Without any warning, Odoacer have returned but they have not broken their silence. It has almost been five years since the release of their debut album ‘There The Vultures Will Gather’. The debut was more of a visceral approach to extreme music, where as this latest release takes the approach of less is more.
“All Was Of Little Worth: Pt.1” shows Odoacer experimenting within the realm of Dark Ambient. Although it’s sonically not as punishing as their previous output, it is however more oppressive and suffocating.
This is not music intended to be dissected and analysed; it speaks for itself as a companion to the listeners unconscious. The opening track “The Vastness of Sorrow” uses an interweaving mesh of corrupted synths and choirs to set a melancholic landscape before the emptiness of “Standed in Low Orbit” begins a descent into cosmic isolation. “Over Your Cities, Tall Grass Will Grow” carries the heart of the album as an ode to entropy, the inevitability that all we cherish as holy or significant will become dust. The diseased keys return with “Semerkhet” before the album closer “Exanimum” provides the coup d’etat, utilising the instrumentation of Odoacer’s previous work yet keeping the tone and methodology of the record.
But even all this is temporary. The second volume of “All Was of Little Worth” promises a return to the razors edge of Black Metal. For now however; Yield to entropy. Yield to silence. Know the void.
