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Black Funeral have been kicking around the US black metal scene since 1993, and from what I've read, their music has become progressively more and more fucked up with each subsequent release. Ordog is my first exposure to Black Funeral though, so I have no idea how this compares to their older albums; I can say, however, that this is some very twisted lo-fi BM action, a kind of psychedelic bedroom electronic black metal onslaught with layers of tinny, programmed drum machines and discordant guitars that are so distorted and blown out that the riffs are rendered an indictinct blur of white noise. Over this blur of ultra noisy hiss and blast are draped baroque creepout haunted house keyboards, these bizarre major-key poppy melodies that pop up all over the album, and a mixture of screeching, rasped vocals and ghoulish female voices. Plus all kinds of production fuckery that has sudden blasts of reverbed noise and mysterious electronic fug splattered over each song. It's pretty fucked up and awesome sounding, although I'm sure traditional BM fans will find this completely offensive. After a couple of spins, Ordog starts to sound like someone created an old-school 8-bit Nintendo game soundtrack usinged a black metal band as it's source material, and then re-transmitted the recordings back through a destroyed transistor radio. The lyrics are a combination of Satanic imagery and Persian mysticism and other occultic strangeness, and the album artwork features some terrific B&W creep drawings. The mastermind behind Black Funeral is one Michael Ford, and he's joined here by the extremely foxy Lux Ferro and Dana Dark. Ford is also a member of the equally far-out blackened cabaret industrial group Ordo Tyrannis, and fans of that band should definitely check this out. Awesome, mind bending black-hole blackmetal buzz filth, as sonically mutant as projects like Wold, Benighted Leams, Ensepulchered, and Spektr. Highly recommended.