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BURMESE / CADAVER EYES  split  CD   (Heart & Crossbone)   11.98


FINALLY, new music from Burmese! It's been two years since the San Fran band released their Men album on Load, and I've been itching for more of their Whitehouse-inspired sludge/noise/grind violence. And on this split album, they're joined by one of the few bands that can withstand their white heat, the Israeli percussive metal/noise project Cadaver Eyes! Hell yeah.

The disc alternates tracks between Burmese and Cadaver Eyes. Burmese's stuff is a continuation of the vicious grind and power electronics sound that the band has been forging. Brutal low end grindcore built from blasting drums, deep ferocious gutteral roars, and splattery riffs is smashed into stretches of abstracted noise, which is still very influenced by Whitehouse all the way down to the confrontational song titles ('No Blood No Cum', 'War Vs Women'). Savage vocal freakouts emerge over rumbling feedbacking dronescapes. Warning alarms scream alongside fractured grindcore. Eleven tracks total from Burmese, and these are the first recordings from the new lineup of the band, which has 'em reduced to just one drummer now alongside the two bassists and multiple vocalists. Some of this almost sounds like Man Is The Bastard chopped up into 15-second chunks of meat, for chrissakes.

Every four tracks or so, Cadaver Eyes appear with a couple of longer pieces. Here they are a duo, with Cadaver Eyes drummer/vocalist David teaming up with someone named Zax on no-input mixer, and the five tracks that they contribute to the album were recorded live on Brian Turner's show on famed radio station WFMU earlier in 2007. Somehow, two guys manage to whip up a murderous frenzy of abstract grindcore that sounds like an entire squadron of feedbacking amps, blastbeating drummers, and cannibalistic vocalists all going off at once. Impossibly distorted riffs are pulled apart into rubbery rumbling black tar drones, and sampled death metal riffing is plundered and manipulated over David's splattery drumming. 'The White Supremacy' and 'Chocolate Soldier Disintegrates' fuse together as one massive glob of Khanate-esque doom that is thoroughly infested with piercing sinewaves and crazed screams. 'Execution Procedure # Three' comes off like a fusion of RRRecords-style harsh noise and tumbling noisecore loops layered over and over on top of each other creating a dense mass of improvised grind. And on their final track, Cadaver Eyes start off by painting a series of cymbal loops and subsonic bass drops with grimy feedback for 'Ba Yom Yom' that moves into percussive blasts of noise and bass, and then deliver an unrecognizeable cover of Skynryd's 'Sweet Home Alabama' that reinterprets the song as a doomed glitchscape splattered with dying shrieks and sludgy bass riffs. Crushing !


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