| Oro: Opus Primum | ||
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| Studio album by Ufomammut | ||
| Released | April 13 2012 | |
| Recorded | August 2011 at Soms "Il Progresso" in Sarezzano, Italy | |
| Genre | Psychedelic Doom Metal | |
| Length | 51:04 | |
| Label | Supernatural Cat Neurot Recordings | |
| Producer | Ufomammut | |
| Ufomammut chronology | ||
| Eve (2010) |
Oro: Opus Primum (2012) |
Oro: Opus Alter (2017) |
Oro: Opus Primum is the sixth studio album by the Italian psychedelic band Ufomammut. The first of a two-part concept and containing the first five of the project's ten movements, Oro's concept mutates the Italian palindrome which translates to “gold” with the Latin translation of “I prey.”. Notably, Opus Primum would be the band's debut with the American label Neurot Recordings, along with releasing the album through the band's own label Supernatural Cat.[1]
Background[]
Work would begin on Ufomammut's sixth studio album in August 2011, recording at Soms "Il Progresso" in Sarezzano. Mastering would be handled at Locomotore Studio in Rome that October and November. That September, the band would sign with Neurot Recordings for North American distribution.[2] Details on the album would surface by the end of 2011, including the album's themes, concepts and the fact Oro is actually two studio albums released in two parts.[3] Opus Primum would come first circa April 2012, with the second half in Opus Alter coming that September.
In an interview with The Obelisk the band would speak at length about Oro:
| “ | “Eve has been a very important record for us as a band and when we started in working at Oro we were just out of a two-year period of playing it.
In fact, we started in thinking about Oro after the last tour in 2011 supporting Eve. We had the consciousness that we needed to move ahead, creating something far from Eve but evolving from it. Moreover, the Eve experience had been so important for us that we wanted to postpone again the idea of an album of songs. Well, when we started with Eve, we were thinking about an homage to Echoes, from Pink Floyd. So a long song and some satellites, but we did a mistake starting from the long song… Anyway, playing live a single song, even if divided in parts, was great, so we thought Oro had to be a long track too. But after a few months of rehearsing it was quite clear it was growing too much. Oro is a very faceted album, full of different kinds of approaches; very layered and dynamic. The first part is very different from the second and we feel it more and more now, playing it live. So we decided to split it into two temporal parts and when we met Steve [Von Till] during the gigs as Neurosis supporters in Europe, he seemed enthusiastic about the idea. And the rest is history…” [On the double album realization] "We realized it was going to be quite a long, long album from the beginning. Moreover we had the idea to play around some riffs making them coming back during the composition of the album. We had an hour and a half of music (exactly 93 magickal minutes) and we thought it could be a great idea to split it into two different temporal releases. The idea was to give time to the listener to listen to the first part, assimilate it and then to put out the second to understand the entire ORO. And we liked the idea of having a sort of Kill Bill too…" |
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— Urlo, The Obelisk [4]
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Opus Primum would be released on 13 April 2012 on CD and LP, with a special edition containing alternate artwork and a DVD of visualizations to compliment the audio.[5] Oro: Opus Primum would attain positive reception by several publications such as The Obelisk,[6] The Guardian,[7] Pop Matters[8] and The Line of Best Fit[9] among others. The Obelisk would notably rank both Oro albums #11 on their "Top 20 Albums of 2012" list[10] while the collective albums would also rank #5 on The Obelisk's Readers Poll of 2012.[11]
Tracklist[]
All songs written by Ufomammut.
- 1. Empireum (13:55)
- 2. Aureum (12:28)
- 3. Infearnatural (7:26)
- 4. Magickon (7:57)
- 5. Mindomine (9:18)
Personnel[]
- Urlo - Bass, Synthesizers, Effects, Vocals
- Poia - Guitars, Synthesizers, Backing Vocals
- Vita - Drums, Backing Vocals
- Ciccio - Soundlord
- Lu - Visuals
- Malleus - Layout, Artwork
- Lorenzo Stecconi - Engineer, Mixing, Mastering, Backing Vocals
External Links[]
References[]
- ↑ The Obelisk
- ↑ Blabbermouth
- ↑ The Obelisk
- ↑ the ObeliskUfomammut Interview with Urlo and Video Premiere: Drinking in the Sulphurdew, accessed 8 August 2017
- ↑ Discogs
- ↑ The Obelisk
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ Pop Matters
- ↑ The Line of Best Fit
- ↑ The Obelisk
- ↑ The Obelisk
| V·T·E Ufomammut | |
|---|---|
| Current Members | Poia • Urlo • Levre • Ciccio • Lu |
| Past Members | Alien • Vita |
| Studio Albums | Godlike Snake • Snailking • Lucifer Songs • Idolum • Eve • Oro: Opus Primum • Oro: Opus Alter • Ecate • 8 • Fenice • TBA |
| Other Releases | Satan • Supernaturals: Record One • XV: Magickal Mastery Live • XX • Live at Roadburn Festival 2011 • Crookhead |
| Associated Bands and Artists | Sonic Wolves • The Mon • Malleus Rock Art Lab |