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Amid Devonia's Alps is the second release from Urthona, a fresh helping of elemental, heathen guitar worship from deepest Dartmoor. 'There’s a holy beauty within the fiery soul of this Urthona music that transcends its many contemporaries, as colossal guitars intertwine around the base of listeners’ minds, lifting them skywards as though upon a magical beanstalk ride... Urthona’s music is both the Ult in meditation AND a freight-train ride to oblivion.' 'Waves of deep, grinding, spaced out guitar, so heavy indeed. Blissful at low volumes, vibrationally destructive at louder ones... seriously you need to be carefully turning this disc up!' Samples Urthona's Barbaric Yawp Sounds Over the Roofs of the World (3.2 MB) Born Psychedelic (2.4 MB)
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Here comes Urthona, all heather, moss and grimpen mire, to drag you out onto the moor and clobber you with screeching guitars and some seriously heathen attitude. Unashamedly raw and processed only to the point of reaching out to turn up the volume dial, this is the sound of one man, his Les Paul guitars and enough fuzz to warm a naked ox during a wet night on Bald Mountain. Urthona lurks deep within Neil Mortimer, editor of Third Stone and Time and Mind, author of two fine tomes on the original modern antiquarian, William Stukeley, and now moor-dwelling guitar hero. So it’s no surprise to find that there’s much more than just hairy-handed amp-bashing at work on these three, lengthy tracks. Urthona Cannot be Destroyed emerges like Dub Syndicate playing the Dr Who theme (which of course they did) in a skirmish with My Bloody Valentine; then The Bright Burst of Morning and Sun and Moon so Heavy take MBV out onto Dartmoor, load them with Kendall Mint Cake and introduce them to Neil Young, who’s been left to stew overnight on Hound Tor. After some serious guitar waving, the Mint Cake is cracked open, a granite amphitheatre is located and our heroes carve out great crackling larva floes that light up the horizon for miles. 'I Refute It Thus stands as one of THE greatest Drone albums ever made.' 'Three enormous tracks populate this debut, commencing with an Ur-garage racket that conjures up visions of the Barrett Floyd hammering T. Dream's early 45 'Ultima Thule', before plateauing out into two exceedingly beautiful and enormously vast eternities of axe overload, ernie-ernieing seagull dives, digital distortion and microphonic feedback somewhere along the lines of Nadja, To Blacken The Pages and the Angelic Process, but even better and even more useful.'
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