Artist: Ulthar
Title: Helionomicon
Label: 20 Buck Spin
Cat #: SPIN170
Release Year: 2023
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Jewel Case

Helionomicon is the fourth album from cosmic horror-infused black death metal band Ulthar, named after a village in the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft.

Over the course of their first two albums, ‘Cosmovore’ and ‘Providence’, Ulthar carved out a unique niche on the spectrum of underground metal, forging a grotesquely elegant hybrid of Technical Death Metal alchemy and Black Metal’s stinging blizzard winds, all with the acerbic color of the absurdist’s brush. Nearly 3 years on from ‘Providence’, a burst of deadly creativity has resulted in TWO new albums, to be released simultaneously.

Where its sister album ‘Anthronomicon’ presents an 8 piece puzzle of labyrinthine tumult, ‘Helionomicon’ takes those elements and creates two towering 20 minute monoliths of radiant avant-garde immensity. Each track, appropriately titled ‘Helionomicon’ and ‘Anthronomicon’, transports the listener on a vast journey of psycho-cerebral spectacle where hitherto unimagined landscapes take shape and strange intangible structures pierce the disintegrating firmament. Despite the substantial length of these two tracks, it’s never a tedious ride; each visits countless new vistas and perspectives across time. In essence ‘Helionomicon’ becomes a synthesis of all Ulthar’s recorded output to this point across two climactic, ambitious epics.

Recommended if you like: Blood Incantation, Tomb Mold, Demilich, Morbid Angel, Immolation, Incantation, Ulcerate

Track Listing:

1.Helionomicon    
2.Anthronomicon