UFOMAMMUT     

Oro - Opus Alter
Neurot Recordings 2012

The second in the dual release from Italy's astral doom droners UFOMAMMUT.  Totally expansive and simultaneously oppressive doom sludge.  Oroborus uncoils like Cthulu's tentacles slowly and thinly with ambient oscillations that rise into thick bass guitar which give way to monstrous riffs in a churning crescendo.  Like, black sludgy waves washing ashore, the riffs roll out and smother your speakers in undulating doom.  Muted and distorted vocal samples set the scene on Luxon.  A quickening step of guitar shuffles forward as the song gets underway before stumbling and the regaining its footing.  Massively ropey guitar and upward sweeping vocals take control of the composition before relinquishing control to the washed out riffs, gaining confidence and power.  Mesmerizing ambient guitar noise circles at a distance to start Sulphurdew.  The guitar makes its presence felt and the drums hammer into the framework of the song all the while sharp stabs of computerized synth slice through the wall of noise.  The rotating, stomping flow of the song around the 5 minute mark brings to mind witches dancing around a bonfire, but in depths of space.  And speaking of deep space, Sublime sounds like a transmission from the outer void.  Electronic voices warped and hissing cymbals wash over each other paving the way for ominously looming pillars of guitar that rise like hills on the horizon.  The riffs retreat and the distant, warped samples return, only this time they bring with them luminous synth.  UFOMAMMUT continue to entrance me with their brand of oppressive, deep space doom.  Oro - Opus Alter descends upon the listener like a nebulous cloud of dark matter, blotting out all light underneath its soot-choked riffs and suffocating songwriting.