omenist – occurian (2026) – Album Review

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James Krustofski
May 16, 2026
6 minutes read

Album: omenist

Artist: occurian

Release Date: May 16, 2026

Dan is a complicated human. Who is Dan? Dan is occurian. I have had may conversations with occurian over the past year. From mutual health dooming, to building a recurring Wesley Snipes discourse that, by now, probably deserves its own sidebar. We’ve also drifted into moments of pure conversational derangement, including his attempt to convince me that every artist who played the last Modbang show was, in fact, Enzo Caselnova in disguise. But when I turn on omenist and listen to it, it’s dark, tightly wound album that’s emotional center sits directly in the muck of dread. So when I say Dan’s a complicated human, you’ll understand what I mean.

Knowing occurian personally, you can hear the humor, the anxiety, the technical curiosity, and the strange lateral thinking of the person who made it – all compressed into a tight yet somehow sprawling structure. I think what I like the most about this is that it was worth the wait. I’ve been bugging occurian about this album for quite a long time and, honestly, it was worth the wait. It has corridors. It has little flashes of absurdity tucked inside the darker machinery. The music feels tended to, considered – and the sad yearning vocalizations that bathe in the background along with the mighty chords of doom have been absolutely stress-tested. A lot of dark electronic music can start to feel like an exercise in “how far can I go” or even “my life is this fucked up according to the number of break variations in this 3 minute track.” It can be all gloom and machinery with no recognizable human behind the music. Knowing occurian, this is him in record form.

It can be funny in strange little flashes, technically curious, definitely emotionally unsettled but fully committed to its own logic. I love this album. It’s too fucking short, though. There are some wonderful remixes on this records as well by Maximum Strength (this one is an amalgamation of the all the tracks on the album), Spednar, Blaix and Production Unit Xero.

Also, don’t forget to check out occurian’s album release party at Cyberpunk Disko XIII tonight (well, tonight meaning when this article was published, try not to go if you read this any other day than today) hosted by Heterodox Records.