Witch Burning features two thickly brutalising ‘n’ rapidly battering examples of the HNW form from this long-running California project. Both tracks come in at dead on the half-an-hour mark, and both are as intense as each other.

This is a digital self-released affair- for the cover art, we have an old black & white illustration of a tightly tied woman on a wooden pole surrounded by men in period dress- just about to set her a light. The release can be found here. 

Both tracks here are self-titled, and the first ‘wall’ is built around an extremely dense/ overwhelming blend of speedily buffeting mid-ranged clatter, hissing gallop, with a muffled undercarriage of rolling/ choppy bass. With the whole thing feeling like it getting more & more crudely rapid, though I think in reality it’s a rather set ‘wall’

The second track focuses more on the bass-bound side of things- as it’s built around a constant meaty & pacey grinding tone. Around this, we have more manically jittering micro-tone clutter, and sub-tone rolling rip. This track feels like you be been slowly but surely fed through a huge meat grinder- as one flesh is torn ‘n’ ripped, and bone breaks ‘n’ snaps.

Witch Burning takes in two taut as a vice and banteringly crushing ‘walls’- another example of no-nonsense/ no-escape HNW from Koobaatoo Asparagus.