EN NIHIL Recycled Music Series CASSETTE (RRRecords) 4.98En Nihil is probably best known for their Death Keeps album that came out on Red Stream in the 90's, but the California based industrial/noise project produced a decent amount of tapes in smaller editions on various noise labels throughout the decade. En Nihil's Recycled Music cassette came out at some point before the project disbanded in 1998, and showcases the harsher, cut-up noise side of it's sound.
Other En Nihil releases might explore a variety of areas, from churning tribal rhythms to pitch-black drone, rhythmic noise to surrealist sound collage, field recordings and gothic ambience and free improv, but on this tape, it's pure crushing noise, a lightless, hopeless void of grinding walls that fill up both sides. A maelstrom of low end rumble, metallic feedback, and chaotic high end frequency abuse, moving deliberately from massive static walls to violent cut-ups, violent feedback loops evolving into blocks of rhythmic distortion, descending into abrasive, psychedelic fx-pedal mayhem and massive torrents of echo and delay. This is probably the harshest recording I've heard from En Nihil, two gargantuan sides of psychedelic ear-hate that demand total submission.
As with all Recycled Music cassettes, this comes as a refurbished commercial tape labeled with duct tape and packaged in a duct-tape covered j-card.