Thank you Conny Myrberg for this review of “Metallia” on Artrock.se.

Artrock.se is a Swedish webzine for artrock. They mention on their website:

Artrock is the collective name of several music styles. These music styles often get less space among press and record companies, but thanks to dedicated people in the music industry, associations and many networking sites, interest has increased in recent years. This page mainly emphasizes Swedish events in the so-called artrocken.

7/10 for “Metallia”

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Oh, too, Olivia Hadjiioannou is a young Greek artistic multi-artist with many lyric on her own. She just does not master various instruments, there is a lot to get for the interested. Previously heard beautiful musical creations from Olivia, not least with her song. Here, however, she chooses to present an EP in six parts and as the name suggests a conceptual album in the genre progressive metal but then without vocal texts. The concept might be best described by herself ?! (see video below).

Then some reflections to the music and red lion are a metal cone ala harder strokes. Bee-Spanish influences will later be completely taken over by industrial acts in the metal genre. Androgyny – Thoughts go to Kate Bush, fast here in a definitely tougher nature. Resurrection – dirty, heavy and why not a concept for a movie scene ?! Dragon’s Kiss – Vibbar we get from Peter Gabriel’s Africa beat that might also be an inspiration source? Triumph – Heavy progressive metal with a great attitude.

After some interrogations, Ep grows, which gives us music in a little different vintage, so for the curious, just release the handbrake and discover!

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Here’s what some early reviewers say about ‘Metallia’:

“If you put Kate Bush, Auf Der Maur, Ayreon, Chiasmata, Igorrr, old White Zombie and Amogh Symphony in a blender with several metronomes running different time signatures, add a healthy dash of thrash riffs to the proggy mix and baked the resulting mixture for several hours you probably wouldn’t even come close to the sound.” – Lee Davidson – Prog Metal Madness

‘Metallia’ is what it is, not music for fragile souls but an evanescent storm of instrumental music (the voice being used not for words, but as sound) that will suit the enthusiast of powerful, progressive and experimental music.” – Rinco Ennema ~ Rock Affairs

“Do you get bored quickly by the standard prog metal music offer? that will not happen to you with ‘Metallia’! – Herman Beunk – Xymphonia

“Oh wow! What the bloody hell’s going on here then? Freshness. Uniqueness. Boldness. An outlier! Call it what you like, but this is anything but your typical run of the mill, bog standard, meat and potatoes, vanilla-like metal.” – K-MaNriffs- Blessed Altar Zine

“Chaos becomes order, the mind blowing ‘Metallia’ by Oh.  – Martin Hutchinson ~ Progradar

An interesting well thought out project from a talented-mult-instrumentalist ~ Geoff Penn ~Progplanet

“Cacophonous, complex, illustrative, dense, awash in radiance, terrifying, challenging- all of it driven by the taut, ferocious guitar work and instrumental mastery demonstrated by Ms. H. Waves of feminine choral sounds weave in and out of the tapestry, washes of intensity rarely relenting, leading me to recall why at one point in my younger days I was strongly drawn to consider using psychedelic drugs. Mind expansion, spirit expansion. Transcendence. Enlightenment. ~ Stephen Conrad – Progressive Rock Fanatics–Progarchives

After some interrogations the EP grows on you, which gives us music in a little different vintage, so for the curious, just release the handbrake and discover! ~ Conny Myrberg – Artrock.se

Metallia has already drawn the attention of progressive circles, but they have yet to analyze the enigmatic, versatile, bold, suspiciously attractive style of its music.This is one of those circumstances where you think you have heard something similar before, but you can not parallel it with something recognizable. Her material sounds “metallized”, adventurous, and has a cinematic affinity. Above all, however, the sound is disruptive,  the vocal injections arouse this impact. Clearly interesting, in a sense, it could be co-production of Shrapnel and 4AD. Check it out. ~ George Politopoulos – Flight of Pegasus

Olivia Hadjiioannou is always up for a surprise… After the quite heavy “Synemotion” album, she released a couple of distinctly art rock oriented singles. However, her latest EP is quite different from everything we have heard of her before: It’s a tour de force into high-grade prog metal realms with shredding guitars, sinister vocal layers, and unexpectedly transforming rhythm patterns. All music composed by Oh. All instruments played by Oh. An overwhelming one-woman show! Favorite track: Androgyny. ~ Sven B. Schreiber