I've never really heard much by Aluk Todolo but I remember hearing a song back ages ago I liked and thought I should check 'em out. Of course I forgot (as I do) and things got in the way of me remembering.... like living and breathing. Well here's a CD by Aluk on Utech and it's a slow brooding thing. It starts of with a metronomic drumbeat which is slow and menacing (and strangely hypnotic) while in the background feedback and evil lurks. They're a weird mix of Krautrock and metal from what I can gather though it does sound like a slowed down Black Sabbath at times. It's pretty dark but then you'd expect that of a Utech release. 'Finsternis' is CD only. Slow, brooding and menacing sums this release up in 3 words just nicely I reckon. Well good!!
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Sound clips for Finsternis by Aluk Todolo: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Utech, URCD022 , £9.99.
Aluk Todolo are a recondite creature. Part okkult black metal fiend and part snide kraut menace. Somehow the doppelganger works and Finsternis proves for a second time there is brilliance in the absence of light. Dry, spare percussion grievously mines the scrapes, shrieks and shimmer of mutated guitar and bass. Finsternis is the German word for eclipse, mimetic of cyclic elements, phases and unphases, endless rebeginnings, broken circles and perfect circles. A dangerous, noxious coil of all things black.
