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BRIGHTER DEATH NOW  Innerwar  CD   (Release)   14.98
Innerwar IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

1996's Innerwar is the terminally evil fifth album from legendary Swedish death industrialists and Cold Meat Industries flagship band Brighter Death Now, released through the experimental/industrial arm of U.S. death metal/grindcore label Relapse. The main musical project from Cold Meat Industries founder Roger Karmanik (also of Lille Roger/Bomb The Daynursery), this long-running death industrial project has never sounded more harsh than it does here, eschewing much of the bleak, crushing dread and ghastly dark ambience of earlier albums like Necrose Evangelicum for a more violent wall of noise. And man, is this brutal. Definitely some of the heaviest "death industrial" ever, Innerwar bludgeons the listener with eight lengthy tracks of grating, crushing industrial horror, full of grisly images of viscera and corrupted corpses, and visions freed from a Peter Sotos narrative, tracks like "American Tale" and "Little Baby" and "War" feeding you into a great gnashing maw of metal teeth and chains and flesh-destroying gears, looped machine noise and abusive brain-scraping Whitehouse-style feedback forged into fearsome dirges of extreme low-end drones, ultra-distorted vocals that often cross the line into death metal roar, vast rumbling, churning slabs of factory noise and bone-rattling bass, and heavily manipulated, effects-drenched voice samples. A total fucking nightmare of abuse, distortion and sadism, as blackened and terrifying and nihilistic as any "black industrial" album, but firmly rooted in a classic industrial noise/power electronics tradition. Extreme blackened abrasion - if only Release was still putting out stuff like this! The packaging is pretty nice, with translucent vellum cover printed with the red BDN insignia that overlay the horrific abattoir imagery of the actual booklet cover. Highly recommended to fans of Grey Wolves, MZ.412, IRM, Navicon Torture Technologies, Institut, Deathpile, Steel Hook Prostheses and Sutcliffe J�gend.


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