God knows there's far too much redundancy and a general lack of self-editing in the power electroncs and harsh noise scenes - as much as I love brutal, violent electronic noise in all of it's various forms and mutations, you've really gotta be doing something interesting nowadays to grab my attention. Every once in awhile though, I'll come across a project like Fire In The Head that breathes some new life into power electronics, here specifically through a wide range of dynamic changes and some surprising, distinctly non-PE cultural references. We listed the latest Fire In The Head disc that came out on NCC a few months ago, and that one was brutal as hell, but here we've got FITH circa 2005, a nine track album released on Nihilist, the label run by Andy Ortmann of Panicsville/Plastic Crimewave Sound. Come Closer Cut Deeper doesn't differ stylistically from The Remedy Has Become The Affliction all that much, but everything I love about FITH is here: blasts of burly distortion rolling out of clouds of reverb, monstrous death metal-esque vocals, ethereal ambience, carefully constructed feedback scultpures, crushing slabs of low-frequency crunch, all produced by FITH's mastermind Michael Page, adorned in gruesome autopsy imagery of sliced-open throats, gore-spattered plasma bags, and corpse limbs ripped out of a Carcass collage. Yeah, this has that same sort of death-metal power electronic vibe that Ichorous sticks his greasy fists into, a furious, seething circuit violence that never feels random, rather a murderous plotted path of psychedelic microphone molestation that threatens/promises to rend your senses when experienced at high volume. And yer gonna win my rusted heart when you drop in a PE interpretation of Cro-Mags "Malfunction" into the fray, which has Page reciting the lyrics from the classic NYHC anthem over one of his vicious bursts of white-hot feedback abuse.