Wold/Fauchion

Cobweb Resonant Frequencies

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Radical black metal-smiths Wold/Fauchion forge a blisteringly heavy, rhythmic form of “mentation electronics” beloved of everyone from Matthew Barney to Vereker and Croww on the 3rd release via their highly collectible label, Owe CD

This is thee crud for anyone in search of metal and extreme electronics’ uncharted zones. Marking roughly 20 years since the band’s eponymous debut was dispatched from their Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada netherworld, the vessel piloted by Fortress Crookedjaw (and now based in Providence, RI, USA) marks distance travelled with a potently alien-thuggish, planet-destroying barrage of overheated machine drum pelt and trve BM energies manifest in his unrelenting drive and harrowing vocals. Ever since their earliest release Wold have been considered outliers even within the far flung brackets of BM, proper, yet they are still inherently tied to the style by means of production and intent on ‘Cobweb Resonant Frequencies’, which finds them flying ever deeper into the asteroid field turbulence of the mind without losing track of where they came from.

‘Saturn’s Thegn’ opens with a sensorial pummelling by charred kicks and intensifying waves of distortion recalling Alberich mind-breachers, and ‘Archonic Falchion’ follows with Fortress Crookejaw’s vox struggling thru a mire of barbed viciousness, to something like a ritualist darkroom industrial techno echoing their Black Mecha project. ‘Odd Radio Circles through Silken Sash Séance’ hails the pilot’s fascination with the insect world and perhaps most closest resembles elements of early Wold in the pull of its harmonic distortion, while ‘Whispers from the Angel’s Hair’ bring their ogreish trample and possessive vox forward to alarming degrees alongside what sounds like Jamal Moss doing rabid dancehall, before adapting Sun Ra’s Saturnian language to describe icy exoplanet sensations on ‘Cobweb Resonant Frequencies’.

Visionary works from and for the se’ers.

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