Browsing Archive: May, 2013

Review from Sicmaggot Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, May 28, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Sicmaggot Webzine
Published:
May 25, 2013
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*Google translation of Czech review

If you are a band in the title of this article so far heard, certainly has no reason to be regarded as some uneducated. For example, I did not until recently did not have a Odradek Room any idea which of course changed when I got to hand their actual debut "Bardo. Relative Reality" , which to some extent for noteworthy. Part may be našince this Ukrainian band interesting, if only because of its name...

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Review from Ave Noctum Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, May 28, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Ave Noctum Webzine
Published:
May 23, 2013
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I guess with the band being named after a Kafka story and an album title like that, it was a fair signpost that there would be introspection and an urge to go the progressive route by these Ukrainian musicians. Would I want to follow? Hmm. Well the sound is kind of the Katatonia template with a smidgen of The 3rd & The Mortal and a tweak of funeral doom and doom/death laid about with a post-rock feel. Honestly, though, I can’t help...

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Review from Don't count on it reviews

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, May 28, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Don't count on it reviews
Published:
May 23, 2013
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I first found out about Odradek Room some time last year while scouring through different groups on Bandcamp. I never got around to actually listening to the band until now though. I was excited to hear what a band who was labeled as "progressive doom metal" would actually end up sounding like. 

The sound of this record is, I think, a bit underdeveloped for me to really say that it's "progressive" but there is definitely some n...

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Review from doom-metal.com

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, May 28, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Doom-metal.com
Published:
May 21, 2013
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I spoke at some length with Artem* Krikhtenko, band leader for Ukrainians Odradek Room, in an interview here, just prior to the re-release of this originally self-produced 2012 debut. It has been remastered and enhanced for issue through Hypnotic Dirge, supplied in a tidy and informative digipack with full English translation alongside the original Cyrillic script. 

There's a lot of background to the album contained in the interview: in s...

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Review from Brutalism.com

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, May 16, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Brutalism.com
Published:
May 16, 2013
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Named after one of Franz Kafka's short stories, Odradek Room is an atmospheric and progressive death-doom band with post-rock leanings from Mariupol, Ukraine. Initially formed in 2008 under the name 'Shards Of Silence', the band changed their name at the beginning of 2010, and their first release appeared on the compilation of Doom-art.ru project. Their first full-length album, Bardo. Relative Reality was initially recorded in early 2012 ...

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Review from Les Eternels

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Les Eternels
Published: May 6, 2013
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*Google translation of French review

Grey as proposed by the young Ukrainian music, the atmospheric doom-death tinged moods " post "not breathing itself the joy of living. In itself, this is absolutely not a problem, because in this genre a significant number of first-rate works were created on full gray background. No, the problem is that Bardo. Relative Reality.  's not very inspired, simply. Except for the fact qu'Odradek Room is expresse...

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Review from Hallowed.se

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Hallowed.se
Published: May 1, 2013
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Their name is from a Kafka short story, they are from Ukraine. That could be a recipe for success or one for disaster, chance is probably equal for both especially considering that they do have vocals in russian and albums having that are usually rather poor. Still, they do have a psychedelic looking cover artwork that could hint towards something challenging for the listener. The story is said to be contrived in part from the Tibetan book o...

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Review from Alternativ Musik

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, May 1, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Alternativ Musik
Published; May 1, 2013
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*Google translation of German review

The Odradek moves around the house round about, according to your own rules, it speaks grown, but his features are childlike, laws do not apply to this. So at least in the history of the care of the father's house of Franz Kafka. Surreal, only dimly imaginable and now a part of the name of the band originating from the Ukraine. Thematically, their first album, however based on the Tibetan Book of the ...

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 ODRADEK ROOM -
BARDO. RELATIVE REALITY.


Released: March 9, 2013
500 Copies (250 digipack, 250 jewel case)
Atmospheric Death-doom Metal