heavy-metal-darkness: Umulamahri | Learning The Secrets Of Acid

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Umulamahri | Learning The Secrets Of Acid | Ordovician Records

Release Date: 1 October 2025
Format: Digital/Vinyl
Genre: Death Metal
Country: USA

Formed by musicians deeply rooted in the American underground, Umulamahri is a new death metal entity built from the creative collision of Andrew Hawkins (Baring Teeth) and Doug Moore (Pyrrhon, Seputus, Glorious Depravity, Weeping Sores). The lineup is completed by session drummer Kevin Paradis, known for his explosive precision. With this combination, “Learning The Secrets Of Acid” arrives as an album that doesn’t simply add noise to the genre, it bends it into strange, unpredictable shapes.

The album is a twisted labyrinth of angular riffs, unstable rhythm patterns, and hallucinatory shifts. Umulamahri sounds as if it’s operating inside a fever dream where dissonance replaces logic and structure is constantly under threat of collapse. “Rot Shall Rule The Oily Voids” opens the album with chaos that borders on mathematical insanity, while “Bursting With Life’s True Fruit” moves like a creature mutating in real time. “VVVVRMS” turns rhythm into a weapon, cutting through distorted layers with near-mechanical precision. “Orifice Invocation,” already revealed as a single, stands as the album’s most direct strike, acidic and unpredictable. “Leaked Photo Of Heaven” closes things with a warped sense of decay, like a transmission slowly dissolving in static.

What makes this album engaging is not accessibility, but commitment to discomfort. The sound production balances harshness and precision, letting the intricate playing twist and churn without collapsing into chaos. It’s not easy listening, but it’s magnetic in its strangeness. Every riff, every drum pattern, feels infected by a scientific curiosity toward how far sound can be stretched before it snaps. “Learning The Secrets Of Acid” is not for those seeking groove or melody, it’s for listeners drawn to the abyss of experimental death metal, where the edges are sharp and the terrain is alien. It rewards attention, confusion, and a touch of madness.

Score: 7.0