Earthflesh/Kadaveric Kommando — Split

Here’s a split that severs up two around half-an-hour slices of searing-to-overloaded wall noise. Featured here are Switzerland’s Earthflesh and Brazil’s Kadaveric Kommando.

The digital release appears on Poland's Gates Of Hypnos. Cover artwork-wise, we have black and red illustrations of what looks like some child-faced melted demon, surrounded by layers of chaos and mayhem- so most fitting with the ‘walls’ inside.

So first up, we have Earthflesh’s “Bonecrusher”. It opens with a blend of taut/ focused whistling tone, which is underfed by a blend of rolling rumble and low-key clutter. By around the seventh minute, the high end has disappeared- to be replaced by a blend of lashing to knock mids & engulfed by bolder lows- with a rather locked/ unforgiving industrial feel to the whole thing. I really dug the switch between tone settings here, and it settles down into its main industrial churn & grind setting; the track's title is most fitting.

Next is, of course, the Kadaveric Kommando track “Abscess”. This ‘wall’ is much denser/ overloaded compared to the other ‘wall’. It’s built around a blend of swirling ‘n’ buffeting mids, battering ‘n’ pelting lows- with sub tone manic rattles, clutter and bay. I’d say it feels akin to being a storm of locusts- with a all engulf power/presence underfed by a feast of insects like manic-ness.

So, if you're after full-on/all-encompassing walled noise, you’ll dig this split- each party offers up a worthy wall, and they complement each other well- not much more you can ask for really.