Only have a couple copies of this in stock, as it went out of print immediately after we ordered it for the C-Blast shop. The Weight Of Tension is a twenty minute long tape from Custodian that features a series of crushing loop-based junk-noise assaults that were recorded back in 2010, and it's as brutal and brain-smashing as all of the other releases that I've heard from Jon Engman's harsh noise project. Before he started getting known in noise circles for his harsh electronic/junk abuse, Engman had a long history of playing in gore-grind and death metal bands such as Artery Eruption, Brodequin, Foetopsy, and Screaming Afterbirth, and he brings a similar level of relentless aggression to these noise pieces, barely ever letting up from the onslaught of crashing metal and extreme distortion.

The a-side starts with a couple of minutes of massive, deafening blasts of rhythmic scrap-metal roar, but then the rhythmic churn gradually starts to break down and the sound collapses into an all-out cacophony of metal and noise. Its filled with detail and super-intense, blending electronic noise into the junk-metal avalanche in a manner that accentuates the crashing chaos with textured feedback, delay effects, and corrosive static. This whole first side appears to be delineated into short discrete tracks as the sound will drop out every minute or so, giving me the impression that this is a collection of assorted shorter recordings that were then re-assembled into a new sequence for this tape.

The second side is extremely brutal, more crushing metal-abuse flooded with severe high-end feedback and percussive mortar-blasts of distorted noise, and again that looping rhythmic churn rears it's head, dragging the metallic scree and scrape over a pounding slow-motion jackhammer pulse, a massive and apocalyptic wall of over-modulated destruction.

Comes in a fold-over Arigato style box