Dosis Letalis - In These Troubled Times

Harsh noise wall is a fairly new subgenre within the realm of noise music. Some have proclaimed that it was pioneered by Sam McKinlay (The Rita) in the late 90s. I felt for this style, mainly of its reason not to be "extreme" like power-electronics, or to overdo your finger skills in harsh-noise. 

Harsh noise wall is a non-dynamic treatment of static noise with minimal glimpses of hidden textures of images and sound, hidden within a thick distorted wall of noise. Similar ideas have been explored by the likes of Boyd Rice, Haters and the New Blockaders.

Now a new genre of wall has been showing it´s ugly face, ambient noise wall. So what the heck is ambient noise wall?. Well, I don't know. All that I can say, is it´s like harsh noise wall with an atmospheric mood. And one of these is Serbian based Dosis Letalis, although I wouldn't actually call it ambient but it sure got lots of atmosphere and mood compared to others.

Heard this act through the tape label Grey Matter Production´s Bandcamp site, and fell in love with this release. It grew on me and keeps on growing. In the same way like Earth debut from 1993 (with their sludgy drone/noise rock). Like Earth, the sound almost has a physical presence and it lifts you few cm of the ground (or the couch). It´s an evocative beast of hypnotic relentlessness, keeping your mind and ears at a constant curious state of mind.

With this tape (with cover art and album title), we´re working with a kind of a post-apocalyptic theme of despair and desperate human survival. And Dosis Letalis is the shelter we´re having, against whatever that want´s to hurt us. Makes sense to me. If you are curious about this underground noise genre, then this IS a good start. Dosis Letalis has had several releases under its arm, so be sure to check them out!   

Grey Matter Production :

https://greymatternoise.bandcamp.com/

Dosis Letalis : 

https://dosisletalis.bandcamp.com/