Omen
Warning Of Danger

Year:1985
Band: Omen

The vast majority of those who listen to metal don't even know what kind of music Omen makes. But some, fortunately, do. Omen plays heavy metal, hailing from California, and this is their second album from 1985. It's an album played with heart, with a passion that is hard to find nowadays. It's an immortal record for the genre that, along with works by Manilla Road and Cirith Ungol, has inspired hundreds of other bands. Works like these remain in history.

There are people who keep eternal albums like "Warning of Danger" tightly guarded because they are rare and because when you listen to the songs you feel something ancient, you feel the sweat and blood that this unknown band put into bringing out a record that sold very few copies. And it's precisely thanks to these records that one can appreciate metal: how many times have you heard disparagement of this music genre, often defined as trash or noise? But those who say this have never listened to albums like this one or like their first (Battle Cry, reviewed by me in 1984). I am an incurable lover of those ancient, lost sounds now traceable in very few metal albums. But I am sure that, like me, there are many other fans of "legendary" albums who, when listening to songs like those contained in this platter, experience feelings that are hard to describe.

The distant echoing of the guitar, Kimball's rough voice (RIP), the epic refrains. I cannot remain indifferent to a work like this. Because this is not just a simple music record: we are faced with true heavy metal, played with pride, with passion, but also with the awareness that few will buy this CD, and even fewer will appreciate it for what it is...And it's a shame that bands like this one, and many others, will never achieve the visibility they deserve, that their importance will not be recognized for what they have had and will have...

Maybe it's my age. Perhaps at 17, albums like these are more appreciated, albums that at my age I didn't fully experience. I love CDs like these, music like this. Every time I'm talking about music, the only name that comes up is Marco Carta, who is described to me as a monster, as someone today's youth should look up to for his radiance and his way of being.
Instead, for me, the one minute and fifty-two seconds of the instrumental "Premonition" were enough to keep believing that maybe it's just my age...

1-Warning of Danger (4:25)
2-March On (4:03)
3-Ruby Eyes (3:51)
4-Don't Fear the Night (5:04)
5-VBP (5:01)
6-Premonition (1:52)
7-Termination (3:34)
8-Make Me Your King (3:49)
9-Red Horizon (3:38)
10-Hell's Gate (5:38)