Aun / Habsyll – Split (2010)

In the Aun / Habsyll split album we find a perfect example of why buying split releases is not always a good idea. Aun, hailing from Canada, crusher their listeners with their monumental Noise/Drone Doom music, and on the other side French Habysll bored us to death with their (luckly) single track in this release.

Noise/Drone Doom is an acquired taste and it’s sometimes hard to differentiate the true genius from the plain terrible. In this release, you can easily do that since Aun propose more with their music and have enthralling passages that kept me engaged. On the other hand, Habsyll used one cord and some tribal drums to bore us to sleep.

Aun does a great job with their tracks “Driuds” and “FallOut” in generating an excruciatingly slow and painful voyage through droning sounds. With some minimalistic use of drums and well defined beats (on “FallOut”) the band keeps us in synch with their music from begging till the end.

Habsyll on the other hand, quickly made this high disappear with their excruciatingly cliché ridden song “IV”. Yes, you need to have crushing guitars and ritualistic drumming, but you also need to add more inspiration. Plus the vocals are just sooo bad, the screams made us envision what we would be yelling in a few hours if we could not switch off this bad song.

In general, this release is worth your attention just because of Aun’s two tracks. If you are a fan of the genre, check this release out (minus track 3) and be prepared to be crushed.

Release: May 18th, 2010

Country: Canada/France