### Ufomammut: Idolum

#### 19/06/08 || Kampfar

Have you ever looked up at the clear blue sky, blinded by the light, and wished upon aliens, a meteor even, to come/crash down and annihilate us all? I certainly have, and will continue to do so, that until the day Ebola mutates into spreading by winds, birds, you name it. Now that would be the day of fucking fun. Hah!

Ufomammut is not a funny lot, not many Italians are, but I do understand if their moniker has you thinking they at least try to be. Not so, Chlamydia cunt. This band is heavier than thou and it wants you dead, grim and rotten, not alive, well and laughing. Hell, I sure know how to exaggerate, but entirely off the mark I ain’t. What I’m trying to say here is that “Idolum” invites more, much more, to a session on the couch, than, say a jolly trampoline extravaganza.

This couch-ride sports a fantastic buzz, loud, warm and fuzzy it is, guitar and bass forming a unity, together churning out excellent, slow and heavy riffs whenever the occasion calls for it. It is nothing new this, older than my jokes even – the idea of guitar and bass being sort of a Siamese twin, that is – but I dare say the Italian Mammoths have etched a trademark into their buzz by now. Excellent, and the same goes for the subtle and tasty fx. Without it, the band would probably have been named Mammut. Hope you get the drift, cancerface.

The instruments are king on “Idolum”, but the vocals are, even though mixed low and not exactly all over the place, a vital member of this here saucer crew. It would fly less steady, if at all, without them. Same as the fx. What you get, vocal-wise, is screams tinged with a sort of lost and desperate quality, almost as the guy(s), here is backing vocals, was sucked into a black hole while performing, fucking stoned all the way through. On “Ammonia”, however, a woman takes charge, delivering an angelic approach always in touch with the song, never once cheesy or fucking fake. Her name I do not know, so I’ll simply, well hardly, call her Antithesis T. O. Tarja.

You must give “Idolum” a go if you are a ‘ho for sludge, stoner and doom. I’m sure its slow, droning nature won’t scare you off if so is the case.

Fuck off nonetheless.

8,5 could have been 9 out of 10.

- Information
- Released: 2008
- Label: Supernatural Cat Records
- Website: www.ufomammut.com
- Band
- Urlo: vocals, bass
- Poia: guitar
- Vita: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. Stigma
- 02. Stardog
- 03. Hellectric
- 04. Ammonia
- 05. Nero
- 06. Destroyer
- 07. Void/Elephantom