US instrumental drone metal duo Droni Eye Omi premiere debut album »Liminal Mass«; out today on Desert Records!

Albuquerque, New Mexico based instrumental meditative/drone metal duo Droni Eye Omi stream their debut album, »Liminal Mass«, which was just released today, March 7th, 2025 via Desert Records.

Tracklist:
01. Chromosphere
02. Black Flare

Courtesy of Desert Bloom PR:

Full album premiere of debut »Liminal Mass«! Listen to Droni Eye Omi’s debut album »Liminal Mass« on Clean and Sober Stoner!

“Brad Frye and Ronaldo Baca have teamed up to form Droni Eye Omi, a drone project that explores the fertile ground between dark ambient and drone. Headphones are essential for the dark journey into heavy psychedelia that Droni Eye Omi presents.

This is NOT your typical stoner doom, this is an invitation to a different reality! Deleting content blocks.” – Clean and Sober Stoner

Two guitars, one from Brad Frye (Red Mesa and Desert Records founder) and a second one from Ronaldo Baca (renowned New Mexican gypsy jazz band Swing Magique and flamemco guitarist) bring you a dense electric guitar drone mixed with psych and space minimalism, and meditative heaviness.

However, desert/stoner rock or gypsy jazz/flameco this is not!! This is true drone and minimalism inspired by Lamonte Young’s »Composition 1960 No. 7« and Earth’s »Earth 2«.

Droni Eye Omi take these influences as a base starting point and send them straight into the cosmos.

Photo by S. Seibert

“The band name came from a text between myself and Michael DiMartino of Fowl Sounds. We were conceptualizing a drone pedal for guitar/bass (coming soon?) and he sent me two words: Droni Iommi. I laughed and said that would be a perfect name for a drone band. Well, a few months later I pitched this meditative drone project to Ronaldo Baca, and we got together and immediately found a connection with this style of music. The album was done live, all in one take. We recorded ourselves with a ton of mics on many amps with a psychedelic digital light show projecting on us. Enjoy melting your brains on this music.” – Brad Frye

“Heavy drone duo Droni Eye Omi will make their debut on March 7 with the two-song full-length, »Liminal Mass«. Carving a place for itself with mountainous tonality and a drumless, often-howling expanse, it’s being released through Desert Records, whose Brad Frye (also Red Mesa) comprises half the lineup alongside flamenco guitarist Ronaldo Baca, and as you’ll see in the release info below, they go so far as to call it a ‘migration to thyself’.” – The Obelisk

Order »Liminal Mass« here: dronieyeomi.bandcamp.com

Recorded by Droni Eye Omi with a Tascam Model 12 on 5/31/2024 at Bingo Studios in Albuquerque, NM. Mixed and Mastered by Ronaldo Baca at Orange Cat Studios. Album cover by Diogo Soares.

Line-up:
Brad Frye (Guitar One)
Ronaldo Baca (Guitar Two)

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well