Nauzea Negra — Abrasive Noisy Cliff

Here’s a three-track journey into taut, tense, and hearing ripping walled noise from this Mexico City project. Each of the fifteen-minute tracks consists of tight ‘n’ airless walling, which are as unrelenting and unforgiving as each other.

The release is a digital album appearing on Harsh Noise Wall net label, which is of course curated by long-term UK wall scenester James Shearman. Cover artwork-wise, we get title/ wall tone fitting picture of a close-up cliff- all jagged orange, yellow, and dark rock. The release can be found just here 

Nauzea Negra has been active since October 2023- with the projects bandcamp declaring they make ‘ Harsh Noise Wall, Harsh Noise, Experimental, Distortions!’. It has nearing three hundred releases to its name, these are all digital, and include splits as well as stand-alones, so an impressive feat.  This is my first taste of this project's work, and I must say it’s decent, brutal, if fairly simplistic take on the walled noise sound.

All four tracks come in at dead on the fifteen minute mark.  “Abrasive Noisy Cliff 001” brings together a rapidly galloping bass rip and madly rattling static grain. It feels akin to being dragged behind a vehicle on a steel shelving unit- with flesh being torn and ripped away, as first one shelf after another bucks, breaks, and sparks off down the road.

“Abrasive Noisy Cliff 002” sees a constant and speeding rocky roll, meeting a manically shunting static tone. This ‘wall’ effectively batters ‘n bays away at you- with quite a nice feeling of highwire chaos about the whole thing- though it largely is fixed in its texture map.

Lastly, we of course have  “Abrasive Noisy Cliff 003” – where we find a keenly battering bass tones and jittering/ smashing statics. At points it feels like the whole thing is either speeding up or slowly down, but in reality it’s a trick of the ‘wall’.           

I was most taken by Abrasive Noisy Cliff- with each ‘wall’ offering up a subtle different twist on wallish brutality. I will most certainly be checking more out of  Nauzea Negra's huge back catalogue.