ViaOmega - Magazine with Soul, Spirit, and Vision.

The Independent Underground Magazine of the Timeless Resources of Music, Art, and Culture. EST. MMXVI

To submit a review, release, and related to music and arts articles, please fill out the contact form

BVDK - stream "Architecture Of Future Tribes"

06/21/2017

«Architecture Of Future Tribes» is a mix of black metal, electronic beats, psychedelic synths & ethnic atmospheres. You can see this album as something influenced by Dead Can Dance, Femi Kuti, Deafheaven, Alcest, Crystal Castles and Aborym. The album was recorded by Benjamin Marchal, known for his work with Deluge, Night, D.C.A and other French bands. The lyrics – singed in French – talks about African and Haitian voodoo, animist cults and personal experiences. track list: 1. Snatcher 2.
ATRIARCH Announces Forthcoming Album Dead As Truth; New Song Streaming

06/21/2017

Ritualistic, apocalyptic noisemakers, ATRIARCH, are back with their fourth offering of mind-altering, doom-soaked, deathrock entitled Dead As Truth. Recorded and mixed by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios (Om, Graves At Sea, Vhol) and featuring artwork by Stevie Floyd (Yob, Dark Castle), Dead As Truth sees ATRIARCH venture deeper into the blackened abyss with haunting incantations, exotic drones, and crushing aural experimentations that boldly embrace death's cold heart. Fragments of
Rotting Christ - 10th album now on preorders

06/20/2017

On ROTTING CHRIST’s 10th studio album, “Theogonia”, the Greek Black Metal Gods return faithful to their ancient blackened-gothic style while materializing as a faster, more aggressive entity. The established melodies of the past are indeed alive but this apparition is cloaked with deeper atmospheric and epic elements as they recall the sordid history of their country land. Reissued finally with new artwork! pre-order HERE
BARDSPEC: - Enslaved's (and Skuggsja's) Ivar Bjørnson : Hydrogen Full-Length Ambient Project

06/20/2017

This is the post content This Friday marks the official release of Hydrogen, the anticipated debut from BARDSPEC. A stunning fusion of stirring, hallucinatory synth-sounds, mercurial guitar effects and hypnotic rhythms that navigate illusory landscapes, BARDSPEC features Enslaved's Ivar Bjørnson and Today Is The Day's Steve Austin. In advance of its release, today Revolver is streaming the record in full at THIS LOCATION. Hydrogen will be released on June 23rd across all formats. The
Darkadya Alumni Reflections

06/08/2017

"I believe there is a natural curiosity about death embedded in our human nature. Shifting our focus to subject matters that are often ignored by society and bringing them to the surface force us to acknowledge the inevitable." Mark Riddick - also a cover of issue #5 of ViaOmega There is a very strong link between Metal music and the image it conveys. As if they were bonded by blood! Even before you hear the music, a band's artwork is obviously what first strikes you and it can often act as
Gathering of Shadows

06/08/2017

ViaOmega in total support for Gathering of Shadows. Let’s start with the fact that this event did NOT allow anymore attendants as the list was full way in advance, so no, you couldn't get in if you have not reserved your spot early. You would not find any tickets, you would not get through second-hand reservations. This is something you have to be prepared for way in advance. This event is free of charge (imagine that…) however (!) it does not mean it is free to enter. As we, in V.O., always
Mark Riddick - Morbid Visions - book review

06/08/2017

- Morbid Visions - book review Before we get to the artwork, let’s begin with the artist himself … Mark Riddick, with his legend title claimed without any further waiting to be recognized post his death, a man that in such young age became THE most wanted artist of all time, and also … a man with the biggest, most genuine heart, and selfless personality that inspires not only all other artists, but also all human beings to step their game up as who they are inside. Riddick is not only
A subjective look at Satanism verses pseudo-Satanism, through the lenses of Myth.

06/08/2017

Cosmology and Morals or the lack there of. written by Greg Layman (Teloch Vovin) This article is part of larger work of which I am currently writing, which in its original form was inspired by a fateful day (12/21/15) in which I had two conversations that sparked some intense introspection. The first one was with someone I am friendly with talking about our views on creation, life, and existence. This friend presented me with the idea of writing a sort of thesis on my Spiritual Philosophy