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Monolithic Torment - L.I.T [Self release - 0000]

L.I.T is a fifty-seven-minute slab of pelting ‘n’ jittering walled noise from this Springfield, Illinois project. The ‘wall’ is both unrelenting and oppressive, yet at the same time oddly entrancing example of the genre- and it appears as a digital download directly from the artists.

The cover artwork follows this project stark ancho punk like art design- with white texts on a black ground, and a picture of a woman smoking some form of drugs- so it’s clear from this, and the title what the release theme is. If you’d like to check out this release for yourself, drop by here

The single track here rolls in at the 57.08 mark- and it starts off as it means to go on, with a tense blend of textures. The ‘walls’ made up of the following elements- a rapid, slightly beaded bass pelt. Jittering static grain flow, and (possible) some more hack bound sub-tones. These elements are fed out in an extremely constricting and truly unrelenting flow, and within my mind images of pale white and nude figures clawing over a chalky barren surface- as black ice rain stings and burns their skins. Texturally we’re not reinventing the wheel here, but the elements are hard-hitting and nicely balanced in their attack, with at points one gets quite reward textural patterning shift occurring- though this is, I believe, a very much set/ fixed example of the walled noise form.

L.I.T is another no-nonsense, yet compelling example of the wall from Monolithic Torment. So if you're looking good ‘n’ tight wall encasement, that’s brutal and airless- look no father than what we have here.

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Roger Batty
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