Years In Waste CD - Import

Omnium Gatherum's 2003 debut, Spirits and August Light, was promising enough that when their record company, Rage of Achilles, went belly up soon after its release, they were hastily handed a new contract by European powerhouse Nuclear Blast -- 'nuff said! However, what was obviously a golden opportunity to propel their career to the next level appears to have been squandered with a mini sophomore slump in 2005's Years in Waste. On the upside, Omnium Gatherum's mildly accessible death metal no longer reeks of In Flames and the excessive influence of other such Swedish metal bands; on the downside, their songwriting here isn't always as distinctive and immediate as on their first effort. Of course as is to be expected, opening salvos "The Fall Went ...