Nulla+/Othismos - "Nulla+/Othismos" (Self-released, 2020)

Bands: Nulla+/Othismos

Title: Nulla+/Othismos

Genre: Black Metal/Hardcore/Sludge

Time: 11.43 min

Release date: 27th April 2020

Vote: 85/100

Hey manic brutal bangers,

after Rise of the Stateless Wolf, the good Francesco Bazzurri comes back today with another fantastic review, this time about a split album between two Italian bands: Nulla+ (already known on these pages thanks to their split "Impronte/Lacrime" that they shared with Nomura) and Othismos!

Both of them have a similar and alternative way to conceive the black metal genre contaminating it mainly with the hardcore punk. In addition, it's important to underline that this split was self-released in full quarantine time, so, as much music created and/or published during that damned period, also this release has a special meaning.

But now let's go to read this article and enjoy it! 

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Welcome back, my wicked brood, fed with growls and killer guitars!

There was a time when double feature movie show was very popular and the viewers could watch two movies paying only one ticket and some of these movies have influenced the collective imagination. Shifting this idea in music, when you get a double feature or better, a split album, you’re sure to have on your hand something very interesting like this “joint venture” of extreme metal music, born from the dreadful marriage between two Italian bands, Nulla+ and Othismos, respectively from Perugia and Montepulciano.

These bands wisely melt their talent offering to our ears a polarization of obscure and chaotic acoustic power that deflagrate spreading fragments of stories; stories of our present day, of this planet that goes to rogue and ruins, driven by an unpredictable Fate.

Nulla+ starts the morbid dance with "Lo Specchio": "Al di là dello specchio non c'è tempo nè equilibrio" ("Beyond the mirror there is no time nor equilibrium"), a nihilistic fracture well underlined between accelerations and decelerations, rhythm breaking and violent outbursts.

The second track is "Teorico Momento", just over two minutes of other sonic rides of relative peace turning into hardcore sounds and gloomy attack: "Questo è il senso del mio tempo/Dentro il mio corpo qualcosa sta crescendo/Tutto quel che so è solo un teorico momento" ("This is the sense of my time/something is growing into my body/all what I know is only a theorical moment") is a good statement, a stylistic exhaltation pointing to the mutation.

Switching to the second band, Othismos, these boys give us "Vulnus", a song of good alchemy where we can find hardcore, sludge and, in my opinion, noise echoes à la glorious Sonic Youth. Another dark and destructive story driven by a dusky, sour and primordial music.

The second track, "La Fine di Tutto", confirms the band’s style: loneliness, pain, void banged out with mighty and resolute structural changes that don’t give calm.

Concluding the review I can say that these are other cool surprises from our extreme music scene and the opinion is very, very good!

Tracklist:

1 - Lo Specchio (Nulla+)

2 - Teorico Momento (Nulla+)

3 - Vulnus (Othismos)

4 - La Fine di Tutto (Othismos)

Nulla+'s line-up:

Claudio Cilione - vocals

Gabriele Ceccarelli - guitars

Paolo Lombardi - bass

Riccardo Mencarelli - drums

Othismos' line-up:

Filippo "Caino" Masina - vocals/bass

Luca Migliorucci - guitars

Tommaso Dringoli - guitars

Shmulick Froilich - drums

Nulla+: https://www.facebook.com/NULLAPLUS

Othismos: https://www.facebook.com/Othismosrock