Essential early industrial evil from the Italian master, Maurizio Bianchi. I remember when I first learned of Bianchi's music, it was after reading a short article on him that appeared in an issue of Bloodbook, the confrontational zine published by Dwid from Integrity. That article made his music sound like it was going to be the most evil shit ever. When I finally heard an album from Bianchi, it was excellent, but not exactly matching the sound that I was hearing in my head. I've picked up a bunch of newer Bianchi releases, many of which are stocked here at Crucial Blast, but none of them came close to that original expectation that I had. That is, until I heard Neuro Habitat. This new version of Neuro Habitat is a re-release of a disc that came out on EEs'T Records in 1998, which was itself a reissue of three early recordings from Bianchi from 1982. Yeah, this is what I was waiting to hear, a slithering synthetic creepout, heavy synth tones and hypnotic looped distortion that sounds like the crackle of a phonograph needle stuck in a run out groove amplified to monstrous size, and horrific alien tones creeping over waves of psychedelic feedback. Heavy, dreadful minimalist drones that sound more like an acid-trip horror movie score than anything, recorded prior to Bianchi's departure from music and his joining a monastary in the early 80's.