I've gone on at length in these pages about my love for various labels, and the Ohio DIY imprint Outfall Channel has been mentioned more than once whenever I get to gushing about those assorted imprints that I follow with a fevered glee. Run by the two guys behind the free-noise/hardcore band Capital Haemorrhage, Outfall Channel has leaked a pestilent batch of subterranean noise-brut offerings that are all wildly different but all deliver the same level of subsonic punch to my solar plexus that I'm just not gonna find from more "respected" labels on the scene. Shit like Hentai Lacerator and Robert Inhuman is on a whole nother level of raw, and it's zero-bullshit, ecstatic noise violence like that that helps to keep me puffin' along when I'm subjected to the constantly increasing onslaught of pseudo-professionalism in "underground" music that I witness on a daily basis. Where my ranting is leading to is my unfettered love for this little black box called "Fields Of Blood". At first glance, it looks like an arts and crafts project, a 6" x 5" cardboard jewel box, all black, with black ink silkscreened onto it; inside is a nest of straw, painted in hideous black and glued delicately to the inside of the box - on the underside of the lid sits a black disc, attached to the lid by a plastic hub. This is one of the coolest looking handmade packages we've seen in many moons. The point of all of this seems to be rural decay, fields of wheat turning black under a toxic sun, the sky burning red and scorching the ground, and to this end the disc captures a horrific void of ultra low-fi, subsonic dronemetal scum, thick tentacles of blackened guitar/amp dirge rumbling like a cloud of poison over whatever field produced the straw found in this box, electronic skree and tortured vocals burrowing into rotting amplifiers. A missing link between Sunn O)))/Earth dronemetal and savage Broken Flag industrial slop, totally coarse and lobe-massaging skuzz drone- I love this. Heavy, noisy, and not for sissies. I don't have numbers for this release, but based on the ridiculously labor-intensive packaging, I'm guessing that there are severaly limited numbers of this release available.