Foul — The Burining
This release takes it’s name & theme from 1981 slasher movie The Burning. The movie followed story of camp caretaker, Cropsy who was badly disfigured & burnt after a prank gone wrong. Five years later he takes his revenge by killing a selection of teens at Camp Stonewater. The movie is often classed as somewhat of a Friday the 13th rip off, but this is a little unfair, sure it’s based around teens camping, but The Burning does have it’s own effective brutal & sometimes sleazy charm. One of the films key kill scenes happens on a wooden raft when Cropsy attacks & kills a group of teens with a huge pair of shears. This scene helped get the movie onto the UK video nasty list in the 80’s.
Foul summons up a suitable unforgiving ‘wall’ for his theme; he build’s here a dense, firm yet layer shifting slice of wall-making. It mixes together roasting judders ‘n’ chugs, waves of thick incinerating static, & rapid seesawing billowing- which nicely bring to mind the panicked & hacked-to-bits campers of the films raft scene. The track remains dense & muilt-layered through most of it’s running time, it only thins down slightly to a two or three noise texture attack around the 18th minute mark, when it mixers together jittering ‘n’ chugging mid-ranged tones that’s are tipped with smarting ‘n’ circling static, along with sudden off pattern & different speed burst of jitter roasting noise tone. The ‘wall’ kicks back in at full force again around the 22 minute mark, with this great sort of stretched grazing/ hissing draging texture running at a slightly different pattern & speed over the rest of the ‘wall’. The rest of the track remains full ‘n’ thick, through Foul performs some rewarding layer shifts along the way.
Like a lot of recent Foul release this sadly a download only item, so if you’d like to hear this I advise fast action before the link runs out, and you’ll find the link here in the tracks discog listing. All told “The Burning” is another rewarding slice of brutal wall making from Foul, with some nice & unbalancing textural layer shifts along the way.