The New Brunswick band Omnivide was formed in 2020 by the members of a previous Opeth tribute project called Sunbird. In beginning to write their own original music, they didn’t leave the influence of Opeth behind, but they did add to it, drawing as well from the sounds of such bands as Obscura, Alkaloid, and Devin Townsend.

Where this evolutionary journey has taken them so far is summed up in a debut album named A Tale of Fire that will be released on March 22nd. Conceptually, the songs were in different ways intended to explore the cycle of death, rebirth, and new growth, with the purging and reanimating effects of fire as the symbolic instrument of the universal cycle, and that cycle speaks through the music as well — as you will soon see.

What we have for you today is the premiere of a lyric video (made by Andy Pilkington) for one of the cuts off the new album, a song named “Cosmic Convergence“. Continue reading »