The Black Scorpio Underground make another appearance on the C-Blast list with this split cassette shared with another LA noise group called Endometrium Cuntplow; the long running industrial Underground is a fairly new discovery over here, but I've really enjoyed all of the tapes and discs that have thus far shown up from the band. Their side of this tape (released on their own label Hate Mail in a run of ninety-eight copies) is from the more subdued side of BSU, three long tracks of abstract low-fi industrial scrape and suffocating feedback rituals, the high pitched drones drilling through the black space as random objects are hammered in the background, strange looped samples drift in and out of focus, everything awash in low-fi murkiness and sonic grime, the sound becoming swallowed up by ominous droning synths and vast fields of ambient filth, haunted by the ghostly call to prayer of a Muezzin high above a rotting cityscape.

I must admit, my initial expectations weren't too high for a band called Endometrium Cuntplow, but whatever reservations I had over that band name, I'm actually really impressed with their side of this tape. The first EC track is "Storms Of Loneliness (Part 1)" and it's a chilly, minimal dronescape with distant pulsating synth tones, softly thrumming vibrations, later shifting into more ominous metallic ambience and an all-around blackened austere feel that reminds me a lot of early Bianchi (always a sound I'm interested in hearing). The second part of "Storms" picks up from there, heading into murkier regions filled with blotted chirping sounds, restrained electronic reverberations and more cold, inhuman pulsations, pounding metal echoing in the background, waves of over-modulated feedback sweeping over the track. Not sure if they're specifically aiming for such a vintage death industrial sound, but man, they've nailed it. The last track "Shallow Graves" is the most grating of the bunch, a collage of junk noise and shortwave signals wrestling within an amorphous fog of metallic amp-hum. I have no clue if all of their stuff is in this vein, but I dig this.