The many different incarnations and alter egos of breakcore/electronic artist Rachael Kozak make it a daunting project to try to track all of her stuff down. I've only started to delve into the huge body of recordings that she has produced since the late 90s, mainly focusing on the harsher, black metal influenced stuff that Kozak started experimenting with later in the last decade. There's a lot of stuff that's not as brutal but is still plenty dark, too, and that's where this 7" Ep released under the Raquel De Grimstone moniker falls. Similar to the material that she records as Hecate, there were three 7"s released as Grimstone, each one delivering a mix of experimental breakcore and occult subject matter, with many references to the works of Aleister Crowley woven into the imagery. So far, Depths Of The Nile is the only RDG 7" I've been able to find for the shop, the third and final 7" in her trilogy of releases.

The a-side title track is very similar to the sort of hellish blackened b-core that Rachel creates under the Hecate banner; beginning with an assortment of witchy voices and strange backwards chanting and swells of ambient rumble, the fractured percussive patterns soon drop in, at first splattery and broken up, then dropping into a fast-paced skittery drum n' bass assault while she recites a series of occult proclamations amid bits of distorted death metal guitar shrapnel, spookified keyboards, psychedelic effects and quick bursts of double bass drumming that fade in and out in the background. "Shapeshifters" starts off the b-side with a furious fusion of choppy splatterbreak and raggacore rhythms, demonic toasting, electronic noise and fx, and distorted, almost industrial beats, followed by a short phone message that closes the side. Totally surreal and feverish bass-heavy breakcore darkness; if you're into Hecate, you'll definitely want to hear this stuff as well.