Yugula “Cuatro Lágrimas Sobre Tu Sepulcro” for #FutureRelics
Band: Yugula
Title: Cuatro Lágrimas Sobre Tu Sepulcro
Label: Independent
Release date: March 14, 2024
Country: Spain
Format reviewed: Tape format
First of all, let me introduce a new section within our/yours Blessed Altar Zine.
A place dedicated to the physical format that brings us so much joy when we are listening to music and yet we are “opening” it, seeing and grabbing. Whoever loves this little ritual, understands what I say…
Obviously, I understand that labels send digital material to promote and I don’t even criticize them, but I also admit that the physical format will always be excellently better.
In the past, I wrote a lot of reviews about the physical format that I received, back when BAZ was in paper format…
And as I got a beautiful tape from this band, I decided to create this place/article for it.
So here goes…
Yugula is a band from Salamanca, Spain and J. Moreno/I. Martín are its members. What these two musicians present in this debut demo is nothing more than something that I really liked because of the quality and not being “tied” to a “label/hashtag”.
What seemed to me to be a release from “yet another” Black Doom Metal band, simply went down the drain, after listening to this cassette…
I won’t be able to deny the influences of Black Metal in the first song, no, I won’t be able to, but Yugula went further, to be more correct the band did something much further ahead, very different, at least from what I was expecting, or predicted and the result… Very good.
The demo is divided into four songs, the first being the one most within the Black Doom Metal spectrum.
Because from then on… My friends, forget the definition of Black Doom Metal.
The other songs in my point of view are the continuation of the first song but going by styles, digression, sometimes monotony, and perhaps some melancholic atrophies. To better define these “feelings” and further define the band’s style, I say that the band moved within the experimental world, with a lot of ambient and atmospheric Doom Metal.
Also adding some Dark Ambient here and there and something that seemed to be a Space Black Metal wave, as is present at the beginning of the first song. A Spanish guitar here and there, giving, in my opinion, an even more melancholy touch, in his way of playing and with the chosen musical notes.
Here is an excellent demo to acquire in my opinion and listen to over and over again, as I have done so far. 9/10 by TKK666
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