Fermentae is an experimental electronic project from Cali artist Kevin Yuen, who utilizes controlled feedback, blackened guitar riffs and distorted drones to craft vast suffocating soundscapes filled with light-devouring dread and intense low-end menace. The limited edition 3" CDR Diasporia comes to us from the label Black Goat, and it fits right in with the label's apocalyptic black noise aesthetic, delivering a single epic nineteen minute slab of terrifying blackened industrial drone. It starts off subdued and ominous, deep rumbling subterranean tones flowing into abyssal washes of keening feedback and warped strings that are drowning under thick cloudbanks of corrosive distortion, gradually revealing these irradiated fluttering electronic noises that flutter down into the void. As the track unfolds, Yuen employs some interesting stereo panning techniques that shoot bits of pulsing noise and insectile electronic chitter back and forth across the sound field and add to the increasingly tense, skin-crawling ambience, and massive over modulated bass-pulses start to detonate in the distance about eight minutes in. The processed percussive sounds are joined by immensely distorted guitar that surges in like a wave of black buzz, the droning roar distorted to the point of overload, a black droning mass of crumbling swarming chordal fury that coalesces into a menacing two-chord riff that slowly oozes and unravels across the stygian blackness. As the track plays out, more layers of sound appear and disappear, blasts of howling tortured feedback and thick sludgy low-end noise, field recordings and crushing blown-out bass, dissonant drones, melting into a murky, super-heavy miasma of decaying sound. AT it's heaviest, Diasporia reminds me of a Black Mayonnaise track pitch shifted and time-stretched waaaaaaaaaaay out into an abstract black blur, or like Wolf Eyes gone black industrial. It inhabits a similar rotted, corrupted realm of blackened drone/noise as Wilt, actually, and fans of Wilt's more recent work should look into Fermentae, as well as those into the bleak, sinister abstract ambience of KTL, Tenhornedbeast and �thenor. Comes in a gorgeous chunky hand-assembled eight-panel digisleeve.