DEATHSPELL OMEGA | Chaining The Katechon - [complete song]

[@Dridgeism]

I just love how this song skips the typical "20 minute song intro build up" and just jumps right into the chaos.

[@sausagewhiskers2455]

agreed. full fartedley

[@MonkTlön]

Jake Martell Exactly. The music is telling you to buckle up because you're about to go on a fast paced Dantean journey through the underworld.

[@ulaan648]

Same with Paracletus

[@fromskintoliquid]

It’s pretty cool that from a theory perspective the real chaos begins when they slow down

[@rosshopkins2063]

It is known.

[@socketofdavis]

Such a ridiculously violent change at 6:44, so masterful, the riffs and composition, not many can top this.

[@isaacperetz5984]

It's referencing minute 18:26 too!

[@D34TH30RY]

Masterpiece. Probably one of their best songs.

[@RyanDenzerKing]

Not to pick a fight, but I think you meant one of THE best songs (of all time).

[@hollowlung4486]

Hands down my favorite

[@hollowlung4486]

Ryan Denzer-King 💯💯💯

[@brewtalityk]

II from Kenose EP... fuck that's good

[@jamesszumowski6637]

Abscission, Carnal Malefactor, Mass Grave Aesthetics

[@VastChoirs]

This song is often called among the most accessible of DsO's material along with Fiery Serpents; but for some reason this took me a long time to get into. That main riff in the start though is just addictive; it sounds nonsensical at first but then you just can't stop listening to it.

[@BaBu-ko7wz]

Buying this vinyl without having listened to it at all, just drawn by the amazing cover artwork, was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

[@gimmedataids]

I used to do that all the time in record stores. Got burned plenty of times, but found tons of awesome music too

[@profanepropane]

@@gimmedataids Mind sharing those awesome music?

[@gimmedataids]

@thebluepill2713 Milkman by Deerhoof, Where Young Grass Grows by Huun-Huur-Tu, Congratulations by MGMT, Pure Guava by Ween. There are others I've found and enjoyed by those are the ones I ended up really liking. I found one album that was just some guy's static-filled recordings of distant radio signals coming from Japan or something.

[@profanepropane]

@@gimmedataids Damn you went down the Ween rabbit hole?

[@1millioncicades183]

Amazing piece of art. Everything here is just perfect. I love so much how in the end it feels like some string instruments(in reality probably keyboard or electronics but who knows) are playing in the background building tension with rhythmic single notes.

[@FrostStorm88]

This is hands down one of their best songs, flawless.

[@geraltblaviken6127]

Pure darkness from the heart. Their energy and execution terrified me when I was getting into this. It seemed incomprehensible at first listen, but even then I felt dread and intimidation. My all time favorite

[@ianbruesch6627]

We saw your image. We saw your image. We saw your image. We saw your image. WE SAW YOUR IMAGE! WE SAW YOUR IMAGE!

[@IMN602]

1:20 and the following 2 minutes has me in tears man. Cannot hope to put into words...

[@KINKYmustache]

Finally someone points this out. I'm 1 year too late, but that part is timeless!

[@caseyrauch9151]

Gets better with every listen.

[@visas4443]

it is disturbance, and anxiety, as absolutes what the world is becoming. still, a temple stands and a star shines.

[@darkgnome666]

“Still a temple stands And a star shines.”

[@gmsiralonne6951]

what does this mean?

[@jstar3943]

@@gmsiralonne6951 In really simplistic terms, I think its somewhere along the lines of: there's all this bad stuff and people still cry out to God (the temple) even though there is no hope for reconciliation (up for debate). The star could be what leads people to God since a star was the guide to infant Jesus. Again, this is a simplistic take and could also be entirely wrong.

[@buddyrogers2919]

@@jstar3943 I always thought the star was a reference to Satan, at least Lucifer, since he was the brightest star in the sky.

