MÔRG/Pace Fatality — Detachment From Reality

Detachment From Reality is a two-way walled noise split- with each project offering up a half-an-hour ‘wall’. And it’s a split that highlights two different types of wall-craft, we have the murky and grim walling of Indonesia’s MÔRG, and the thicker all-out raging wall-craft of UK’s Pace Fatality.

The release appears as a digital download release on Poland’s Gates of Hypnos. The cover artwork is of a black and white photo of a mist hazy and slightly blurred autumn forest- this works well for the first more moody and gloomy track, though less for the second more densely seared track. If you’d like to check out this release head by here. 

So first up we have the MÔRG track, this is entitled “Sengsara”. The ‘wall’ is a blend of muffled ‘n’ droning low end and a constantly descending meaty rumble- this is topped with a selection of sluggishly jitter and hacking static tones. Together these elements create a gloomy and grim atmosphere, which is akin to the audio equivalent of speed-up footage of something huge and blacked decaying into a forests floor. I really felt bleakly engrossed by the tracks weighty and rotten crawl, and could have easily have listened to this for another half-an-hour.

Next, we have the Pace Fatality track- which is entitled “A Waste Of Perfectly Good Happiness”. Here we find a very densely packed and crushing blend of fixed rolling bass tone and slightly rattling-to-gritty mid-range. With the whole topped with some hazing and thin noise grit, and the occasionally pronounced jolt within the tracks mass. This is a nicely overwhelming and suffocating take on the ‘wall’ form, and the whole thing has a vibe of something very nasty and unpleasant going on, which brought to mind the likes of Rough Sex Quartet’s take on HNW.

So in finishing a most rewarding split- highlighting two very different takes on walled noise, and I can’t recall hearing work from either project before- so that’s always nice, so one can dig into some else’s back catalogue.