Caligula031 is another project from Marco Deplano, the guy behind the ferocious Italian power electronics project Wertham. With this project, Deplano explores the depths of human depravity and suffering with the motto "no limits, no taboos, no mercy" driving the evil sounds captured on this tape, which follows up a couple of releases on Filth & Violence. Like some of the recent offerings from UK filthmonger Bagman, Domino explores themes of human trafficking through an abstract combination of field recordings, deformed power electronics, recorded voices of individuals from the Swiss sex trade and gnarled sound-collage techniques that results in an unsettling listening experience.

Domino begins with the panicked emergency sirens and muffled, mangled voices of "Tool Of The Trade", recorded red-hot and extremely low-fi like we're hearing a field recording of clandestine activities on the street covered in sheets of filthy black static and brutal speaker hiss, an intense noisescape that degenerates into a blast of fetid static and hellish screeching. "Blonde, Drunk, Pregnant And Barefoot 2012 " follows with a throbbing, hypnotic low-end pulse lurking beneath layers of muffled shouting and screaming, furious voices and harsh buzzing feedback later giving way to recordings of young girls engaged in the language of commerce.

The flipside has the pulsating power electronics of "War Is Not Over Yet", a grungy, pounding assault that reminds me of both Bagman's style of rabid PE and Bizarre Uproar's murky, menacing approach. Thick grinding bass a la Genocide Organ throbs under looped sirens and furious, hateful lyrics, rising in intensity over the duration of the piece. Painful jagged rhythms cloaked in filth. The last one "Oceano" dials down the ear-hate a smidge via a sound collage created out of pilfered pop music, a heavily reverbed female voice, and clanking buried rhythms.

This tape of pitch-black and heavily textured filth comes in a black spray-painted cardboard box with full color artwork affixed to it that houses the cassette, a set of small inserts, and a 1" pinback badge, issued in a limited edition of one hundred and fifty copies.