Two Finnish noise artists join forces for this new disc that centers around a 25+ minute live collaboration that was recorded at an event called "Hypnocosmic Duel Night" in Turku, Finland in 2006. This collaborative set is absolutely massive and worth picking this disc up on its own; No Xivic and Gelsomina each contribute their signature sound to this jam, Gelsomina laying down thick and crushing layers of caustic high end feedback that whips violently across the soundfield, mixed in with grinding low-end distortion that resembles a battalion of roaring, feedbacking guitars cranked to full volume and scattered around huge stacks of amplifiers. Noodly space rock solos and cosmic electronics float through the violent storm of distortion, which I'm guessing come from No Xivic since I've never heard anything but megaforce noise destruction from Gelsomina in the past. The two artists create a powerful psychedelic din, like Skullflower's newer corrosive feedback-drone style but flecked with trippy Hawkwind electronics and cosmic FX that are sometimes out in front and sweeping across the roaring furnace of amp destuction, or buried deep in the chaos. This is an awesome noise jam that fans of the newer Skullflower discs like Pure Imperial Reform and Tribulation and especially Matt Bower's blazing guitar/feedback blowouts in Total will fucking flip out for.

After that nearly half hour bout of cosmic feedback immolation, the two artists present one lengthy track apiece, each one in their own style. Gelsomina is first with "Everlasting Fire", maintaining the theme of fire and incineration with a track that begins with soft swells of Lustmordian ambience and seriously dread-inducing black drift, then explodes into swirling, crushing distortion mixed with fragments of riffs, choral sounds and sweeping cosmic keyboards, like Klaus Schulze navigating through a blizzard of black metal riffs cranked to punishing levels of volume and distortion, and transformed into a Merzbow-like wash of grinding fuzz.

Then No Xivic arrives to close the album with a track called "Greater Suffering", and again I'm reminded of the newer Skullflower sound as grinding blackened guitars roar and buzz, building into a throbbing rhythmic wall of super-heavy distorted drone, crushing, seriously fucking crushing, and really metallic, but then additional guitars enter and begin to loop heavily delayed leads over the buzzing drones, bits of psychedelic guitar solos streaking across the acidic distortion and rumbling amps, some weird fusion of Hawkwind and Pink Floyd and Total and Merzbow, brutal high end skree melting into crushing dronemetal riffs stacked on top of each other, delay-soaked space rock guitars soaring through a fiery holocaust of guitar wreckage and virulent feedback.

I hardly ever hear guitar-based noise albums like this anymore, especially ones that rival the brainmelting psych-blast of Total, but boy does this disc deliver! Full color packaging that comes as a plastic snapcase with a full outer cover and a color insert inside.