PRESS/MICHALA AUSTIN
CONSOULING SOUNDS
Serial party pooper Maurice ‘Mories’ De Jong continues his seemingly inexhaustible one-man hate campaign with another devastatingly misanthropic meld of power electronics, mutant sludge, bastardised black metal and Silent Hill-style horror soundtracks. Mories’s unrelenting bleak worldview permeates a hellish zone of shamelessly unedifying, noise-laden assaults. Warring textures of misery compete for dominion on the pulsating Mensenlucht and the blasphemous church-organ-led filth of Vengeful Spit, broiling in existential odium, as blood-curdling howls alternate between frenzied scorn and despairing petitions for deliverance. The album’s title is totally misleading: suffering appears endless here, with Mories pushing despond to unsurpassed depths, his terrifying antimusic effecting a soul purge through total evisceration.