| 10.7.2008 OG ALBUM
RE-RELEASES ON DIGIPAK!
Metal
Mind Productions will be re-releasing OG's
Antti Filppu years a ka "Spirits And August Light/Steal The
Light ep" and "Years In Waste" albums on August 25th.
Both albums will remastered and released on digipak format including
bonus tracks, new liner notes by AF and extra photo footage.
6.7.2008 DARK RIVER FESTIVAL + FINNISH DATES ANNOUNCED / HAMBURG
DATE ADDED TO TOUR!
OG will be breaking the summer vacation silence and appear
at the mighty local and legendary DARK
RIVER FESTIVAL on the 8th of August, be there
& be sexual!
First autumn "Riding the Redshift in Finland 2008"
tourdates announced also on the live
section, more dates coming soon.
New date added also to the upcoming European tour with
Nile/Grave:
29.9. - Hamburg / Markthalle
18.6.2008 THE REDSHIFT ALBUM ARTWORK & TEASER ONLINE!
You can check out the coverartwork of "The Redshift"
album from here.
The coverart is again made by our grand old trusted man Olli Lappalainen
as all our previous artworx since the very first demo tape...
Mr. Lappalainen we salute u!
You can check out the first short "The Redshift"
album video trailer via
this link.
The exact release date will be announced soon, but it´ll
be near next September!
5.6.2008 BASISTI HAKUSESSA JÄLLEEN!
Ei jotain pahaa etteikö jotain huonoakin välillä
- OG hakee jälleen uutta basistia pikaisesti, kun taasen tipahti
basisti tienposkeen kyydistä!
OG:n neljäs albumi ilmestyy syksyllä ja edessä olisi
Euroopan rundia syys-lokakuulle, suomen keikkoja läjäpäin
ja levytystä… Uudelta basistilta haetaan suhteellisen
kovan soittotaidon lisäksi omistautumista, tinkimätöntä
työmoraalia, kovaa asennetta touhuun sekä rentoutta. Yhteydenotot
emaililla ogatherum@gmail.com
tahi kenkäpuhelimella 050-3477806. Kaikki yhteydenotot huomioidaan
eli rrrohkeutta kehiin kansalaiset!
5.6.2008 FUCK THE B-ASSPLAYERS! - OG LOOKING FOR A NEW BASSIST AGAIN!
Shit happens again and we found ourselves again losing
the bass player somewhere out in space. Eerik really surprised us
all and decided to left the band this soon. No drama, no fights,
no-thing, as we ain´t got a clue really whatta hell happened
here!
So - all the decent basstard candidates feel free to contact us
on this case (ogatherum@gmail.com)!
However, this won´t affect in any way to our autumn touring
and all the booked gigs and the european tour will be made &
played...
1.6.2008 "THE REDSHIFT" ALBUM READY - TRACKLISTING!
The new 4th OG album, titled "The Redshift",
is now ready´n´ willing and mixed´n´ mastered.
...And it´s rocking like never before!
We´re very satisfied and proud of this work and this
is a big leap to the next level!
"The Redshift" tracklisting:
1. Nail
2. A Shadowkey
3. Chameleon Skin
4. No Breaking Point
5. The Return
6. Shapes And Shades
7. The Redshifter
8. Greeneyes
9. The Second Flame
10. Song For December
11. Distant Light Highway
Here´s what the mixing/mastering wizard Dan The Man
Swanö himself said about this new album:
"I hate bands like Omnium Gatherum, they are so good
it pisses me off!!! Their fine blend of melody and aggression is
so good I actually thought about stealing the record and release
it as my own:) You won´t find a better album in years.
-Dan Swanö, Unisound Studio"
More info about the album & release date soon - Stay
tüned!
4.5.2008 MIXING MODE STARTED!
All the recordings of the new album are now done and the
stuff are in the hands of Dan Swanö at Unisound Studio in Sweden
at the moment as he "will tweak the living daylight of the
stuff and come up with the most powerful sound ever to grace a metal
band!"
The rough mix already sounded a classic, so we´ll
be sure that we are delivering the goods here with this album!
As you´ve might noticed we have put our energy with this album
to somewhere else than our beloved studio diary, haha! We´ll
see if that blog story continues ever or not...
4.5. NEW BOOKING AGENCY & MANAGEMENT IN FINLAND - SECRET
ENTERTAINMENT!
Secret Entertainment
and OG have started a co-operation. From now on Toni Peltola / Secret
Entertainment will handle our gig booking and management in Finland.
Check out the contact information here.
Finnish tour is being booked at the moment, so please contact
Toni if you wanna OG to play at your club and ask free dates!
4.5.2008 NEW ENDORSEMENTS - PEARL DRUMS / SANDBERG BASS
We´re honoured to welcome new endorsements to camp
OG! Jarmo is now endorsed by Pearl
Drums, thanks a lot to SMI
Music! Eerik is now endorsed by Sandberg
basses and got just a new axe from there.
15.4. OG SUPPORTING DARK TRANQUILLITY IN HELSINKI NEXT SUNDAY!
Quite last minute live news - Escape from the studio!
