Vainglorious is a three-track journey into searing ‘n’ roasting walled noise from British project Sacris. One track comes in at fifteen minutes, while the other two at twenty minutes piece- with the tone kept brutal and sonically unforgiving thorough-out.

The release appears on Stemms Audio- as a digital release. With the murky cut-up artwork blending together pictures of a smiling woman set against textured industrial-like elements. The release can be found here 

We open with “Escalation” which is the shorter of the three tracks here at spot on the fifteen-minute mark, and I’d say this is just on the cusp of HNW- with some straight very dense & rapid harsh noise tendencies. The track is built around a speeding low-end judder ‘n’ bay,  and a selection of rushing, searing & hissing tones. From the off you are slammed hard down into battering and culled soundscape- as the textures graze, then rip your ear canal.

Next, we have “Defecation”- this comes in at dead on the twenty-minute mark. Things begin in rather a reduced-though still intense manner- as we find a blend of constricting bass drone ‘n’ hover and tight rattling-grained judder. It feels akin to a dense black mass pressing down on your rib cage, and as the track progress it seems to get more & more oppressive- at points even leaving one gasping for air. In its second half the grained judder becomes more busy/ manic, and this nicely pushes the level of hazed confusion up- as your mind keeps trying to hold onto the shape & the tone of the bass drone.

Lastly, we have “Sublimation”  which is another twenty-minute track. It opens with a locked-down, almost dense industrial blend of low-end purr, squall, and baying tones. By the time we get a few minutes in or so, the initial shape & pattern of the whole thing is broken as we shift at first into a mixture of bothersome bass pull, clutter and judder. Again I’d say we’re on the cusp of harsh noise here, but it’s a lot thicker &   nasty- and at points, it feels like it could grind to a stop, but it never does.

Sacris has been active now since 2020 releasing around ten releases to date, and I must say if you enjoy the more unforgiving, nasty, and blacked-to-core HNW- then Vainglorious will most certainly appeal.