A "greatest hits" collection from Jonathan Canady's Deathpile, the seminal power electronics/death industrial prokect that he operated from 1995 through

2004. Canady's approach to power electronics was obviously inspired by the original UK industrial scene, groups like Con-Dom and WHitehouse and Sutcliffe

Jugend, but Deathpile took that classic old-school PE sound and made it MUCH heavier, cranking up the distortion, maxing out on the bass frequencies, and

delivering his vocals with a gutteral inhuman roar that rivalled that of any death metal band. The crushing, nihilistic PE of Deathpile has always been some

of the heaviest in the field - I remember seeing them live in Providence earlier in the decade before the project disbanded, and it was one of the heaviest

fucking things that I'd seen up to that point, Canady roaring about prostitutes and serial killing and general depravity while his partner turned his

synthesizer into a flamethrower, filling the club space with skull-imploding distorted bass pulses and sickening high-end squiggles of electricity.

One of the things that I always loved about Deathpile's recordings was how there seemed to be a kind of lurching ultra-distorted rhythmic foundation to so

many of the tracks. You'll have the harsh nightmarish vocals and grating synth noise, total PE assault, but then underneath of it all are waves of distinct

rhythm, massive throbbing synth loops that kinda of sound like clusters of programmed drums and impossibly distorted, crumbling guitar reduced to sludgy,

repetitious chunks of industrial throb, sort of similiar to the ultra-heavy industrial metal band Dead World that Canady also used to play in. It's all

electronic, actually, but few bands have managed to take pure electronic sound and make it as completely crushing as this, and was one of the reasons that

alot of adventurous metal fans (like myself) got into Deathpile back in the 90's.

Final Confession collects various out-of-print and rare tracks that have been picked by Canady himself for this release, and includes lyrics,

detailed liner notes and track information. The material is taken from 1997's Dedicated To Edmund Emil Kemper and Abominations 7"s, the

Random Acts Of Cruelty cassette, the 120 Days Of Sodom split Lp with Discordance, one track from the Ne Plus Ultra CD on RRRecords

(which we actually still have in stock!), 2000's Back On The Prowl CDR, 2001's Gutters Of New York City CDR, the 2001 power electronics

compilation Pornography Hurts , one track from the split CDR with Whorebutcher, and a previously unreleased track called "Slaughterhouse

Pornography". Most of these tracks run around five minutes, and consist of grinding slabs of low-end distorted throb and ultra-crunchy synth drone that

serves as the foundation for Canady's misanthropic examinations of violent sex, murder, exploitation, and subjugation with the kind of unflinching gaze you'd

associate with writer Peter Sotos, and those brutal deathgrowl vocals are sometimes replaced with taped recordings of news broadcasts and witness interviews from violent events that adds to the queasy, threatening atmosphere of the Deathpile sound. An essential collection of crushing American power electronics for fans of Sickness, Whitehouse, Prurient, Slogun, Taint, etc.