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Review from Metal Music Archives

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, June 14, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metal Music Archives
Published: June 9, 2014

"Bardo. Relative Reality" is the debut full-length studio album by Ukranian doom/detah metal act Odradek Room. The album was released through Hypnotic Dirge Records in March 2013. The band´s name derives from "Die Sorge des Hausvaters", which is a short story by Franz Kafka, featuring a creature named "Odradek".

The Kafka linked band name is actually pretty well chosen as Odradek Room´s music share a bit of the same surreal expres...

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Review from Deaf Sparrow Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, May 3, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Deaf Sparrow Webzine
Published: May 1, 2014

No no no, we didn’t improperly write the title, that’s how it appears verbatim on the album cover, so give us a break.  We don’t correct grammar and syntax errors of bands if they’re being “artistic” for us.  Especially if they assist us with their knowledge, explaining the meaning of the Tibetan word ‘bardo’ on which this album is based.  And the art, it’s some sort of abstract expressionist thing with thick, red ...

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Review from Volumes of Sin Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, March 19, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Volumes of Sin Webzine
Published: March 18, 2014

Although Ukrainian four-piece act Odradek Room have only been formed since 2010, they initially started off under the name Shards of Silence in 2008.  Initially recorded in early 2012 and released in only digital format, Odradek Room have rerecorded and re-released their debut full-length album, Bardo. Relative Reality, under Hypnotice Dirge Records in 2013. How does this record, based on ideas taken from the Tibetan Book of th...

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Review from Pitchline Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Pitchline Webzine
Published: March 17, 2014
*Google translation of Spanish review

Right from the choice of name (based on the protagonist of a story by Franz Kafka), we can see that this is not a band that likes things conventional. Hailing from Ukraine, began his career in 2008 calling Shards of Silence and after these past five years, have finally released their debut album. The sound of the album is clearly oriented towards the fluctuating land where extreme metal meets the...

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Review from Pure Nothing Worship Magazine; Issue 2

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, December 19, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Pure Nothing Worship Magazine; Issue 2
Published: February 2014

"Bardo. Relative Reality" is the debut album of the young Ukrainian quartet, delivering  honest, well crafted atmospheric death doom. This album is an emotional journey through paths laden  with dark, suffocating death doom, entwined with profoundly melancholic post-rock elements and crushing despairing riffs. Featuring really rich compositions and song structures, the mood is rooted in nostalgic,deeply melanc...

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Review from Metal Revolution Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, October 18, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metal Revolution Webzine
Published: October 18, 2013

Odradek Room is an atmospheric and progressive death & doom act with post-rock leanings from Ukraine. They got their name after one of Franz Kafka’s short stories and apart from this odd moniker for a band; few other things surprised me about this band. Their debut album (initially recorded in early 2012) is odd, bizarre and with equally confusing title Bardo, Relative Reality. It contains only 7, but quite lengthy songs....

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Review from Forgotten Path Magazine; Issue 5

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, October 18, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Forgotten Path Magazine; Issue 5
Published: November 2013

There seems to be a friendly and indirect competition rising between Canadian “Hypnotic Dirge Records” and Russian “Solitude Productions”. Both labels are oriented towards very similar music, mostly to different kinds of Doom Metal and Atmospheric/Depressive Black Metal. But those, who have taken a closer look at the releases from the Canadian side, should have definitely noticed that their bands are more exper...

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Review from Alarm 666 Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, October 16, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Alarm 666 Webzine
Published: October 14, 2013
*Google translation of Danish review

Odradek Room comes from Ukraine and have released their debut album "Bardo. Relative Reality "on Hypnotic Dirge Records. This cooperation surprise in any way, since the record company has a taste for bands that are over in the slightly darker atmospheric department and preferably not have too many limits in their musical universe.

Odradek Room swimmer primarily around the doom metal genre, but th...

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Review from Miasma Magazine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, August 13, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Miasma Magazine
Published: August 7, 2013

Bardo. Relative Reality is the first official release by Ukrainian band Odradek Room, and it is also Their first full-length album. The group performs this music is a combination of melodic death metal and doom metal, and this combination isalso spiced up with a progressive elements. The name Odradek room which the band uses comes from Franz Kafka's short story "Die Sorge des Hausvaters". We can gather from That the sources of inspira...

