When I started listening to Anthony Shaw's harsh noise work, it was from his Cold Comfort project, which produced an excellent videocassette release last year that combined his minimal static harsh noise walls with eye-melting video/cathode tube distortions. That led me to dig into his other projects (of which there are many), my favorite being the zombie-obsessed conceptual harsh noise of Burial Ground. Specifically, Burial Ground draws it's inspiration from Romero's iconic trilogy of hardcore zombie-gore films, and has released three cassettes that deal with each of the films. By the time that I discovered these, the Day Of The Dead cassette was already sold out, but I was able to get some of the other two Burial Ground titles for the shop. This stuff is pure wall, with very little dynamic movement; pretty much for hardcore HNW aficionados only...

The second of Burial Ground's harsh noise-wall homage series to Romero's canonical trilogy of hardcore zombie splatter films, Dawn Of The Dead is a sixteen minute construction of extreme distorto-roar that begins with a classic piece of dialogue from Richard France taken from the beginning of the film, and then proceeds into the massive rumbling inferno of low-end noise and distortion that continues throughout the entire track. It's a violent, roiling mass of bass-crackle and tectonic roar that barely changes over the duration of the piece, and what changes do occur tend to be very subtle, appearing as barely perceptible shifts in volume, tone and texture and faint mechanical sounds and vibrations that reveal themselves only upon deeper listening. Of course, I'm happy enough just to crank this motherfucker to eleven and allow Burial Ground's crushing distortion-trance to roll over me like one hundred tons of debris, ash, and concrete from a collapsing building. Pure flattening distortion.

Limited to thirty copies.