Creepazoid noise from Al Qaeda meets a vicious harsh noise wall erected by Dried Up Corpse, a side project from one of the guys in Blue Sabbath Black Cheer. Now, Al Qaeda was a new one to me; I had seen their name around before, but for some reason thought that they were some kind of lighter psych/noise outfit. I apparently had 'em figured all wrong, at least as far as their side on this tape is concerned. The thirteen minute nightmare of "Fucked" that fills the a-side uncoils it's atmospheric evil with distorted, heavily processed vocals, subdued feedback and crackling mechanical noise, ringing metallic tones that hover over fields of ultra low dark ambient drift...this is creepy shit that I wasn't expecting at all and which duly impresses, a pitch black fogbank of horrific industrial noise and infernal fug laced with sparse percussion and swirling psychotic dissonance, sounding like the wretched contents of hell being vomited up from the bowels of the underworld. A fantastically bleak and nightmarish mix of brutal Merzbowian skree and smoldering black ritual ambience. I'm on the lookout for more of Al Qaeda's stuff now, for sure.

On the other side, Dried Up Corpse counter with their own thirteen minute "Fucked", a brutal high-end wall of dense blast and swarming mid-range frequencies that whip through a black static storm. This is vicious chaos, formed through the powerful layering of high end hiss and snarling, howling electronics that are set deeper in the mix, and underscored by a crushing bottom-end rumble and a constant screeching tumult that hurtles through the piece like chunks of jagged busted machine wreckage scraping and grinding against the swirling blizzard of distortion, or an ancient torture device at work within the center of a raging inferno. Fans of intense HNW will not be disappointed.

Only one hundred copies of this tape were issued, each in full color packaging and on chrome cassette.