Urfaust are a black metal band from the Netherlands and this is their seventh album.
Untergang contains 38 minutes of idiosyncratic black metal. Urfaust craft music that has impressive worldbuilding properties, and on this album they excel at bringing their dark vision to life.
Urfaust have a sound that embraces atmosphere of an individual nature. Their black metal contains elements of doom and psychedelia, which only add to the music’s character and mystique. The songs on Untergang are ripe with esoteric dark emotion, and this only grows over time. Untergang is well-sequenced and paced. Each song has its own personality and identity, yet fits within the whole as a necessary part of the holistic Untergang experience.
Despite its relatively tight running time, Untergang feels vast and unknowable. I mean this positively though; it’s as if the boundaries of the music can’t be adequately defined or contained within a mere quantified amount of minutes. This leads to the feeling that you could continue to explore these seven tracks and never truly chart them, so you return again and again to find new treasures and rewards in Urfaust’s blackened soundscapes.
Untergang is impressive, immersive, and very good. Urfaust conjure up otherworlds of their own creation that feel fully fleshed out and eerily strange, and the listener is compelled again and again to visit them.
If you’re a fan of black metal that’s heavily mood-focused then you won’t want to miss out on Untergang.
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