Úlfarr deliver their uncompromising debut album via Purity Through Fire, time to get stuck into some traditional Black Metal excellency. Set for release on October 31st.
Needing no introduction, a blisteringly icy barrage of guitars, blasting drums and grim, frost-bitten vocals fire away and unleash a beastly array of pure classic Black Metal. Violently rupturing through traditional soundscapes with fierce musicianship, there is certainly a chaotic spirit found within this music that conjures all things extreme in a manner most nostalgic and captivatingly harsh with a raw production style that is a necessity for this type of material. For those who are unfamiliar with this project, you can be assured that there is no wasted time, this is straight to the point Black Metal devastation with piercing atmospherics, primitive grooves and a generally skull-pounding performance that draws influence from a mixture of early Gorgoroth, Carpathian Forest and many other Norwegian classics, delivering a fitting tribute to the 90s while being a respectable piece of art in its own right. If you prefer Black Metal without any bells and whistles, just grotesquely intense and cold, then this will be exactly what you seek from music. There is a gorgeously familiar static to the vocals akin to Thy Dying Light, which of course makes perfect sense, but this project has a much more Black ‘n’ Roll pacing to many of the sections which is certainly headbanger-friendly and gives some nice breaks between the ravaging cascades of tremolo picked riffs, blastbeats and haunting howls. Short but incredibly mighty, the debut album of Úlfarr is some incredible stuff that really seems to be the pinnacle of their previous material summed up gloriously, delivering a complete and obliterating package of true Black Metal majesty, the old school and punishingly vicious way. -8/10
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