ODE - Dread Pleasure

From listening to this album and taking a short look at the promo photo of the guys in the band, I assume the guys have been around in the extreme underground music scene for a quarter of a century, and now they formed a band as a tribute to some of the band that influenced them early on. In ODE we ear the sound of the first Godflesh album, some Swans and the first Pitch Shifter album plus some other industrial metal heavyweights.

The quality of this album is how primitive it is. ODE don´t go for the extremely heavy or intense and I imagine it is not their intension. They keep the important raw element in the industrial metal when so much within that genre it is so digital it hurts. The songwriting interprets the bleakness theme of the album, the bass pounding, the guitar anguished, sometimes painfully beautiful in it´s gloom, lyrics written in one word sentences shouted against the wasteland of civilised life.

Dread Pleasure may not be a album that will inspire coming generations of underground metalheads but it is a worthy effort. [Self released]
- Sigurður Harðarson

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