This split 7" between Southern Lord's newest addition Eagle Twin and the enigmatic electronic project Night Terror was sold out from the label before we even got our copies in the mail, and with the wave of press and attention that Eagle Twin is sure to be getting now that their new album is coming out at the end of this month, these are sure to fly out of here fast.

Fuck, Eagle Twin rules! I'd been putting off checking the band out for some reason, I don't really have a good excuse since I absolutely LOVED Iceburn and that Ascend album that came out on Southern Lord last year, and Eagle twin is the new band from Gentry Densley who figures prominently in both of those bands. Here, he handles vocals and plays baritone guitar alongside drummer Tyler Smith (who had previously played with Densley in the band Form Of Rocket) in an amped-up power-duo, whose dark and blackened tarpit blues sounds surprisingly dense and crushing for just two guys. Such is the weight of the mighty baritone guitar. Soundwise, their song "I Dreaded The First Robin, So..." is winding, slightly proggy detuned riffs and Densley's dessicated growl against a backdrop of pounding, rolling drum-thunder...this definitely reminds me of that Ascend album mixed in with some Casper Brotzmann Massacre, just minus the jazz-fusion elements, and stripped down to a seething sludgy riff-feast. Really looking forward to hearing the debut album after this.

On the flipside, Night Terror unleashes a completely different wavelength of abstract heaviness. This is the solo noise project from Jared Russell, who has also played with Densley in the ritualistic blacknoise project Gudgeguh as well as on the Iceburn albums Speed Of Light / Voice Of Thunder and Polar Bear Suite. The track "Feral Children" is harsh, ugly industrial scrape that creates a noxious ambience while dragging scrap metal and malfunctioning computer equipment down into a big black pit. Think of a mix of K2, Macronympha and Allegory Chapel Ltd. for coordinates.

Released in a run of 200 copies on opaque orange vinyl, and packaged in hand-screened sleeves with an insert and vinyl stickers for both bands, and held together by a thick cardstock ribbon.