Two songs of primo damaged USBM grace this new 7" slab just released by Unrest. It's the latest from the Arizona based one man black metal band Ganzmord, who has been kicking it for a couple of years, releasing a couple of demos, a split with Dodsferd and one full length titled Monolithic in Darkness. The UK industrial/noise label Unrest might seem an unlikely home for a new 7" from Ganzmord, but this skews far to the left of USBM. In Praise Of The Weeping Filth starts off with "Blood (From Filth)", a torturous midpaced black metal dirge of anguished layered screams, discordant buzzsaw riffs, plodding drums, strange ambient noise and gnarly, muddled samples. A heavily claustrophobic feel hangs over this, and the out-of-tune guitars weave queasy minor key melodic lines that are totally drenched in melancholy and despair.

The other side has "Obsessed Over The Void", and the aggression picks up some steam here; the songs starts off with buzzing detuned synths and black smears of backward sound, then chaotic black metal kicks in after a four count on the cymbal, launching into mangled tremelo riffs and super-fast slipshod blastbeats while the sickening, reverb/noise drenched shrieks swoop overhead. The song teeters right on the edge of falling apart, and there's some really weird fretboard/riff slides and cool fuzztones that sound almost like a Hammond organ buried under a pile of muck. Things get more and more chaotic, seesawing between the central riff and frenzied passages of almost total blastnoise, and the noisiest parts of this song get pretty damn psychedelic. With all of the weird fractured riffing and noise and hysterical vocals though, there's some killer melodies buried in all of this black filth. Murky, noisy, drug-addled black metal freakery that falls somewhere in between the icy pterodactyl horror of early Fleurety, the barbaric primitivism of Beherit, and the melted, surreal landscapes of A Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors era Xasthur. Uh, pretty goddamn rad! Limited to 300 copies.