Long-running American death industrial/experimental noise outfit En Nihil has been producing some of its noisiest, most mind-blotting material recently, with grueling death ambient soundscapes popping up on that split with Gnawed (also featured in this weeks new arrivals list), and some filthy slabs of distorted rot recently appearing on Love Earth Music and Syndrom. The Crimes tape is another new one, released by Phage in an edition of 90 copies, each one packaged in a screen printed cover, and the sounds that are featured here are about as filthy and monotonous as it gets. The roughly half hour long Crimes is divided into two parts, and begins as almost total noise wall, layers of distorted lava and crumbling rock built into a dense, murky mass of oceanic static. Later on, bits of abrasive synth noise and howling feedback are smeared against the monolithic rumbling, causing the sound to devolve into a more chaotic din of low-fi scrape and roar, ghostly voices and the harsh clang of metal smashing against concrete. Some musical elements appear hidden in the chaos further in, strains of what sound like orchestral instruments and some kind of inhuman roar occasionally materializing under the black smoking distortion. Much of this turns into long stretches of HNW, but it shifts around throughout the tape, offering violent bursts of junk-noise pandemonium and introducing a cancerous black electronic pulse that takes shape on the second half. The last couple of minutes turn into something resembling a particularly diseased Atrax Morgue recording. From dark, corrosive noise to evil death-industrial noise, this recording eats up any ray of light that touches it.