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Review from Legacy Magazine; Issue #85

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, July 3, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Legacy Magazine; Issue #85
Published: June 2013
*Google translation of German review

The band from Ukraine founded in 2008 as shards of Silence and later renamed based on a short story by Franz Kafka Odradek Room. Beyond the four musicians inspired literary show. "Bardo. Relative Reality "is a concept work based on the ideas of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The word "Bardo." Means in an intermediate sphere, a space between the worlds. According spherical and ground covering...

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Review from Aristocrazia Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, July 1, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Aristocrazia Webzine
Published: July 1, 2013
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*Google translation of Italian review

Odradek Room is a band from the spirit suffered emotionally, which draws on several occasions inspiration from various forms of literature, whose name comes from a short story by Franz Kafka and his texts draw from the "Bardo Thodol" (Tibetan book of the dead). Express a highly atmospheric doom that does not mind the ramble and sink into context death, even slightly progressive, bringing to the ...

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Review from Metal1

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metal1
Published: June 18, 2013
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*Google translation of German review

How important is the technical implementation of the overall impression conveyed by the album, is always only if there is exactly at this weak point - must serve as an example of today unfortunately the Ukrainians Odradek Room.

For as good as the quite elaborate ideas of force may be also consistently: all too often fails the edibility of technical shortcomings. In the case of "Bardo. Relative Reality "at the ...

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Review from Mortem 'Zine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, June 6, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Mortem 'Zine
Published: June 2, 2013
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*Google translation of Czech review

About surprises abound even in the doom metal core, so one such seed today jointly crack. This time, our paths will lead to the east, to the port of Mariupol, where in addition to pollution and heavy industry does not seem to be envied. But something did. In Kafka's literary heritage in the title and Far Eastern culture in Tibet musical ideas that are debuting Ukrainians Odradek ROOM. The band that impres...

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Review from ZWaremetalen

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, June 1, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Zwaremetalen
Published: May 30, 2013
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*Google translation of Dutch review

The Ukrainian company has given shelter by the Hypotic Dirge label, which in my opinion quite highly regarded. A label that often enough it not afraid to experiment, as Odradek Room on debut album Bardo. Relative Reality . Of course I will try right to label so you know right or you should read. Further this band here The best fit is progressive / avant garde doom metal.

Are you still on? Beautiful, then t...

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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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Review from Headbang.it

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, April 29, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Headbang.it
Published: April 23, 2012
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*Google translation of Italian review

A silent onset of despair and feeling. Good for the first Ukrainians Odradek Room and their rocky doom / death tinged with melancholy and reverb. I think the last thought occurred to them during the songwriting process has been to electrocute in an immediate way, I agree that the genre usually does not strike immediately for bias, however, the first impression we give the same in some So, instead with ...
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Review from Music Swept Away the Colours

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, April 25, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Music Swept Away the Colours
Published: April 24, 2013
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*Google translation of Spanish review

What can save Kafka relationship with Tibetan Buddhism? I think as reviewing the curricula vitae of this band with unusual name. The tormented vision of Prague writer, full demons and loneliness, it may fit with the premises of doom. As in Kafka's work, Odradek Room project images and shadows of our unconscious. There is beauty in the decadent and the perception of reality in a world s...
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Review from Rock Metal Essence

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, April 24, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Rock Metal Essence
Published: April 21, 2013
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*Google translation of Italian review

Straight from the wilds of ' Eastern Europe , more precisely from the Ukraine, arriving four guys who want to have their say in the world of metal, releasing their debut album " Bardo. Relative Reality ", released on March 9, 2013 by Hypnotic Dirge Records . The name of this young band is Odradek Room , inspired by the eponymous short story by Franz Kafka .

In addition to having excellent taste i...
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Review from Metal Recusants

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, April 18, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metal Recusants
Published: April 18, 2013
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Odradek Room is a young Ukrainian band has the means to conjure up everything that’s interesting and compelling about melodic death/doom and post-metal/post-rock and mash it up in a fulfilling and coherent mass of sound, as exemplified here in Bardo. Relative Reality, their debut album through Canadian label Hypnotic Dirge Records, who have a preference towards doom and ambient/atmospheric metal bands, so there’s no surprise that ...

