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EXTERMINATE  Pact  7" VINYL   (Nuclear War Now! Productions)   6.00


Unleashing a holocaust of obliterating black death noise from the rotten bowels of Chile, Exterminate joined forces with Nuclear War Now! for this supremely noxious 7" that came out back in 2008. It's some of the noisiest "war metal" that I've come across; it's obviously influenced by the Ross Bay Cult and the mighty Blasphemy, but these guys crank up the bestial noise and chaos to even more crazed extremes. Pact begins with an intro piece of black industrial ambience, then bursts into the putrescent blackened deathnoise of "The Triumph Of Unholy Black Blood", shifting between grinding, cavernous hyperspeed blackened death metal with monstrous puking vokills overloaded with reverb and almost totally indiscernible riffs, to deep rumbling ambience and swarms of grinding low-fi chaos that turns into a kind of cacophonous black noise that ends with the title track. Over on the b-side, the band staggers through the angular death metal chaos of "Genuflextioninummoc", and then descends into another brief passage of black crypt ambience with "Consecration (OutRot)". That gives way to an unlisted cover of the Blasphemy song "Atomic Nuclear Desolation" which blasts off the final grooves like a gust of blackened noisecore toxic gas.

For something that sounds this ugly and rabid, it looks fucking gorgeous. The record comes in an elaborate package that includes a printed inner sleeve, a twelve-page booklet loaded with artwork, lyrics and some awesomely absurd band photos.