A recent cassette release from these bizarre, not-quite-black-metal but VERY heavy necro-mutants, who some of you guys might have heard on their killer TortureStainedDisaster Ep on Rusty Axe, or possibly on the Audio Apogee double disc compilation that came out on Frequency Thirteen last year. This tape features just two tracks, but both of them are pretty long and immerse the listener deep within Brobdingagian's fractured, Emit-meets-Wolf Eyes industrial black blast weirdness.

The first side has "CITRTETMYIT", a lone guitar playing a sad reverb-heavy melody, the sound twangy and melancholy as it repeats over a simple backing drumbeat and mysterious background samples and strange swirling effects; suddenly furious double-bass drumming kicks in, and the band suddenly takes off into fast paced black metal, only the guitars are still kind of twangy and post-punkish. As the band slows into a slower, somber dirge, that strange goth/post-punk vibe continues to be mixed in with the noisy, ferocious black metal, giving off echoes of Lurker Of Chalice, but filled with tons of swooping effects and a blizzard of tape hiss, the track getting noisier until it explodes into a WOLD style white noise overload, thrashing metal obscured by swirling hiss and distortion, the multi-layered howls and screams sucked into the jet engine roar. Pretty intense!

The title track "Machines Of Unrelenting Terror" on side two is a bizarre, psychedelic take on classic Nordic black metal, a black plodding dirge of simplistic drumming, howling feedback, grim minor key riffage, those insane howling vocals becoming completely freaked out as they're run through a TON of effects. Through all of this, there's still that weird gothy quality that the other track had, as well as a bit of Abruptum weirdness, strange sounds and samples going on in the background, that throbbing bass line repeating over and over, surrounded by swooping Hawkwindian space effects. The end of the track has the band exploding again into a pounding crescendo, a killer hook over the pummeling rhythm section, oddly halting and stilted but super catchy, almost poppy, but becoming increasingly frenzied until the band finally collapses in a howling storm of fucked up noise, tape mangle, chopped up beats, and static.

Both of these tracks fucking kill. I've loved everything that I've heard from this band, and highly recommend this tape (as well as their EP on Rusty Axe) to anyone into bizarre, noisy blackened weirdness. The cassette came out in a hand-numbered run of 100 copies.