DEATH FACTORY Recycled Music Series CASSETTE (RRRecords) 4.98More of the heavy old school industrial and dark psychedelia that Death Factory first introduced me to on the split with Messiah Complex that came out on At War With False Noise. This 2006 entry in the Recycled Music Series delivers two full sides of grim industrial delirium, starting off with blown out musical loops and fragmented bits of what sounds like ultra-distorted jazz, then turns into a nightmare din of random samples, rhythmic blats of bass and grinding industrial percussion, with bleeping proto-electro rhythms taking form that start to make this resemble something from SPK, Throbbing Gristle or Wolf Eyes. After awhile, they throw in some spastic drum machine blastbeats and muffled speedcore rhythms, jackhammer gabber clank infested with rusted feedback, and then changes shape once again, shifting between the heavy creeping Wolf Eyes-style dirge and collages of scraping metal abuse, barrages of fx and processed samples, extreme pedal abuse freakouts emerging alongside sequences of almost techno-like rhythmic throb.
On side b, the material is taken from a series of live recordings. Squelchy electronics fuse with brutal clank into a psychedelic freeform noise mess. Mangled guitar improv uncoils and twitches over ritualistic percussion and smears of backwards sound. Things start to get dreamier and more spaced-out towards the end, acid guitar leads burning through sound collages of guitar noise and pipe organs and cosmic drones, the sound veering completely into an out guitar freakout at the very end, with squealing, skronked guitar splattered over a spastic oscillator meltdown. The stuff on the split tape was more industrial, where this stuff leans more towards the free-improv side of things, but it's the combination of the two that makes Death Factory's stuff so interesting.
Like the rest of the Recycled Music Series, this comes in a duct-tape covered package.