### Dire Omen: Promo 2011

#### 11/07/11 || Lord K Philipson

What’s next, Omen Straits? This Canadian death metal band’s got a few things going for them:

1. A crappy vocalist. 2. A drummer who is anything but awesome. 3. An overall untightness, alot thanx to mentioned drummer. 4. A bunch of anonymous tunes.

I can applaud some of the weird riffs, but arrangement- and performance-wise this misses the goal. If you wanna hear a great example as for how not to play drums, listen to the start of “Serpent’s child”. I’m not sure even Pro-Tools or Cubase could quantize that shit to make it sound decent. As you can see, Dire Omen isn’t exactly coming across as the saviors of Canadian death metal.

3,5/10: Ease up on the attempts at showing off and play stuff you can handle.