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Foul - Ripping The Flesh Out Of Your Guts [Burial Recordings - 2012]

“Ripping the Flesh Out of Your Guts” offers up two brutal ‘n’ dense yet layer detailed slices of raging walled noise. Foul is a West Virginia based HNW project, and behind it is long term wall noise scene-ster J Cadle who has being in projects such as: ...Massacre, White Torture, Oasis Of Fear, ect.

The release comes in the form of a CDR release which features a nice ‘n’ gory full colour front cover of dead/ mutilated bodies. The release features two tracks in all, “Ripping The Flesh Out Of Your Guts” which comes in at just under the forty one minute mark, and “Death Becomes You” which comes in at just under the twenty minute mark.


So first up we have the title track, which is the longer of the two tracks here. This track is  built around a very dense & full ‘wall’ that mixers together rolling roastings, boiling judderings & mid ranged static grain roasts.  From time to time other textures  snaking ‘n’ swimming through the  dense ‘wall’ , and these take in: spinning jitters, smarting ‘n’ slicing drifts, controlled almost junk metal like shunts ‘n’ seers, and a few other subtle yet rewarding noise details.  The ‘wall’ remains fixed ’n' very full through-out, with the snaking ‘n’ swimming sub-tones really making this a very compelling ride.  All told this track is a rewardingly dense & brutal  slice of walled noise, with some great layer shifting elements.

The first track was great, but the second is even better. The near on twenty minute track is built around a dense central roasting gallop 'n'  judder, but running around/under this are these very effective shifting/ on-off layers.  These elements take in: a weird almost tribal ‘n’ eerier metal on metal textures, a piercing high end medical like whistling, a warbling ‘n’ wonky almost sci-fi like slowed down Morse code element, churning ‘n’ cluttering metallic textural rain like storms, and a few other intriguing elements- all these textures are mostly very buried under the main ‘wall’, which really pulls you deeper & deeper into the ‘walls’ structure. Simply put this is a great, great  'wall', and it stands with some of the best of this projects always consistent work.

So this is yet another very rewarding release from Foul, who is surely one of the US masters of the HNW form.  It’s also great to see Foul’s work getting a full/ proper release it deservers, after the batch of download only releases. Though on the downside there where only 15 copies of this release made, so you may have to hunt for a copy. 

Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5

Roger Batty
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