“Condemned To Life In Captivity”( is it me or does this sound like a Napalm Death album or song title?!) is seemingly the second  release from  this Cacak, Serbia based HNW project. Behind the project is one Djordje Miladinovic, who has seemingly been a lot more prolific with his other drone/ HNW project Raven which has amass around 70 releases since it started in 2011.

This CDR release offers up two tracks in all, and both of them last ten minutes a piece.  First up we have the rather lengthy entitled “ Negative Reciprocal Thoughts Toward Religious Propaganda”, and this track is based around a intense & vein bulging mix of juddering food tray noise that’s undercut by a purring & chugging lo-grade motor texture.  Both elements are feed out in a unchanging form for the whole of the tracks lifetime. The tracks ok for the first few minutes, but after that it just gets rather grating(in a bad way) and tiresome. Also the juddering tray texture is exactly the same sound this  project used on the first track of it’s first release( 2012’s Reign Of Bombs).

Next & lastly we have the title track & this once again is a fairly fixed bit of ‘wall-making’. It finds Miladinovic mixing together what sounds like a looped recording of a building explosion with this jittering almost coarse glitch bound pitch. Again the track starts off well, but after a few moments my interest has wondered, also the elements used just seem too simplistic & frankly bland.

Back in early 2013 I said that Clays first release (2012’s Reign Of Bombs) showed promise, but I’m afraid to say “Condemned To Life In Captivity” is very underwhelming-as both tracks seem badly put together & unitize very simplistic noise tones, and really re-using the same tone from your debut is a near  unforgivable & truly lazy thing to do- this is the type of release that is giving the HNW scene a bad name!

(afternote: I have since found out that this is in reality the projects first release..never fully trust discogs!. But I'm afraid my orignal one mark still stands, as it's still a very underwhelming release)