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... Wow, amazing.

Fuck, awesome song! Can't wait to see them live in few weeks..

Great song! This made me real excited about a new album, until I read this is the only new song on the album, the rest will be Omen classics re-done for reasons that surely escape me.

Yes that song sounds good. The live clips I've seen haven't sounded good, in fact the vocals have sounded shit live, and also convinced me I won't be going to see them live here when they play with Savage cover Grace. Re-recorded songs, what an utterly POINTLESS record.

daniel wrote:Yes that song sounds good. The live clips I've seen haven't sounded good, in fact the vocals have sounded shit live, and also convinced me I won't be going to see them live here when they play with Savage cover Grace. Re-recorded songs, what an utterly POINTLESS record.

You mean the new vocalist George Call sounded shit? That can't be true.
I've been looking forward to new Omen album ever since I heard George Call is handling the vocal parts. People should check out ASKA's 'Avenger' album if they haven't done so.

It sounded more like the real OMEN of the first three albums, but I can't say I remember much after hearing it a couple of times.. nothing wrong with the vocals, I just don't think that this is something that will stay with me forever.

daniel wrote:Yes that song sounds good. The live clips I've seen haven't sounded good, in fact the vocals have sounded shit live, and also convinced me I won't be going to see them live here when they play with Savage cover Grace. Re-recorded songs, what an utterly POINTLESS record.

Re-recorded: Savage Grace? I also read somewhere that Omen were re-recording their past.

For George Call: It could have been a bad night performance I checked out, I tried to watch some more but the sound quality was too poor. On record he sounds great granted, and Aska sounds good too. I'm afraid I'm against Omen without Kimball, I don't know why things being 'good enough' should be accepted so often, why people are apologetic, it can't be like before so I don't want to see it, that's pretty much how I think about most of these things. I was very skeptical of Manilla Road, but I enjoyed it live, still, months later now when I think about it, it doesn't feel like I saw MR.

The Savage Grace comment was about there only being one original member; that's more like a cover band to me, and again people will be apologetic on the band's behalf about it.

powell is a prick. i already knew that he was a liar since his s.child days. when he was claiming all the time that he would never reform omen. and like daniel wrote, he has many advocates to speak for him.

but hell, even fifth angel could be FA without james/ken/ted. ah, the business! perhaps this would be ok for the average fritz but not for me. but i'm not paying, so no complaining at all.

antzela demetriou is performing live this saturday and i can't wait for the lady of the night! save me, save me, give me your poison to drink,my life's a torture now and i can't think....

The song is okay, it probably only works if you see bands like OMEN as totally new buildups, since most re-unions fail to impress at all. With or without original members, the latter is no guaranty that they still capture any of the old day spirit.

Kimball is dead and so is OMEN!

The Knell wrote:Kimball is dead and so is OMEN!

Vouched.

People always make out singers to be more important than they are.

Well it happens when the singer has a very personal voice like Kimball did. The new song was Ok but nothing to write home about imo.

Nah, in my experience it happens with every singer that ever sung with any band on an album or during a period which is considered the band's strongest.

I love Kimball's vocals, that's not the point, his work on the first 3 Omen LP's is immortal... but even back then, Omen pretty much all came down to the song writing of Kenny Powell. He wrote "Teeth of the Hydra" so Kimball could sing it, Kimball didn't sing it so Powell could write it. Everyone can be replaced if it has to be done, except the song writer.

Credits where credits are due, I guess that's what I'm getting at... but everybody is always all about "that band is dead without that singer" or "these four original members that used to write all the music are not worth dogshit without the jackass that used to be drunk all the time and sing their songs back in the 80's"... which I find ridiculous. Only one thing is true: A singer is nothing without a song to sing.