Vomir/Earthenwomb — Split
First up we have the “Untitled” Vomir track- this project really will need little or no introduction to long-time M[m] readers, as we’ve reviewed around 50 of this projects releases on the site, and interview the project twice too. But if you’ve just dropped in here for the first time, I’ll give you a little background. The Vomir(aka French-man Romain ‘Roro’ Perrot) project started in 2006, and it has since then released a prolific & steady stream of truly brutal & unrelenting ‘walled-noise’. The project has influenced many, many up & coming walled noise acts, and is seen as one of genres key artists. The track on offer here comes in at 15.01 mark, and it finds Perrot creating a thick & dense borrowing ‘wall’ that mixers together dirty ‘n’ crude fixed low-end drilling, with locked reeling mid-range searing ‘n’ rapid static jittering. The ‘wall’ is a very text book example of Vomir’s craft, with focus on crude, intense & completely fixed ‘walled-noise’, that pins you down from the start & never lets up.
Next up we have a track entitled “Horizon” from Springfield, Oregon based Earthenwomb. This project also seemingly started in 2006(though a full length didn’t appear until 2011), and just like Vomir it’s also a one-man project with a certain Kenneth Parker handing all the sonics. Parker has seemingly been involved with a huge amount of Oregon based raw black metal, experimental black metal & blacked death metal projects such as: Alkmorhilyion, Darkosis, Enbilulugugal, Gromkult, Perpetual Misery, Revenants in Poveglia, Disfavor, Tactical Gorefare(what a great band name!), and many others. By all accounts Earthenwomb started as an experimental black metal project, but over the last few releases has morphed more & more into a ‘walled-noise’ sound. The track on offer here is built around a thick ‘n’ fixed rapid juddering bass noise tone, which seems to batter & rage around your head like a mass of huge blood thirsty bats. Around the main tone there are a selection of fairly similar range sub-tones, and this subtle flit & shift around the main ‘wall’ mass. The tracks fairly simplistic in it’s tonal make-up, yet the ‘wall’ has a certain crude blacked barbaric battering 'n' charm about it. For maximum & inescapable effect the track is sequenced directly in from the Vomir track, and it really does make for the perfect bedfellow for the Frenchman’s track.
So all told this is a truly unforgiving & un-relenting split, which never lets you up for air untill it’s bitter end. This is my first taster of Earthenwomb, and I’m most impressed with the projects truly uncompromising sound….so I’ll certainly be hunting down some more of Earthenwomb's work in the future.