The Actuary onslaught continues as these prolific electro-terrorists drop another dose of their brutal psychedelic noise alongside some new brute-force locust-swarm electronics from Bastard Noise...
Bastard Noise's "Incineration Prayer" is one of their hardcore electronic meltdowns, beginning with a maniacal pedal / oscillator freak-out that sends globs of juddering bass tones, abrasive glitchy noises and gigantic amp-shaking drones flying around the room. This grows more violent as it goes on, a frenzy of squelch and squeal and rumbling rib-rattling heaviness, building into this massive murderous death-drone that worms it's way through the entire side. And then the vocals hit - a squirming mass of black metal-esque shrieks and gargling guttural horror that comes drifting in from the background, a nightmare wave of vomit and hostility that joins in with the whirring, squealing electronic noise. It's fucking terrifying when this starts to peak towards the end, and is as brutal and psychedelic and apocalyptic as anything off their newer albums.
Actuary are an unpredictable lot, sometimes dishing out experimental glitchscapes and blackened industrial, sometimes melting down into a bizarre grindnoise assault. Here, you get the more ambient side of Actuary's sound. The first of the two tracks on their side begins with steady waves of white noise and crackling feedback, a hushed oceanswirl of noise that resembles some of Werewolf Jerusalem's minimalist drone-walls. This swirling black sea of hiss later on becomes a murky mass of sampled radio signals and unintelligible voices, heavy low end drone and more abrasive noise, getting downright violent towards the end. The second is based around a deep, threatening low-end drone that undulates beneath various Morse code beeps, clipped CB transmissions, and faint synth noises trailing across the pitch black ambience, less in-your-face than the preceding material, but much more textural and malevolent.
Comes on grey vinyl in a jacket illustrated and designed by Fetus K.