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By Pan Inentropy (Centipede Abyss)
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Five long years after the devastating debut EP Fera left an indelible scar on all who heard it, Italian entity ULTIO is back, spreading its cyclonic, ice-scorched branches into the world. Caustic and incessant, it is naturally ancient and primal… oh, sure, you will have junctures of imposing, almost saga-like epicness in there, but it ultimately remains a creation of intransigent extremity akin to a sub-zero battering ram.
The sound is simply borne down upon you, which is a tribute to its conclusively bleak and obtrusive essence. In defiance to this ugly belligerence, we are doused in light waves of dissonance, that never stray too far from the amalgamated flow of controlled chaos… giving the album a beautiful compositional feel. This could be a cold Antarctic snow-storm, made manifest in sound… a perilous and final obstacle, that is simply too strong to shrug off and too overwhelming to endure.
Maniacal shriekage, cold and uncompromising tones, unrelenting presence that is contrasted against horror inducing grandiose atmospherics… Ultio makes the listener aware… like a predator stalking its prey on the winter tundra.
Ultio is the one who knocks…
When asked to offer some descriptive or explanatory words regarding the maelstrom within, sole practitioner and mastermind Giorgio Barroccu intones:
“Cor for me is simply a black metal album. The black metal that I like – ferocious, evil, but not derivative or traditional. Black metal for me is individual and, in its musical form, trying to express one’s personality through the canons of a genre. With my band Derhead I have always tried to express my more rational and artistic side, so to speak, while Ultio is the antithesis of all this: instinct. Ultio for me means taking my music out of all rational patterns and being raw and instinctive. That’s exactly what my vision of black metal is.”
Releasing May 23rd via Brucia Records, Cor is simply astonishing. Listen in full above and pre-order on CD and digital from Bandcamp HERE. Hails.
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