Long before the age of hyper-digital processing, bands submitted their works through raw, unrefined, and ugly portrayals that allowed fans to truly grasp the entirety of their sound without pretense or disillusion. New England black metallers Ungoliant bring back those aspects to permeate their crushing raw sound throughout an over-the-top display that sounds as if it were recorded in the basement studio of hell itself.
There is nothing melodic or drawn out about anything this band puts out, rather every composition therein hammers down around a clear and concise assault that punishes throughout every subsequent second of this nearly 20 minute offering. Littered with unruly down and dirty scathing blast beats, dread screeching, and added funeral ambience that encompasses an atmosphere of swirling dispair that is without limits or boundaries. From start to finish the album grabs you by the face, spits in it, and drags you down to the ground with an unrelentingly filth ridden blackened wave that crashes down at random leaving no room for reprieve. Reminiscent of early Dark Funeral, Hellhammer, or Blasphemy, Ungoliant revitalize the true ugly nature of black metal and unleash it upon the hapless ears of unsuspecting mankind.
In short, Ungoliant offer up an absolutely brilliant display of raw, unrefined filth that has to be heard to be believed. The band’s unrelenting attack encapsulates a sound made entirely whole by crashing waves of blackened filth that is incomparable to anything I’ve heard since the early 90s and is not one to be missed. The casette is out now via Unseen Force.
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