Another raging blast of blackened breakcore weirdness from the Zhark imprint, this time it's a 12" from Dutch breakcore beast Bong-Ra called Vitus Blister. It's been out for awhile, but since Bong-Ra's more evil sounding records aren't very well known outside of the aggro drum n' bass scene, we're trying to stock what we can for those more adventurous fans of dark, heavy electronic music.

Vitus Blister is a very different creature from the hyperkinetic breakcore and brutal ragga mania that Bong-Ra usually does. The beats on this record are as manic and frenzied and choppy as I expected them to be, but he combines them with haunting Gothic string sections, thick swathes of creepy and cinematic horror-movie ambience, deranged vocal samples, moaning choirs and demonic voices. Instead of incorporating crushing death metal guitars as he did on the Grindkrusher Lp, here it's a more abstract and nightmarish blend of evil, warped strings and agonized voices over spastic shuddering beats and mangled breaks.

There are four tracks here, beginning with the surreal "Naai De Duivel In Z'n Reet"; spastic drums are splattered and strewn chaotically across a nightmarish soundscape, broken with massive stuttering loops and constant, violently shifting rhythms a la Shitmat, torrential drum fills looped around into heart-attack snare rushes over a harrowing slasher soundtrack. The following track "La Plume De Ma Tante" mixes monstrous bass swells and hellish ambience into another infectious, crazed splatterbreak orgy. On the flipside, "Nomina Nuda Tenemus" proceeds with a nightmare of anarchic drum n' bass and swells of My Bloody Valentine-like orchestral sound and agonized screaming, followed by glitchy hyperfast skitter surrounded by vast black ambience on " Zumo De Mis Cojones Oscuro".

It doesn't make any sense to call this "dance music", unless your idea of dance music is attending a breakcore event being held in the bowels of an insane asylum while DJs mash up Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre with blood-splattered breakcore dubplates. This is seriously malevolent music, and recommended to those into the darkest, most depraved edges of occult drum n' bass.

Comes in a printed DJ style diecut jacket.