Ennaytch — Endless Emptiness Forever

Endless Emptiness Forever is a recent two-thirty-minute track release from USA’s Ennaytch. It sees the project moving away from its normal, creative/ at times quirky, and ambient take on walled noise, for a thicker, constantly churning, and bleak sound.

The release appears on Stemms Audio- which is of course run by Cincinnati, Ohio’s David Hilshorst- who is behind the excellent Whore’s Breath wall noise project. As with much of the wall scenes output, this is a digital release. The cover artwork features a swirling grey tunnel/ brick wall, overlaid with the project's logo. It can be found here 

The two tracks run at just shy of the thirty-minute mark, and each is as unforgiving/hope-numbing as the next. We open with the track “A” which, after a brief moment of thinned back juddering pelt, shifts into a full/ dense wall- this built around a mixture of rapidly billowing/ buffeting low-end, constant rattling static bound mids, and a few constantly slicing subtones. The whole ‘wall’ focuses on a feeling of hope pelting numbness, and oppressive battery.

“B” opens with a mixture of keen hissing tonality, blended with a blunt bass jitter, and a rattling mesh of juddeing mid-range tones- the latter has a slight aquatic veneer to it. This wall is slightly more nuanced in its textual separation, compared to the first track, but it’s just as hope-crushing. I’m getting images of a rapidly filling space of a capsized boat, with water hissing through, as the air depletes, and your head gets heavier with both lack of oxygen and thought clarity.

Endless Emptiness Forever certainly finds Ennaytch is a much more bleak and unforgiving place. It’s nice to see the project trying something a little different, and it’ll be interesting to see if it carries on down this grim path, or goes somewhere completely different.