Heavy Music is Heavy - Ufomammut "Ecate"



It's hard to review an album by Ufomammut.  I mean I never pick up one of their releases expecting to be able to note the marked difference between it and any of the preceding records.  I am not sat here listening to "Ecate" expecting to have a moment when I blurt out loud "By Golly! That's a flute being played there!" or "By the beard of Zeus, that orchestral piece was magnificent!". Ufomammut aren't about that.  Put simply they are about heavy, psychedelic and drone infested music that delivers exactly what it says on the tin.

The class of Ufomammut is that despite the lack of variation across releases the quality control is amazing and (once again) their latest release is flawless.  It's six tracks that thunder through your very being into the pit of your soul like a machine and along the way is sufficient a sprinkling of psychedelia to provoke your spiritual glands aplenty.

If there is any band I would want to see live, Ufomammut top the list nowadays.  If they can recreate the sheer pounding rumble n roll of "Temple" or the sonic dreamscape of "Revelation" in a live environment then these truly are talented boys.

A fine balance of song lengths going from 3 to (near) 11 minutes seems to make things that more accessible as opposed to slab after slab of lengthy skull drilling monolithic riffage.

There's nothing wrong with sticking with what you know as long as you do what you do brilliantly who cares?

4/5    

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