Mutiiilation — Unholy Trinitiii
The black shelled tape comes in a monochrome cover featuring a murky & grim painting, of what looks like a native tribal man holding a knife against a topless female. The white lettering/ font of the cover is equally grim & stretched having an extreme metal or black metal feel about it. The release came in an edition of twenty-three copies, and as of writing the label still have some left.
The tape features four tracks in all- with two on each side of a tape. And really, as one might expect from a collaboration between three wall acts, the sound here is dense & overwhelming, yet at times it can be fairly nuanced in its contrast between thick & thinner textures. First up we have "Unholy Trinitiii Part One", and this comes in at spot on the twenty-minute mark. It brings together this locked ‘n’ brooding deep bass rumble, which feels more than a little sludgy. Added to this we get a rattling-yet- descending mesh of buzzing ‘n’ crisp textures, which is finished with weaves coarse jitters. And latter on I can make out smaller snapping ‘n’ grazing sub-tones, as the whole thing builds to an impossible dense map of noise. The ‘wall’ really grabs you in a nasty vice-like grip, with the low-end sucking you into tar-bound blackness, with the other layers battering you like two different pure static tides.
Second, on the first side, we have "Unholy Trinitiii Part Two", and this is the shortest track here at just under the ten-minute mark. This 'wall' sees the seared meeting of slurred-yet- chugging low-end tone hover, buffeting mid ranged sear, and smaller grain like washers ‘n’ swirls. The layers on this track seem a little more well defined in their separating, compared to the first track. Also, the textures utilized are a little more appealing too- so of the two tracks on this side, I’d say this is my favorite.
Flipping over to the second side, and we get the just over ten minutes of "Unholy Trinitiii Part Three". This sees the joining of rapid battering ‘n’ juddering textures, with lashing grains of thinner sand like sweep. In the last quarter I can make out this compressed & muffled roaming bass grind, and this gives the ‘wall’ a nice feeling of taut roasting simmer. The ‘wall’ here very much summoning up a feel akin to try & make your way through a desert in the middle of searing & brutal buffeting sandstorm, that’s pummelling your exposed flesh & coarsely lashing your eyes.
So last up we have "Unholy Trinitiii Part Four", and this comes in at dead on the twenty-minute mark. It’s dense, at times a little ill-defined blend of hacking-yet-muddy low –end, hiss bound & scalding static clamoring, and a growing selection of sputtering ‘n’ slapping thinner textures. This track feels akin to running in a cold & near freezing rain storm, and been unable to find shelter. The ‘walls’ are both totally unrelenting in its starkly cold battering, and stinging in their sear.
I’ll have admit Unholy Trinitiii was better than I was expecting, as out of the three parties involved I’ve only ever been impressed by Dosis Letalis work- and what little I’d heard of both NO123NOISE & sloth left me under-whelmed. Sure the release neither wows one with its original textures, or it’s particularly inventive flair- but if you're after dense, though at times detailed wall brutality this might be worth a look.