This grimily gorgeous picture disc is the second vinyl-only release from Burial Chamber Trio, another Sunn O))) splinter group a la Grave Temple Trio. And just like the aforementioned Trio, this features avant-guitarist Oren Ambarchi (also credited on analog electronics) and the blackened throat of Attila Csihar (of Mayhem, Aborym, and Sear Bliss fame) teaming up with 1/2 of the core Sunn O))) duo, this time being Greg Anderson (also of Engine Kid, Thorrs Hammer, etc). I missed out on the 1st vinyl release that the Burial Chamber Trio released through Southern Lord last year as it went out of print almost immediately after being released, but we managed to get ahold of a bunch of copies of this new 10" picture disc before it disappears. And man, is this one heavy jam. Recorded live in Rotterdam, Holland in January of 2007 at Club:Wurm, each side is a total subterranean bass-murk ritual, the band swimming though black pools of vibrational subsonic amplifier rumbles and some really diseased-sounding waves of rotten feedback, all low bass frequencies and pulsating distorted amp throb swirling around Attila's creepy, inhuman growls and wordless mutterings. He sounds like he's channeling some fucked up Orc language with those slurred vocals, which adds an additional layer of bestial filth to these proceedings. Every once in a while a huge megadoom powerchord rises up out of the murk and I'm suddenly reminded of Sunn O)))'s Flight Of The Behemoth album before the band slowly sinks back into a wholly blown out and nightmarish morass of beyond-slow motion sludge noise. But really, this is a much noisier, nastier beast than Sunn O))), and is actually kinda closer in spirit to the amazing blacknoise cassettes that Epicene Sound has been putting out lately from Kvlt Of Unicron, Altar Of Flies, and Gnaw Their Tongues.
The artwork and packaging on this record is awesome as well, each side of the picture disc covered in bizarre cartoonish artwork depicting mutant demonworms, the record held in a transparent mylar sleeve that is printed with gold and black images of rotting skulls and grubworms and slime, forming a cool layering effect, all created by Seldon Hunt. Limited edition of 3,000 copies!