Necrotik Fissure — Teapot Ess

Teapot Ess is an hour-plus slab of dense ‘n’ punishing walled noise. The release takes its title and theme from the series of fourteen nuclear explosions carried out by the American government in the first half of 1955 in the Nevada desert near Los Vegas. This is the first release I’ve heard from this Hungary-based project in maybe four or so years, and I must say it’s most certainly on an overwhelming attack on the sonic senses- which manages to present to window shattering power & searing roast on a nuclear attack.

The release is a self-released digital album put out by the project itself. Cover artwork we get a black & white still of one of the explosions in the desert. Here's a direct link to the release. 

The Necrotik Fissure project began in 2012, and to date has released nearly one hundred and seventy-five releases to its name- some of these have been multiple disc/ many wall-based affairs. I think I started to become a little jaded when it was releasing so many long( several hour-plus releases) as that all very well & good, and lengthy releases have their place. But personally, I rarely have the patience or the time to even enter such mammoth releases. So when I saw it had released a less lengthy release, I thought let’s drive back in. And I must say I found it brutally rewarding ‘wall’.

The single one-hour and six-minute wall is built around a blend of shredding low-end purr ‘n’ judder, constantly rushing mid-range static flow, and a few distant knocking rattling sub-tones. This is set into an extremely dense matt of sound that is both rapid & decidedly roughshod in its attack & feel. Visual I’m getting images of archaic & black stream power tank rolling on & on, though a lashing sand storm- the last part nicely ties into the release of nuclear testing in the desert theme. In its last twenty or so minutes the low-end tones seemingly become more raw ‘n’ ripping in their attack, sounding akin to a blunt & rust-edged chainsaw trying to cut through flesh & fat.

Teapot Ess is very much for the more seasoned wall-head, who enjoys lengthy and unforgiving head grinds. It’s good to see Necrotik Fissure still plugging away at creating wall-noise, and I certainly won’t leave as long before checking in on the project again.