Ruine — La tristesse durera toute la vie

This brutal ‘n’ hopeless walled noise release offers up a two disc set- a full length CDR that features a new slab of battering & barren HNW from French project Ruine (aka Julien Skrobek  also of  Ghost, Figures Of Solitude ,and The Sandman Wears A Mask). And a 3inc CDR, which features a collaboration between Ruine with two Italian walled noise projects Nascitari and Molestia Auricularum.

The release comes in a DVD case with the smaller CDR on the inside box flap, and the full length CDR is in the normal place of the DVD. The artwork featured on the outside is fitting black line drawning of a stick like man in front of a mirror hold his head in pure despair & misery.

So first lets talk about the full length CDR - this disc features a single self titled/ untitled track that comes in at spot on the forty minute mark. The track is a deeply bitter, completely hopeless & pained slice of un-moving walled noise- the ‘wall’ is built around a bass seared locked billowing ‘n’ battering tone, and this  has a slightly crusty rumbling judder running under it. The two tones bound together to create this truly grim & bleak wall of noise….there really is zero hope, light or escape here.

The 3inc CDR features a single 20.32 track entitled “Necrostasi Collaboration”- the idea of this project/ collaboration is to use the same track for each release they put out, but each time they add on a new layer from a new collaborator. So this track finds Ruine added a extra layer of nasty bleakness to Nascitari and Molestia Auricularum original track. The ‘wall’ on offer here is built around a very stark, lo-fi & once again totally hopeless selection of tones- the main tone is a locked ‘n’ wiry juddering static tone, this brings to mind a continual line of looping stark electricity that’s flowing out of battered & stripped wire cable ends in a grey & featureless room. Around this main tone are a few lower & more subtle sub tones which are really echoing the same stark & pained static mantra as the main tone. At times over the tracks just over twenty minute stark life it feels like it’s drill into it’s self, and at others it feels like it might be starting to thin & the edges to possible slide into AWN….but I think in reality this is just a fixed piece of very torturous  yet blackly reward HNW.

It really depends on how much you enjoy really hopeless & bleak unmoving walled noise, as to how much you’ll enjoy & get this. For me the release offers up two slice of equally  effective yet different HNW bleakness…and if I’m in the right kind of depressed & low mood this kind of thing makes perfect pained sense.