[@jstar3943]

@@buddyrogers2919 That's a good interpretation too! It's my 2nd pick, just because it's talking about the temple still standing and I take that to be referring to God/Christianity. Again, I could be wholly wrong😋

[@buddyrogers2919]

@@jstar3943 i think we both could be right

[@wadelacour783]

In a place beyond all resistance Devouring the roots of the bush of fire Forsaken even by the crows The dream of the abortion of Babylon shivers And stuttering words As mere echoes in the desert Vanish in those lower spheres Where shame is unknown. It is a vain Earth. A vision, final, of deceit. There can be no refuge In this grotesque liquid flowing Where shapes melt into each other Where cause becomes consequence. To err with the insane In hostile immensities How legitimate is the faith into despair ? A bond of hallowed essence between all that pulsates it is the primeval degradation the erosion, the crumbling, the everlasting scission. It is disturbance and anxiety As absolutes, for the world is becoming. Still, a temple stands And a star shines. The slopes slaver pus Towards the skies and the thorn Courts the wound. The sun of dolour shines : They enter in its brilliance Those who are divided With their dazzled mouths, The eerie ray of exile Shall be their guide. Scattered they walk towards The incestuous womb. The fertile womb of two And three and all. The weight of these bodies In the shallow waters Shatters the poise. There is a tear of fire In the sky of the worlds. There is a tear of fire And your tongue of light Caressed by the silent leprosy Of your palate Whispers about the gulch of lies The tranquil occupation of agony The dire liquors of a mass-grave And the perilous pedagogy of the abyss. We went to the trough, Lord. We went bend and convulsed. We saw blood, Lord. It was glittering. You dispensed it and we drank it. We saw your image. The gap of our eyes and mouths is void. We went bent and convulsed. It broke us and dissolved us. Liable for the core of the origins There remains a pulsating debt Radiant in its multiple scissions It stands between the mother And her repudiated child Behind the hand that murders And amid attempts of reconciliation. The dispersion of woe on a vain Earth Is done with equity. Le verdict ne vient pas d'un coup, le processus lui-même se transforme au fur et à mesure en verdict. The task to be achieved, human vocation Is to become intensely mortal Not to shrink back Before the voices coming from the gallows tree A work making increasing sense By its lack of sense In the history of times there is But the truth of bones and dust. Thinly grinded to white powder In the mill of fragmentation You give it to brothers and sisters The remains of the Oath Vague echoes of a day of midnight The advent of that which never was The coming of a man from the grave. Still a temple stands And a star shines. Unceasingly, those who can not be one Exchange their rings In an arched world Exhausted by the division The stale principle of stellar times. A ford alike Between the crimson rivers Carrying along their murky waters Countless extinct cradles. Merely a glance ahead Resonates the wailing of flowers Under such a suffocating heat That men entered into gestation You hold a palimpsest of dolour Once forgotten that the fall Is our fall. That death is no channel Anymore to rejoin the clay of a fractioned God. The act of a free man Connected to the balance of the world Projects itself into the infinite But the fracture Its ontological ballast The dispersion and the overcoming Bring a harvest of increasing conflict A descending spiral of splinters Lacerating the meridians. The temple stands Its walls a prison For the Katechon While the plowshare grates On the crystal hard and vivid tear And blood pours from the furrows While the star shines high No place to cover from Its rotten light Ho- sanna Ho- san- na Ho- san- n- a

[@theyeking7023]

Thanks

[@michaeljohnston490]

One of my favorite memories is after I drove my brothers to a service project my parents’ church was doing, I blasted this EP to torture my brothers. Considering in the past, I’d mostly play prog metal around them, this had them very shooketh

[@gaugehoughton2403]

WOAH BADASS

[@renatonunez-melgarp2066]

probably u got them an idea to torture prisoners at guantanamo

[@Zhuntovany.Kavalir]

As a composer I am extremely humbled anytime I listen to this song. Or DsO in general. Its insane.

[@brentsmith7997]

here because Luc Lemay said this was his fave song

[@BaBu-ko7wz]

makes sense. completely.

[@jacobsarvathayaparan2337]

Brent Smith LOL I don't think anything has ever surprised me less

[@michaeljohnston490]

I was drawn to this band after I saw him wearing a DSO shirt in an interview. I thought if Luc Lemay of all people was giving this band praise, they had to be incredible. Even his praise didn’t do it justice tho

[@dominichowell6896]

Inspiration for Pleiades Dust no doubt.

