Damien De Coene — Non-Stop Negative Enforcement

Non-Stop Negative Enforcement presents with two slabs of churning, grinding & weighty wall noise. If your familiar with the euro wall scene of say the 5 or so years, I’m sure you know Damien De Coene name- the Spanish based noise maker who has been behind such projects as, Charles Razeur, Verwelk, Renoffski, and more recently Dod Cathedral.

This is a digital self released album. For the cover art we are presented with a very murky cassette sleeve sized art, which to me looks like a tilted to one side picture of some woodland at dusk.

Both tracks hit at dead on the half-an-hour mark. First up we have “Coward’s Way In”. It’s built around a set low end rumble, a cracking roll, and some jittering sub-tone detail. It’s a fairly simple, yet impactfully crushing ‘wall’- I’m getting images of a steady rock avalanche on a frozen white & crisp winter day, with the dust of the rocks mixing with the puff smoke like breath of human kind.

Next/ lastly is “Veiled Open Wound”. Here we once again have rumble- but this time around it’s slower/ almost circling in repetition. Around is a mix of rattling, jittering, and crisply battering texturing. If the first track was a rapid avalanche on a cold day- this track feels like a slowing rock tumble inside a cave, with the whole thing seemingly slowing as it progresses- though I suspect this is just a trick of the ‘wall’, and in reality it’s a fairly set affair.

Non-Stop Negative Enforcement is journey into soul crushing ‘n’ hopeless wall craft, from one of the masters of the euro wall scene …as always it’s great to hear new work from Mr De Coene