Otesanek rings in like a vicious marriage of Khanate and Unearthly Trance. Sparse guitars toll emptily in the distance, swelling to a massive din akin to pendulums the size of ocean liners made of granite and steel crashing together in slow tidelike rhythms, while the pounding percussion fills in the gaps between collisions. This is good shit. If you, like me, enjoy exploring the more bleak and extreme territories covered by the all encroaching ash of doom, then Otesanek deserves your immediate attention.

Otesanek's self-titled debut album is pounding, slow Khanate style dirge. The tempos are so slow that you seem to lose track of time listening to this disc. The two tracks that make up this monster are long and creeping. Picture a huge gargantuan slug sliming its way through a city, screaming and growling uncontrollably at everything in its way, stopping at intervals to rip a water tower apart and flooding the streets. I have no idea how its humanly possible to play something this plodding so tightly. You can set your watch to this band, if you had a timepiece made specifically to track the movement of continental drifts that is. Otesanek are a great counterpart to the monumental drone doom bands: Khanate, Burning Witch, Unearthly Trance, and Buried at Sea. This disc sounds great played loud and in its entirety.

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