Released on the Italian label Iron Tyrant, this limited-edition 12" features two out-of-print cassettes from 2010 reissued on vinyl from the primitive black metal duo Bone Awl. The first side has the Bowing Heads Ep, which sees Bone Awl evolving from their ultra-distorted barbaric blackened punk sound and utilizing more melody in their compositions. The side starts with the noisy martial stomp of the instrumental intro "Howard N.", then lurches into the noisy hardcore of "Let Blood", the simple two-chord riffage clanging away over furious rocking drums, the guitar not as distorted as their older stuff, more hooky, punky, but still very murderous in intent. The following song "Bowing Heads" is slower yet, a trudging gutter punk anthem with one of the catchiest riffs that I've heard from Bone Awl, almost epic in feel; this material is the catchiest music that I've heard from them, though their trademark sound is still there, the riffs still simple, primitive and punk-like in form, using repetition to forge their trance-like battery via the pounding caveman drumming and hoarse, putrid vocal mantras. "How It's Done" is a speedier blown out blackened hardcore crusher, while "The Awful Voice" sort of sounds like ancient LA hardcore drenched in sewer slime and flogged with chains.
The flipside features the Sunless Xyggos recordings, which were originally recorded for the source material for their split with HNW artist The Rita. These five instrumentals tracks are blown out, violent black metal filth, formed from barbaric three-chord riffs, and with a massively distorted recording that exceeds even their usual level of speaker-abuse. Some of the tracks found here (like "Black Beasts") are so blown and distorted that they start to resemble noisecore, but it's extremely heavy, too; as chaotic and noisy as this is, these tracks sound MONSTROUS, and when they slow down, as they do on the doom-laden death march "You're Getting More", it's like a slow cave-in on your skull, with what might be their heaviest song ever.
Limited to seven hundred copies.