The influx of Actuary records and tapes keeps coming in, and this one has them hooking up with another recent discovery of mine, +DOG+, another West Coast noise project that has been around for awhile but until now has totally evaded me. On this split 7", both bands bring about a dose of wrecked industrial scrap hypnosis, each one clocking in at around five minutes in length. The record comes in a neat looking 7" sleeve, with woodcut artwork of medieval demons and dark age torment printed in eye-popping colors by Thumbprint Press.

"Specific Ocean" from +Dog+ is a murky, low-fi noisescape that is built from layers of rumbling, rattling percussion loops that rise and fall in tidal swells of intensity while crackling, grinding noise and distant howling feedback takes shape over top. It's not very dynamic, but this piece has a certain shambling trance-like quality to it that lasts up until the last few minutes, when the percussive elements drop out and some seriously deformed bass frequencies take shape, turning the end of the track into a sweltering mass of electronic skronk and malfunctioning cable spuzz.

Actuary's "Sight For The Blind" is more of their demonic improvised skulldoze, this time utilizing a meth'd up, brain damaged drummer who's left to bang away randomly in the back as massive photon blasts of distortion and feedback are shot into the room, and a whole row of oscillators and distortion pedals are probed and molested in order to emit a deafening din of harsh noise. It's a real brain-scraper, as if someone dropped a free-jazz drummer in the middle of a CCCC set going at full force. I could have listened to much more of this.