This nearly hour-long tape collects an assortment of out-of-print and unreleased recordings that date back to 2002-2003 from the dark industrial noise project Clew Of Theseus, some of the material having previously appeared on COT's splits with Sewer Election, and 3" CDRs on Chondritic Sound.

Side one starts off with a loud blast of apocalyptic horror via the two-part 'Home', where long streaks of caustic feedback and high-pitched noise are blended with what sound like distant dying air-raid sirens and deep rhythmic rumblings, which then veer off into a volcanic landscape of sputtering distortion and choppy manipulated feedback chaos. From there, the material heads off into a kind of spacious improvised dark ambience, the recordings littered with sparse junk-metal abuse and the natural reverb of some vast cavernous interior, with fairly long stretches of near silence creating tension in the pauses between the abrasive metallic noises and bursts of feedback. The two tracks that make up "No Room Left In Heaven" are intensely violent, cacophonic blasts of extreme high frequency feedback-squeal whipping out of thickly tangled masses of crashing metal, distorted synth, and looped percussive noise that almost suggests a more rhythmically inclined version of one of K2's junknoise orgies, and the second of these tracks unloads a blast of crushing noise that merges some banging sheet-metal rhythms with smoldering distortion and soaring oscillator-like chirps that allows some menacing synthesizers to emerge right around the point when the track peaks out into a full-on noise wall.

On the second side, the sound shifts into the almost Lustmord-esque black drift of "5:14", the distant factory noises, distorted synths and ghostly wailing coming together into a nice dread-laced smear of industrial creep, but then shifts gears again into the epic track "Meth Cook Sets Apartment Ablaze" which takes up almost the entire side. This almost twenty minute piece (originally released as a 3" CD) returns to the junk-noise approach, but here it's sculpted into something much more detailed and frenzied. The mash up of the extreme sheet-metal abuse, quick cuts, and roaring feedback and squealing, squiggling synth noise is extremely dynamic, a drawn-out collapse that relentlessly scrapes and screeches and howls through the entire length of the track, subjecting the listener to the most chaotic and ear-abusing material on the tape. After that barrage of skullscrape, the side closes with another shorter bookend ambient piece akin to the first.

Recommended to fans of Knurl, K2, Government Alpha, Vaults: Volume 1 comes as a pro-manufactured chrome cassette packaged in a screen-printed cloth bag, released in a limited edition of one hundred copies.