The Ominous Circle are a band from Portugal that has had music reviewed before in this zine and plays a blackened form of death metal and this is a review of their 2025 album "Cloven Tongues Of Fire" which was released by Osmose Productions.
A very distorted sounding intro starts off the album before going into a heavier direction while a great portion of the songs are also very long and epic in length. Elements of doom metal are also added into the slower sections of the recording and the solos and leads are also done in a very chaotic yet melodic style.
Vocals are mostly death metal growls while the riffs also add in a decent amount of dark sounding melodies. Black metal screams are also utilized at times along with the faster sections of the album also adding in a great amount of blast beats as well as the songs also adding in a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts, the album also has its dissonant moments and one track also adds in a brief use of spoken words.
On this recording The Ominous Circle takes their blackened death metal style into more of a dissonant direction as well as adding in elements of doom metal to create something very different from their previous releases. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover Occultism and Death themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from The Ominous Circle and if you are a fan of dissonant blackened death metal with a touch of doom metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Lowest Immanations" and "Utterance Of The Formless". 8 out of 10.
Bandcamp: https://osmoseproductions.bandcamp.com/album/cloven-tongues-of-fire
All Digital Links: https://bfan.link/TOC-Cloven-Tongues-of-Fire
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