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Omen Code unveils first single from "Alpha State" debut album to be released on December 5th, via Dependent Records!

Omen Code strike hard with their debut single “Brutal + Pure”, taken from the forthcoming album "Alpha State". Kevin Gould himself admits, “This is probably my favourite track on ‘Alpha State’… many of my favourite elements come together.” "Brutal + Pure" is filled and brings a meaty mid-tempo pace, mechanical but strangely human, as well, designed to make mind and body move. From the first note, there’s a bleak, cold precision that points at the best of mid-tempo Front Line Assembly. But alongside this grit, Omen Code deliver a cinematic storytelling quality, creating references to John Carpenter’s dystopian electronics.

The chorus impacts as a solid wall of sound, swallowing the listener in its blackness. Agi Taralas’s voice pushes through the mix, and in the final verse there’s that desperate, almost pleading tone Gould points to, “Do you hear it, too?”. It’s that seductive frailty inside the machinery that makes “Brutal + Pure” echoes so deeply. "Brutal + Pure" feels like a manifesto for Alpha State, proof that Omen Code’s vision is both rooted in the classics and restless for the future. As the duo write, “With their debut album Alpha State, Omen Code deliver the sound of the future – and the future is grim and dark!”

Yet within this darkness, there’s movement, there’s rhythm, music “constructed to fill the dance floor” while evoking visions of decline. The sound is deep, dark, and gritty, sculpted to deliver the atmosphere of a dystopian future ruled by technology.
This is industrial music at its most immersive, built with discipline but bleeding emotion through every line. “Brutal + Pure” is an omen, a warning, and a promise of what "Alpha State" will unleash. The future arrives December 5th, and it already sounds brutal and pure.

Find "Alpha State" pre-sale here: https://spkr.store/collections/omen-code

OMEN CODE were originally intended as a one-time project by Kevin Gould. The engineer, programmer, and lyricist was a member of the English Industrial EBM trio JOHNSON ENGINEERING CO. together with Sean Bailey and Ian Hicks, which released the album "Unleash" in 1988. He went on to found the electro-industrial act ELECTRO ASSASSIN with Ian Taylor. Following the release of "Jamming the Voice of the Universe" (1992), Taylor was replaced by Richard McKinlay with whom the next albums "Bioculture" (1993) and "The Divine Invasion" (1995) were recorded.

When vocalist and lyricist Agi Taralas was hand-picked from a stack of applications for the frontman position, the chemistry between the two artists proved so productive and strong that Gould and Taralas decided together to turn OMEN CODE into a permanent project that would also aim to perform live. The vocalist had already left his mark on the scene in a joint project with German electronic musician Stefan Böhm under the moniker OUR BANSHEE that released an album entitled "4200" in 2017.

Line-up
Kevin Gould – engineer, programming, track construction, lyrics 
Agi Taralas – vocals, lyrics

Recorded & engineered by Omen Code at Trauma Lab., London (UK)
Mixed by Kevin Gould at Trauma Lab., London (UK)
Mastering by Kev Gould at Trauma Lab., London (UK)

Artwork & layout by Nico Janse van Rensburg, SF & Sinan Jafan

"Alpha Sect" tracklist:

1. Isolate
2. Deform
3. Dead Zone
4. Ultra Fear
5. Apartment 213
6. Submerge
7. Tensor
8. Atrophy
9. Incubate
10. Contagion
11. Paralyze
12. Brutal + Pure

Info:

https://www.facebook.com/omencodeofficial

https://www.instagram.com/omen_code

https://omencode.bandcamp.com/album/alpha-state

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