Akin to Earth's two-part Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light effort were all hope displaced by a vivifying sense of impending Armageddon, it's one to lodge an unflappable faith in; to bow down before; to lose mortal sanity to. The aforementioned Empireum extends out over fourteen exhausting minutes as Vita's insistent tom thuddery converses with extraterrestrial signals cloaked in thick static, bursts of devastating guitar, eerie synths. Pioneering in both approach and aesthetic, it's these underlying processed tones that differentiate Ufomammut from others experimenting with the more metallic elements of the infinitely expansive periodic table of music and indeed there's an almost scientific precision to much of Opus Primum: from the harsh yet unhurried crescendoing of Aureum to the sludgy drones of Infearnatural, the record is endowed with an outward appearance that's calculated if categorically ne'er calm. And as the crashing punch-like rolls of Mindomine lay this first instalment to rest you could quite cogently be left 'praying' for Opus Alter and its September release date to hasten up.
Santo Dio. Ufomammut. ORO: Opus Primum.
Akin to Earth's two-part Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light effort were all hope displaced by a vivifying sense of impending Armageddon, it's one to lodge an unflappable faith in; to bow down before; to lose mortal sanity to. The aforementioned Empireum extends out over fourteen exhausting minutes as Vita's insistent tom thuddery converses with extraterrestrial signals cloaked in thick static, bursts of devastating guitar, eerie synths. Pioneering in both approach and aesthetic, it's these underlying processed tones that differentiate Ufomammut from others experimenting with the more metallic elements of the infinitely expansive periodic table of music and indeed there's an almost scientific precision to much of Opus Primum: from the harsh yet unhurried crescendoing of Aureum to the sludgy drones of Infearnatural, the record is endowed with an outward appearance that's calculated if categorically ne'er calm. And as the crashing punch-like rolls of Mindomine lay this first instalment to rest you could quite cogently be left 'praying' for Opus Alter and its September release date to hasten up.