Oven Escape to Space with “Dark Matter” Video
As I type this, my laptop battery is dying all too quickly and the reason it matters — other than because said battery isn’t replaceable without opening the case of my computer — is because the power is out. North Jersey is getting hit by whatever tropical storm it is. It has a name, as they all do now that there’s marketing involved, but I can’t be bothered to take the time or the bandwidth to look it up. Sorry to whatever future archaeologist unearths the ruins of my laptop 1,000 years from now. You’ll have to do your own legwork.
Anyway, before the power to do so is gone, I wanted to put together this post for Oven‘s “Dark Matter” video. Clocked in at nine minutes, the track is the penultimate feature — really it’s the closer, but they finish with a cover of Nebula‘s “To the Center” — on the trio’s 2019 Couch Lock EP (review here), and if you heard that or you didn’t, I’m posting the video because Oven remind me of going to local shows and seeing cool regional bands who probably aren’t all that unknown beyond their locality, but maybe come through on a weekender or something like that. A band for whom playing a gig is something special, not just another stop on a tour. Dudes — and in this case, it is all dudes — with jobs and a “real life” outside of the creative endeavor. The things you take for granted until a pandemic makes you appreciate them.
Oven aren’t changing the world, or changing heavy rock, but their video has killer 4K space footage and what would appear to be common-use animations and rocket launch stuff, and there are some clips of them playing as well. I don’t know, maybe I’d see them in some small bar in Brooklyn, or be rewarded for showing up early at one of those 13-band days Maryland Doom Fest puts on that are likewise completely overwhelming and once-a-year glorious. What it comes down to either way: The EP was cool and the video is cool. Believe it or not, that’s actually enough for me.
Info follows the clip below, and the Bandcamp stream of Couch Lock is down there too. Enjoy:
Oven, “Dark Matter” official video
OVEN – DARK MATTER
OVEN’s official music video for the song, Dark Matter, from the album Couch Lock which released on 4/20/2019.
©2020 Hi Way Recordings
Produced by OVEN
Couch Lock recorded by James Patton at Evergreen Recorders in Mount Joy, PA. The album was mixed by OVEN and James Patton at Evergreen Recorders. Mastered by James Patton at Evergreen Recorders.
Couch Lock is the first release from OVEN, recorded during the year 2018. Recorded live with minimal overdubs with live mixing of tracks.
OVEN is:
Randy Siders – Bass/Vocals
Chris Paradise – Guitars
Robert Gallagher Jr – Drums/Vocals
