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Sado Rituals - The Wait [Zo - 2022]

The Wait is a forty-minute release/ track, which brings together starkly industrialized drones with rattle-bound walled noise. It’s a release that is both broodingly focused, and steadily battering in its attack/ feel.
 

This release appears as a digital download album on Porto Alegre, Brazil-based Zo.  With the cover artwork taking in an illustration of what looks like an old fashion cremation oven. The release can be found just here.
 
Polish project Sado Rituals has been active since 2019- releasing to date coming on for one hundred releases to date. Sound-wise the project's release has dipped into sub-genes like of harsh noise,  dark ambient/ drone, and HNW/ ANW.  And I guess here we have a close blend between walled noise and grey industrial droning.
 
The single track featured here runs at seven seconds over the forty-minute mark. It’s built around a starkly droning-yet-fairly rapid ambient tone- this hums of either uneasy air vent lull, or slightly queasy lift tunnel hum. Around this we find a constant low-to-mid ranged rattle- at moments these seemingly buck, or slight scape- though I’m not completely sure that these may well be a trick of the ‘wall’.  The whole feeling of the track is both starkly enchasing, and subtle raging in its attack. All making for a rewarding enough blend of industry ambient and walled noise.                       
 
So in finishing The Wait is another worthy release from  Sado Rituals- with the blending of industrial drone and walled noise element well realized/ executed to create a keen atmosphere, that hints at ghoulish intent.                 

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Roger Batty
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