Consisting of Hungarian, Polish and Italian natives living in London, OBIAT takes a non-regional approach to metal on Eye Tree Pi, freely and convincingly mixing NWOBHM epic melody, U.K. progressive rock sweep, European folk metal cadences and American stoner metal riffola into a flowing river of atmospheric crunch. Songs like “NoMan NoMind,” “Poison Thy Honey” and the massive epic “Serpent’s Rites” move from gentle breezes to raging storms and back, always with the same organic swirl as the wind itself – nothing here sounds like spare parts stitched together by a mad scientist. Frontperson LAZ soars above it all, crooning one minute, howling the next, riding the shifting dynamics like Thor would a lightning bolt. Eye Tree Pi is an impressive, creative alternative to the alternatives in underground hard rock.
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