death
Strong New World
Mass Murderer
Redemption / Sedition
Melodie d'un Songe
"Mass
Murderer" is the second album by the french formation Omnicore, and
band that describes itself as "Classical Instruments and electronic
martial beats play a cold funeral march" and reality is not far from
it. The album is long and the music is overall slow but quite full of
variation between each track and doesn't get tiring. You can hear influences
ranging from many distinct acts, from A Challenge of Honour to Sophia
or Fin de Siècle, with very high quality sinths and some sampling
of classical pieces, I personally recognised a couple of parts but the
casual listener won't notice a thing since they are edited and altered.
Lyrics are both in English and French, the vocals also change from male
to female, but they should have kept only the male vocals, even though
the guy has a strong French accent, it's only clear on the very few times
there aren‚t any effects (on 'Redemption/ Sedition' mainly),
as for the female it's only spoken vocals with her ugly voice that was
really out of place, ridiculous at times, but fortunately her participation
on the album is short.
The whole recording has an very somber and apocalyptic feel with creative
compositions, and features some nice early XXth century fetish photography
on the artwork, I expect some good things to come out of Omnicore in the
future, and they will hopefully remove or change the female singer.