Splitter Roots: Nihil Fist - Philosophy Of The Hater

NIHIL FIST: PHILOSOPHY OF THE HATER

SCORE: 80/100

The first splittercore project marked down with the respective genre, consisting of 23 different tracks in an underground cassette format. Released independently in Germany by Nihil Fist, the project remains a major oddity - and one of the earliest pieces of a much more extreme subtext of speedcore.

Splittercore is more associated with noise music, with the tones being so quickly mashed together that they create a wall of sorts for noise, breaking sound barriers and structure with constant hard hits of sound that are nearly indistinguishable from one another - but it isn't as concentrated as genres like Extratone or Harsh Noise Wall (HNW). This is a highly experimental tape that mixes aspects of rock music into the harsh electronic sound of the project, and it comes together into something deeply interesting and entirely odd. 

It's loud, quick, and abrasive. It's the kind of noise music that overwhelms your senses, pulling you in and letting you breathe for mere moments before swiping you away into harsh, unfiltered chaos that crackles, chips, and belts. It's a screeching, pulsating tape that continues on and on in quick bursts, creating intense whirlwinds of powered noise before shutting down, starting up again, and capturing you deeply, gruesomely. 

This isn't quite the speedcore many people might know - it doesn't have the polish that many modern artists accumulated, it's something much darker, more grisly, less restrained. It feels like a true piece of the underground scene, where tapes like this didn't make it out of limbo, being passed around and shocking anyone who managed to get their hands on one. Despite it being such a massive oddity, it's also a massive piece of electronic music history, with this acting as one of the first experiments of splittercore. 

It does its genre perfectly, it's loud, messy, and completely insane to listen to. It's odd - purposefully so, there isn't any flashiness, just real, authentic experimentation and noise; and it's massively impressive at every turn. There is nothing extra to be heard or seen here, just raw noise music. 

In truth, this is one of the most hauntingly real noise projects you can get your hands on, even today. It's strange and unnerving while being infectious for lovers of the genre, and it's some of the most undoubtedly chaotic noise music I have ever heard. It's violently loud and harshly experimental, and it doesn't get much more authentic and impressive than this.