UFOmammut

Oro: Opus Primum (Neurot)

Latin 101 points to Primum betraying Oro as the first installment of yet another double album halved by a label. Italian doom merchants “Mammoth UFO” thus can’t duplicate the tight encapsulation of 2010 origin story Eve in 51 minutes, although 14-minute lunar landing “Empireum” could power Alien craft Nostromo. Tsunami drone (“Aureum”), druid rites (“Magickon”), and more war of the worlds (“Infearnatural”) prep Opus Alter next month. **.5

This article appears in August 10 • 2012.

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San Francisco native Raoul Hernandez crossed the border into Texas on July 2, 1992, and began writing about music for the Chronicle that fall, debuting with an album review of Keith Richards’ Main Offender. By virtue of local show previews – first “Recommendeds,” now calendar picks – his writing’s appeared in almost every issue since 1993.