Death To Dynamics — Crusade

Crusade is a single thirty-five-minute ride into constantly rolling, baying, and churning walled noise from this UK project.

The release is a digital self-released album. For the cover artwork, we have a monochrome scan of what looks like an old painting of a bearded man trying to protect another man under his shoulder from attack. Drop by here to hear the release.

The single/self-titled track comes in at the thirty-five minute and thirty-eight-second mark. The ‘wall’ is a decidedly loose/ crude mix of constantly rolling-if-muffled haze-bound mids, churning bass circling, and cluttering tone gallop. At points it feels like the whole thing may turn into a fixed rolling & dense drum-based mesh- but it never fully gets there, remaining hazed & brutally abstract in its unforgiving flow. I really enjoy the feeling of nasty crudeness to this track, and from time to time one can make out subtle shifts in the searing flow, be it a line of jitter static,  or more produced mid-range clutter- though I’m not convinced this is not just a firmly set wall of sound.

 Crusade most certainly is a crude ‘and’ unrelenting take on the ‘wall’ form- I enjoy the feeling of lo-fi-ness about the whole thing, as you do the feeling that the whole thing could suddenly rip ‘n’ shear apart- but it never does