Volksmorg - Volksmorg

Volksmorg - Volksmorg

Volkmorg is a joint aktion on Terror records featuring the "heaviest and fattest guys from Lithuanian scene", Pogrom and Body Cargo. This is dead Industrial/Noise. Not in the sense that it doesn't exist anymore, but the sound itself feels dead, I think many refer to it as Post-Mortem but with this release that term may just miss the mark a bit. This specific type of Noise relies directly on its ability to conjure a scene to the listener. It needs to be evocative enough that it does not become common background music, but it shouldn't be so excessive that the listener gets deadened to its flow and crescendos. A difficult task, really. Luckily neither of these pitfalls apply here, and 2 drunk men were able to pull it off.

The departure point for this release from either projects previous material is in the organization of sounds. You can feel both projects here, but at the same time you probably wouldn't be able to tell who had been here if this was an anonymous undertaking. Violence is demoted in favor of repressed tension and control. The main elements are building, indefinably feral yet aesthetically-driven, droning uproars and drawn out waves of static and crunch that glides with a sense of creating cacophonous spaces through an ascending noise-contralto. Layers mesh gently as the tracks reach for an apex, a release of tension, that never really comes, instead separating and allowing the foundational sounds to complete themselves in straightforward drawls. This simplicity and almost simple-minded approach consequently never relapses into boredom and doesn't seem to be straining itself in order to avoid overindulgence, it just does it on its own. The sound, the production here is deep and raw but clear enough to show the attention to detail these guys give the sounds. Volksmorg is possibly a different approach to the same vision of other "dead" Industrial acts with a familiar sound, like Mauthausen Orchestra or M.B.

Overall this is a solid effort from both artists. I would hope they tag-team another tape with the same dreaded feeling that this one aspires to. For more information on this project and label stalk them here: http://www.terror.lt/index.php?page=releases