{"id":112821,"date":"2022-03-14T11:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/?p=112821"},"modified":"2022-03-14T10:29:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T15:29:10","slug":"review-unru-die-wiederkehr-des-verdrangten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/review-unru-die-wiederkehr-des-verdrangten\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Unru<\/b> – Die Wiederkehr des Verdr\u00e4ngten<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00dcber allen Gipfeln ist Unru<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Unru had been on my radar for a while because of their proximity to Sun Worship<\/strong>, who did a split with them back in 2013 and would frequently endorse them. Mere proximity became a full-fledged connection when L. from Sun Worship joined Unru’s ranks shortly after their last full-length. It’s probably in no small part due to this that we see a significant stylistic change on Die Wiederkehr des Verdr\u00e4ngten<\/em>, which furnishes Unru’s sound with many of the qualities that I had been missing on both the latest Sun Worship<\/a> album and Unru’s earlier work.<\/p>\n

While similarly prone to long-form songwriting, 2016’s Als Tier ist der Mensch Nichts<\/em> was quite different from what Sun Worship were doing on their first two LPs. It was less confined by genre boundaries (MA still lists the band as “black metal\/crust”) and felt much less controlled, driven by more of a restless, unhinged energy rather than the more measured, straightforward approach I’d come to appreciate. Glancing over it now, I can see the appeal, but at the time, the record did not click with me. I had glimpsed the power of repetition at the threshold where atmospheric verges on ambient and become addicted to the feeling of being borne away on a steady current of blasting and tremolos that continued more or less unabated for 12 to 15 minutes.<\/p>\n