| OM | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Negură Bunget |
| Cover: | Negura bunget om 2006.png |
| Recorded: | 2005–2006 |
| Studio: | Negură Music Studio |
| Length: | (Enucleation Records vinyl) |
| Producer: | Negură Bunget |
| Prev Title: | Inarborat Kosmos |
| Prev Year: | 2005 |
| Next Title: | Măiestrit |
| Next Year: | 2010 |
OM is a concept album by Negură Bunget, released on October 20, 2006, on the Code666 label. It was recorded in Negură Music Studio and produced, mixed and mastered by the band. A double LP of the album with a bonus track was released by Enucleation Records in 2008. Another double LP edition, remastered but without the bonus track, was released by Blood Music in 2014.
The album received wide critical acclaim from metal critics. Writing for AllMusic, Eduardo Rivadavia called OM the band's "opus" and cited its "breathtaking range and imagination", while Heathen Harvest's Conor Fynes said that the album "had one of the most original and otherworldly atmospheres ever committed to the black metal artform".[1]
MetalStorm stated, "OM is nothing short of a masterpiece...A divine album with a unique style and its own trademark, this album is one of 2006's best efforts".
Sputnikmusic's Dean J. Brown gave OM a perfect 5 "classic" rating and retrospectively noted the album's major impact, saying, "Cinematic in its orchestration and flawless in its execution, Negură Bunget’s OM, at the time of its release, tore apart the confines of what constituted black metal and re-imagined it in line with the band's own morbid visions; which were entirely unique to their Romanian surroundings...It’s a masterpiece of art, not just music". He went on to list in the album among the black metal genre's most important records: "When the annals of black metal are finally written - [it] will sit at the pantheon alongside classics such as Darkthrone's Transilvanian Hunger, Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas and Emperor's In the Nightside Eclipse".[2]