Colorado black metallers Cobalt have released this strangely titled three-song disc as a teaser for their upcoming album coming out in 2009 on Profound Lore, but on it's own, Landfill Breastmilk Beast is another amazing dose of adventurous blackened metal that fans of the bands last album Eater Of Birds will definitely want to add to their collection. I certainly did. Cobalt had released one prior full length, but it was their first Profound Lore album Eater Of Birds that introduced me to their powerful, somewhat arty blackened tribal metal, and was pretty well blown away by it, especially the track that featured a guest appearance from Jarboe of Swans. Being a huuuuge Swans fan since I'd been a kid, I loved hearing her contribute her voice to Cobalt's pummeling black metal. So here we have this limited edition three song disc that foreshadows their next album, but it's no EP...this baby is over fifty minutes long. The first track "Stomach" will appear on the upcoming full length, so that's the "teaser". It's a crushing track though, and if this is any indication of what the next album will sound like, I can't wait. The second track is a cover of the apocalyptic song "Extinction" from the legendary NYC crustcore band Nausea, turned blackened and ferocious; the tribal crust of the original lends itself perfectly to Cobalt's sound. But the main reason why you want to pick this disc up is for the third track, the complete thirty-five minute version of "Ritual Use Of Fire". Segments of the piece were used on Eater Of Birds as short acoustic interludes, but here in it's complete form, "Ritual" reveals itself as a monstrous psychedelic dronescape of deep resonant drones and oily blackened ambience, caustic noise, grim acoustic strum, garbled cough-syrup drenched deathgrunts, and weird industrial sounds. It's an excellent epic slab of blackened ambient that demands a good set of headphones.

Landfill Breastmilk Beast is packaged in a six-panel full color digipack.