A collection of recordings from 2003 through 2004 from Emit, one of the more outre denizens of the "black noise" realm. The Dark Gods tape was released in a limited edition of 500 on the tiny Meurtre Noir Records label, which also put out the vinyl version of Akitsa's Sang Nordique and a tape from French satanic-black-ambient hellraiser Dapnom, making this a label that I've gotta be investigating in more depth ASAP. Anyways, Emit hail from Britain and since the late 90's have been playing a type of intense, evil, atmospheric free-improv that shifts from bizarre noisescapes of mangled, super chaotic atonal guitar playing, droning ambience and heavily processed vocals, to manipulated samples of classical music that are mutated into ominous orchestral strains that seem to exude evil, No Neck style clatter of metal being flung across a concrete floor, warbling feedback noise that morphs into massive whale songs, church organs, chanting voices in unknown tongues, fragments of haunting classical guitar, and eruptions of ultra-fucked up, disjointed black metal. This stuff goes way beyond Abruptum, if that's even possible. From what I've read online, the main guy behind Emit apparently compares the creation of Emit's "music" to the phenomenon of automatic writing, but however they are doing it, this is some seriously disturbing and evil sounding music that sends you plummeting into an abyss of nightmarish psychedelic wreckage and satanic dub noise. The Dark Gods features seven tracks of primo blackened mindwarp, and comes in a stark white three-panel foldout cover with liner notes from the demons behind Emit - seriously recommended for fans of music on the farthest fringes of experimental, ambient black metal a la Moevot, Stalaggh, Vomit Orchestra, Reverorum ib Malacht and Abruptum.