A re-issue of an extremely limited cassette released in 2006, Hidden is another excellent slab of ultra-heavy, pitch black drone from Envenomist. The differences between Envenomist and dronesculptor David Reed's other project Luasa Raelon are subtle, as both projects produce intense pieces of desolate, bottom-heavy black ambience that is heavily influenced by the early Lustmord albums. Where Luasa Raelon uses a variety of instruments and sound sources to create it's monstrous industrial doomscapes, Envenomist uses only synthesizers to build these minimal sheets of black industrial drone. The seven tracks on Hidden suggest a much heavier Maurizio Bianchi, the sound is definitely similiar to Bianchi's icy, inhuman electronics, and the ongoing influence of German kosmiche music from the 70's is also felt on the deep reverberant washes of analogue drift and black hole drone. Vast waves of black shimmering whirr and deep doomy low end float through an endless void, the sound cold and threatening and bleak, a metallic black drone that changes shape with each track but never loses it's massive buzzing malevolence. Equal parts Klaus Schulze and Lustmord and Bianchi, with song titles and cover art that evoke a suffocating sense of urban dread.