Deathspell Omega | Artist
Deathspell Omega is a French black metal band formed 1998 in Poitiers. The group is an anonymous collective that has never confirmed the identity of any of its members. There is little public information about Deathspell Omega's lineup. They do not have any official website, social media platform or promotional photos, have never performed live and do not list credits in their releases. Based on available secondary sources the initial lineup was Khaos (bass), Yohann Pasquier (drums), Christian Bouché (guitar), and Frédéric Sescheboeuf (vocals). It is believed Mikko Aspa became vocalist from 2002 to the present. From 2004-2010, the band released a trilogy of concept albums; Si monvmentvm reqvires, circvmspice, Fas – Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum and Paracletus – which focus on the theological aspects of God and Satan. The titles are latin, the first translates as "if you seek change, search", the second "Do - go cursed into the eternal fire", and the third relates to Paracletus, "comforter", another name for the Holy Spirit. With the band's seventh album The Furnaces of Palingenesia, there was a shift in lyrical focus to anti-authoritarian political themes. Musically, Deathspell Omega started out producing raw, traditional black metal akin to Darkthrone's Transilvanian Hunger. However, their 2004 release, Si monvmentvm reqvires, circvmspice, marked a change to a more technical, experimental, and well-recorded sound with influences including Russian Orthodox chanting and choral music. Their seventh full-length album, The Furnaces of Palingenesia, released in May 2019, is presented as a manifesto from a dictator speaking for a political faction referred to as "the Order"; it is explicitly intended to deconstruct authoritarian regimes of both the left and the right. The band recorded the album live in a studio using analogue gear, and it was mastered more quietly than most of the band's preceding material, also reflecting a shift in production approach. The band's lyrical content often deals with metaphysical Satanism, and the philosophies of Bataille and Hegel. Without naming any of their members directly, the band claimed there was an internal ideological rift, noting: "A minority of the collective's contributors – shall we say, parts of the second circle – who've been invited to partake because of their incredible talents as musicians, are involved with earthly politics, but stand on completely opposite ends of the political spectrum and are therefore irreconcilable political foes. Were it not for dialogue on the grounds of transgressive art, they'd be shooting each other. That tension is what interests us." They also state that the music and lyrics were authored by the "French core of the collective". This clarification was made in the wake of backlash against Deathspell Omega due to their longtime collaboration with Finnish musician Mikko Aspa, who has released National Socialist black metal music and has ties to RAC acts. Hirilorn vocalist Shaxul stated that he was Deathspell Omega's vocalist until 2002, and has gone on record as leaving due to displeasure with the band's shift in themes. In a 2014 interview discussing the most underrated guitarists in metal, Gorguts vocalist Luc Lemay named Christian Bouché as Deathspell Omega's guitarist, also giving his pseudonym Hasjarl. In a 2018 interview with Loudwire, Tobias Forge, lead singer of the band Ghost, stated that the French synthwave artist Carpenter Brut (Franck Hueso) was Deathspell Omega's producer. Standout albums include Si monvmentvm reqvires, circvmspice (2004), Veritas Diaboli manet in aeternum (2008) - which is a collaboration with S.V.E.S.T., Paracletus (2010), and the 2012 compilation Deathspell Omega.
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Related Artists: Hirilorn
