French psychedelic doom metal trio Oda presents their debut album »Bloodstained«; available now on all streaming platforms!
Paris, France based psychedelic doom metal trio Oda has just released their debut album »Bloodstained« this Friday, October 11th, 2024 in digital format.
Stream »Bloodstained« now on Spotify and other digital platforms!
Tracklist:
01. Children Of The Night
02. Zombi
03. Inquisitor
04. Rabid Hole
05. Succubus
06. Mourning Star
Courtesy of NRV Promotion:
Oda is a Memento Mori, a psychedelic journey alternating between ethereal sounds and demonic rumblings from beyond the grave.
They met in December 2019, when Cyril Thommeret (drums) discovered Thomas Féraud (guitar) and Emmanuel Brège (bass) on stage at the Supersonic (Paris) with their other band Wør Pigs. They will start playing together in 2021, marking the birth of the band. For the past three years, the band offers a stoner rock, alternating dark doom and psychedelic harmonies, influenced mainly by the sounds of Black Sabbath, Rezn and Monolord.
“In general, the first ideas of songs come from melodies suggested on the guitar. Our work in rehearsals then consists of a game of suggestions. Everyone listens, then improvises. This creates a discussion, and the resulting arrangements serve as the basis for the creation of new pieces,” explains the band on their creative process. Together, they also experiment on stage to tell the story of organic epics, doomed loves and primal disorders. They recall a private concert given in the woods of a Burgundy forest (France), during which the mysticism emanating from this atypical place inspired them and encouraged them to continue along this path. After two years of testing their compositions on stage, oda is now offering its first LP, »Bloodstained«, to be released on October 11, 2024 as a self-production project.
Photo by Thomas Féraud
Recorded in Vetter studio (FR), in the heart of the forest of Brocéliande, their work could be Arthurian in its ode to haunted quests, its warning about what rots and corrupts. The melancholy world of Thomas’s echoes collides with the powerful wall of Cyril and Emmanuel’s bass-drums duo, which push them to the frontier of stoner and doom. Wishing to respect as closely as possible the frenetic, powerful energy they deliver on stage, they decided to record live. The recording and mix were done by Thomas de Fraguier (Decasia, Wør Pigs) and the mastering by Erwan Le Mao.
For its members, Oda is now an extension of self-expression, without alienation – a raw, slow odyssey like an echo from the depths. “We want our music to represent us as well as possible, to be a band in our own image. It’s all about taming the demon,” says Thomas.
Recorded by Thomas de Fraguier at Studio Vetter.
Mixed by Thomas de Fraguier.
Mastered by Erwan Le Mao.
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well