Published: February 18, 2021

Je ne sais pas depuis combien de temps ils rongent leur frein, ces tunisiens, mais arriver tranquillement avec sous le bras 90 minutes d’un style hybride entre doom, death et post metal, à forte consonance mystique (les œuvres d’Omination sont inspirées de relecture d’écrits chrétiens), il faut oser. Autant dire que « NGR » est copieux. S’il se propose d’annoncer l’Apocalypse, il y met également les moyens musi...

Published: February 16, 2021

Like many of you (including, I would imagine, at least some who discovered the band through our site) I was first introduced to the work of Fedor Kovalevsky via 2019’s astoundingly ambitious Prog-Death opus Back to the Black Marsh, the second album from his semi-solo-project Vielikan.

Having instantly fallen head over heels for that release (which was, and remains, one of my favourite albums of that year) it wasn’t long before ...

Published: February 10, 2021

NGR (The New Golgotha Repvbliq) is the ambitious new album from the Tunisian funeral doom band Omination. Fedor Kovalevsky (Severe Agony) is the mastermind behind the band, writing and arranging the songs and also handling production duties.

The album is nearly 80 minutes long, with morose funeral doom augmented by atmospheric organs and choirs. It’s heavy and crushing, but there are mellower moments as well that give the listener ...

Published: February 10, 2021

Leed na verlies. Geen metalniche die deze gevoelens zo goed in kaart weet te brengen als funeral doom. De ruimte tussen de noten wordt bewust uitgesponnen zoals ook rouw doorgaans niet even snel voorbij trekt als het effect van een goeie grap. Dat nummers de kaap van tien minuten vlot ronden en ze soms ver overstijgen om de boodschap over te brengen, is dan ook een natuurlijk proces. Een album kan afklokken rond het uur en toch maa...

Published: February 5, 2021

It may not be quite accurate to say funeral doom is about minimalism, but it’s not far from the truth either. Much of that is a result of the pace. Even if a funeral doom song has as much going on as a regular metal song when condensed to a regular runtime, stretched over 15 or 20 minutes, it sounds like less. Notes are sustained longer, beats per minute are reduced, and at any given moment, less really is going on. Mournful Congr...

Published: February 5, 2021

Omination are a Tunisian funeral doom band set to release their third full-length album, NGR. They call themselves “apocalyptic funeral doom,” and what that seems to mean in practice is a grieving, relatively energized version of the genre, with death metal influences playing a prominent role. Everything on here feels massive.. My first impression was that NGR sounded like funeral doom on crack, but in a good way. Future listens di...

Published: February 5, 2021

There does seem to be a persevering idea in general extreme metal fandom that funeral doom hasn’t really moved on much from its origins. Despite progressive and expansive bands such as Ahab, Loss and Pantheist, the genre doesn’t often get serious billing in discussions around the future of metal. Bands like Ahab, Loss and Bell Witch have started to change this though, and Omination could well be the latest to turn the heads ...

Published: February 4, 2021

Omination are a funeral death/doom metal band based out of Tunisia, originally concieved by musician Fedor Kovalevsky in 2016 and later expanded to include his bandmates from progressive death metal act Vielikan. The influences for this project are only obvious for the sake of this spherical realm of keyboard/piano-heavy funeral death/doom being relatively small, though I would suggest ‘NGR’ (or, New Golgotha Repvbliq) has the bri...

Published: February 4, 2021

Sometimes you really must stand outside of that comfort zone and challenge your aural senses. With my preferences dipping into a good bit of doom, I didn’t think that Omination’s latest release would present too much difficulty. But then I checked the band’s history and the lights dimmed. Tunisian Apocalyptic Funeral Doom Metal loomed large. Omination’s debut album Followers Of The Apocalypse ran for over 90 minutes. The ...

Published: January 22, 2021

Omination are a project from Tunisia of all places, starting life as a solo project before becoming a full band on their third album, NGR (short for New Golgotha Repvblic. No, really.) They refer to themselves as Apocalyptic Funeral Doom, which mostly means Funeral Doom with a sense for atmosphere that borders on theatrical with its heavy incorporation of massive funeral organs and a spacious production that makes the whole thing sound ...

Published: February 1, 2021

I wasn’t sure what to think of this one, at first, but I know I needed to listen. We’ve got tons of references built into that cover all under the post-apocalyptic banner: Knights Templar dude (maybe Blind Dead) with anime sword, Mad Max car in Dune sand, some Dark Tower castle, maybe Dracula, four horsemen, maybe X-Men, Christ, maybe Apocalypse, I mean it’s quite the cornucopia of post-apocalyptic visions. So let’s just stick ...

Published: February 1, 2021

Hailing from Tunisia, today we have a very unique and aurally abusive outfit: Omination. Dropping their third full-length release, “NRG”, this band delivers one hell of an expansive sound that incorporates elements of traditional Funeral Death/Doom Metal with some more cinematic and experimental endeavors.

Unleashing an eerie and ritualistic aural assault with “Crossing the Burned Wasteland”, the band sets a very punishin...

Published: February 1, 2021

OMINATION is a funeral doom/death metal band from Tunisia, Africa. "NGR" is their third full length album. They also have a demo and an EP. This is my first OMINATION album and I must say they have gained a fan for life. It has nine tracks (ten counting the Skepticism cover) and is almost an hour and a half long—if most albums are meat and potatoes then "NGR" is a three full course meals fit for a king. There is a lot of content here...

Published: January 30, 2021

Apocalyptic Funeral Doom aus Tunesien. Darauf musst Du erst mal kommen. OMINATION ist das Werk von Fedor Kovalevsky, der die Band 2016 gründete. 2018 erschienen ein Demo und das Debütalbum “Followers of the Apocalypse”. NEW GOLGOTHA REPUBLIQ ist demzufolge das zweite Album des Nordafrikaners. Schon seit Beginn zeichnet sich Kovalevsky für alles selbst verantwortlich. Auch Produktion, Mix und Mastering liegen in seiner Hand....