Compared to the last couple of Blue Sabbath Black Cheer records that have come in through our door, this one sounds almost serene, at least for the first half where BSBC delve into some of the most atmospheric blackened dronescapes that I've heard from them. Still evil sounding stuff, though, and their cohorts in Griefer follow up with a side of relentless brutal power electronics that still sets the kill-level pretty high.

Up first is the sidelong epic "We Hate You" from Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, beginning as a monstrous, earth-shaking ur-drone, a massive glacial slow-motion churn of underground rumbles and deep horn-like blasts that are stretched out into infinite roaring drones buried beneath layers of glitch and crackle. Throughout the first few minutes, huge earthquake-like rumblings continuously surface, the sound formed into a massive muted tectonic roar, like an incredibly deep, low-frequency slab of wall-noise. As it goes on, though, more sinister sounds emerge from the muck; bestial time-stretched screams and hellish moans that are extended into endless smears of vokill horror, and off in the distance, strange clanking noises and crashing sounds, a gradual rhythmic pounding that sounds like someone bashing out an irregular beat on an empty cargo container. Everything becomes buried under thick waves of static and blown-out bass throb, a hypnotic slab of blackened industrial noise, but with the second half, the slurred, demonic screams and guttural distorted vocals finally appear, howling above the grinding, rumbling black drift, becoming a sort of blackened, infernal power electronics, slowly rumbling and crawling towards the end as the sound break down into a mass of backwards riffage, black buzzing drones and arctic drift.

They share the record with Griefer from up north, who combine vicious power electronics with a sprawling apocalyptic ambience; fucking great stuff on their side. The side starts off with a massive distorted synth drone that evolves into a looped string-like high end scrape that gets pretty unnerving, then shifts into sheets of swarming fuzz and glitch that flow over super distorted and over modulated vocals. Early on, "Criminal Aggregators" sounds like this hellish alien power electronics assault, but then it becomes something more as simple hammered oil-drum rhythms materialize, joined with additional high electronic whine and buzzing, turning into a thick, oppressive soundscape. Then with "SMS Ransomware", the clanging metal percussion disappears and is replaced with an almost martial industrial rhythm and ascending sine wave drones that sound like air raid sirens, more super-distorted vocals again gnashing their way through the abstract electronic sounds. "Dancho Danchev" is another baleful power electronics assault, the vocals less distorted and more intelligible over the ominous rumbling drones and pounding metallic percussive rhythm, and the side ends with the awesome skulking evil PE of "SS8 Interceptor", layered drill-like tones screaming and whining within a vortex of pulsating black energy, with the distorted vocals locked in a fearsome cadence overhead. Reminds me of Streicher , Barzel, Fire In The Head, Slogun, that sort of crushing, malevolent power electronics, but with a horrific, futuristic ambience added that makes this as atmospheric as it is aggressive.

The record comes on nauseous-looking green and brown colored vinyl and is packaged in silk-screened jackets with two printed cardstock inserts, limited to 200 copies.