Salt Lake City is no noise mecca, but there is a small and dedicated scene active over there orbiting the Red Light Records media center and label, artists like Night Terror, Gudgeguh, I Hate Girls With Bruises and AODL all raising a hellish din. AODL is one of the harshest of the bunch, a solo noise project from Jeff Shell that has just released its debut full length LP on Red Light after a series of limited cassette and CD-R offerings on labels like Hospital Productions, Audiobot, Trash Ritual, and RRRecords. Hard Cobble Abdomen is vicious, straightforward harsh noise, not quite HNW territory, but brutal and spastic all the same; the two sides rumble with dense noisescapes that Shell constructs out of amplified sheet metal scrape and violent scrap yard destruction, the screaming distortion of overloaded synthesizers, loads of crushing low-end rumble, harsh metal-on-metal nuke-scrape, skull-scouring waves of high-end feedback, huge swells of roaring, raging distortion. Sometimes vague rhythmic elements appear within the churning noise, but it's peripheral at best; AODL generally remains aggressively chaotic and formless, an old school harsh noise pileup that would fit in nicely in in the RRRecords catalog alongside artists like Knurl, Pain Jerk, Sickness, Killer Bug and Lockweld. Very nice. Limited to 200 copies and packaged in a silk-screened jacket.