AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): OMEGAVORTEX — “DIABOLIC MESSIAH OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER”

(written by Islander)

We might think of the varying genres of extreme metal as a branching warren of subterranean caverns, all of them connected but some very far away from others. Some are oppressive in their pressures, others cold enough to freeze breath, some occupied by near-mindless creatures frenzied in their hunger, some haunted by wailing ghosts or giants that woozily lumber about. In some of them, strains of ecstatic and/or mesmerizing melody thread their way through stalactites rhythmically crashing down.

But in some of those underground spaces sheer chaos reigns. That is where you’ll find Omegavortex, in a spiked cavity where skin-searing white phosphorus burns and hurricanes of grit and blades ruthlessly storm, where demons scream in throes of violence and nightmares come to life.

Since 2017 Omegavortex have carved their underground abyss with a few short releases and their 2020 debut album, the aptly named Black Abomination Spawn, but they will soon expand the reach of their terrible domain with a second album, Diabolic Messiah of the New World Order, now set for release on December 5th by Third Eye Temple. We have a full stream of the album for you today — and some thoughts about the gloriously ravishing and ruinous assaults it encompasses.

For those who might be encountering this band for the first time, its members channel their energies in ways that seem uncaring about acceptance, approval, or trends of any kind, and instead seem much more devoted to psychotic audio annihilation.

The new album runs through 10 tracks in roughly 33 minutes, and the song titles are quite open and obvious about the kind of experiences they bring to life. It begins with “Dystopian Worldrape“, which brazenly manifests as the chaos spoken of above, but also proves that Omegavortex have a talent for doing more than attacking like wild hell-beasts (though they do that too).

This album opener is undeniably wild, a vicious torrent of blistering drumwork, violently undulating bass-lines, and guitars that corrosively churn and maniacally scream, coupled with furiously unhinged vocals. It also includes guitar soloing that’s completely berserk and convulsive but also surreal, as well as surgically precise stops, starts, and rhythmic shifts (the band imperiously stomp as well as romp), and before it ends the song blankets the senses with a phase of dismal melody and haughty brazen chords.

Like “Dystopian Worldrape“, most of the following songs are compact, most of them not reaching the three-minute mark, though the album closer extends past 8 minutes (more about that one later). Like that opener, the following songs are mainly devoted to chaos, rendered with ecstatic energy — wild ecstasies that prove to be infectious, like highly transmissible viral vectors. Listening to them supercharges the bloodstream and spins heads like a whipping centrifuge.

But as in the opener, Omegavortex continue shoving listeners off-balance with fast changes in momentum and drum patterns and spinning minds with shred-tactic speed and dexterity. Despite how maniacal the music often is, the production is sharp and clear enough (without diminishing the music’s corrosive aspects) that you can easily detect and appreciate the very impressive technical skills of all the performers — the kind of skill that isn’t always present or evident in other maelstroms of black/death metal.

In the other songs Omegavortex also continue seamlessly infiltrating their bats-out-of-hell tirades with episodes of abysmal oppressiveness, chilling eeriness, asylum-strength madness, and imperious infernal glory. “Unidentified Evil“, “Feeding Upon Blackness“, and “Psychopathic Majesty” are prime examples of all that, but really, every song does this to greater or lesser degrees, sending listeners rapidly veering from mood to mood.

Even a song named “Limitless Violence” sometimes sounds like a hulking horror, and “Whirlwinds of directed Sadism” includes boisterous horn-like blasts of near-symphonic magnificence and moments of staggering gloom in the midst of sheer lunacy.

It also bears repeating that the vocals on the album are among the most diabolically possessed that you’re likely to find anywhere — explosively crazed and larynx-lacerating in their unbounded intensity, the kind of thing that would land most people in an emergency room’s ICU.

As for that closing song, the ultra-long one (relatively speaking) named “World Extermination Agenda“, it’s the broadest reflection of the band’s songwriting talents. It’s the only song on the album where Omegavortex dramatically pull back on the speed, and its melodic through-lines are frighteningly desolate, apocalyptic in the scale of the despair and grief they render here. But of course the song also undergoes episodes of violent volcanic seizure in the midst of the song’s harrowing, soul-shaking march toward the world’s end.

And with that we’ll leave you to a tremendously exhilarating but ultimately very haunting album, and one we hope will get the attention it deserves even as it arrives in the last month of the year. (See below for more info about it, and how to get it.)

OMEGAVORTEX 2025/2026:
R. – VOCALS/LEAD GUITAR
F. – DRUMS
V. – BASS
D. – LEAD GUITAR

Diabolic Messiah of the New World Order was mixed and mastered by M. at No Solace. It features suitably surreal and horrific cover art by Greallach Art.

Third Eye Temple will release the album on various formats: slipcase CD (limited to 100 copies), regular jewelcase CD, 180g red splatter LP (limited to 100 copies), and 180g black LP, along with t-shirts and patches. The estimated ship date for the CD/T-Shirt/Patch is Friday, December 5, 2025. Vinyl is planned for January 2026. For more info and to order, check the links below.

We’ll also report that Omegavortex are scheduled to perform on stage in Chorzów, Poland this coming Saturday, November 29th, where no doubt people will be able to hear music from the new album live. Find details here.

THIRD EYE TEMPLE:
https://thirdeyetemple.com/shop/en/
https://www.thirdeyetemple.com
https://www.facebook.com/thirdeyetemple
https://www.instagram.com/third_eye_temple

OMEGAVORTEX:
https://www.facebook.com/OMEGAVORTEXblackdeath
https://omegavortex.bandcamp.com/album/diabolic-messiah-of-the-new-world-order