Inanition — Persecution
Inanition is a rather mysterious project that keeps both it’s location in the world & it's number of members firmly under-wraps. The project started at sometime in 2009, and so far has released around fifty six releases, which have taken in a lot of digital releases, some strand along CDR releases, and a few splits.
The track opens up with the sound of churning & semi cluttering malevolent ambeint noise, with a slight undertone of brooding drone matter- this part of the track rather brought to mind watching some strange & diabolic half organic/ half machine creature coming up a seemingly endless corridor towards you. At around the 6th minute mark more defined juddering 'n' arcing electro cable texturing kicks-in, then at the 6.30 point the juddering arcing sound disappears, & is replaced by a layer of unsettling slight industrialized drone matter. By around the 9th minute we’ve moved to a barren layer of blunt rumbling, which creates a great grey 'n' locked dusty ANW vibe.
At the 15th minute mark we start to get minimal on/ off bursts of rumbling 'n' roasting noise, then just when your not expecting it (around the 16th minute mark) they kick into full HNW mode. This ‘wall’ is built around a most atmospheric & entrancing mix of mid-range fixed static bound churning & layered hacking, which is under fed by this rumbling 'n' circular drone undercurrent. Around the 19th minute I start to detect sudden darts of revolving swipes or some similar shifting textural points through the ‘wall’ flow- it’s difficult to define exactly what they are as the surface is very briefly broken by them before they disappearing once again.
At the 23rd minute we move into a more rapid mix of densely throbbing 'n' churning walled noise,& head squeezingly intense drone sustain- as this part of the track carries on the under drone just seems to get even more & more pressing, & at points I felt quite nauseated by it. At around the 28th minute the dense throbbing 'n' churning wall seems to be slightly faltering & folding in on it’s self, like it’s slowly falling into it’s self & subtly deteriorating - yet Inanition just keep on it on the edge of been still firm & fixed ‘walled-noise’, with just a ripple of collapse in it’s guts.
The next major shift happens at the 37th minute, when the track moves into a mix of constantly tumbling bass focused noise, which is hemmed in by (at times) quite volatile crackling 'n' crunching noise textures- it sounds like the sound of several slightly differently pitch avalanches rolling into each other. Once again, around the 42nd minute, we get the feeling that the ‘wall’ is starting to fall into it’s self & deteriorate- but just like before it’s very subtle with the collective keeping the whole thing still firm 'n' fixed as the slow decline happens.
At the 47th minute mark we subtle shift into a mix of fixed battering back drone, which is enclosed by more rapid hacking 'n' jittering amassed crisp static hazing. By around the 51 minute mark the pace seems to be slowly faltering & slowing with drifting build-ups of amassed hacking & jittering static tones- yet just like in the past the ‘wall’ still remains firm in it’s dense-ness. At the 57th minute the break-down & easing of the amassed hacking 'n' jittering elements has become even more noticeable, and the collective creating a really great feeling of crusty & brutalized decline, like watching slow motion footage of a huge faeces & entailed wrapped alien monster slowly ripping apart & getting engulfed by flames as it enters earths atmosphere.
At just over a minute past the hour mark the once well defined textural elements seem to start to smashing 'n' splatter into each other to create this great feeling of encasing & sludgy bound brutality- bringing to mind been pelted with a dense mix of slowing drying tar & shit. At the 1 hour & 7 minute mark, just when you think they are going to carrying on creeping & slowing the pace down & down, a new rumbling & unwell yet more rapid texture starts up in the guts of the track, and this slowly but surely propells the track back–up once again. As this ‘wall’ carries on the collective expertly speed it up, then slowing it down again in a subtle yet at times quite nauseating manner.
In it’s last five or so minutes the collective cut back to slightly wonky & clashing mix of arcing textures, which are underfed by a grey muffled drone, and the track once again returns to it’s more moody though still slightly agitated origins
Simply put “Persecution” is a masterful & completely captivating 76 minute track, which finds this mysterious collective managing to mix together grey atmospherics, creative & entrancing wall matter, & the odd darting into more unbalancing & almost sick-iness inducing subtleties. It's a hands down masterpiece, & a must have item for any self respecting ‘wall-head’!.