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Is — Pressure Vessel

[Self release — 2010]★★★★★
Reviewed 9 July 2010by Roger Batty
“Pressure Vessel”  finds Chicago based HNW/ Harsh noise project Is creating a single, highly tense and violent thirty five minute track  that utilizers only the sounds of the carbonation of water.

The track kicks straight in with a huge, loud and very thick juddering and boiling tone 'wall' which literal flattens you with it’s fired-up and ultra intense force of sound. I’m sure if you turned this to half the max volume on a normal stereo, you’d be blow across the room when the track starts. From this extreme and skull cracking start the track continues with it’s truly unforgiving, very loud and thick extreme noise path- as the track goes through slightly different variations of violent boils, manic judders and caustic jitters. I guess you’d call it extreme harsh noise with some ‘wall’ like moments along the way, as there’s too much shift and movement here to be called purely HNW. But what ever you want to call  it, it’s very effective and unstopping in its intense noise pummelling

So “Pressure Vessel” is one very intense, extreme and truly unforgiving journey into Harsh noise attack, that literally grabs you and throws you against the wall from the beginning and doesn’t let up until thirty five minutes later. This ones only for seasoned and very extreme noise-heads!