Yudlugar
James from Yudlugar recently dropped us a line, letting us know about some black metal influenced breakcore and speedcore mix leading to a creation of a lot of noise – to see what we thought. In the bio on the FB page it goes on to say that he’s been described as the musical equivalent of ‘two girls one cup’, which I don’t know how to take! James says he takes it as a good thing, so I figured why not….let’s see how this sounds!
It should be noted before beginning that the record sent through is split into two sides – with Side A featuring Moloch – Depressive Visionen eines sterbenden Horizonts, and Side B featuring Ljosalfaheimr (Yudlugar remix) and Yudlugar – Fist.
Depressive Visionen eines sterbenden Horizonts certainly gets things going on a strange note, opening with a prolonged guitar tone to set the scene and backing it up with intermittent drums, the whole mix daring you to listen harder to see what’s going on. Building up through the track we’re bombarded by the continued guitar sound, as well as raw screams behind the scenes, forming into a sound which transcends the barriers of genres, and instead moves to a new place, a place which is created specifically for the mix on offer here. It’s a strange mix, and something I’m not sure I fully understand, but the result of it is a soundtrack which accompanies a mood, the sort of thing which is reflective of inner chaos, manifested in musical form and designed to test your capacity for understanding – certainly not something to just listen to, but something to think about.
Ljosalfaheimr (Yudlugar remix) marks a change in things, this time adopting a harder approach to the mix, still focusing on one guitar line to get things going, but this time chucking in a blastbeat style drum feel behind the scenes, forming it into something which verges on seriously heavy DnB style stuff, yet pulls back before becoming too accessible or mainstream. Again, this isn’t the sort of thing you can sit back and listen to in the hope of shitting your mind of, instead forming a sound which makes you think. To me, I don’t know if it works, but then I don’t know if I understand it – all of a sudden I’m beginning to see why there’s been the strange comments and references as I feel there’s a lot of people who won’t get this. Regardless, we move on to Yudlugar – Fist to close things and finish on a relatively normal note, the final track adopting a death/grindcore style guitar backing accompanied by chaotic drumming, raw vocals and hammering drumlines bombarding the mix from all sides. Think of The Berzerker and you’re getting somewhere close to the sound here – it’s organised chaos in a musical form, and something which could well accompany a nightmare scene with aplomb.
I don’t know if I get Yudlugar, and that’s not to say it’s a bad thing, I just think that this is too far over the edge for my personal taste. However, I admire the approach here which strives to form something completely new, something which hasn’t been done before, and something which I’m sure will accompany drunken nights in seriously heavy nightclubs quite well. It should be said that this isn’t for the fainthearted – go into this ready to be scared!
To find out more about Yudlugar, check out their Facebook page HERE.
Words: Dave Nicholls
It should be noted before beginning that the record sent through is split into two sides – with Side A featuring Moloch – Depressive Visionen eines sterbenden Horizonts, and Side B featuring Ljosalfaheimr (Yudlugar remix) and Yudlugar – Fist.
Depressive Visionen eines sterbenden Horizonts certainly gets things going on a strange note, opening with a prolonged guitar tone to set the scene and backing it up with intermittent drums, the whole mix daring you to listen harder to see what’s going on. Building up through the track we’re bombarded by the continued guitar sound, as well as raw screams behind the scenes, forming into a sound which transcends the barriers of genres, and instead moves to a new place, a place which is created specifically for the mix on offer here. It’s a strange mix, and something I’m not sure I fully understand, but the result of it is a soundtrack which accompanies a mood, the sort of thing which is reflective of inner chaos, manifested in musical form and designed to test your capacity for understanding – certainly not something to just listen to, but something to think about.
Ljosalfaheimr (Yudlugar remix) marks a change in things, this time adopting a harder approach to the mix, still focusing on one guitar line to get things going, but this time chucking in a blastbeat style drum feel behind the scenes, forming it into something which verges on seriously heavy DnB style stuff, yet pulls back before becoming too accessible or mainstream. Again, this isn’t the sort of thing you can sit back and listen to in the hope of shitting your mind of, instead forming a sound which makes you think. To me, I don’t know if it works, but then I don’t know if I understand it – all of a sudden I’m beginning to see why there’s been the strange comments and references as I feel there’s a lot of people who won’t get this. Regardless, we move on to Yudlugar – Fist to close things and finish on a relatively normal note, the final track adopting a death/grindcore style guitar backing accompanied by chaotic drumming, raw vocals and hammering drumlines bombarding the mix from all sides. Think of The Berzerker and you’re getting somewhere close to the sound here – it’s organised chaos in a musical form, and something which could well accompany a nightmare scene with aplomb.
I don’t know if I get Yudlugar, and that’s not to say it’s a bad thing, I just think that this is too far over the edge for my personal taste. However, I admire the approach here which strives to form something completely new, something which hasn’t been done before, and something which I’m sure will accompany drunken nights in seriously heavy nightclubs quite well. It should be said that this isn’t for the fainthearted – go into this ready to be scared!
To find out more about Yudlugar, check out their Facebook page HERE.
Words: Dave Nicholls