Will Over Matter has been played on NTS shows including Fractal Meat On A Spongy Bone, with Black Candles And Ritual Metal first played on 24 April 2018.

Will Over Matter is the new alias of Harald Mentor, one half of occult black metal group Ride For Revenge. Will Over Matter delves further into some of the more mystic, ritual industrial elements of the aforementioned project with an even more obscure approach. The songs presented here on the debut are slow and painful. Each track is a mixture of low, undulating analogue synths and more unpleasant mid range frequencies and reverbed, monotone vocals. There’s this omnipresent unpleasant sound throughout, maybe a photo-synth or something similar which creates a sort of sea-sick atmosphere. This music sounds archaic, as if it was recorded on old reel-to-reel recorders, the tape badly damaged. Not lo-fi like Swedish post-mortem either, there’s a definite clarity to the sound, but there’s little to compare this type of rotten sound too. While the songs all have similar elements, they manage to each have their own personality. What really makes the “formula” work is the variation and progression in each track. Nothing is static, everything is constantly churning and twisting like some kind of snake in mud. The sound is physical but the song titles and vocals help to give it a damaged, cosmic feeling. 9 To The Moon is not for everyone, probably not even for most people, but for those who are looking for something completely different in the industrial realm this may satisfy.