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Ufomammut - ORO: Opus Alter

Review by Nick Hagan

If Primum was the wild eyed stranger who coaxed you into the alley for a toke of his funny-looking cigarette, Alter is the point at which you realise you're smoking a neutron star.»

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as with all previous ufomammut albums, the concepts behind 'oro' are expansive and multi-faceted, mutating the italian palindrome which translates to "gold" with the latin translation of "i prey." oro explores the concept of knowledge and its power; the magical stream controlled by the human mind to gain control of every single particle of the world surrounding us. oro is the alchemical process to transform the human fears into pure essence; into gold. although oro's two chapters will be released months apart from each other, they must be considered as a single track in which the musical themes and the sounds appear and reappear, mutate and evolve, progressively culminating in the crushing final movement. oro is an alchemic laboratory in which substances are flowing, dividing and blending themselves in ten increments from the alembics and stills, culminating into the creation of gold.
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