
Dosis Letalis - Humanity...Failing [Altar Of Waste - 2016]Humanity...Failing severs up two side-long slabs of battering ‘n’ blistering walled noise with a bomb-dropping & apocalyptic theme. This release appeared in early 2016 on Altar Of Waste- either as a C30 cassette, or a digital download- from Dosis Letalis band camp. I’m reviewing the physical version of the release. The cassette came in an edition of twenty copies, which are now all sold out from the label. The tape it's self has a nice theme fitting blood/fire red tinted look, and this comes in a double-sided sleeve. On the first side, we get in a red roasting & black human figure hung painting, and on the flip side a monochrome picture of a ruined landscape- where survivors are trying to clean up the devastation. All again fitting the theme nicely.
On the first side, we have the track “Bombing The Innocent”- this begins with a rough ‘n’ crude line of thick on/off battering noise, with slight cluttering & trailing off reverb. At around the minute twenty mark, a muffled trudging judder appears- and this makes the whole thing even rougher, cruder & blurred in it ’s churning ‘n’ battering attack. As the minute's tick by we get a subtle shifting mass of muffled & blunt textures- which move with rough rumbles, cluttering static descents, hacking ‘n’ crushing low-end tumbles, etc. I guess the ‘wall’ does summon up both the feeling of searing chaos & struggle that would entail from a mass bombing of a city- but personally, I found the whole thing random, shape-less & unappealing rough-shod. So, as a result, I found my attention wondering fairly soon, meaning that the track really only fully held me for the first quarter or so.
On the flip side we have “While The Rich Feast”- and this really follows on from the lose, muffled, and (mostly) fair muddled feel of the first side. This ‘wall’ opens with a blended rush of grainy static sear & blunt churning drone- with-in a minute or so the churn has become more pronounced & bleakly muffled in its feel. As the track progresses the whole thing becomes more & more ill-defined & brutally hazed in it’s feel. Once again we have, at times fairly sudden, shifts in the tracks flow, and these take in cluttering tunnel rushers, roasting billows, buried industrial like churns, and various other searing & muffled flotsam & jetsam. On the whole, I’d say this sides wall is even more shape-less, and extremely muffled in its feel. Sure it follows on & deepens the feeling of destruction- but I found it even less appealing.
Serbian based project Dosis Letalis is certainly one of the more creative projects to come out of the wall scene in the last few years, and it’s always trying to put subtle new spins on the genre sound. And while I admire the feeling of destruction & searing intensity summon up by both ‘walls’- I ultimately found the release rather un-captivating & forgettable. I guess if you enjoy looser structured wall craft, with an extremely crude & seared feel, you may enjoy this more…but I’m afraid it wasn’t for me!.
     Roger Batty
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