UFOMammut

Eve

Supernatural Cat 2010

A gargantuan titan of psychedelic drone stumbles out of my speakers on the fifth album from this Italian juggernaut, UFOMammut.  It is considered a single track in 5 movements and I can attest it is one mindmelting journey.  Bizarre soundscapes flow out of the speakers as if they were communicating a spiritual message from alien gods in cold dead space.  The repetitive single note plinking that is overtaken by vocal chants on the first movement achieves a meditative drone effect.  Finally a fountain of thick, mountainous riffs obliterate the landscape with their weight as psychedelic accents flit and fly through the nooks and crannies.  Demented keys and ominous tones open the second movement as whispered voices serve to continue unsettling the listener.  The movement slowly builds into undulating riffs of cyclopean power and determination, like a leviathan rising steadily faster from the depths of the sea.  The third movement wastes no time unleashing the full, blunt force of its thunderous guitars and psychotic synths.  Screamed vocals help remove any remaining subtlety from the boiling mixture of charcoal and tar.  Movement 4 is an ambient rumble of guitars and bass, the streaking meteor of a waling guitar to pierce the void.  And finally, movement 5 lumbers like the footsteps of a mechanical beast, trudging towards oblivion, before collapsing into bizarre keys again.  Eve is the musical equivalent to the spiritual contemplation of the ashen remains of a cold, dead world.  Psychedelic flourishes twinkle in the deadness like twinkling stars in the night while the sun swallowing wolf roams the landscape.