OG will be supporting our recent tour buddies Dark
Tranquillity at the famous Tavastia Club in Helsinki next sunday,
20th of April! Be there and you might hear some flashes of the new
material played there!
Distant early warning - OG showtime already 21.00!!
23.3. OG IN STUDIO RECORDING 4th ALBUM / STUDIO
DIARY
Drum recordings of the 4th OG album have started at Sound
Supreme Studios in Hämeenlinna, Finland with Janne Saksa. Next
weekend we´ll change the location to our local SouthEastSounds
studio to Karhula where we´ll be recording the rest of the
stuff with Teemu Aalto. The mixing and mastering of the album will
be happening in May at Örebro, Sweden in Unisound Studio by
Dan Swanö.
You can read the studio diary via this
link!
18.3. EUROPEAN TOUR WITH NILE, GRAVE & BELPHEGOR!
Omnium Gatherum have been confirmed to take part to the
last leg of the Ithyphallic Europe Tour in September / October 2008
with Nile, Grave
& Belphegor.
We´ll be doing the last leg of the tour and visit
UK, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Sweden, Norway & Denmark. Check
out the confirmed dates here.
We´ll be adding few shows more to the tour soon, so keep checking
the live section...
We have also uploaded some live / on the road photo footage
to our myspace site.
...And you can also finally read the last part of the UK-tour
diary from our blog.
We´ve been doing a lot of pre-production for the
coming 4th album during last few weeks, and the stuff is starting
to kick some serious ass & ear! The actual album recording session
will begin next sunday, at easter sunday, what could be more evil
metal date to start the studio sessions! It seems
that OG will be returning to more melodic approach on this album,
back to the glory days, hehe. But no worries, the stuff will still
be as heavy as a really heavy thing!
5.3. ENDORSEMENT WITH JACKSON USA!
Jackson guitars
USA office asked Markus to join their endorsed artist roster, so
beware, more new cool Jackson axes landing soon to camp OG!
2.3.2008 OG ALBUM and MARKUS SUCCEEDS IN METAL FROM FINLAND AWARDS
2007!!
We´re glad to inform that OG succeeded to top 10
in two categories at Metal
From Finland Awards 2007!!! "Stuck Here On Snakes Way"
was #10 on top 10 best Finnish albums of 2007, on the same list
with bands like HIM, Nightwish, Apocalyptica, Amorphis etc. Markus
was also voted to position #9 on top 10 best Finnish guitarist of
2007. Thanks for voting us, WE SALUTE YOU!!!
In a nutshell, "Snakes Way" album have rocked
us very nicely when checking happenings retrospectively;
OG visited official Finnish album chart at position 31., album got
a huge pile of great reviews all around the world, we did tours
abroad supporting Caliban and Dark Tranquillity, played german festival,
did a headlining tour in UK and toured with Entombed in Finland
and did loads of own gigs in Finland. So, it´s a good boogie
going on here when it´s time to head to the studio to record
the 4th effort!
15.2.2008 BACK IN FINLAND - THANKS UK & DT!
We´re successfully back in business in Finland from
the British Fiction Tour from the UK. The tour was a blast and we´d
like to thank our new pals from Dark
Tranquillity, their crew, personnel at all venues and of course,
the amazing audiences in UK. This tour was surely a really great
ride and we enjoyed every minute of that! We´re quite sure
that we´ll come back to UK this year. We´ll update the
tour blog as soon as we can... :) ...and include some photo footage
from the trip and gigs also. At this point you can enjoy the view
from the backstage door of the London Barfly gig - a
view to burning Camden during the OG and DT sets...
You can check two new interviews and read what´s happening
here at the moment; Scratch
The Surface and Live
For The Metal.
31.1.2008 TOURBLOG LAUNCHED!
We´ve opened a tour blog that you can view
here. Enjoy
the ride!
30.1.2008 UK TOUR INFO / OG IS THE
MAIN SUPPORT ACT
Evile have cancelled "The
Great British Fiction Tour" and this means that OG will
be the main support act and are playing just before Dark Tranquillity
- which means a little bit longer set list! Evile will be compensated
with local opening acts. See ya in UK!!
28.01.2008 4th ALBUM NEWS
OG will begin to record the
4th magnum opus extravaganza in March and this time the album will
be done in three different studios; recordings will be done at Sound
Supreme Studios by Janne Saksa and at SouthEastSounds by Teemu Aalto
and the mixing and mastering will be done at legendary Unisound
Studio at Örebro, Sweden by Dan
Swanö (Nightingale, ex-Edge Of Sanity, ex-Bloodbath etc.)
who´ve produced the albums for Opeth, Katatonia and Dissection
for example. So, we could say that we´re really enthusiastic
about this, surprise!
First time the album composing process have been really easy task
and this pure fresh spirit can really be heard from the songs. The
next level have been entered, so beware folks - autumn 2008 will
be time for THE OG INVASION!
28.01.2008 GET IN THE PIT TV - OG Interviews
Online
Finnish Get
In The Pit TV intervieved OG´s Aapo, Eerik & Markus.
