Oreyeon – The Grotesque Within

 

 

Oreyeon – The Grotesque Within
Heavy Psych Sounds – 2026
Rock, Stoner, Sludge, Grunge, Doom, Metal
Rated: *****

That opening salvo, after the casssette tape has started the opening track Echoes Of Old Nightmares, turning their grungy doom sound into sludgy lift-off will surely turn all heads and get all heads a nodding. Majestic is definitely applicable to the new Oreyeon album The Grotesque Within. The Italian foursome deliver this album four years after the stunning Equations of The Useless and three years after the two track Doom Session Vol.8. And it can be viewed as their fourth full-size since the first Builders Of Cosmos album that arrived in 2016. That’s ten years ago, a landmark… And so is The Grotesque Within! 

The Grotesque Within unfolds like a dim corridor with no visible end, each riff a flicker of failing light each drum sound burrowing down as if the corridor gets smaller and smaller. Self-produced, half recorded in their very own studio and the other half in Outside Inside Studio in Treviso, during the winter of 2025, the album trades some of the band’s cosmic sprawl for a more earthbound, sludge toned, grunge streaked weight and crawl. Inspired by the existential unease of Thomas Ligotti works, the songs accept all the horrors we face, feel and commit with a mass of tones and drifting vocals. 

It’s the monolithic doom riffs, looming like unseen structures in the dark that commend the nod first place. But then the vocals start to weave and whisk you away, throttling along the psychedelic textures that meander and shake like uneasy dreams. Breathing shadows, the record seems patient in its delivery, preferring to put exclamation marks behind the nod and not the explosion. Creeping ever more oppressive towards the end of that corridor, meticulously, composed and in total acceptance of its inevitable descent. 

On some level Oreyeon has always been massive yet nuanced, brooding and gazing upon everything involved with life, but with The Grotesque Within they turn that quality into an overwhelming monster wave, the kind of tsunami that causes quiet euphoria. And that’s a quality little bands that call their own. Immerse yourself and swim with all tides of The Grotesque Within… 

(Written by JK)

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