Crossing The Gateway is a thirty-eight-minute trip into tautly galloping ‘n’ crustily weaving HNW from this harsh noise-to-walled project from Tennessee, which (fairly) recently resurfaced after a few years slumber.

The release comes in the form of a self-released digital affair. Artwork wise we have a moody illustration of a group of people walking up a dusk-hazed mountain, towards a fire-lined waterfall. Not quite sure what this is from, and the meaning of the release title, but it works well enough with the ‘wall’ that we are presented herewith. To check in on the track drop in here. 

After a brief cable buzz sustain, we’re into the nicely tight & encasing wall. This is a rapidly flowing affair which finds a slightly circling purr-bound low end- surrounded by a mixture of scribbling jitters, cluttering hacks, ratting rips, and splintering shreds. The ‘wall’ has a very thick & smothering quality to it, and while there are a few moments of sudden pattern deviation, or darts of sudden textural breakdown present here ‘n’ there along it’s near on forty-minute run. The ‘wall’ largely locks down into a truly unrelenting & enclosing mesh of sound- which very effectively blocks out the world around you.

Crossing The Gateway will appeal to those who enjoyed being surrounded & sealed in thick crusty Walled noise- where escape is no option, and falling through smothering & dense noise is all there is.