Raté — Téra

Téra is a twenty-two-minute slice of searing ‘n’ baying wall noise from Bordeaux-based Raté. The cover art features a somewhat abstract picture of clouds and the top of a building, and this is rather fitting, as the ‘wall’ does have a rather rushing feel through the buffeting air/ thick clouds quilty about it.

The release is a self-released affair, and can be found by dropping into the project's bandcamp just here.  Raté has been active since November 2024, and has to date released twenty-two titles, with new releases seemingly appearing every two/ three weeks or so.

The single self-titled track comes in at the twenty-two minutes and twenty-two seconds mark, remaining very much densely fixed throughout. The ‘wall’ is built around a taut and thick weave of a sustained rolling searing tone, which is wrapped in a few buffering and baying sub-tones.  As mentioned earlier, the whole thing feels like it’s rushing along through the air. I’m getting images of those risking their lives wing climbers from the past- as they hang on- their clothes, uncovered skin, and hearing buffeted/bay in the rushing wind. Sure, there is nothing fancy or complex going on with textures, but it certainly is an exhilarating/unforgiving ride.

If you're looking for all-out wall-noise and searing sound overload, Téra will be your thing. I'm looking forward to what Raté do next, as it’s great to have a prolific name in the French scene again, as many of the old guard have given up their ‘wall’ ways sometime back.