[@Hrvo182]

Myself I was never a big fan of those very technical death metal bands but I checked out Gorguts because the guy had a DsO shirt and I was delighted.

[@gstrdms]

the period between Fas and Paracletus imo is their peak. Perfect blend of all the elements they're known for without being dull or overbearing.

[@theyeking7023]

Are they in their twilight now acc to you?

[@Hrvo182]

@@theyeking7023 surely not, I'm loving the new era.. Synarchy and Furnaces are excellent!

[@theyeking7023]

@@Hrvo182 ye Synarchy is my favourite

[@ChodeMaster]

I'd go as far as to say this is the best black metal song ever created.

[@FrostStorm88]

​@@Hrvo182 I wholeheartedly agree, those are the albums I come back to the most by them these days. "Onwards Where Most with Ravin I May Meet" stands among their best works in my opinion.

[@tlr9403]

1:41 4:11 6:43 12:20 13:19 16:50 18:25 19:26

[@theyeking7023]

14:00 best

[@pariskotsaros]

Their best release and overall one of the best bm albums/eps/songs/whatever

[@RyanDenzerKing]

I used to publish a "Best Albums" list every year that intentionally excluded EPs (and this is only one song), but I put this at #1 for 2008 anyway.

[@critbrain]

My favourite riff starts from here 11:57

[@malonemuert]

Mine too - I love how it mutates into that groove section.

[@LIFECINDER]

Untouchable.

[@gerhitchman]

hosanna. all praise rang

[@helcan1]

gerhitchman rang dipkin raaaang

[@theyeking7023]

Where dis from

[@Nekrist218]

No words to describe how amazing this is, overwhelming.

[@isaacdissonance3967]

Still the best fucking Black metal song of all time!!!

[@tankintummy]

This song is pure gold... errrm, gotta be more black metal- this stuff is like swirling muck of the darkest abyss

[@wenomowicz]

+tankintummy It is tho

[@dominichowell6896]

Abrasive swirling muck! Lol

[@paveantelic7876]

@@dominichowell6896 murk*

[@dominichowell6896]

@@paveantelic7876 thanks, brah. Autocorrect

[@faunbudweis]

what a ride this EP!

[@KingCoryFlokstra777]

among other heavy songs this is one hell of a ride

[@hollowlung4486]

This song owns my life.

[@branding01]

after all those years i listened to this whole summer, like a 100 times. obsessed. Even knowing it by head, it doesn't seem to get boring. ps; i'm a girl. (probably a bit more rare).

[@theyeking7023]

"HOSANNA" - pure ironic blasphemy. "No place to cover from its rotten light" - the problem of evil is unsolved and no amount of philosophizing and word salad can resolve the issue. The star of course being the representation of the cause of evil in Lucifer who was the "brightest star in the sky". Evil is not the absence of Good but something having its own essence since Evil is not a darkness but a light here. "Still a temple stands and a star shines" - people who still believe in an all merciful God even though the light of the star is apparent to anyone who looks.

[@ianbruesch6627]

The first part of your comment reminds me of a much cringier comment on another Deathspell video. But you saved yourself with the rest of your comment.

[@theyeking7023]

@@ianbruesch6627 been meaning to edit this comment for a while lol I have cringed at it too,could have worded it better. Also I think the comment you're referring to was from Si Circumspice?

[@ianbruesch6627]

@@theyeking7023 Yes, Sola Fide I, specifically. But nah, your comment's actually good, it was just the first part that reminded me of that one.

[@jallek86]

13:59 So twisted, so sinister.

[@AtrocityEquine01]

*"We saw your IMAGE.."*

[@ChodeMaster]

Ponyfåg

[@marcusmelville4111]

The epilogue is my favourite bit

[@theyeking7023]

3:40 the sound of despondent nihilism/ the void.

[@hazardousjazzgasm129]

I think you're projecting. DsO isn't nihilist

[@serialdrunkdriver]

@@hazardousjazzgasm129 I think that would require some explaining then lol. They literally hate all things living with all their hearts, how far can that possibly be away from Nihilism?

