Dead Bodies - Human Cocoon [Nihil Worship HNW - 2022]Dead Bodies Is one of the projects of ultra-prolific/multiple project-linked Russian Wall noise creator Ivan Sandakov( Autodestruction, Oasis Of The Zombies, Damage Concentration, etc). This project has been active since 2013- with thirteen releases to its name thus far, Human Cocoon was its first release in a few years. The release is a two-track digital affair appearing on Sandakov’s own label Nihil Worship HNW. Cover artwork wise we get a monochrome close-up picture, of lightly fleshed bone. The release can be found here. Fitting the project's name & the release title we get very necro/ grim sounding wall-craft. Both tracks are Untitled- the first comes in just shy of the forty-eight mark, and the second spot on the forty-minute mark. The first track is a mixture of this droning buzzing, and lightly shunting static drones- which are edge with lightly bumbling tone smarts. It all very much brings to mind slowed-down and grainy footage of a cloud of flies feasting on a recently downed corpse- hell at points you’d swear you can almost smell this track. It’s a nicely drowsy and unwell example of wall-craft, with the slow tonal drift keeping you locked in for the ‘walls’ near fifty-minute runtime. The other untitled track is built around beading 'n' bluntly droning lows, which are topped with shunting 'n' spinning mid and highs. With things become more jitterily bass/ blurred as it progresses. Again, there is a drowsy feel to this track, but this time around I’m getting images of cars drifting together and roughly trailing along the hard shoulder- with maybe half-alive passengers hanging out of the jaggedly smashed car door windows, This ‘wall’ feels a little more active and shifting in its layers, though it never moves too far away from its original intent.
As a release, Human Cocoon offers up two drowsily nasty walls- which buzz ‘n’ hum with all things grim and rank. I’ll most certainly be checking out more of this project's work, to see if it’s on par with this release. Roger Batty
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