If you're really hooked on HNW, you should already be familiar with Worthless Recordings. This small cassette label out of the Midwest has been producing a top-notch line of harsh noise cassettes over the past year, including titles from C-Blast faves like Crown Of Bone, Vomir, Marax, Cold Comfort and Burial Ground. Burial Ground is one of the noise acts that I first discovered through it's Worthless releases, specifically the Living Dead tape trilogy that married the projects infatuation with the landmark zombie series and a brutal static noise assault that turned my frontal lobe into a puddle of black goo. The whole M.O. of this project is the same - each Burial Ground release is inspired by a different cult horror film from the "golden era" (early 60s through the 80s) and tastefully bookends the immense wall of distorted crunch with key samples taken from the film. The editing is spot-on, and every tape I've gotten from Burial Ground has been a blast.

The latest Burial Ground offering is this colossal double tape set called Disembodied, each tape fueled by a different haunted house film. The first is The Haunting, inspired by Robert Wise's 1963 supernatural classic; the second is Burnt Offerings, based on the 1976 film of the same name. Each tape features two twenty-plus minute sides of crushing drone-noise, massive churning walls of low-to-mid range distorted rumble and hiss that reveals a world of seething activity when listened to at high volume or on a pair of headphones. Both tapes are pretty consistent in their attack, bathing you in a relentless avalanche of speaker-roar that creates a meditative, mesmerizing effect on the listener, as if you are surrounded by the deafening roar of a massive black waterfall, or are surrounded on all sides by an eternally crumbling cityscape. I'm a huge fan of this particular approach to harsh noise obliteration as well as the kind of older horror films that influence the imagery behind these tapes, making Burial Ground one of my current favorite static-sculptors alongside Vomir, Cherry Point and Vice Wears Black Hose. Each tape comes in a case with black and white artwork, and both are then housed inside of a black cardstock sleeve. Released in a limited edition of fifty copies.