Crucifix Eye's Yokai is another recent cassette offering from Forever Escaping Boredom, whose other tapes from Vomir and Vasectomy Party can also be found on this week's C-Blast new arrivals list. Never heard this project prior to this, Crucifix Eye seems to have popped up just in the past year or so, but the two lengthy walls of harsh digital static are as molten as anything I've been listening to from Werewolf Jerusalem and Vomir. The two side-long tracks ("Oni" and "Tsuchigumo", both named after demons in Japanese mythology; the title of the tape itself refers to the pantheon of demons in Japanese folklore) are monolithic blocks of unmoving distortion that come pretty close to pure drone, albeit an extremely abrasive, sandblasting drone that is delivered at thunderous volume. Behind these walls of extreme electronic mulch, you can hear a multitude of feedback squeals, sudden fluctuations in bass tones, and intense high-frequency sine waves, though all of that stuff is almost totally obliterated/consumed by the constant roar of static. The second side is much more restrained by comparison, focused less on monstrous volume and density and more on a murky, heavy torrent of machine noise that again enters pretty quickly into a trance-inducing state of omnipresent hiss and static, like the incessant rattle of a chain-driven piece of machinery running into infinity, an eternal maelstrom of metalscrape, beneath which you can detect fluttering, haunting drones that hover just below the surface. This stuff is quite mesmerizing, long form meditations on violence and decay that seep deeply into the flesh.