Mylingar – Út (Hetorodoxical Blackened Death Metal)
A band named after the ghost of an unbaptized child? You can’t expect anything less than what you get with the latest full-length from Sweden’s Mylingar. I’d use the word “atmospheric” here, but this is less order, more lawlessness than I feel that term conveys. In spite of that, and before you choke on your own opinions based on what I just said, Út is one of the few albums I’ve encountered where every track is perfection in form and execution. Yet it’s completely heterodox. It accepts no standards, it allows no conformity.
Út, is vicious, but not in a way that the listener will initially grasp. When summoning the dead, as this band is wont to do in their aesthetics, the awakening after centuries of silence is slow, for the thoughts must adjust, the muscles must slowly accustom themselves to life anew, because a sudden, shocking approach would only collapse the body from the skeleton outward. This is what Mylingar does that’s so key. Their music creates melodies out of atonalism, but with masterful intention that builds into moments of complete control. There isn’t even a moment where it sounds like chaos to which the brain must adjust, Út is purely understandable from the beginning, and by the end the cold misery it evokes disintegrates the body, leaving a cosmically malevolent entity in its place, one that can never be exorcised.
Written by Stanley, Devourer of Souls
Mylingar – Út
Amor Fati Productions
Cover Art: Brian Nguyen (BeyondArt)
5 / 5
