Slumber Between Rotten Walls tells the story of an immortal soul in a city that no longer resembles itself. It deals with the erosion of memory, the slow violence of gentrification, and the surveillance that reshapes every corner of life. It questions the power we still have over a place that only we remember what it once looked like — when familiar places rot, transform, and disappear.
"With screeching, blown-out vocals hovering over guitar feedback and stomp-inducing drum parts, Toulouse, France NOHZ’s first full length feels equally playful and sinister, borrowing from hardcore punk acts such as HOAX as well as early Scandinavian black metal (think DARKTHRONE), not unlike what RAW MOON did back in 2010. Compared to their 2022 demo, Slumber Between Rotten Walls features more experimentation with chaotic noise layers and nasty mid-tempo parts to roughhouse to ; a sure-fire way to leave you all wired and out of breath, wanting to spin that LP all over again."
- Léon (Fleckentarn)
"NOHZ was first brought to my attention by Francis of DEVIL MASTER after they had opened for them in France. It was no accident that both would be sharing a bill together. Running parallel to Philadelphia's greats of darker sounding punk like ZORN, or BLANK SPELL, NOHZ adds their own coils and lurches to the ghastly mix of chorused out hardcore punk. Also to consider is that France has had its fair share of over the top hardcore punk such as the mighty BUTCHER or RAPT, and the dingy, lofi, & obscure blackness of the Black Metal projects produced by Les Légions noires, so there is plenty of local inspiration to find as well that inform on NOHZ's sound. NOHZ exhibits forward driven hardcore punk but with a pummeling US 80s Midwest vibe like a crazed carnival or sinister circus, think of the swirling and cascading riffs of the greats like MECHT MENSCH or New England's SIEGE. Adding to the drowning whirlpool vortex are unrelenting anguished screams of the vocalist all set against the bass that sounds like it's played with a piece of chipped concrete."
- Aaron (World Gone Mad)