Hour of The Wolf — Winter Light

“Winter Light” offers up a single lengthy shot of dense, swirling and darkly atmospheric walled noise matter from Andreas Brandal’s (Flesh Coffin, Drevne Bolesti, Avmakt, Museums of Sleep) HNW project Hour of the wolf.

On offer here is a single untitled or self titled track that comes in just under the forty four minute mark. The tracks ‘wall’ finds Brandal building a extreme dense ‘n’ nasty yet shifting ’n’  blackly atmospheric slice of malevolent walled noise. The track starts out with very eerier, nocturnal and low cable  like drones, distant wind like batters and low down noise drags; then there’s a snippet of creepy and sinister foreign tongued male dialogue which sounds like it could be from a doomy European art house movie set in a submarine. At the minute and half mark the 'wall' bursts in, & it’s mainly built around crashing ‘n’ rolling storm like noise textures, that are intermittently underplayed by grating almost calling harmonic elements, thunder like percussive battering, batter tree branch like static tone movements, and genreal uneven to shifting dramatic multi-layered wall making. All of which gives the track the huge ‘n’ shifing feel like your moving across slowly moving tectonic plates, but for all it’s layers and movement it still remains very solid and dense through-out, and keeps it stormy ‘n’ gloomy undercurrent through-out.

So if you enjoy very violent, gloomyly atmospheric and shifting walled matter “ Winter Light” is certainly for you. For myself I find it a little too active and shifting for it’s own good,  and I could have done with Brandal stretching out and prolonging certain textures longer- but I can certainly appreciate the work that has gone into this piece.