Review Summary: Gemstone of hate and vomit
Death metal that can be hardly compared to other bands? Unorthodox yet ticking every box the genre represents? Technical, yet approachable? Yes, yes and yes, that's OPWS for you!
Stumbling upon something that jumps out of an overly stale genre where most project decide to take a safe route is praise by itself. Don’t get me wrong but the only word I could find to summarize their music is - FUN! Great effort has been put into production and songwriting that shows right off the bat. Guitar is extremely chuggy and rhythmical, yet not in a melodic sense but methodical to the point it sounds technical. It’s not gimmicky and works rather well with the whole composition since drumming is vastly varied and carefully incorporated complimenting even the vocals that express a lot of emotion. And the vocal….my gawd the vocals! The scream that can be heard here and there seems to be coming from the aggressive dude that’s wasted up to the point of blackout drunk who is trying to be intimidating slurping profanities while pissing himself. You won't fear this fella because he would not even be able to stumble close to you, but may put a real effort trying to hit you with his feces(oh look, he is defecating to do just that!). Laugh you might, but when his brother, the gentle giant that benches half a ton who’s stuck at the metal age of four roars while charging you with bloodshot bulging eyes, trying to strip the skin of your bones with his bare hands. The growl is so ferocious and animalistic he would put starving wild wolves into submission by his voice alone. None of that burping and boring dry growls, no sir, it’s quite demented what you get here! Bulging and hard hitting, not over produced and very deprived. This hulking monstrosity deserves more attention and I bet if you play it to a tru kvlt deathalhead you’ll get some cringe worthy moments because “yelp...that sure is different, don’t know if I like it though, mind if I play something else now?”.
https://opowis.bandcamp.com/