There is two separate interviews featured; basic interview you can
find here,
and the GITP tv´s new feature, that was just invented during
OG interview - vitutuskorneri (artist pissed off-corner) featuring
Eerik, who tells what Finnish band pisses him off and why, you can
find this online here.
These interviews will also be broadcasted on the Finnish television
channel DIGGARI, date still
unknown...
28.01.2008 THE x-files of ANTTI FILPPU
Antti Filppu, the ex-singer of OG,
has posted some old Omnium Gatherum lyrics and his commentaries
about them to this
location. Go check ´em out, there´s stuff´n´stories
from OG´s past albums and album demos (the mighty woodbine
garden sessions ´04 & ´06).
27.12.2007
INTERVIEW at SUBTV / RAUTARYHMÄ
Jukka
& Markus will be guests on Finnish SUBTV´s Rautaryhmä
airing Tuesday 8.1. at 00:45 o´clock.
17.12.2007 UK-TOUR IN FEBRUARY WITH DARK TRANQUILLITY!!!
We´re
extremely proud to announce that OG will be touring UK again in
February 2008 and join the "Great British Fiction Tour"
trek with the swedish metal masters DARK
TRANQUILLITY and British thrashers EVILE.
View the tour poster here!
17.12.2007 VOTE OG at FMA2007 and METAL FROM FINLAND AWARDS 2007!!
Please
support OG crew and vote the band and "Stuck Here On Snakes
Way" album at two Finnish polls;
-Finnish Metal Awards
FMA2007
-Metal From Finland Awards
2007:

17.10.2007
PROCESSING THE NEW ALBUM!
We have also started to breed
new OG material in the home studios and in the new rehearsal place
and so far there´s about 5+ song skeletons ready and willing!. ...And
yeah, of course it´s the best material we´ve ever...blaah blaah...That´s
for sure! The fourth album is being planned to record at late spring
´08 or somewhere near there and it´ll be released via CANDLELIGHT
RECORDS. More infos coming soon!
16.10.2007 EXIT JANNE - ENTER EERIK!
We´re sad to inform that our long-time bass player for 10 years
Janne Markkanen has decided to step aside from OG crew due to his
lack of time and motivation for this type of music. There´s none
bad blood between us and of course we wish him best of luck for
whatever he is doing from now on.
Good news are that we have new fresh motivated blood in the crew
as EERIK PURDON is our new bassist from now on and he´ll be looking
after to create some demonic bottom pulse and groove to our noise.
Eerik have been our good friend for some time and he also helped
us and played bass on OG´s Summer Blast Fest Spain / Portugal –tour
in June 2007 when Janne was unavailable to do the shows and the
dude really showed his infernal talents and OG attitude there! Eerik
also plays in Crystal Blaze and he was acting session bassist in
Amoral for their latest Finnish shows.
Janne's statement: "Thanks to everybody, OG-dudes, other bands and
fans for great times during these years. I really felt that it was
time for me to step aside, and let someone with more enthusiasm
to take my place. Eerik is a real bad-ass player and great dude,
so be prepared for some major ass-kicking OG material!"
06.09.2007
Pic of
the month updated, groovy!
14.08.2007 ENTOMBED TOUR AND NEW MANITOU RECORD
OG will be touring with the
mighty Entombed
in their Finnish Tour. Check our live section for dates.
Manitou has released their third album "No Signs of Wisdom". Heavy
metal the way it should be! Check out their website
and myspace.
23.07.2007
Slow down and take a
look... of our new Picture of the Month
-section!
29.06.2007 NEW SONG IN MYSPACE
A song called Undertaker from our latest album "Stuck Here On Snake's
Way" is now in our myspace.
Check it out!
22.06.2007 NEW LIVE DATES
Some dates added to our live
section. We wish you also great summer solstice parties, don't drown...
04.06.2007 OG PLAYED ON BRUCE DICKINSON'S BBC RADIOSHOW
OG song "A-Part of God" was played by Bruce Dickinson on his BBC
radioshow.
Here´s the playlist of the evening
21.5.2007 TOUR DATES UPDATED
All the tour dates and venues
have been announced, check out live section
for more details.
Some of you might have seen our video "Into Sea" in Headbanger's
Ball. Thanks for wishing it!
18.5.2007 VAASA SHOW CANCELLED
Today's Vaasa gig is
cancelled, sorry! Maybe some other time...
15.05.2007 OG TO TOUR SPAIN AND PORTUGAL!
OG will join the SUMMER BLAST
FEST iberian tour in June with Caliban, Painstruck and guests. SUMMER
BLAST FEST is rolling over Spain and Portugal. Check out the live
section for dates and venues.
New t-shirts and hoodies are
also available! Check out our merchandise section! You can order
also straight from Plastichead
11.04.2007
NEW ALBUM HITS THE ALBUM CHART
Stuck Here on Snakes Way
is #31 on the Finnish album
chart.
04.04.2007 STUCK HERE ON SNAKES WAY RELEASED
New Omnium Gatherum album released.
Order your own copy from Levykauppa
X or Plastichead.
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