If a three-part concept record feels like an ambitious rollout for a full-length debut, you’re right, it is. Roman post-metallers Otus issued 7.83Hz last year, digitally and as a gorgeously-packaged, limited run of CDs. On March 20, they’ll follow-through with a pressing via Argonauta Records, whose diverse roster only continues to expand at a rate with which it’s nigh on impossible to keep pace. 7.83Hz tops an unmanageable 77 minutes in its original form, and one doesn’t imagine it’s been pared down for this reissue, but as you can hear in the Bandcamp stream below, Otus have a lot of ground to cover in that time and, well, sometimes swallowing your listeners whole takes a while. Needless to say, much crushing ensues.

Info follows, culled from Argonauta and Otus‘ Bandcamp page:

Italian Doom Sludgers OTUS reveal cover artwork and first single from their forthcoming album.

Born in 2012, OTUS takes elements of post-metal/sludge bands as Isis and Cult of Luna, passing through the Black Sabbath’s doom up to the experimental music of Tool, Om and Sunn O))). The band enrich their sound playing ethnic instruments, building their own synthesizers, chanting mantras and taking particular care of their visual and symbolic identity, from poster art to visual projections.

7.83Hz is a concept album divided in 3 chapters and inspired by Timothy Leary’s quote: Turn on, Tune in, Drop Out.

This musical journey intends to be more empirical and scientific rather than religious/orthodox, showing a possible way to reach the “Doors of Perception”, to tune in with the Universe and finally to reach a lucid detachment.

The conscious “Emptiness” reached through spiritual practices such as meditation and recitation of mantra, takes shape in the 70 minutes of musical solutions contained in this record, reaching their fulcrum at the frequency of 7.83 HZ also known as “Buddha’s frequency”. Surprisingly, when analyzing the frequencies given in response by an electroencephalogram of a person in deep meditation (Alpha & Theta waves), it turns out the coincidence that the earth’s magnetic field happens to be also 7.83 HZ as discovered by the German physicist Winfried Otto Schumann.

If meditation is a way to tune in with what surrounds us, Schumann’s resonance frequency seems to emphasize this concept even more and make it concrete.

OTUS “7.83Hz” will be available in two editions: limited digipack CD with exstensive graphic and digisleeve CD. To be released by Argonauta Records and available from March 20th, 2017.

Preorders run here:
DIGICD LTD: http://bit.ly/2k71ueN
DIGISLEEVE CD: http://bit.ly/2k7Bpr2

TRACKLIST:
1. Avidya
2. Last of the Four
3. Echoes and Evocations
4. Phurba
5. Theta Synchrony
6. 7.83Hz
7. Black Lotus
8. Alpha Phase
9. Res Cogitans, Res Extensa

http://www.otusband.com
http://otus783.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/Otus7.83Hz
https://www.facebook.com/ArgonautaRecords
http://www.argonautarecords.com

Otus, 7.83 Hz (2016/2017)