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On the 4th of April, Polypus Records will release SUBSTRATUM by Urarv. A raw and unrelenting attack on your senses. It is a journey through the raving mad past, present and future of the band.

You might recognize some titles, but this is not a compilation. It should be considered an alternative debut album by Urarv. In another universe this would have been the first release. These recordings were done in 2013, before the two first albums, and additional instruments and vocals were added in 2021/2022. Making this an epic and insane dive into the cesspools of sewers long forgotten. As a bonus, we have recorded one brand new track.

Today we are releasing Aurum from the album as a single. As Aldrahn puts it, this track is one of the first compositions extracted from the Urarv multiverse. Made at first as a children’s song solely acoustic back in 2003. But as time went by and lyrics were added, the words came through in such a murky and gloomy way that the sound of the tune changed with them. Into a significantly more twisted way than originally intended.

Sometimes we try to make something nice and cozy for a change, but for some reason, it always seems to end up contorted, deranged and dark, and thus perfectly fit for the Urarv repertoire.

This song is a good representation of the Urarv mind and a good ambassador for the tracklist of the SUBSTRATUM album.

«Aurum» can be streamed or downloaded from a variety of services at

The reason why we wanted to work more on these recordings was that we dug the sound and the feel of them to such an extent that we thought they surpassed the album recordings in many ways and deserved proper attention.

So from bringing them into the light of awareness, we have fooled around with them a lot and had great fun in doing so.

Lots of new layers, instrumentally as well as vocally have been added throughout the passing of 2021 and 2022. Some nice contributions from various artists have screwed into the machinery also.

This is merely a treat for any of you sick fucks that actually want to listen to this triangle of toilets that is URARV, while we get busy working on the third studio album Urarv frontman explains.

The track listing for “Substratum” is as follows:

  • Fancy Daggers
  • Forvitringstid
  • Vi Som Skuer Nordover
  • Valens Tempel
  • Soloppgang
  • Sannhet
  • Aurum
  • Le Retortion

This album features:

  • Agthstmod Nowbody Mord I - Vocals (Norwegian, English, Frenchish, Germanish and Russianish) and guitar
  • SlabadAn KirIchniSt - Electric, acoustic guitar and Greek on Valens Tempel
  • The Magic Lens Strobe Tonal IV - Bass, FX and scream on Sannhet
  • Bruce Neil Marlon Pitt the almighty cadaver feast from Brando, Pepper and Brüssel - Didgeridoo on Valens Tempel and Hungarian on Le Retortion
  • Trish - Drums
  • Parvez - FX
  • Tybalt - Metal drums on V.S.S.N.
  • Claes Hirth - Brushes and drums on V.S.S.N.
  • Vasso Michailidou - Accordion on V.S.S.N.

Agthstmod Nowbody Mord I’s guitars, vocals and FX recorded in 2013 at Supervillain HQ by Parvez.

All other instruments and additional vocals recorded and mixed between 2021 and 2022 at Evil Octopus Studios by The Magic Lens Strobe Tonal IV.

Mastered by Jack Control at Enormous Door Mastering.

Logo by Agthstmod Nowbody Mord I.

Layout by The Magic Lens Strobe Tonal IV.

«Substratum» will be available on CD, Vinyl and Digital formats and can now be pre-ordered at https://www.polypus.no/store/p/urarv-substratum-lp-preorder for LP and https://www.polypus.no/store/p/urarv-substratum-cd-preorder for CD.

More information about URARV can be found on the band's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/urarv

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