[@hazardousjazzgasm129]

@@serialdrunkdriver Have you read the interviews? They consider themselves Bataillian "by definition" and actually embrace the sort of life-affirming stance Nietzsche talked of. I think they can only be considered "nihilist" from a Christian's point of view

[@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers]

7:38 - 9:38 Devastating.

[@User0155]

This is very special, the final is grandios

[@JarodRebuck]

I think it’s fair to assume that many goats have been slaughtered to this song, and deservedly so.

[@sirspookybones1118]

Hopefully for Goat curry

[@ChiaroscuroUK]

Such better production than 'Fas...'. I can hear the guitars!

[@berizont]

listen to the remastered version on youtube, its worth it!

[@SOAD525]

19:30

[@JohnJillky]

I have a mini orgasm when this part starts. I just feel destroyed by the music and I love it

[@Barqu3ntine]

Incredible

[@xiarhos5]

forgot to mention-> This is too fucking awesome i can't believe that this band is able to make 22 min fucking epic songs and they are so underrated. Fucking Rotten World

[@malonemuert]

This is like Trout Mask Replica of black metal.

[@0noWere0]

Eea,my favorte band!

[@rosshopkins2063]

How to write deathspell omega songs: step 1. build up melody and harmony. Step 2. Do not resolve this harmony as if your life depends on it. 3. Repeat.

[@hazardousjazzgasm129]

Non-functional harmony has been around for a long time dude, this is hardly what makes them unique

[@kaelis35]

13:59

[@billsmith7642]

Was watching the end of Jaws with the volume turned down, while blasting this masterpiece, after eating 1/8th of shrooms. It was awesome, the scenes of the movie seemed to flow well with the different sections and sudden tempo changes of this song.

[@depthsofabjection]

Jaws, shrooms and DSO. Does it get better than that?

[@billsmith7642]

@@depthsofabjection No it doesnt.....I suspect that Quint may have been a fan had he been around.

[@jstar3943]

Try adding in nitrous - world shattering

[@billsmith7642]

@@jstar3943 I will do my best to find some whippets....this combo sounds most intriguing.....only other thing i might add is some ketamine, and il be in for one hell of a ride

[@jstar3943]

@@billsmith7642 Ketamine is great too! I prefer K + M or K + C, for partying with the homies. The psychedelics+DSO+nitrous is more of a solo or small group thing haha. Depending where you are, most smoke shops carry Whip Its. Just ask for "whipped cream chargers". You'll need a cracker/dispenser also. Ask for a "whipped cream dispenser" they should have those as well. Best of luck!

[@arthouseHAL]

ο ορισμος της σοβαρης-ορθοδοξης μπλακ \m/

[@kiittt7304]

The dream of the abortion of Babylon

[@0noWere0]

Eea,my favorìte band!

[@TTCuX_129]

шедевр да и только

[@billyrodgers6668]

Fucking fresh air...

[@Cytotoxin_86]

13:59 fuckin sinister riffage

[@vitaliytopol3113]

Cercle of eternal becoming

[@versesforemptiness]

power

[@blackmetalmagick1]

Can anyone give me a lucid definition of the word Katechon? Google doesn't seem to explain it well

[@templesein]

The katechon is a word employed by Saint Paul in the 2nd Epistle to the Thessalonians to designate that or the one who restrains the advent of the anomos/the lawless one (the Antichrist). It's an enigmatic figure, there was and still there is a big debate on its exact identification. The more traditional version identifies it with the Roman Empire. A more secularized version simply identifies it with legitimate authority. The way Saint Paul phrases, in the original Greek, the sentences referring to the katechon seems to point to an ambiguous relation between the katechon and the anomos. Since the Antichrist must come before the end, in restraining the Antichrist the katechon also delays the final parousia of Christ and the Last Judgement. Chaining the katechon would then mean to restrain the restrainer. In the lyrics the katechon is emprisoned inside a temple.

[@AlexAlmightyAgain]

I totally heard what you are talking about. Seems to me like a hithat sound, maybe a hithat hit played backwards or distorted or something. Really interesting detail anyway.

[@berizont]

lovecraftian vibe

[@sashakingcrimson187]

💿💿💿💿

[@Wkfusvhlsjhudmelhl]

I never got this band but I kind of understand that they play well. Someone sell me this so I'll get it.

