Ofnus

We have a winner here. Valediction is a top tier black metal album. The album showcases strong songwriting, has plenty of variety and creative ideas, and demonstrates a firm understanding of how to effectively use black metal dynamics and mood-building techniques. With a wealth of charismatic presence and songs that are highly compelling, Ofnus have impressed.  Essential listening.
- Wonderbox Metal

OFNUS' "Valediction," is a fantastic album that balances all the against the grain elements of black metal with ideas that will appeal to people who normally avoid the genre.
- Metal Temple

Valediction is one of those rare albums that starts out being good and ends up getting better and better with each listen. There is a lot going on here and it’s a lot to take in on the first one or two times. Give it time, however, and the beauty will unfold. Ofnus has written a deeply melancholy record here and one of the better melodic black metal albums of the year that I can heartily recommend to fans of the genre.
- Sounds from the Dark Side

Ofnus play Cardiff in May, performing Valediction in full, they play Bloodstock festival for a second time in August, and they have released for me one of the best records so far this year. Be prepared!
- Musipedia Of Metal

Beautiful misery. Two words that don’t belong together, but two words that summarise this new Ofnus album, and the band itself. Wrapped within a black shroud, it might seem as though an album like this offers little more than extreme heaviness and wicked intensity, but it has deep and dark depths that create a more emotional experience. The more time spent in the company of Ofnus, the more music like this connects.
- GBHBL

Valediction is a long listen, and a deep one. Despite their touch for melody, it requires you to set aside time to listen and follows its ways. But when you do it glows with an eeerie internal light full or portents and the sound of harbingers. Wild, epic and beautifully focussed this is a glorious second album indeed.
- Walking The Liminal Space

Ofnus had no trouble convincing me with their first album, but Valediction does even better, offering us an entire universe of fascinating musical darkness. I sincerely hope that the band will soon be able to leave England to share this with us live.
- Actainfernalis

Immeasurably multi-dimensional while constantly pulling the listener into all sorts of different directions that have long defined the genre as a whole without a bit of compromising when it comes to the core themes of the sound, what Ofnus has put forth here should not be seen as anything short of genius from beginning to end. Time can only tell when a new name of atmospheric black metal is finally able to come around and deliver excellence the likes of which cannot be denied, and it’s throughout every gorgeously macabre minute of “Valediction” that we can bear witness to the rising of an act whose power we simply should not ignore.
- Headbanger Reviews

Go and drink its black again. The influences are obviously present but their integration is intelligent and the final result talented.
- LesEternels

Ofnus from Cardiff, Wales delivers with Valediction a very unique interpretation regarding the different phases of processing sadness. The naturally aspirated, very layered black metal that the gentlemen present is the ideal instrument for this.
- ZwareMetalen

It’s a truly mighty and crafted album. Ofnus are close to being that band that deserves headline slots, if only to allow them opportunity to deliver more than two of these lengthy pieces in a set. 
- MetalTalk

With Valediction, Ofnus deliver an impressive, detailed work that captivatingly sets the emotional journey through grief and acceptance to music. Anyone who feels at home in the soundscapes of Saor, Drudkh or Fuath should not miss this
- MedienKonverter

As these seven tracks show, Ofnus have practically mastered atmospheric/melodic black metal. Across these engrossing suites of grandiose heaviness, deep wells of feeling gradually reveal themselves
- ClashMusic