Album Review: Ottone Pesante – DoomooD (Aural Music)

Ottone Pesante is probably the first “Brass metal” band in the world, with a unique line-up composed of trumpet, trombone and drums. DoomooD will be released on September 18th, 2020 via Aural Music.

The band comments:

The parasite inside us proceeds slowly, inexorable, unstoppable; it can change skin or face, it can deceive us to stop for a moment, but it will continue unabated in a dark, devastating spiral, annihilating us. The entire album was composed in a palindrome manner, like there’s a mirror on the pentagram at about half of it, that overturn the composed sequences. The climax is a ‘reverse canon superimposed’ and from which the main voice comes down in a reverse motion, sometimes strictly, sometimes changing rhythm or changing role from trumpet to trombone. Brass and drums are, as usual, the only sound source. All noises and concrete sounds come from them.

It’s not often these days that you can say you’re hearing something you’ve never heard before. Yet, in the case of Ottone Pesante, that is very much the case. A band composed of brass instruments, tarted up to have a much meatier and metal sound. It probably shouldn’t work, yet it really does. Instead of focusing on what’s missing (guitars, vocals – although the latter is there on occasion) you’ll find yourself completely drawn into what’s there.

Somehow larger and more expansive then you might expect, there is a thrill that comes from the booming brass instruments. Hell, there’s even a bit of groove to the likes of Distress, a ton of atmosphere in the likes of Tentacles, Coiling of the Tubas and Grave as well as deeper cuts of fascinating heavy noise such as found on Serpentine Serpentone and Strombacea.

It’s one of 2020’s most unique releases.

Ottone Pesante – DoomooD Full Track Listing:

1. Intro the Chasm
2. Distress
3. Tentacles
4. Coiling of The Tubas
5. Serpentine Serpentone
6. Ocean on a Eco
7. Grave
8. Strombacea
9. Endless Spiral Helix
10. End Will Come When Will Ring the Black Bells

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