One of the latest discs from this long running project from Texas noisician Richard Ramirez and crew, Skuff is a brutal mix of apocalyptic distorto-walls and industrial dirgecreep that comes to us via the excellent UK label Turgid Animal, home to some fantastic recent black/noise titles from Voltigeurs, Utarm, and Skullflower. Black Leather Jesus isn't as monotonous as many of the noise artists working within these noise-wall parameters; the tracks on Skuff alternate between spastic, droning walls of crackling, roaring distortion that focus into brutal beams of blackened trance roar, to the eerier, more atmospheric scorched drones of "Primer" and "Hidden Plague", allowing the group to explore themes of revenge, enslavement and extreme violence through shifting blocks of distorted, often monolithic sound. The last track "Smear Campaign (Vices Denied)" is a standout that combines super-distorted percussion and immense levels of rushing reverb with creepy blackened quasi-melodies that are lodged deep in the vicious maelstrom of high-end skree and punishing metallic clang, which almost sounds like a mega-distorted form of industrial sludge. This stuff is definitely more varied and aggressive than the static black dronewalls of his Werewolf Jerusalem output, and this disc comes highly recommended to fans of utterly bleak and extreme distorted wall noise (The Rita, Sewer Election, Cherry Point, etc). Released in a limited edition of five hundred copies.