Carrion Black Pit/ Nascitari — The Conqueror Worm
The tapes sleeve is pro-done colour cover affair that takes in a suitable gothic mixture ofold book like cover design & fat sinister worm drawings.
Taking up the first side we have Carrion Black Pit track which is entitled “O Verme Conquistado”, and I’m afraid to say I was more than a little let down by this track. You see this project’s work normally brews up a creative & often atmospheric mix of horror themed HNW & ANW, and their sound is normally quite distinctive & rewarding. The track on offer here is basically a rather bland slice of mostly fixed wall-making that’s built around low end billowing ‘n’ rumbling that’s weaved with more mid ranged jittering. Sure it sound’s lo-fi & churning worm like, but to me the ‘wall’ just felt uninspired & frankly boring. A real disappointment.
Flipping over to side two & we have the Nascitari track, and this is entitled “Il Verme Conquistatore". It starts off with a familiar sample of waltz like classical music, before the ‘wall’ starts in around the minute & a quarter mark. Once again this track mixers together deep billowing & rumbling low end with jittering more crisper noise texturing, but this ‘wall’s feels so much more meaty, punishing & brutally malevolent . Also my attention was fixed complete through-out it’s whole half an hour play time, and my mind never wondered once (un-like the first sides track). Once again the track feels fairly fixed in it’s attack, though at times it does feel like it’s slowing & ranging more into it’s self as the track progresses, but this could all just be a trick of the ‘wall’. In the last ten or so minutes Nascitari pulls back the ‘walls’ ranging storm slightly to a more atmospheric mix of receding rumbling & slowing jittering/ billow- most effective!
So to sum-up this is very much a game of two half’s; with Carrion Black Pit offering up a pummelling if bland slice of wall-making, and Nascitari a battering, bleak & effective slab of HNW.