Omen of Disease

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Band Name Broken Hope
Album Name Omen of Disease
Type Album
Data de lançamento 27 Setembro 2013
Labels Century Media
Estilo de MúsicaDeath Metal
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Tracklist

1.
 Intro / Septic Premonitions
 01:18
2.
 Womb of Horrors
 03:10
3.
 Ghastly
 02:43
4.
 The Flesh Mechanic
 02:33
5.
 Rendered into Lard
 03:52
6.
 Omen of Disease
 04:16
7.
 The Docking Dead
 02:01
8.
 Give Me the Bottom Half
 03:07
9.
 Predacious Poltergeist
 02:37
10.
 Blood Gullet
 01:40
11.
 Carnage Genesis
 02:39
12.
 Choked Out and Castrated
 03:39
13.
 Incinerated (2013 Redux)
 02:30

Total playing time: 36:05

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Broken Hope



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Crítica @ Fabien

28 Janeiro 2014

Ghastly

With their gore/horror imagery and particularly brutal brand of death metal during the 90s, Broken Hope remained more or less in the shadow of Cannibal Corpse with which they shared the same label, the mighty Metal Blade Records, even if they were not treated quite the same. The Metal Blade era led to a reissue followed by three albums, The Bowels of Repugnance and Loathing which in my opinion are the most memorable. Dumped by their record label, the Chicago-based group released a last, rather good, album in 1999 that went relatively unnoticed, before throwing in the towel following the split between the group's two heavyweights Brian Griffin and Jeremy Wagner, not to mention the death of the formidable growler Joe Ptacek in 2010 which crushed all hope of the group possibly getting back together.

Without Brian Griffin who has definitively left the group to this day, Jeremy Wagner nonetheless put Broken Hope back together in 2012 with the help of former bassist Shaun Glass. The two formed a quintet with frontman Tom Leski, the former guitarist/vocalist for the incredible Gorgasm, a staple of the post-2000 American brutal death metal scene. After signing a spanking new deal with Century Media, and releasing an album mainly written by Jeremy and devilishly illustrated by Wes Benscoter (Sinister, Mortician), the group undertook a lengthy tour with Deicide and became one of the big hits of the fall of 2013.

Wickedly dubbed Omen of Disease, Broken Hope's sixth offering blasts out of the gates with the powerful Womb of Horrors followed by the excellent track Ghastly, which is without a doubt one of the best of the group's career. The rest of the album is perhaps a bit less noteworthy after those openers, but it goes the distance thanks to the quality of the songwriting and the interpretation as well as the violence of tracks such as Rendered into Lard, with its murderous riffs and head-spinning accelerations, not to mention carefully crafted guitar solos. The good re-recording of Incinerated, from the first album Swamped in Gore, points to the extent of the group's progress since 1991. Moreover, while one of the line-up's ultimate weapons was once Joe 'Eusophagus' Ptacek with one of the deepest voices in the business along with Mortician's Will Rahmer, Tom Leski perfectly picked up the torch with his thick guttural singing style that works well without being exaggerated and jibes ideally with Jeremy Wagner's shredding compositions.

In the fall of 2013, Broken Hope made a successful return on the scene with a good compromise between an old school sound coupled with more modern parameters that placed them solidly within the current American brutal death metal landscape while avoiding overly technical twists and putting the accent on full frontal riffs. Omen of Disease is one of the best of the year and one of the most accomplished along with The Bowels of Repugnance and Loathing. Let's hope that the tour that followed, which was particularly heated due to Deicide frontman Glen Benton's tantrums, did not wear down our group from Chicago.

Fabien.

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