A welcome reissue of another of Bianchi's early 80's albums, Industrial Murder is one of the earliest recorded full lengths from this influential Italian industrial artist. Prior to this, the album had only been available as a long out-of-print Lp that was issued in the early 90s by Banned Productions. Like all of his early work, this album festers with a kind of diseased black electronics that is still as psychologically disturbing today as it was thirty years ago.

Recorded around the same period of time (1981-1982) that Bianchi was producing his nauseating industrial classics Endometrio and Symphony For A Genocide, Industrial Murder / Menstrual Bleeding is early Bianchi at his cancerous best, utilizing a minimal set of tools (such as drum machine, battered synth and distortion boxes) to create these sprawling noisescapes filled with wobbly buzzing rhythms, noxious throbbing bass, extreme over-modulated judders and weird air-raid siren like peals of high-end howl. This stuff sounds like the apocalypse.

Part One: Industrial Murder is one the most rhythm-driven recordings that I've heard from this era of Bianchi's output. It starts off with a brutal blast of over-modulated feedback noise, but then a clanking machinelike loop appears, becoming a constant pounding pulse that continues on as more fluttering, rumbling electronic noise swarms in. Now, this is hardly danceable, but it does hammer out an ever changing barrage of metal-on-metal clank and monotonous drum machine rhythms that produce a highly hypnotic effect, even when this nearly half-hour piece is overwhelmed with loud feedback hum, putrid stretched-out synth noise, damaged melodies, electronic sirens and massive juddering bass throb. The second half Menstrual Bleeding is pretty much of the same bent, although at first the track is a bit more monotonous and plodding. It soon starts to squirm and squeal, though, shifting into an undulating mass of distorted synth blurt and processed rhythmic glitchnoise.

Comes in a silk-screened arigato pack, and is limited to 300 copies (and already sold out from the label!).