Alkerdeel's the heaviest thing that I've ever heard come outta the Funeral Folk label and the tight-knit Belgian basement-funeral-psych/folk scene that those cats associate with. Luizig first came out as a demo tape that Funeral Folk released in a tiny run of 66 copies, which had fans of gnarly outsider Doom clambering to get their claws upon it after it sold out quickly from the label. In steps Al over at At War With False Noise to re-release this as a limited edition CD in a run of 500 copies, and it fits right in with the other low-fi outsider black/sludge metal releases that At War has been dishing out lately like Sloth, Black Sun, Seppuku, etc.

The sleeve for this looks great, a three panel foldout sleeve with silvery ink printed onto the thick black stock, screenprinted by the French printer/label Tetedemort, and fantastic Art Nouveau artwork lifted from Aubrey Beardsley. The music? A single track of feircely noisy, low-fi basement metal weirdness. A twenty one minute track that starts off ultra chaotic and noisy black metal, blown out thrashing guitars whipped up into a thick murky sonic storm, sloppy blastbeats bashed out on trashcans, tortured screams stretched out horrifically. The song then moves through sections of nothing but room ambience and male and female voices speaking in French, haunting violins, strange clattering objects and other sounds, before kicking back in to the heaviness, only now the band breaks into some crawling, neanderthal sludge, a lumbering dirgey Melvins style riff, demonic howls, pounding trashcan drums, everything wrapped up in sludgy distorted noise. The rest of the song goes back and forth between the sludgier slower stuff and the noisy black metal, smashing the two together by the end into a mindmelting mass of fucked up, speaker shredding blacknoise doom. Crazed, filthy, deranged skuzz metal damage that puts a pounding on yer skull. Fans of blownout, noisy BM like Ildjarn, Akitsa, Bone Awl, Beherit and Malveillance will worship this, as will all of you creeps that dig the ultra low-fi sludge stuff like early Sloth and Fistula. Gruesome!