Final Expense is an LP from 2007 that came out in a limited edition of five hundred copies, and which I never picked up previously due to assuming that this has been out of print. It isn't, though, so we're finally listing this nasty slab of infernal industrial vomit from Deathroes, who any of you harsh noise heads know as the duo of Gerritt Wittmer and Ryan Jencks, aka Sixes (and former member of Crash Worship). It's been awhile since I've heard Deathroes, the last release of theirs that we got in stock here at C-Blast was the disc on Troniks, though the band has been creeping out of its hole intermittently over the past few years with a handful of limited discs and tours. This LP makrs the first vinyl release from Deathroes, and boy is it a scorcher...both sides are relentless excursions into demonic industrial spew, the electronic death-storm forming out of a multitude of layers of distortion, ominous droning synthesizer (or what sounds like one), monstrous demonic roaring that may or may not be coming out of a human throat, shrill blasts of steel-pipe scrape and scrapyard cacophony, and it's all whipped up into a frenzied deafening eruption of chaotic noise. While not quite pursuing the pure blast aesthetic of harsh Wall noise, the level of aggression and overload here is similar to that of artists like Cherry Point and The Rita, but then these guys inject a real hellish, blackened vibe into their noisescapes, sounding like one of Merzbow�s older nuclear-blast analogue noise wipeouts gone necro. Sure, these two noise-freaks drag out some more subdued passages of bleak industrial ambience and even briefer sections of pitch-black drone that adds a certain level of drama to the untitled tracks, but mostly Deathroes simply drown you in an endless black ocean of irradiated distortion and gritty, atmospheric death-drift. It's a fearsome album, much more developed and terrifying than their Hate Fuck disc, and fans of Sixes's brand of nightmarish industrial noise will love it.