(Andy Synn offers up a litany of praise for a brand new band you definitely need to check out)
Is there anything better than discovering a new band that you immediately want to start recommending to everyone else?
Well, yes, obviously… and if you said “no” then you’re probably just not doing it right… but that doesn’t make these discoveries any less special or enjoyable.
Case in point, the self-titled debut album from California Sludge/Doom quintet Ominess didn’t take long to grab my attention – I think it was less than a minute into opener “Cathedral” – and not much longer than that (probably around the time the first absolutely massive chord came crashing out of the speaker) for it to become clear that this was an album that more people needed to know about.