Mulo Muto & Black/Lava – Worlds Corroding Under Xenomorphs’ Ejaculations (Album – URB Sounds / Marbre Negre / Italian Extreme Underground)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Ambient.
Format: Digital, Cassette.
Background/Info: This album resulted from the common efforts between Swiss Mulo Muto-duo (featuring Joel Gilardini and Attila Folklor) and Italian duo Black/Lava. The album has been introduced as a conceptual release based upon a dystopian world wherein aliens are first observing the humans to next conquer the planet.
Content: There are multiple influences running through this work which sounds however pretty extreme and driven by tormenting, dark, atmospheres. I experienced the tracks as a fusion between Dark-Ambient and Industrial for the main part but also exploring Death-Industrial and even Metal-Doom paths for the rest of the work.
+ + + : I like the constant torment recovering this work which sounds like a red line throughout the listening. The work is a perfect symbiosis between different but related influences; a sonic fusion between heavy Noise manipulations, field recordings, dark electro atmospheres and harsh vocals. There’s also an interesting diversity in the tracklist.
– – – : The last cut maybe sounds as the most atypical one; kind of Metal-Doom injection which is not totally fitting with the global approach of the work.
Conclusion: This is an interesting collaboration between two projects resulting in a disturbing, dark sonic journey.
Best songs: “Deserving Of Your Joyous Misfortunes”, “Cum In My Guts Before I Annihilate You”, “Comfortably Slaying Scream Queens For Matian Breakfast”.
Rate: 8.
Artists: www.facebook.com/MuloMuto / www.facebook.com/BlackLavaNoise
Labels: https://urbsounds.sk / www.facebook.com/urbsounds / www.facebook.com/marbre.negre / www.facebook.com/italiaextreme
“Worlds Corroding Under Xenomorphs’ Ejaculations” was released on 10 January 2022. The cassette version came through Urbsounds Collective, Marbre Negre and Italian Extreme Underground, and a CD version appeared on Cheap Satanism Records. Attila Folklor contributed noise machines, modular synthesiser, effects pedals and throat, Joel Gilardini baritone guitars, loops and noises, Enkil drones, synths and objects, and Fabio Olivero machines, field recordings, percussion and vocals. Sessions took place in Cadenazzo and Zurich in Switzerland and in Varallo and Borgosesia in Italy, with Folklor mixing and mastering in Cadenazzo and Camedo. Giovanni Delzanno drew the front cover and Huere Giulio produced the layout.
Listen to “Worlds Corroding Under Xenomorphs’ Ejaculations”:
About Mulo Muto and Black/Lava
Mulo Muto is a Swiss duo based in Zürich, made up of Attila Folklor on noise machines, modular synthesiser and effects pedals and Joel Gilardini on baritone guitars, loops and noises. Black/Lava is the Italian duo of Enkil and Fabio Olivero, working with drones, synths, objects, machines, field recordings, percussion and vocals.
The two projects began the collaboration during the first phase of the pandemic and built the album from the noise and sound material each had gathered over the preceding years. The recordings were made across four locations in Switzerland and Italy, and Folklor handled the mix and master. The record carries a science-fiction concept about an alien observation of humanity that turns into invasion, which the track titles follow.
Support Side-Line
More people read Side-Line than ever, and there is still no paywall and no advertising. Readers pay for it instead - from $5 a month.
Why we ask
Advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. Unlike many news organisations we have not put up a paywall, and we refuse to add annoying advertising, so we need to ask for your help. Side-Line’s independent journalism takes time, money and hard work to produce, and we do it to push the artists we like, who are equally fighting to survive.
Handled by PayPal.
I have been working for over 30 years with Side-line as the main reviewer. My taste is eclectic, uncoventional and I prefer to look for the pearls, even if the bands are completely unknown, thus staying loyal to the Side-Line philosophy of nurturing new talents.
