This is the second release on new Irish label Order Of The HNW which is run by Andrew McQuaid of Irish HNW act A View From Nihil. The first release was the excellent & present M[M] album of the Month 'Triumph Of The Broken Will' by A View From Nihil & this new release users the same stark, simply yet highly effective black & white cover artwork of three overlaid black blocks. It also features, like Triumph Of The Broken Will, a piece of writing by Romain 'Roro' Perrot aka Vomir in the form of set of bleak prose in French & English that heighten the sonics ultra hopeless & totally nihilistic tone.

Sonically the seventy seven minute ‘wall’ of sound that’s enclosed on the disc is akin to been in a deep & dark hole with tons of  liquid concrete being endlessly pouring down on to you. As you keep trying to fight your way to the surface of the rapidly thickening & weight increasing concrete mass. The track completely & utterly locks away the world around you with it's fairly rapid, crusty but flowing wall of sound which remains unstoppable  & unvaried though it’s full running time; though saying that I did detect a some slight movement in some of the tone grains here & there along the length of the track. But this could I course be my mind playing tricks on me as it tries to contend with the constant bleak, nasty & thick pounding sonic state. The ‘wall’ it’s self is built around a very loud & pummeling mixture of hacking & rapidly descending liquid plus stone tone that’s under drilled by this constant crusty bass roar- and that is pretty much what it does for it's whole running time.

So ‘Honour  to Bleak Existence’  finds the HNW form at it’s most pummelling, nasty, nihilistic & unforgiving form. With Vomir neither lessening or changing his intent to make the most extreme form of noise ever heard. On a personal level I have to admit that I’m not a great fan of Vomir’s (or any other HNW acts)takes on longer hour plus 'wall's'. I think the optimum HNW track length should be between twenty & forty minutes; that said I do find this more rewarding & nihilistic hypotonic than Vomir's last take on longer wall making  that came in the form of the ‘Proanomie’ album.

Certainly not a album for those new to the HNW scene by any means, but for those who have become addicted & sucked into the genres brutal charms &  enjoy longer unmoving & ultra bleak ‘walls’ of noise this is a must have item- as really no one else does it quite like Vomir.