{"id":12798,"date":"2014-04-07T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=12798"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:51:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:51:51","slug":"content-needed-album-review-the-oath-the-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=12798","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: The Oath &#8211; The Oath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed-71.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12840\" alt=\"12inch_gatefold_v92012.indd\" src=\"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed-71-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The Oath \u2013 The Oath<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Release Date: April 15, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Oath is an occult metal band formed by the core unity of Swedish guitarist Linnea Olsson and German vocalist Johanna Sadonis and they are a band that I have been hearing things about in the underground scene for a month or so.\u00a0 When I ventured over to their Bandcamp page to listen to their single Night Child\/Black Rainbow, I was floored right away.\u00a0 It was everything I love about this kind of music: great rifftastic playing, warm analog, production and dreamy\/nightmarishly haunting songs.\u00a0 The only problem was that I wanted more.\u00a0 Well, my wish came true with the band\u2019s full length self-titled Rise Above Records debut.<\/p>\n<p>The Oath\u2019s debut album song for song is reminds me what I love about this kind of music.\u00a0 It was a dark, compelling, thought provoking, trippy, psychedelic journey that covers a lot of ground stylistically.\u00a0 The album opens with the stellar \u201cAll Must Die\u201d which has almost a Danzig kind of feel to it and the album just takes off from there.\u00a0 The re-worked version of \u201cNight Child\u201d which appeared on the bands 7\u201d captures a vibe that was somewhat missed on the initial release and very much could have been a song right off the grooves of Black Sabbath\u2019s Master of Reality album.\u00a0 Just when I thought I had kind of figured out The Oath along comes \u201cBlack Rainbow\u201d boasting a more punkish, Motorhead like vibe to it.\u00a0 Then all of the sudden you\u2019re ready for some more face melt and then you\u2019re hit with the sinister, hauntingly gorgeous acoustic instrumental \u201cIn Dream.\u201d\u00a0 This really threw me a curve ball and I loved that.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing cooler than a band making you think you\u2019ve got them figured out and then all of the sudden hitting you with something a bit different.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe style=\"border: 0; 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