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CADAVER EYES  The Acquisition Of Power Over Fire / No Time To Ha  CD   (Heart & Crossbone)   11.98


This is another project from Isreali avant-hesher David Opp, who also plays drums for the brootal blackened bass+drums duo Barbara (whose amazing CD we also carry in the Crucial Blast webstore). Cadaver Eyes is his solo project, and it's a bit different from the black metal-meets-prog-punk vomit of Barbara. Instead, David has rigged his drums with triggers that set off samples of all sorts of ill shit, with David blasting and rolling and summoning up a locust swarm of electronic bzzt and old death metal album samples and bowel-blowing bass blurt. It's a hideous, glitchy, crusty avant-grind splatter holocaust, sort of a bastard fusion of oldschool Earache Records grind and improv sample splat, with lyrics howled in Hebrew and scattered with found sound bits, haunted vacuum drones, traditional Isreali folk music,shortwave static and buzzing noise, hissing cymbal noise,freeform drum retardation, toy music box melodies, and apocalyptic media soundbites. Totally fucked. We're dingging this MIGHTILY, the same way we dig similiar sado-grind noise thugs Burmese, although this is a little less carnivorous, and more straight up stoned. Or imagine powerviolence pioneers Siege and death-screechers Macabre meeting James Plotkin's Phantomsmasher for some hot free jazz action. Cranium cleansing shit, I say. Collects the 2001 No Time To Haste CD-R recorded by Steve Austin of Today Is The Day, and the Acquisition Of Power Over Fire EP from 2004 for a total of 24 tracks.