Urfaust: Ritual Music for the True Clochard In the vast, frost-bitten landscape of black metal, few names evoke as much reverence and confusion as Urfaust. Since their inception in 2003, the Dutch duo has abandoned the traditional tropes of the genre—the blast beats, the tremolo picking, the obsession with cold forests—in favor of something far more intoxicating and far more human. Their sound is not a call to war, but a staggering walk home from a late-night tavern. It is, quite literally, ritual music for the true clochard.