OMEGA "The Prophet" LP Metal Legions
A re-release of their 1985 lp only for the NWOBHM lovers. To be honest, it's
my first experience with them as I didn't know this band in the eighties.
Opener "The Dark" is a great piece with a threatening and doomy atmosphere.
"Shadows Of The Past", played epic and heavy, continues the dark mood. "The
Prophet" is a melancholy length song looking like a cross between doom and
progressive rock, and it works really good. If Side A is excellent, Side
B has not the same quality. We find the good with "Yesterday's Children",
a powerful piece riding the storm, and "The Child", a welcome return to progessive
epic heavy metal to finish the album. And we find the average with "Drive
Me Crazy", a very traditional british heavy/speed with the "come on girl
and love me because I rock" attitude, and "Day Tripper", a cover of the BEATLES
which helps in nothing, what a weak tune... But at the end, this is a quite
remarkable album, more in the epic progressive doom than in the usual NWOBHM,
and giving a real pleasure of listening when played in the stereo.
Patrick Lefevre
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