Omen - Warning of Danger :: The Heavy Metallurgy Album Club Dissects a US Classic!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ย. 2024
- Arising from the LA metal scene, Omen were certainly a different beast than the glitz and glam the town was known for and to this day, their first 3 albums remain undeniable US metal classics. Even though original member Kenny Powell is still creating albums and taking Omen out of the road, it seems that in this overflowing metal genre we all hold so dear, those first 3 albums in particular are often overlooked or just plain unknown to the new crop of metal warriors. There was so much class and talent found in all of that material, more than "just the old guys" need to know about this true working class quartet and what was one of the core bands in the early 80's US POWER metal scene.
Kenny Powell's mature and talented playing/songwriting style. Jody Henry's clean and colorful bass work. Steve Wittig's pummeling and unwavering drum work keeping it all together. And THE voice... J.D. Kimball (RIP). Such a smooth and bluesy croon. So much power. Endless emotion. His talent and execution was the icing on a very mighty cake, that took the well considered and executed metal found on Warning of Danger to a lofty level.
So here the Metallurgists gather once again, this time to unpack and discuss a definite classic. Jon us to pay your respects, or learn about something new that you may have missed!
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Love this album and band so much. Funny to hear him mention the island picks, I posted a photo in a collector group on FB a while back of my 5 desert island picks, 2 of the 5 were Omen (Warning and Battle Cry) absolutely perfect records front to back
What a shame I missed this live. It's obviously a great classic, which I personally consider, along with Riot's "Thundersteel", to be the benchmark for US Power Metal. My personal favorite, however, remains the debut "Battle Cry", as I'm a bit more rooted in Traditional/Epic Metal and that album is without a doubt one of the greatest in that genre. Can't go wrong with the first three Omen records in general of course.
Thanks for another great review guys. Back in the UK now, and unfortunately having to watching on catch up. Omen, is a band that I hadn't heard of before your show, and this review has forced my hand to give it them listen. I have played and enjoyed bands like Megaton Sword, Eternal Champion and Manila Road (another great band I'd not hear of before this show, thanks!), and really enjoyed this Omen album, and will definitely go back to check out the other, starting with the first 3.
Awesome, Otis! Then our work here is done. Until next week that it. ;)
My metalradioshow began exactly in October 85, when WoD came out, and it was exactly one of the imports that would be waiting on the racks, for our collective ''investment'' on the following weeks. At that time , it was very common that sophomores would arrive on import, before the debuts - that happened with Bathory, Sodom, Celtic Frost, Slayer, even Metallica, and it's quite clear that being Portugal a peripheric country, distribution was still fumbling with numbers, suspecting local metalheads would be somehow short of shekels for the full (but then, short) catalogues.
All of a sudden, right before the mid-80s, Metal blew up down here, so on every record shop in big shopping centres, there would be copious racks of efeverscent import gems. That's how Warning of Danger arrived to ''Noites Metálicas'' (Metallic Nights), gaining massive acceptance on the very diminutive local scene in my town. It's curious because i could never get into Escape to nowhere musically, and was about to almost forget the group, and then, close to the last days of the show in 1997, there was some guy who presented us with a non-promotional copy of Reopening the Gates and until the closing of the show in December97, we not only managed to give it some special highlighted transmission, but also completed a short retrospective with the 5 albums. Side by side with Manilla Road, Cirith Ungol, Brocas Helm, on the quadrumvirate of trve Epic US Metal of the 80s. ( ...am i missing any other ''REAL'' band? I wonder... )
Great episode guys.
Congratulations Logan for your marriage
Curious to hear your opinion on the new wintersun record. I haven't spun it yet and will judge it without bias
Thanks Racoon, it was a success all around! Still haven't heard the new Wintersun yet, we'll see if I get to it
I'm with you Marty, I really don't do anything overly technical or "out there", like to an extreme extent, something in a good portion of modern metal gets lost on me
I just want good memorable songs with some sort of metal emotion, be that Omen, Darkthrone, Nuclear Assault, or Autopsy!
If I want something technical I go for Queensryche or Fates Warning 😂
(Last year the version of Omen I saw at Hells Heroes was fantastic and at my age I couldn't ask for better)
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Love all the omen albums listen to omen escape to nowhere the more than the other albums. Awhile back found warning of danger vinyl for $50 in mint condition
Omen hammer damage is pretty good reopening the gates and eternal black dawn are runner ups
This is going to help me sleep as sound as a baby tonight