Ufomammut
Eve
Supernatural Cat
Ufomammut’s fifth album, Eve, is one chilling 45 minute possession separated into five movements, and its affection is wholly and shamelessly UNGODLY. When the music isn’t whispering to you in forked tongues and taunting you with an unnerving drone, it’s driving the heavy, black riff of DOOM right through your frayed soul. It’s a hellish soundscape of caverns and creatures in cloaks, punctuated by crimson spasms of cosmic catastrophe. What I’m getting at here is that this album is the aural equivalent of what would be going through your mind if you sliced open your inner thigh and watched the blood slowly drain out of your body until the darkness enveloped you, and should finally earn these evil Italians their own spot in the amp-worshiping cabal alongside monolithic motherfuckers like OM, Sunn O))), Earth, Boris, and the rest. Unkind stuff, man.
Listen to “Eve Pt. IV” from Eve!
Posted by Jeff on May 22 2010 in Rock n' Roll
Tags: amp, black, blood, Boris, cabal, Catastrophe, cavern, chilling, cloak, cosmic, creature, crimson, darkness, doom, drone, Earth, Eve, Eve Pt. IV, evil, heavy, hell, Italian, monolithic, Om, possession, riff, soul, Sunn O))), Supernatural Cat, Ufomammut, ungodly, worship
I realize there’s still over a month to go in 2009, but hardly anything good ever comes out in December. The rock n’ roll release season always seems to peak in October and after that it’s a slow slide into a new year and, hopefully, new good music. So I like to get a jump on my end of the year list in the hopes that it will provide you with some killer bands and albums to catch up with before the year is out. It also gives me a chance to try and remember all the new shit I heard over the last 11 months. That’s not an easy task. In fact, some of this stuff may not even be from 2009, but so it goes.
As with all best-of lists, this one has its disclaimers. The big one here is that this list includes only the albums I listened to, so if I didn’t include Slayer’s new album or Immortal’s new album it’s because I haven’t heard them…yet. So don’t get your panties in a knot if there are some glaring omissions. And, of course, this list is exclusive to the music I listen to; it’s my favourites for the year…and hopefully some of yours.
Oh, and why 39? Because it’s one better than 40. If 666 is the number of the beast, think of 39 as the number of the beard.
All right, enough screwing around. Let’s get to it…
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Posted by Jeff on Nov 24 2009 in Rock n' Roll
Tags: 2009, 3 Inches of Blood, album, band, Catastrophe, Chutzpah!, Dos, Here Waits Thy Doom, list, Loose Lips, Motorbike, Riverboat Gamblers, rock n' roll, The Last Vegas, The Wildhearts, top 39, Underneath the Owl, Whatever Gets You Off, Wooden Shjips
