Brutal demonic power electronic annihilation! Sam McKinlay , the guy behind BT.HN, is better known in noise circles for his scorching harsh noise wall project The Rita that has been melting brain matter since the mid 90's with monolithic blocks of pulverizing, long-form distorted noise, but I've always loved his stuff as BT.HN at least as much as The Rita, even though this project has released just a handful of titled over the years, including an excellent disc of blackened noise that came out on Troniks two years ago. Much of the BT.HN output is out of print, but Retrospective collects several of these hard-to-find recordings in one place in a nicely packaged limited edition disc from Pointless Blank, and it's an excellent starting point for anyone who wants to explore the terrifying black realms of BT.HN.'s crushing horror-noise.

Somewhat similar (though more active and dynamic) to The Rita's brutal HNW, BT.HN. adds it�s own signature horror to the sound in the form of demonic screams and guttural growling run through fleshcurdling amounts of distortion and delay, as well as loads of manipulated horror film samples that both introduce and then weave throughout the lengthy tracks. Bits of old horror movie scores are absorbed into crushing blasts of distorted noise and massive waves of rumbling black bass, with fragments of blown out melody buried underneath the crumbling walls. With those vicious vokills roaring underneath the layers of crumbling, churning distortion, BT.HN.'s hellish din often sounds like a death metal vocalist drowning in vat of black noise. The disc features material from the Crypts Of Dark And Obscure Lineage cassette on Iatrogenesis Records, the Wolf Woman Of Black Lake cassette originally released on Audiobot, the early BA.KU. material from the Barrier Kult skate video, and more.

Comes in a silkscreened chipboard gatefold jacket, and is limited to 85 copies.