US drone metal duo Droni Eye Omi announce debut album »Liminal Mass« on Desert Records and premiere first single »Chromosphere«!

Albuquerque, New Mexico based instrumental meditative/drone metal duo Droni Eye Omi has announced their debut album, »Liminal Mass«, scheduled for release on March 7th, 2025 via Desert Records.

Listen to the album’s first single »Chromosphere« below!

Tracklist:
01. Chromosphere
02. Black Flare

Courtesy of Desert Bloom PR:

Brand new drone metal band, Droni Eye Omi to release debut album »Liminal Mass« via Desert Records on March 7th, 2025.

Listen to Droni Eye Omi’s new single »Chromosphere« HERE

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

Take a journey to the outer realms of your inner thoughts and sentiments. Droni Eye Omi are the cosmopilots that steer the celestial cruiser of sound into the vast universe of your mind.

Fear not of uncertainty, for nothing is certain with the settling of souls, here and beyond. Hear not the redundant questions of man, but experience the answers known to sound and vibration. Let the high voltage guitars rumble your chest and rattle your ears to an intoxicating sphere of bliss and realization.

You are on a migration to thyself!

“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

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)

Pre-order »Liminal Mass« here: dronieyeomi.bandcamp.com

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