[@hazardousjazzgasm129]

Figure out where the riffs are. Rhythmically speaking, everything sounds like a chaotic blur because pinpointing the ending of lets say riff A and the beginning of riff B is hard, but once you do that the songs open up and become extremely enjoyable.

[@Robobotic]

Its technically like classical music. Its multiple rhythms representing a single riff basically and they are abuse time signatures (in the good way) to pull this off. If you think this is hard to understand there are bands that actually abuse this concept without any actual taste like Behold the Arctopus, Krallice and a band I don't even want to mention. They sound like dogshit because they basically play regular extreme metal riffs but make it "seem" unique because they abuse time signatures. Deathspell Omega, Gorguts and Ulcerate are one of the only bands actually use these techniques to create their own distinct sounds

[@hazardousjazzgasm129]

@@Robobotic Curious which band you don't even want to mention is, I bet I know them since I don't like Krallice or Arctopus either

[@Big_Tough_Guy]

Be glad you don't get it lmao.

[@RyanDenzerKing]

In the history of times there is but the truth of bones and dust

[@TransparentBarriers]

Ce riff qui démarre a 1:10.... *_________________*

[@faunbudweis]

they should play this to the new pontiff - nonstop...

[@vitaliytopol3113]

Die apokalyptischen reiter

[@bowenmcconnie]

DEATH 108 O MANI PADME HUM OM (WORKING!)

[@islespatrick]

6:32-6:43 that section. Fuck.

[@MasterInfernoMusic]

Ho- sanna Ho- san- na Ho- san- n- a.

[@theyeking7023]

Pure sex

[@BlackAngel-wk1ir]

100k

[@xiarhos5]

wtf World's Largest Gummy Worm on the side bar -_- this is all wrong

[@RyanDenzerKing]

Chocouroboros -- new from Nestle!

[@xiarhos5]

Deathspell Ωμέγα(or Omega) actually omega is the last letter on the greek alphabet

[@jaredarbizu6373]

I think we all knew that.

[@dominichowell6896]

Wow, thanks

[@Lmpfapo1]

No clue what you're talking about. I think I can faintly hear what you're talking about at 19:19 but other than that not one bit.

[@aufheben555]

Hated this band since Si Monumentum..., but this is a stellar release. Good for them.

[@Hamobest90]

by the way, mikko aspa doesn't sing in this band....by the way (again), who is the drummer? is it a drummer? it sounds too human, but why is the drummer unknown?...anyway i will love this band forever

[@paul1720]

He does. Stop spouting misinformation.

[@michaeljohnston490]

He came in after their increasingly religiously Satanic lyrics scared off their old vocalist. Turned out to be the man for the job

[@VastChoirs]

I've loved every single thing that DSO has put out, even the early primitive stuff. But this is the one song/album I just cannot get into. It just doesn't have the same level of quality, imo. It's actually kind of bad/below average imo. Hard to believe this was the same year as Kenose, which was an absolute masterpiece.

[@Bluetag9009]

Can't agree, Katechon is one the level of Drought IMO, which is among their best so far.

[@pedranzo]

This song is brilliant. An attestment to individuality. A fist in the face of tradition. It also ends in an absolutely remarkable way, completely defiling christian culture with Aspa's chantings about man's true nature.

[@jaredarbizu6373]

I actually think it's pretty damn good, personally. Takes a little longer to get used to than their other EPs, but still magnificent, unique, chaotic, brilliant work. In any case, this was actually a 2008 release, originally on a split with S.V.E.S.T. whereas Kenose was created in 2005, the same year as Mass Grave Aesthetics and Diabolus Absconditus.

[@themoud]

I think you're mistaking quality with accessibility dude, because heck it's so fucking brilliant

[@fleeingduck]

This sounds horrible!

[@Moth-ManRemasters]

Ok

[@farqueleyou7578]

It's DsO of course it sounds horrible, and brilliant.

[@isaacperetz5984]

Everyone don’t be too harsh, he’s just talking about his own voice.

[@JustRick.]

Stop tryna predict the rhythm and just listen to it as music.