Cannibal Ritual — Wild Holocaust
This release came in an edition of thirty copies, and as of this review, the label still has copies for sale. The CDR is presented in a colour PC printer cover- this features on it’s front what looks like film poster artwork of a mans arm been eaten, with background gut-munching, and on the back a still from 1980 film Cannibal Apocalypse(aka Cannibal Massacre, Invasion of the Fleshhunters, Savage Apocalypse)- so I’m guessing this film is one of the main influences on this release.
Each of the three tracks here runs between sixteen & nineteen minutes, with a total runtime of fifty-three minutes- and throughout it remains batteringly crude & unforgiving. Starting things off we have “Invasion Of The Fleasheaters”- and this drops straight into near-impenetrable walled noise- as we get a fixed blend of thicking roaring roll & slight thinner rattling texturing. The whole thing has an extremely blunt, crude & monotone feel- you can from time-to-time make at the few different layers detail, but mostly it’s a brutal noise white-out.
Track two is “Butchered In The Sewer”- and here we find a slight looser mixture of droning low end, and cluttering--to-hacking mids. The feel of this ‘wall’ is very slightly more defined- but once again the fairly simple textures are locked into a set & unforgiving sonic battering. Finishing off the release we have “Cannibal Virus Part II”- and here we have a buffeting & blunt low end, which is encased in a slightly skipping & cluttering judder- again very simple, fixed, and nasty wall matter.
In recent years Cannibal Ritual has tried experimenting & expand its wall sound- but Wild Holocaust has none of these traits. This release very much harks back to the crude & simplistic sonic batterings of the projects early work- so if that’s what your after, you’ll be happy with what we have here…through at times, the three walls do sound a little too similar for their own good. Drop in here to pick up a copy here