En Nihil - Time Destroys Everything
You might have heard of En Nihil, maybe with the 1997 death-industrial classic Death Keeps CD which was released via Red Stream?... Well, this project is still alive! After Death Keeps the project had a 13 years pause, and until 2010 there have been numerous releases on numerous different labels. One of the latest En Nihil releases ended up in my Kalteldur-review-mailbox, the album title is Time Destroys Everything. Released via cult label Deathbed Tapes... the cassette tape is already sold out, but that shouldn't stop you from checking out the digital album via Bandcamp.
The first track (all tracks are nameless) starts with a subtle humming bass... the kind of aural paranormal bass sound one might hear inside a coffin (when buried offcourse). Later on a thumping, distorted and flesh-scraping-chopped-up-sound moves up and down like a drill while additional (and lovely) layers of deep ambient sounds and harsh distortions wraps it all up! It´s terrific and pure death-industrial to the core, more focused on the early BDN-sound than the later power-electronics sound.
The second track moves us even closer to that classic, powerful and depressive BDN sound (Necrose Evangelicum). The sound of a bone-crushing machine working on some subterranean dungeon of pure torture, in the background there are wails and screams from souls in hell... begging for release! Everything is cracking and bubbling here, with lots of action and lots of that heavy-industrial sound!
The third track has a sound that sounds like someone exhaling their final breath, which then ends with a sound that sounds like a bomb that just has been dropped... this is looped in a rhythmic way! High pitched sounds of psychedelic morbidness prevent you from escape! Very nice, very nice indeed!
We continue with the B-side, the fourth track that is. A clear focus on thumping heavy-ambient-moods! Might just be the most rhythmic aggressive and cha piece on the album, really love the interesting and horrific layers of sound going on in the background! Perfect executed death-industrial!
The fifth (and last track) track moves more into the territory of free-styled harsh-noise. A grinding and lovely moment on the torture table. Every distorted sound feels like shattered glass which rips through your senses, imagine a looped car crash in slow-motion?
5 tracks through 5 places in hell. Slowly building up from the first track and ending in a chaotic moment of pure delight. A great album, and great to experience that someone is doing something which actually sounds as great as Brighter Death Now. Have you forgotten the classic death-industrial sound? Check up on Time Destroys Everything!.
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