Ufomammut

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Ufomammut is an industrial/space/post band from Italy. After amazing both public and critics with two seminal albums, which combined the violence of Neurosis with the Psychedelia of the more visionary Pink Floyd, Ufomammut opened new and unexpected doors with the last record Lucifer Songs. Lucifer Songs is the result of a mature and tight- knit band, willing to experiment whilst maintaining its DNA. The flaming spatial voyage which made Snailking one of the records of the year in 2004 in many specialist magazines and webzines, remains as their core sound, evolving alongside new soundscapes made up of sinister atmospheres and gloomy sounds of vintage electronics. Ufomammut has evolved into a powerful wall of sound weaving its intrinsic dream state whilst able to hypnotize and spellbind the listener with obsessive dilatations approaching drone music. The peculiar charm of the sound of Ufomammut continues to defy pigeon-holing. As Lucifer Songs has been released, many musical critics defined the band’s sound as the beginning of a whole new kind of music, which mixes doom with psychedelic, trance with extreme, industrial with post-rock. Ufomammut's live show is supported by the internationally acclaimed video and graphic art of Malleus, a rock artists’ collective who conjure the entirety of Ufommamut’s visual impact.

They released three seminal albums: