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BLACK LEATHER JESUS / POLLUTIVE STATIC  split  7" VINYL   (Phage Tapes)   9.00
split IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

S'more sweet extreme skull-damage from Phage, pairing up a harsh noise elder with one of the new punks, and serving it up in a really nice silk-screened sleeve, the artwork comprised of a steaming mix of explicit leather daddy porn, scenes of violent murder, and industrial corruption.

Black Leather Jesus plants it's steel-toed boot firmly across the back of your neck with "Sissy Training", a five-minute harsh noise workout that smears huge globs of blooping synth, junk-noise chaos and shrieking feedback over the thick, raging wall of low-end distortion. Too busy and frantic and laced with assorted synthesizer detritus to ever form into pure wall-trance, this brutal distorted ejaculate is spewed violently over the length of the side and peaks into pure catharsis at just the right moment. BLJ fans will not be disappointed.

Pollutive Static's side ("Mechanical Synesthesia (Man And Machine)") is a nice long bout of electric shock assault built on a foundation of grinding harsh noise, but layered with some interesting quasi-melodic figures and a churning rhythmic undercurrent. This is actually the first recording from Hal Hutchinson's HN project that I've listened to, and while it's notably different from his other, more PE-influenced works, it's brutality is just as intemperate as the rest of his catalog. I'm reminded of some of the more psychedelic moments found on K2, Incapacitants and Pain Jerk albums with all of the howling synthesizer tones and effects that surface throughout the track, but it's more violent than anything else, slamming into an abrupt cut-off at the end just as my skull thought it was going to bulge from the avalanche of electronic chaos.

Limited to three hundred copies.