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BURIAL HEX  Four Tone Poems Of Orlog  2 x CASSETTE   (Cathartic Process)   16.98
Four Tone Poems Of Orlog IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

More gnarly "oppressive necro electronics" from Burial Hex, that blackened industrial outfit headed up by the extremely busy Clay Ruby who also gives us the doom-laden psychedelic rock of Jex Thoth, the bizarre ramshackle blackened metal of Wormsblood, Hintergedanken's lethargic drug dirge, and the oddball psych-folk of Davenport. As Burial Hex, though, Clay's psychedelic tendencies disappear straight into a black gaping maw of grimy nightmare ambience. This limited edition double-cassette set serves up four sides of horrific dronedrift and blackened industrial sound, about eighty minutes of music total, and it stands out from the rest of the Burial Hex catalog mainly for the strange almost symphonic sounds that drift through these lengthy tracks. There are seriously eerie strains of what sounds like looped, muted orchestral strings, and deep rumbling tones that resemble the sound of woodwinds and brass that have been washed out and pitch shifted, sounding like a decomposing classical piece from out of a nightmare, buried under layers of rust and filth and decay and stretched out and warped beneath thick clouds of reverb and catacomb echo. Random scrapes and crashes echo through long lightless underground passageways, and simple creepy chordal drones drifting trough the subterranean blackness.

As you continue through each side, you descend into even deeper chambers of sound. Deep resonant bowed metal tones and soft smears of keening feedback are accompanied by ghostly wails in the distance and monstrous inhuman roars. Droning, buzzing cello-like sounds and deep pulsing low-end hum form into swells of vast deep-earth thunder. Harsh icy winds blast through cramped crumbling crypts, and bits of ominous piano and clanking metal pipes trail off into stretches of almost total silence. Delicate little fragments of melody drift through shadows, the sound is constantly decaying, decomposing, floating disembodied through Burial Hex's eerie underworld, ending in smears of kosmiche keys that fade away at the very end of the last tape. Deep blackened ambience and abstract creep come together into a form of ghoulish ritual dronemusic, sometimes reminding me of a cross between early Lustmord and the otherworldly black ambience of Moevot. Fans of the Aural Hypnox label and the abstract necrotic clatter of Uno Actu would dig this set. The tapes come in a heavy duty molded vinyl case that also includes a black and white sticker.