Tulpa
Unhealed
Talheim Records
Tulpa is Italian black metal band formed in 2016. The line-up for this release is: Alessandro Coletta on rhythm guitar and lead vocals, Matteo Cordani on lead guitar, Andrea Artusi on bass and backing vocals and Kyoo Nam Rossi on drums. The band members play in other bands, just to mention few names like Forgotten Tomb, Domina Noctis, Mother Augusta...
Album releases from Talheim Records have usually very good sound production which surely refers to Unhealed album by Tulpa, too.
The band combines crusty sound and harmonic guitars – songs: Fear of Fades, Meet Us Where The Daylight Dies, it showcases Tulpa`s best yet abilities for playing diverse black metal songs which they likely connect to low-high pitched guitar sound which involve dark, melo-melancholic leads in music – track: Vultures Wait For Me To Die.
The one could also say that the album is a blackened metal combo as well, because its stronghold is build of heaviness, groove and grimness - a chance to blow your mind, tracks – We Drown, The Melatonist and Except One. A melodic song but with little punky touch is Vultures Wait For Me To Die, a bit in style of Dark Throne . Tulpa track has interesting medieval choir that I am always fond to hear in black metal music. And there is also a decent, instrumental song Clinomaniac that band plays without harsh guitar distortions but it`s not the song you will remember the album for, 3 first songs of the album take all the glory for it. A shorter black metal track is Inner Kyosaku with amazing melodic guitar leads, but I think I like guitar ideas even better in track Meet Us Where The Daylight Dies. Little more chaotic at times, and aggressively approached song is S.O.U.R that contains much harsher vocals, so the song overall is less compromised, much more rooted in black metal tradition. There are few black/thrash guitar moments (Unhealed) with sort of black`n`roll vibe to music which give me very good impression about the album.
Interesting thing about the music of the band is that they try to make their songs sound melodic, but in darker, catchier manner, which is not what you would expect to hear from black metal so many times as on this release.
Tulpa has approached their songs in many different ways. You will basically listen to music for which key words are groove, harmonic sequences and harsher guitars and vocals. The album in its simplicity is actually very rich of quality written songs which are not like so many bad black metal releases at all that flooding the scene much too often.
Album releases from Talheim Records have usually very good sound production which surely refers to Unhealed album by Tulpa, too.
The band combines crusty sound and harmonic guitars – songs: Fear of Fades, Meet Us Where The Daylight Dies, it showcases Tulpa`s best yet abilities for playing diverse black metal songs which they likely connect to low-high pitched guitar sound which involve dark, melo-melancholic leads in music – track: Vultures Wait For Me To Die.
The one could also say that the album is a blackened metal combo as well, because its stronghold is build of heaviness, groove and grimness - a chance to blow your mind, tracks – We Drown, The Melatonist and Except One. A melodic song but with little punky touch is Vultures Wait For Me To Die, a bit in style of Dark Throne . Tulpa track has interesting medieval choir that I am always fond to hear in black metal music. And there is also a decent, instrumental song Clinomaniac that band plays without harsh guitar distortions but it`s not the song you will remember the album for, 3 first songs of the album take all the glory for it. A shorter black metal track is Inner Kyosaku with amazing melodic guitar leads, but I think I like guitar ideas even better in track Meet Us Where The Daylight Dies. Little more chaotic at times, and aggressively approached song is S.O.U.R that contains much harsher vocals, so the song overall is less compromised, much more rooted in black metal tradition. There are few black/thrash guitar moments (Unhealed) with sort of black`n`roll vibe to music which give me very good impression about the album.
Interesting thing about the music of the band is that they try to make their songs sound melodic, but in darker, catchier manner, which is not what you would expect to hear from black metal so many times as on this release.
Tulpa has approached their songs in many different ways. You will basically listen to music for which key words are groove, harmonic sequences and harsher guitars and vocals. The album in its simplicity is actually very rich of quality written songs which are not like so many bad black metal releases at all that flooding the scene much too often.
Tracklist:
1 Meet Us Where The Daylight Dies
2 Unhealed
3 Fear of Fades
4 The Melatonist
5 We Drown
6 Vultures Wait For Me To Die
7 Tulpa
8 Inner Kyosaku
9 Clinomaniac
10 S.O.U.R
11 Except On
1 Meet Us Where The Daylight Dies
2 Unhealed
3 Fear of Fades
4 The Melatonist
5 We Drown
6 Vultures Wait For Me To Die
7 Tulpa
8 Inner Kyosaku
9 Clinomaniac
10 S.O.U.R
11 Except On
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added: 22.05.2020
Added: 22.05.2020
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