Omega Massif was a German post-metal band from Würzburg . The band was founded in 2005 moved with her debut published in 2007 ghost town the positive attention of critics to be followed in 2011 with Karpatia the second album. The band played exclusively instrumental music, thematically it related strongly to the mountains. The band was formed in 2005 by guitarist Andreas Schmitt Full and Michael Melchers. Boris Bilic and Christof Rath completed the band shortly afterwards as a drummer or bassist. The band self-released the demo recording cold and the following year the debut album Ghost Town at the record label Radar Swarm Records. Cold in 2008 was one of James Plotkin remastered version on vinyl again published . In the following period two appeared split publications with the likewise derived from Würzburg tape Mount Logan or tephra from Braunschweig. The second studio album Karpatia appeared after two years of studio work in 2011 at Denovali Records , which had been re-released in 2010 and cold ghost town.Omega Massif played among others as support to long distance calling , Wolves in the Throne Room and Baroness . In the years 2009 and 2010 were made ;festival appearances on the Doom Shall Rise in Göppingen , the Roadburn Festival in Tilburg and the Hellfest in Clisson . In August 2014 Omega Massif was for the Summer Breeze in Dinkelsbühl booked; However, the end of May, the band announced via their Facebook unfounded further resolution. The band played one for the post-metal typical blend of hardcore punk , doom metal , progressive rock and ambient . Other authors also heard elements of metalcore and post-rock . parallels were to Pelican , Isis and Year of No Light drawn. The band rewrote itself as a "heavyweight mountain doom" , Melcher looked addition of his guitar work Black Metal influenced . The second album, the band moved content both on Walter Benjamin as the documentary Carpathia by Andrzej Klamt and Ulrich Rydzewski . The compositions of Omega Massif, with the exception of a few choirs kept instrumental, as the band loud Schmittfull wanted to create moods to which no singing required. As atmospheric reference point here was the nature, especially in very frequently recurring motif of the mountains. Andreas Schmittfull said in an interview: "once you are at / on the mountain, you are in another world. [...] Our music describes this state. " The band made a point of their pieces to work together in the rehearsal room, mainly through joint jamming based on designs by Michael Melchers. Only critical transitions were doing worked very aware. The band was present at important result that it is not ironed out ", sanded and so long drowned with filters and triggers [is] until it has no soul. It has rough edges. "
