Top Bar
Musique Machine Logo Home ButtonReviews ButtonArticles ButtonBand Specials ButtonAbout Us Button
SearchGo Down
Search for  
With search mode in section(s)
And sort the results by
show articles written by  
 Review archive:  # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

Auditor & Venowl - Acid Revealing Open Wounds [Altar Of Waste - 2013]

Here we have a searing & horror-fed slurred doom meets noise collaboration between  these two Chicago projects. On offer here is a double disc cdr set, with each disc presenting the listener with two thirty minute slices of intense/ nightmarish jam-outs that blend together  blunt, sluggish & seared doom riffing, with pained shouts/ bays, and  malevolent/ nasty electro noise matter.

The first disc takes in two slices of studio based collaborations, while the second disc takes two live collaborations. The studio disc is slight more doom focused in it’s feel( through there is still noise layers present), while the live disc is expectedly more noisy & nasty- but both discs offer up some seriously unforgiving & nihilistic sonics. The albums write-up compares it to  “Khanate on LSD locked in a room with Merzbow”, and that’s a fair enough indicator of what to expect here.

Each track features a fairly simple riff, that is both bluntly hope-less & angular- these are stretched, stopped & started over each tracks truly torturous unfold. And along the way we get coarse clumps of bayed & pained yells/ screams,  bone rattling drum kit smashes, and skin slicing noise bound flotsam & jetsam. All four of the tracks riffs are fairly similar in their sound, but this release is  not really about melody or  variation- the whole point it to create the ultimate slurred, noised-up & nastily nihilistic doom worship. And that’s exactly what this does.

This release appeared on Minneapolis based Altar Of Waste- this lable normally focuses in on more of a drone, HNW, blacked noise output- so it’s great to see them releasing something a little different. And on the whole I’d say this is a worthy slice of noised up & torturous doom.

Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5

Roger Batty
Latest Reviews

Auditor & Venowl - Acid Revealin...
Here we have a searing & horror-fed slurred doom meets noise collaboration between  these two Chicago projects. On offer here is a double disc cdr s...
240226   Stephen O‘Malley - Spheres ...
200226   100 Tears - 100 Tears( Blu Ray)
200226   Garden Of Love, - Garden Of L...
200226   Blood Dolls - Blood Dolls( Bl...
190226   Various Artists - So High I'v...
190226   D.A.M. - Inside The Wreckage
190226   Senso - Senso( Blu Ray)
190226   Columbia Noir # 7: Made In Br...
180226   Brutal Shift - Pain Has Broug...
180226   Jakob The Liar - Jakob The Li...
Latest Articles

Crude ‘n’ Hope-corroding Wall...
Back in 2024, I got my first taste of Absurd Reality, and I was so impressed by how crude and nasty its take on walled noise was. Behind the project is South...
290126   Crude ‘n’ Hope-corroding ...
231225   Creepy Images Books - Killer Art
221225   Best Of 2025 - Music, Sound &...
041225   The Spectral Sounds of The Pr...
281025   Michael Hurst Interview - Unb...
071025   Xiphos - The Rise And Fall Of...
030925   Third Window Films - A Label ...
130825   HNW fest- Barcelona- 12th Apr...
250725   Raté interview - Walled-in F...
180625   Matthew Holmes - Of razor-sha...
Go Up
(c) Musique Machine 2001 -2025. Twenty four years of true independence!! Mail Us at questions=at=musiquemachine=dot=comBottom