Omnium Gatherum [SEP] inception
Omnium Gatherum
Omnium Gatherum is a six-piece melodic death metal band from Finland, founded in the autumn of 1996. Although the band mainly follows the path of the melodic death metal genre, much of their work shows strong influences from progressive metal, especially their later albums.
Biography.
After releasing four demos, they were signed to Rage of Achilles, The debut full-length album "Spirits And August Light" was released in
April 2003 via Rage Of Achilles and gave the band some
attention
reviews, inked band to do long European tours with Nile/Grave in 2008 and Swallow The Sun/Insomnium in 2009 and even charting in Finnish official album chart to position No. 24.
In the summer of 2008 Bassist Eerik Purdon announced that he will be leaving Omnium Gatherum, and In 2009 Toni Mäki Officially joined Omnium Gatherum as their new Bassist.
In August 2010, Omnium Gatherum announced that they had inked a deal with Lifeforce Records for their next release, and that their longtime rhythm guitarist Harri Pikka