Published: May 16, 2019 

De sfeervolle hoes, het predikaat ‘post-black/doom’ en de constatering dat Hypnotic Dirge Records verantwoordelijk is voor de release van dit album, geven een goede indicatie van de muziek die de luisteraar op Wijde Wijdte, het debuutalbum van het eenmansproject Omgeving, kan verwachten. En inderdaad: de uitgesponnen, wijd uitwaaierende klankentapijten vol ruizige, introverte black/doom met ambient- en blackgaze-invloeden waarvan Omgev...

Published: May 10, 2019 

Now here's a guy who knows exactly what he's about all...the...time. Honestly not sure I do, however. Look at that cover by Polish tatoo artist Kuba Kujawa. Seriously look at it. Do you know what's going on there? You might think so at first. Now the band name, Omgeving, is Dutch for "surroundings" and this is the type of album that will certainly surround you in every way possible, but it doesn't seem that way at first, to be honest. To ...

Published: April 16, 2019 

Omgeving é um projeto de Doom/Black Metal bastante experimental desenvolvido na Holanda por Franck Johanson, ao qual é encarregado por todos os instrumentos, sendo Wijde Wijdte, seu trabalho de estreia, lançado no ano de 2018. Omgeving possui uma característica peculiar, não há vocais, com o trabalho inteiramente instrumental, sendo perceptível que as reais intenções do álbum é focar em algo mais “atmosférico”, estando...

Published: March 19, 2019 

Things from the Canadian publishing house Hypnotic Dirge Records I liked quite a while. Gradually, however, the taste has fallen, and recently, the newly released recordings of this otherwise rather sympathetic company I only rarely listen. I decided to fix it at least a bit through the debut "Wijde wijdte" of the Dutch project Omgeving . The genre box of post-black / doom metal looks quite repulsive, but the albums seemed pretty good to ...

Published: March 14, 2019

Tras el nombre de OMGEVING se encuentra el proyecto en solitario del músico holandés Franck Johanson (DISTILLATOR), quien ha dado rienda suelta a su pasión por el Metal más oscuro y la experimentación sonora, como podemos comprobar en lo que es su álbum debut “Wijde Wijdte”. Ocho cortes que vienen envueltos en un bonito digipack de varios cuerpos en el que destaca sobremanera la magnífica portada creada por Kuba Kujawa, con e...

Published: March 14, 2019

Instrumental albums and artists used to really bug me, I can’t quite put my finger on why they just did. Perhaps it was the fact that I didn’t have much time or care for more progressive sounds, or maybe it was because I felt as if it was lacking something. Whatever the case may be I have since grown up shall we say and now fully embrace a whole range of genres that are often pretty firmly rooted in the instrumental field. Give me anyt...

Published: February 1, 2019 

Post-black-doom proveniente de los países bajos, esta banda es el proyecto debut de un solo músico, Frank Johanson, y definitivamente este hombre crea un sonido que no será del agrado de los entusiastas más encariñados con los sonidos tradicionales de la música extrema.

Wijde Wijtde, es una colección de temas que definen lo que experimental significa, sonidos ambientales que escasamente podrías definir dentro de algún genero esp...

Published: January 17, 2019

Omgeving is an experimental project from Franck Johanson (of the thrash band Distillator) that attempts to do a number of different things and combine them into a fluid experience. Being on the Hypnotic Dirge label, one can already imagine that the album is going to be something different and off the beaten path (as well as bring in some gloom of some sort). None of those assumptions are incorrect, and Omgeving manages to provide a un...

Published: January 15, 2019

Omgeving ist das Soloprojekt des Niederländers Frank Johanson von den Thrash Metallern Distillator, die im letzten Jahr eine Split-CD mit den Berlinern von Space Chaser veröffentlicht hatten. Hier bezeichnet er seine Musik schlicht als „Klanglandschaften“, was es im Grunde auch am besten trifft. Bei Metal Archives steht als Beschreibung dafür eine Mischung aus Post-Black- und Doom Metal. Kombiniert werden hier aber vor allem ...

Published: December 30, 2018

Bij een naam als Omgeving denken velen onder ons wellicht dat het hier om een soort van ambientproject zal gaan. Niets van dat. Omgeving is een Nederlands project dat – ik neem het even over uit de promo – ‘crosses the boundaries of black metal, space rock, ambient, and doom’. Spek voor de bek van mezelf. De man achter dit project is Franck Johanson (Distillator), die normaal thrash uitbraakt. Als dat maar goed afloopt, denk j...

Published: December 16, 2018

No, not in a zillion years I would tell that Metal music would take this path. No way in hell. In  fact, this “Wijde Wijdte” isn’t the first album which features some instrumentals tunes with lots of incidental noises and effects. However, when you come to think, Metal has always done things to amaze and surprise us , hasn’t it?

I know, you are about to tell me that this trend in Metal isn’t that new. Okay, I get it. But, fo...

Published: December 10, 2018

Within metal - particularly the atmospheric side - we’ve seen explorations of space, nature, and all things in between. We’ve seen artists experiment with multiple styles and influences and infusing them with space and the unknown - for instance, Midnight Odyssey and Mesarthim, who focus on cosmic soundscapes in their music. Franck Johanson, a Dutch multi-instrumentalist, has brought forth a new project in this realm – Omgev...

Published: December 7, 2018

Ce premier album de l’artiste Néerlandais Franck Johanson, alias Omgeving, explore les zones hors des sentiers battus et ose comme Phil Elverum avec son projet Mount Eerie sur son album Wind’s Poem qui transcendait le Indie Rock et le Black Metal à la fois. Ce dernier est un album qui repose beaucoup sur l’intimisme et l’isolation qui caractérise Mount Eerie et le Black metal de Ulver (époque Nattens Madrigal) et Xasht...

Published: November 27, 2018 

Omgeving es un proyecto experimental en el que se dan la mano tanto el Black Metal, como el Doom, el Space Rock y el Ambient. El primer álbum de Omgeving, titulado “Wijde Wijdte”, verá la luz el próximo 6 de diciembre, a través del sello canadiense Hypnotic Dirge Records.

Omgeving está formado únicamente por Franck Johanson (componente de Distillator), quien se encarga de todos los instrumentos.

“Wijde Wijdte” es ...

Published: November 18, 2018

Boiling down numerous genres to create something all together atmospheric, heavy and gripping is Omgeving. This experimental band incorporates the likes of doom, sludge, rock, black metal and ambient to provide you with a compelling and enveloping sound. Wijde Wijdte is an instrumental record that comes complete with eight tracks of gripping and mind warping metal. From beginning to end you fall deeper and deeper in to the darkened ...

Published: November 12, 2018

Omgeving are a solo project from the Netherlands that plays an atmospheric form of black metal and this is a review of his 2018 album "Wijde Wijdte" which will be released in December by Hypnotic Dirge Records.

A very dark and heavy sound starts off the album along with some atmospheric sounding synths while all of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them  as well as the slower sections of the songs  also a...