Graveyard Witchcraft — Incremental Cemetery Decomposition

Incremental Cemetery Decomposition shovels up two slabs of grimly battering and ghoulishly baying walled noise from this Indiana-based project. Each track hits dead on the twenty-minute mark, and each is as unrelenting/ bleakly horror-fed as the other.

Cover artwork for this digital release consists of a pile of skulls, curls of black vines/cables, and cut-up kidnapper text titles. The release can be found here. 

First up, we have “Post-Graveyard Ritual- Maggots Devouring a Corpse”. This ‘wall’ brings together a busy yet slightly wonky selection of tunnelling rumbles, rolling bays, flitting knocks, and tumbling crinkles. Together, these elements do very much suggest/ bring to mind images of a corpse being feasted on by a sea of maggots, in a rundown & dusk light graveyard. As the track progresses, I’m sure I’m making out subtle pattern shifts/deviations in the mass- but I suspect this is just a trick of the wall.

Next up, we have the title track. This feels a slightly denser, more rapid/ urgent affair- though it still maintains a ghoulish presence. Here we find a mix of a constantly rolling tunnelling through the earth drone, juddering ‘n’ meaty churn, and muddy flow. There’s a nice feeling of pressing dank earth like weight to this track-  and at points I’m getting images of desperate/ bloody fingers trying to dig their way out of a filled-in grave.

If you enjoy the thicker, hope muffling, and horror fed walling, then as a release, Incremental Cemetery Decomposition will appeal.