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CADAVER IN DRAG  Church Burner  CASSETTE   (Husk Records)   7.00
Church Burner IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

This tape rates a solid ten on the heaviness scale. Church Burner is the first cassette on Husk Records, the excellent black/noise label run by Josh Lay of Cadaver In Drag, and it's the heaviest shit that I have ever heard from this band. If you were into the sludgy, trance-doom workouts that consisted their full-length on Animal Disguise, wait till you hear this.

On the first side, Cadaver In Drag lay down a devastating slab of slow-motion punishment; think Melvins / Toadliquor / Burning Witch, a ridiculously slow, bass-heavy riff uncoiling around pounding abstract caveman drumming, no vocals at first, just a massive instrumental tectonic lurch that is WAY heavier than anything they've done before. Suddenly the guitar disappears, leaving just the drummer who now starts playing even slower than before, his muffled drum hits drawn out between long pauses, then the guitar drops back in without warning, spewing droning, tar-black heaviness, the whole jam recorded underneath a thick layer of murk and corroded magnetic tape. Then the vocals finally appear, a gargled retching vokill assault that appears at the very end, screaming over the simple drum pound and shrieking feedback drone, getting completely abstract at the end as it rots into an improvised chaos of formless drum pound and amp noise, which then reverses into a muddy, murky electro-acoustic blur before coming to a close.

On the b-side, the band delivers an abstract sludgescape that's a little closer to the older stuff of their that I have, huge formless riffs, whirling feedback tones and thick low-end amp-drone congealing with throbbing electronic low-end. Creepy melodies begin to slowly drift in, joined by bits of chiming metal and oscillating synth notes, belches of garbled bass, pulsating percussive sounds, getting more ominous and threatening and finally evolving into a throbbing malevolent Wolf Eyes-esque dirge.

Comes in a translucent acetate cover,and is limited to 100 copies.