Whoa. I was in no way expecting the crushing black noise metal that this Russian outfit (an offshoot of the long-running neo-folk band Majdanek Waltz) coughed up on Omega Point. Its absolutely nothing like the harsh noise and death industrial sounds that we had previously heard on the two tapes that came out on Rokot, aside from the reliance on the sheer skull-crushing power of extreme distortion. When the opener "Contamination" kicks in with a roar of massively distorted guitars, it gets right down to business as that wall of swarming buzzsaw chords and blackened tremolo drift completely takes over, sounding as if someone has taken the guitar tracks from a melodic black metal act and stripped away everything else before proceeding to pile on a mountain of swirling volcanic distortion and droning feedback. It's all very reminiscent of the newer wall-of-scorch Skullflower material, but with a merciless black metal vibe to the guitars; Sutekh Hexen's noisy chaos is another possible reference point. The following tracks all continue to explore this raging blackened guitar-noise and swirling psychedelic din, but through a variety of means: "The Hive" ventures into more abstract territory with the blasts of molten black distortion cut up with crawling bass riffs and swells of choral majesty, turning into a strange sort of experimental black doom with stretches of quiet calm situated between the sudden bursts of raging amp-roar and distorted drone; while "The Devourer" drifts through more ambient terrain, washes of eerie Troum-esque feedback and rumbling drones crashing over sinister undercurrents of minor key creepiness. Some of the other tracks on Omega Point rumble through crushing fractured rhythms and lumbering industrial dirge, drifting out into passages of metallic whirr and ominous looped riffs, groaning cellos and violins crawling across the smoldering noisescapes haunted by mysterious creakings and horrific high-pitched noises. When this is at its most punishing, this disc starts to resemble some black metal band trying to recreate Matt Bowers's psychedelic guitar noise symphonies from Total or later Skullflower; I was really blown away by this, hopefully this new direction from the band is something we'll hear more of. Definitely recommended to fans of Sutekh Hexen, Voltigeurs, Wold, Vargr and the like.

Comes in an interesting packaging design that has the disc held inside of a customized six-panel sleeve, each copy hand-numbered in an edition of seventy-seven copies, the sleeve bound together with a piece of twine.