Awesome deathtronix from Mike Page and his Fire In The Head project, which sadly appears to be no more. This limited edition disc was put put by the Japanese label Deserted Factory in 2005, and I picked up the last copies that the label had; each disc is hand-numbered out of 200 copies. I'm a big fan of Fire In The Head's crushing mix of power electronics, cosmic noise and brain-flattening drone, and how he ties his harsh audio sculptures together with dark, apocalyptic imagery. FITH is probably the only noise/industrial project on the planet that has ever "covered" a Cro-Mags song, which is saying something. This eight track disc is some of Mike's heaviest stuff, moving from the Skullflowery skree of the opening track "Silent Few" and it's harsh blasts of high end feedback and crushing blackened droneriffs, to the dense layers of clotted distortion and feedback and howling wordless vocals of "Trepanation", which reveals a grimly majestic melody buried underneath the chaos in it's last moments. The rest of the disc goes from clanking quasi-industrial rhythms buried under oceans of distortion, dark reverberating ambience, chunks of what sounds like mangled guitar noise a la Ramleh, even fragments of decaying melodies that slither through these symphonies of distortion, sheet metal and swirling feedback. The disc finally reaches it's climax with "Through Jaded Eyes", which unleashes a grinding caustic drone that is so devestatingly crushing that it rivals the heaviest Skullflower or Grey Daturas jam. Nice. Reference points range from the harsh, fast-moving noise of Japanese artists like Guilty Connector and Pain Jerk, the Power Electronics/Death Industrial mutations of Navicon Torture Technologies, and the corroded machine disease of early Broken Flag projects.