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BLACK SCORPIO UNDERGROUND, / VOMIT ARSONIST  split  7" VINYL   (Hate Mail Records)   5.99


More evil industrial noise from The Black Scorpio Underground, once again teaming up with another like-minded filth-merchant in the form of US death industrialist The Vomit Arsonist, with both artists bringing us more of their rotting black sonics.

I wasn't expecting the sort of black ambient horror that The Black Scorpio Underground gives us with "Rage Traitor"; previous offerings from this band have been considerably more abrasive and ear-damaging. Here though, the Underground descends into a lightless abyss of vast subterranean tremors and distant howling voices, gusts of icy metallic whir and cavernous reverberations that eventually erupt into a nightmarish din of black noise, with damned voices shrieking in anguish while blasts of rumbling noise and percussive sheet-metal tremors rise up out of the sulfurous depths. A really nice take on Heresy-era Lustmord sonics, filtered through the Black Scorpio Underground's distinctly hellish brand of industrial vomit.

The flipside has "All Is Lost" from The Vomit Arsonist, an American death industrial project that I've just recently been starting to really get into. This is another quality slab of rumbling industrial dread from this outfit, a minimal dronescape of deep tectonic reverberations and distant whirring drones that become a backdrop to the increasingly manic scrapings and squealing of god-knows-what that fill the foreground. This slowly builds as those background rumblings increase in volume and intensity, and the Arsonist's distorted demonic vocals drift in with more exhalations of abject misanthropy while the synths shift into a wavering, seething mass of low-end electro-swarm. Its another example of why this is becoming one of the best Stateside proponents of that BDN-inspired industrial deathcrush.

On colored vinyl.