FENICE

What a fruitful sound combination. Their sound combination of metallic heaviness, spacey psychedelia, lyrical quietness, and dissonant bitterness, should be incredibly balanced as well. We UFOMAMMUT fans had been looking forward to the release of "Fenice" that finally came in May. This brilliant souvenir will encourage us, who have been getting disappointed and depressed by such a terrible pandemic situation. The sleeve pic is drastically psycho- hysterical and bombastically extraordinary but at the same time appeals to us energetically. The content is deep, sticky, kinky and thrashing, but simultaneously has such a potential to empower and stimulate us.

Their massive tension explodes from the beginning of the first shot "Duat" - infernal electro-attacks via Urlo's synthesizer should be crucial. Cracked psychopathic stoner space passages in the middle part are also comfortable, as if they might look through our brain perfectly. We cannot feel long nor lengthy regardless of the longest stuff in the album. First of all a magnificent booster shot. "Kepherer", one of the shortest tracks, is kinda heterogeneity in this creation. Surrealistic ambience plus sophisticated inorganic electronica takes us into mystic meditation. But we have no time to stabilize ourselves, of course. The third "Psychostasia", one of my favourite tracks, involves tranquil spacey vibes and profound psychedelic darkness. Why can we avoid mentioning this as such another-dimensional beauty? The latter uptempo heavy garage-y movements with dramatic sound distortion completely shake our inner mind up.

Enjoy another meditative fantasy "Metamorphoenix", where we could be surprised and shocked at their weird calmness and unstable stability. This kind of drone should be good for us to take a rest, but this moment full of distortion beneath the soundscape gives us another palpitation. The following "Pyramind" can be called as a matured mixture of quirkiness, quietness, darkness, politeness ... especially in the latter phase. Quite heavy and painful but dramatic and enthusiastic, as well as the former loudly explosive dissonance, isn't it? The last run "Empyros" is the gold standard of their extreme mindset. All of their positive sound appearance can be launched only for two and half minutes. It's wonderful that the cool and impressive aftertaste be left behind us. We will be happy to get such a fascinating creativity and mysterious melodic and rhythmic hybridization.