For those unfamiliar with Ufomammut, they are an Italian trio who blend psychadelic rock elements with stoner doom and come out with a fattened, riff enriched ensemble that typically breaches the hour-mark on each full length.
But now on to Oro: Opus Primum, falling somewhere between Idolum and Eve, OOP pieces together the softer more atmospheric traces from Eve and smashes them head on with repetitive, wall shaking bass and guitar work that evokes a serious case of glacial headbanging. The best way to describe this release, along with almost every Ufomammut album is that it feels like you’re walking through an endless marsh knee deep in filthy and repugnant swamp mud.
The album starts off with Empireum, a nearly 14 minutes track, much like the introduction on Idolum, it starts out extremely, and I mean extremely slow, and builds up for over five minutes until it erupts into a colossal storm of doom. After a thorough trudging of the senses the track ends and on comes yet another amazing track, this time however much sludgier in appearance, and the faster riffs and arsenal of drumming just create the perfect bombastic stoner doom sound that Ufomammut have trademarked. The usual sampling and effects are thrown into OOP, giving a haunting feel to the backdrop of distortion and haze. By now your neck is most likely shredded to pieces, but it’s not done yet, for Infearnatural is here to completely liquefy your spinal column. Accompanied by a barrage of riffs, cavernous vocals throw you into an endless plunge into a canyon of dripping souls as they scream out for redemption, leaving you there helplessly at the mercy of the mighty Ufomammut. Ending on one of the heaviest crescendos of the album, Infearnatural calls it quits just in time for Magickon to remind you that OOP is not all noise and chaos, and for nearly 5 minutes the track acts as an interlude of sorts, shifting from soundscapes to samples to and eventually on effect drenched walls of instrumental riff wizardry. With the close of Magickon comes the final track of the release: Midomine. Starting off with a slowly progressive drum beat, Midomine starts off peaceful and serene, with drawn out vocals and electronics, phasing in and out and creating a real sense of flotation and anticipation. After a solid 2 minutes of this the track erupts into overdrive mode and just slams you repeatedly with riff after riff, hurling you into a a dazed frenzy, soaking up the backing screams that saturate the mammoth wall of doom crumbling down around you. At this point Midomine goes back and combines everything from the previous tracks into one massive aural assault, turning every possible level to 10 and just blowing the entirely studio to pieces.
Overall it’s a great album, Ufomammut fans will love this and those into stoner/doom should greatly appreciate this as well. Ufomammut prove that they have a working formula and are incapable of releasing a bad product, so fucking good.
SHIT RATING: GOOD
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