The Burning Cold is the eighth full-length studio album of Finnish melodic death metal band Omnium Gatherum. It was released on August 31, 2018 via Century Media Records.[8] It is the band's first album Century Media, which released their previous albums in America, as their main label,[9] as well as their last first without longtime drummer Jarmo Pikka, who initially left temporarily for a paternity leave, but eventually, Pikka's departure was made permanent and fill-in drummer Tuomo Latvala was promoted to being a full-time member, though just for this album.[10]
Professional ratings| Review scores |
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| Source | Rating |
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| BraveWords | 8/10[5] |
| Metal Injection | 8/10[6] |
| Sonic Perspectives | 8.8/10[7] |
Vocalist Jukka Pelkonen explained in an interview about the writing process for the album, "It was kind of like a similar thing that has happened before with the previous albums. I think it's always like that when you write a new album, then we go on tour, then we have this feeling to record something new and then we start to think about the new riffs and stuff. Like, it was one and-a-half years ago, we started to have these ideas about 'The Burning Cold' and from that, it just went naturally, basically, with these paths, maybe in one-half and two years we have these new songs to record that would define OG in a new way, so we did it."[11] The band went on a European tour in November for the album, supported by Wolfheart and Nothgard.[12]
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| 1. | "The Burning" | 2:06 |
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| 2. | "Gods Go First" | 4:30 |
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| 3. | "Refining Fire" | 5:14 |
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| 4. | "Rest in Your Heart" | 4:52 |
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| 5. | "Over the Battlefield" | 4:21 |
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| 6. | "The Fearless Entity" | 4:43 |
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| 7. | "Be the Sky" | 4:49 |
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| 8. | "Driven by Conflict" | 3:57 |
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| 9. | "The Frontline" | 5:13 |
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| 10. | "Planet Scale" | 5:43 |
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| 11. | "Cold" | 5:49 |
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- Jukka Pelkonen – vocals
- Markus Vanhala – guitar
- Joonas "Jope" Koto – guitar, clean vocals
- Aapo Koivisto – keyboards
- Erkki Silvennoinen – bass
- Tuomo Latvala – drums
Production
- Produced by Markus Vanhala and Teemu Aalto
- Mixed and Mastered by Dan Swanö
- Artwork by Olli Lappalainen
