Album Review: Ulveblod – Omnia Mors Aequat (Consouling Sounds)

Since 2006, Vitriol and M. have been crafting their own, unique version of black metal as Nihill. Internationally recognised as one of the leading bands to combine old school influences with avant-garde experimentation and an almost infuriating, hypnotic repetition, regrettably with the passing of singer and founding member M., the cult of Nihill has come to a grinding halt.

Main guitarist and producer Vitriol has now created a new vessel for the void, called Ulveblod. The band is using some of the session musicians that played with Nihill, yet this new line up made it clear to have all last shreds of sanity and comprehension stripped away. Ulveblod is pure chaos, channelling an inner anger and a feeling of senselessness into their music. The band’s first album ‘Omnia Mors Aequat’ will be released (17th April 2020) simultaneously with their debut show on the acclaimed Roadburn Festival 2020, where it will be played integrally along with a tailor made video accompaniment that will also be executed live.

This is not an easy album to get along with at all and truth be told, it’s something that is clearly going to be at its best experienced as the band describes above. As a sole listening experience it is little more than a brutalising assault on the senses. A wailing and gnashing wall of noise that is the equivalent of the horror of hell.

The likes of Purified By Fire is the sound of buzzing flies over a pit of rotting corpses and In the Shadow of Sephirah Keter the sound of the hate that lives in all human hearts. Whereas Chaosophy is the most musically pleasing track of the bunch, the rhythm actually discernible and the beat listenable.

The layers of feedback, the wicked way in which Ulveblod spit their bile out, the unending war this group wage… Omnia Mors Aequat is not an easy album to get along with. However, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t appeal to some savage and bass instinct.

Ulveblod – Omnia Mors Aequat Full Track Listing:

1. Seven Heads and Ten Horns
2. Purified By Fire
3. In the Shadow of Sephirah Keter
4. Chaosophy
5. The Dying Wound of God

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