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Review from Heathen Harvest

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, April 2, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Heathen Harvest
Published: April 2, 2013
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In the modern age, the music industry is truly an unfathomable anomaly in every sense of the word. Artists, bands, and smaller projects surface as quickly as they disappear, completely submerged in the vortex  of ether, dissolving into clouds populated with copious amount of others. Sadly, many of these so-called pop artists are the ones that get signed to large labels, only to make millions and generate fame whoring and undeserving pr...
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Review from Sea of Tranquility

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, April 1, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Sea of Tranquility
Published: April 1, 2013
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With a band named after a short story by Franz Kafka, and an album which is partially inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead, you probably expect this album to be progressive and artistic. And, well, the debut album from the Ukrainian band Odrakek Room is indeed progressive and artistic.

The core style of death-doom, which means that the songs evolve around heavy songs featuring melancholy galore and growled vocals (think early Ana...

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Review from Lachryma Christi Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, March 30, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Lachryma Christi Webzine
Published: March 29, 2013
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Ukranian band Odradek Room just released a new album called Bardo. Relative Reality. through Hypnotic Dirge Records. It is not Black Metal, they are actually labeled as Progressive Melodic Death/Doom Metal, but they are actually very Post-Metalish and good, that's why Lachryma Christi decided to include them on the reviews. This is a very busy time, but this record is so good that couldn't just be ignored.So, basically this i...

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Review from Metalzone Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, March 29, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metalzone Webzine
Published: March 28, 2013
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*Google translation of Italian review

Kafka must have affected not just the trio of Ukraine in question as Odradek Room is the name of a story by the brilliant writer. However these three shady characters unexpectedly come from the East offering something that without a doubt I can recommend to lovers of the French project Alcest, type of music that is having serious repercussions throughout the duration of this "Bardo. Relative Real...
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Review from Forbidden Magazine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, March 29, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Forbidden Magazine
Published: March 28, 2013
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Taking their name from a Kafka story, Ukrainian quartet Odradek Room greets us suspiciously with their debut album, ‘Bardo. Relative Reality’. 7 sweeping tracks of undulating emotion and anguish ooze from the stereo for just under an hour, putting the average song at around 8 minutes…welcome to an album where ‘epic’ is commonplace and ‘average’ is nonexistent! It is quite some time into ‘Bardo…’ before the vocal...
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Review from Necromance.eu

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, March 29, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Necromance Webzine
Published: March 28, 2013
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*Google translation of Spanish review
 
"Bardo. Relative reality " is the latest work of the Ukrainian Odradek Room, a band of death / doom that was set in the Canadian label Hypnotic Dirge and proposed editarles this work.We are in a band that is not afraid to combine over 7 themes elements from various musical trends, so you hear aggressive cutting themes mixed with sound cuts with a very emotional and atmospheric compositions rich...
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Review from No Clean Singing Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, March 24, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: No Clean Singing Webzine
Published: March 24, 2013
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The last band in this assembly of underground gems is from Ukraine. Named after one of Franz Kafka’s short stories, Odradek Room have produced a debut album Bardo. Relative Reality that was released earlier this month by Hypnotic Dirge Records. Once again, I haven’t yet listened to all of it, but I’m really impressed with what I’ve heard so far, especially the extended opening track “Theatre of Forms” and the hypn...
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Review from The Lair of Filth Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, March 24, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: The Lair of Filth Webzine
Published: March 22, 2013
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I’ll tell you right now, my Ukranian is not so good, in fact it’s non-existent. I only tell you this as Odradek Room is a band that hails from the Ukraine, and as such I really do not know what they are singing about. Not that this matters in the slightest, as this band, who are named after a Franz Kafka short story, have delivered a belting debut album.

Bardo. Relative Reality is an album that you can completely immerse ...

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Review from Atmosfear Magazine; Issue 11

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, February 24, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Atmosfear Magazine; Issue 11
Published: April 2013
Webpage Link
*Google translation of Russian review'

Without doubt the Ukrainian team ODRADEK ROOM able to chain my attention and seemed to long. Title I now pronounce the difficult and confusing letters in it, but once you hear this name, it will not forget. Is the debut album of Ukrainians and initially they promote it to the masses, but now with the support of the label will be more fun. What band plays ODRADEK ROOM? Something psychedelic...
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Review from Doommantia Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, February 24, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Doommantia Webzine
Published: April 13, 2012
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*This review is of the digitally self-released version from Spring 2012
 
Coming up with a memorable name for a band itself as for a début release seems to be a good choice for a newly gathered band to attract the attention of its potential audience. It is also desirable to create an original and memorable cover. And the most important part is to make the début release’s stuff such powerful that one would want to purchase a previ...

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 ODRADEK ROOM -
BARDO. RELATIVE REALITY.


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

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