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END OF SILENCE  Auditorium  CD   (Heart & Crossbone)   11.99


I'd never heard of this project before Auditorium crossed my desk; not that surprising considering that the band only released a smattering of cassettes and vinyl in the early 90s in tiny editions on European labels. Once I saw that this trio featured members of the legendary noisecore group Seven Minutes Of Nausea and German grinders Atka, though, I had to hear it. And it's not at all what you might expect if you're going by the ultra-blasting blurr violence of their other bands. Sure, End Of Silence works in the realm of pure improvisation just like 7MON, but this is more exploratory and atmospheric music that has far more in common with the muscular improv-rock of Caspar Br�tzmann Massaker at their most shapeless, the noisy thud of early 90s Skullflower and Ramleh, and the brain-destroying noise rock of Aufgehoben. Especially the latter - End Of Silence take a similar approach in using standard rock instrumentation to create an utterly abstract, fractured din of brutal scrape and screech. Where End Of Silence makes this srtyle of abstracted, near-formless cacophony their own is when the member's grindcore backgrounds rear their heads, allowing streams of endless blastbeats and aggressive drum-work to run through the clouds of guitar-skree and feedback and mutant lava-drone that the guitars and bass send flying across the three epic-length tracks on Auditorium. These tracks (titled "Frequentia Resona 1-3") are basically chapters in a single monstrous improvisation, where the band wanders through vast fields of percussive thunder and hypnotic blastbeat assaults, screaming feedback pulled apart into long soaring drones, gusts of violent electronics and seething high-pitched amp noise. The middle track starts off sounding like some minimal electronic ambience flecked with bits of subtle cymbal work and sparse percussion, then evolves into a creepy pulsating deathdrone. And then the final track drops in with a hellish storm of squealing psychedelic guitar noise and menacing bass-drones, relentless blastbeats in the background, a nightmarish blasting noisescape thick with sinister atmosphere. This grows more violent and chaotic, resembling a massive Incapacitants/CCCC style noise assault backed by grindcore drummers, the instruments frequently disappearing into the tornado of effects and feedback. It's pretty goddamn vicious, and recommended highly to those of you into the more extreme, violent realms of noise rock, noisecore and improvisational music.


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