A companion piece to Ephel Duath's blackened jazzmetal opus Pain Necessary To Know from 2005, this collection of remixes appeared in '07 through

Earache and has the adventurous Italian metallers handing their recordings over to Eraldo Bernocchi, a reknowned Italian engineer and founding member of the early Italian ritual-industrial outfit Sigillum S., to reshape their complex prog/jazz/metal into dark new electronic shapes. Bernocchi has also been known to frequently collaborate with Bill Laswell and Mick Harris from Painkiller, and he brings a similiar mode of heavy dark dub to the nine tracks on this disc. Each one of these tracks is virtually unrecognizeable from the original source material, fully deconstructed and torn apart, and I'm only able to catch brief snippets of sound that I can actually trace back to Pain Necessary To Know. It's essentially all new material, reformed into a twisted collection of crushing Laswellian dub and spastic drum n' bass fused with blackened guitars and jazzy horns, brutal breakcore, distorted guitar lines melted directly into evocative synth hooks, ominous Aphex Twin style skitter, gothy trip-hop, scattered and chopped up vocals, super abstract and rhythmically dense , layered with electronic effects and sheets of dark ambience. The nine tracks are all titled "Hole" and ordered numerically, which further distances these reconstructions from Ephel Duath's original songs. Fans of anything from Scorn to Shitmat and Venetian Snares would be into this, and the album would probably appeal to those who loved the electro-prog of Genghis Tron's latest album Board Up The House, but this is mainly essential for fans of Ephel Duath and their Pain Necessary To Know album who want to hear the band blast off even further into the technovoid.