Aberdeen Abattoir — A Vicious Means To An End

A Vicious Means To An End is a decidedly constricting & airless example of the walled noise form. The twenty-minute track from this rather mysterious US project weaves together bass juddering, slightly aquatic jittering, and rumbling ‘n’ churning masonry tones.

This is a digital release put out by one of the long-term supporters of the wall scene, Portland's Basement Corner Emissions. For the cover artwork, we have a grimly inverted picture of a limbless human torso.

The single track hits dead on the twenty-minute mark, and the ‘wall’ remains very taut, airless, and dense. Though from time to time I did notice more focus on one element or another, though I'm not sure if this is real or a trick of the wall. The rolling bass judder, slightly aquatic, and masonry chugging & rumble tones work well to create a feel of suffocating overload and macabre airlness. With one's mind conjuring up images of some gross and steadily cluttering machinery chopping & churning up bone, flesh and blood.

A Vicious Means To An End is another rewarding and nasty wall from Aberdeen Abattoir, with the whole thing creating such an airless, unescapable, and crude wall noise