ULTHAR
Anthronomicon (Hot Pink / Black Merge)

Baby Pink/Black Merge

With the release of Cosmovore in 2018, Ulthar presented a twisted warped dystopia where furiously paced, inverted death metal and scathing, angular blackness defined a new way forward. Now the band returns with the grotesquely intangible Providence, whereby they stretch the fabric of previously trod worlds into idiosyncratic new forms and elevated levels of primal intellect. The unyielding Ulthar attack doubles down here with figures becoming more sickening and shapes more savage. An immensity like spiraling, ancient monoliths too tall to comprehend and bending inward upon themselves envelops adherents to this realm. Duly diabolic voices guide this odyssey through the incongruous caverns of absurdity, obscure texts and manifold vitriol. Released at a time where the world has devolved into a surrealistic nightmare of viral trepidation and encased solitude, Ulthar’s Providence becomes a prescient view into the strange paradoxes that only months ago seemed unbelievable but now all too possible. Where horizons cease, where grace is dead, where nothing lives, so be it amen.

B4 - Aqua blue / Halloween orange merge

Ulthar create something uniquely arcane within the Bay Area metal underground. The trio comes together on their debut full length Cosmovore to unleash its feral urgency for dizzying Absu-like black metal with death metal’s bludgeoning violence. Thematically heavy on weird and supernatural horror with a bizarre Rudimentary Peni-like surrealism, the band are a difficult to classify spectral entity. Over the course of the album’s forty minutes, the band careens forward at primarily unrelenting velocity, with the opening title track instantly battering with primal persistence. The album’s middle section, a blinding storm of ghastly black dread, leads into the thirteen-plus minute epic “Dunwich Whore” where the Ulthar universe becomes all consuming with proggy synth bookends, vertiginous tempo variation, grinding technical violence, and thrashed madness. 

• One of two simultaneously released new albums by Bay Area surreal blackened technical death metal band
• Each album cover is half of a larger original piece created for the band by Ian Miller (Stormkeep, Bolt Thrower, Games Workshop)
• 2020 album Providence was widely hailed for its unique style of death metal
• For fans of Atrocity, Enslaved, Gorguts, Demilich, Krallice, Voidceremony, Tomb Mold, Suffering Hour

• One of two simultaneously released new albums by Bay Area surreal blackened technical death metal band
• Each album cover is half of a larger original piece created for the band by Ian Miller (Stormkeep, Bolt Thrower, Games Workshop)
• 2020 album Providence was widely hailed for its unique style of death metal
• For fans of Atrocity, Enslaved, Gorguts, Demilich, Krallice, Voidceremony, Tomb Mold, Suffering Hour