Gah, Actuary is all over place lately; these guys just keep cranking out their oft-bizarre nightmare industrial music, and on this tape they're doing another collaborative project, here hooking up with Aderlating (the improv-black-psych side project from Mories of Gnaw Their Tongues. Aderlating brings more of it's improvised infernal mania to it's appearance on this tape, which is put together around the concept of each artist contributing percussion to each others tracks. The result might be my fave Actuary recordings to date.

The garbled processed screams that introduce Actuary's "Interior Interloper" kick their side right into swarming horror from the start, unleashing a bunch of strained, distorted howls of PE-style violence over a backdrop of furious static distortion, pounding sampled percussion, bizarre rhythmic loops, and a thick layer of flesh melting hiss that coats every inch of the psychotic industrial assault. At times, it sounds as if Actuary are trying to smash huge hunks of K2-style junknoise into something resembling a 'groove', but then they'll end up collapsing into a squirming heap of over-modulated feedback, writhing musical fragments, mangled tape noise and walls of fx-blasted static. This mode of assault drops off when the second track "Feast Or Famine" comes in, switching gears into a monstrous drum-circle of pounding tribal percussion from Aderlating that becomes surrounded by demonic growls, high keening horn-like drones, all sorts of chirping electronics, and again, that sticky coating of granular hiss that hangs on everything like black mold, and gradually turns into something resembling a midnight Moroccan devil ritual entangled in thick trails in opium smoke.

That sonic is turned all the way up on Aderlating's side, beginning with the blasting black metal trance of "Goat Mass". This song is insane, a free-for-all skullfuck of improvised drumming, mechanized blast beats, harsh hellish screams, weird electronic effects and synths, black metal riffs so distorted and murky that they come out as a blur of swarming botfly noise. The first few minutes are vicious, a mess of black noize mayhem, but then it transforms into an even weirder free-jazz infected improv jam over the second half of the track. The other Aderlating track "Sadist Devil Children" picks right up from there with another filthy free-noise/drum freak-out, mashing together old 60's devil-worship film samples with wild, unhinged drumming (courtesy of the Actuary guys), clattering scrap-metal, putrid wordless vocalizations, and some extremely deformed bass riffage. It's not like anything I've heard from Aderlating, like this fucked-up PCP-fueled mash up of Abruptum and Merzbow's recent improv-drumming noise workouts. Love it !!!

Released in a limited edition of one hundred copies, with full-color artwork/packaging.