Saturday, July 12, 2014

Watching My Body Burn

I watched you die
"Watching my body burn"
This is the 4th of the 12 suicides series from ALTER OF WASTE http://altarofwasterecords.blogspot.com/
Will have a few copies soon for trade. Here is a small review.
Fourth installment in the series from suicidal HNW master I Watched You Die (Alex Nowacki, from Boar.)  A crushing 40 minute track of extremely crumbly and punishing low end HNW destruction, a massive engulfing sound that easily brings to mind charring flesh and the stench of a life deemed worthless by the individual living it.  Intensely suffocating and transfixing, the monotonous roar of an all-consuming conflagration whose only purpose is the eradication of a diseased idea of the self.  Existence is without purpose; the only truth is in self-immolation.  Sever ties to the physical and watch as the body is eaten away by flame.
Packaged as a fold over cover in a clear plastic bag.  Released in a limited edition of 15 hand-numbered copies

REVIEW- http://www.musiquemachine.com/reviews/reviews_template.php?id=5114

“Watching My Body Burn” offers up a brutal & low-end focused slice of walled noise, which is both intense & sonically descriptive in it’s unfold. This is the fourth Volume in Altar Of wastes suicide themed series 12 Suicides, and it came in an edition of 15 copies.
The CDR comes in a double sided fold-out cover/ sleeve, which fittingly takes in photos of fire engulfed woodlands & landscapes. I Watched You Die is one of the  projects of long time Dubuque Iowa based noise scene-ster Alex Nowacki( Boar, Centuries Behind A Gate, Polyester Pants). The projects been active since 2011, releasing a steady stream of brutal & uncompromising walled noise releases.
The release takes in a single 40.24 slice of wall brutality, which is taut, suffocating, entrancing & grimly descriptive.  The ‘wall’s built around a continual low-end rumbling judder, which is surrounded by a smaller group of  noise sub-tones, that take in both hissing ‘n’ crackling textures.  And really the releases title describes perfectly what this track sounds like - a body being engulfed & over run by intense, unstoppable & searing flame. With the fire continual billowing & feasting, while the bodies fat & other internal fluids hiss, pop, boil & simmer.
Both key textural elements remain firm though-out the tracks full length, though as the track progresses both seem to get more & more instense- but I suspect that’s just a trick of the wall, and the whole thing is fairly fixed. Through that said some of the hissing tones do really seem to get alot more rapid & searing towards the end of proceedings, as if the body has finally become just a violent bubbling, splitting & spluttering flesh candle... before there is just searing  mass of flame alone at the tracks very end.
Sadly it would seem this release is now sold out from Altar Of Waste, but you may get luck & get a copy direct from Mr Nowacki, or via discogs?!. It’s certainly well worth trying to track down as this is perfectly executed slice of intense wall- noise bombardment, which is both moorish & wonderfully (yet grimly) sonically descriptive.