VutRhaGroHul
Nebbia Industriale

If there's an Italian project that I think deserves my admiration, it's definitely VutRhaGroHul. What can I say, "Industrial Fog" is certainly a work that speaks for itself. A controversial piece that you may like or dislike, but it will not leave you indifferent.

What emerges is a strong theme: the denunciation (or exaltation, honestly I don't know) of industrialization, mechanization, excavation, and destruction/creation.

The entire work, with the exception of the introductory "Industrial Plants" and the concluding "Death of Ase" (a tribute to the famous Grieg), is incredibly complex. Too complex. In fact, from start to finish, we are bombarded by a massive, modern "Metal" with drop tuning (hypothetically interpretable as "Earth" and/or "Nature") suffocated, shaped, and subordinated to an impressive electronic architecture composed of noises, drum machines, overlaps, and above all variations and alterations of the track itself (Banal interpretation as "Industry" and/or "Mechanical/technical"). Indeed, the sound is continually entrenched within itself: it twists, resumes, cuts, moves, disappears, and above all stratifies, giving the work a rhythmic and harmonic neurosis definable (in my humble opinion) as sublime. The result could be boldly compared in broad terms, given the nonexistence (or my lack of knowledge) of similar projects, to that achieved by the intonarumori, of Luigi Russolo, or the pure noise stratifications of Merzbow.

However, despite the proposal's difficulty, the tracks all follow very rigid and easily recognizable structures (verse, chorus, etc...) without particular surprises. Songs like "Fucina N.era 6" (which, among other things, in the second part continues reversed, as if reflected in a mirror), "Blackcore," and "Ah chaos furnax" are definitely well-crafted: engaging and unclassifiable, evoking a war-like scenario among earthquakes, drills, workers, prophets and an untamable yet measured universe.

If you have a delicate ear and think that music is only melody and cheerfulness, I advise against (as always) delving into the piece, but if you feel young and rebellious with the right amount of time, this album has a lot to offer you as it is unique in its genre.