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Music Review: Opium Denn – ‘Demarkation’

Music Review: Opium Denn – ‘Demarkation’

Demarkation, Opium Denn’s debut (released October 23) is a concept album clocking in at a little over half an hour that is meant to “invoke the deepest parts of the soul.” Reminiscent at times of Pink Floyd, at others of Blue Oyster Cult, and at times bringing to mind Queensryche’s “Silent Lucidity” and Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”, the psychedelic progressive rock creates a framework…

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"Demarkation" by Opium Denn, Album Review

“Demarkation” by Opium Denn, Album Review

Demarkation is the debut release from Opium Denn. The album is a thirty-seven minute concept record that is supposed to expand your mind and “invoke the deepest parts of your soul.” There’s a version that uses Health-Science Enhanced Vibrations (HEV) to give the music an “other worldly” feeling and give the listener a sort of buzz, but that is not the version that Music Unlabeled reviewed. Even…

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Opium Denn's debut album, Demarkation, is brimming with ideas, but they aren't so fascinated by them that they feel the need to hit you too hard over the head. There's a lot going on, mostly spacey metallic low-end guitars with just the right subtle (and unsubtle) splashes of pianos, keyboards and strings that mingle to create a fascinating, dizzying array of sensations that you can map out an analyze. But along the combined effect is one that cuts deep with a sharp edge: and instead of being overwhelmed you are wrapped up safe inside the storm.

It's like how the Earth is always turning, both on its axis and around the sun: we can hardly perceive it, but we are moving at impossible speeds. The moments when you realize the technical wizardry and complex engineering of this album are like when you stop to consider that speed we are traveling at all the time. But for the most part it feels almost like guided meditation: like the guitars are there to help you trance out and reach an alternate state of mind. Call it meditation music for the enlightened headbanger.

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This new mysterious musician sent out an exciting debut album called ‘Demarkation’ check it out.