Some of you may have noticed my growing obsession with the HNW recordings from Crown Of Bone; so far, we've got nearly a dozen releases in stock that have come out over the past year, with more on the way. I loved the blackened Satanic ear-hate that COB's Dustin Redington did when he was a member of Demonologists; Working solo, he blends his black noise tendencies with blocks of ultra-harsh distortion and creates these massive evil trance blasts that I find totally hypnotic. Like a lot of his recent releases, this cassette features Redington teaming up with another like-minded artist, here joining with the horror-movie obsessed HNW artist Burial Ground to create their homage to Clive Barker's demonic S&M splatter-classic Hellraiser via brutal blackened static designed for true HNW junkies only.

The first side is titled "Hellraiser" and liberally laces an assortment of samples of film dialogue from the original 1987 film through the beginning of this vast forty minute maelstrom of black static. The two artists create impenetrably dense walls of mid-range static and distortion that swirl and crash in massive black waves and whirlpools of speakerfire, an incessant blast furnace of granular black filth that blots out everything. The black blizzard is occasionally strafed with some sudden eruption of fierce flange effects or other intruding noise, but for the majority of it's length, this is pure wall with very subtle shifts in texture and level of surface abrasion, an all-devouring, eternally hungry vortex .

The following side "Hellbound" lifts it's sampled film audio from Tony Randel's 1988 follow-up to Barker's sadistic hell-vision, and again positions these fragments of dialogue and film music at the beginning and end of the epic noisecape. Compared to the monolithic sound of the previous side, the two artists offer more variety here, sending the rushing black waves of crackling distortion over distant, fearsome orchestral sounds, horrified screams, massive sawtooth synthdrones and tentacles of harsh flanging effects that all erupt out of the volcanic amp-roar.

Located in the vein of ultra-monotonous static obliteration and hiss-trance that France's Vomir works in, Hellraiser definitely delivers a solid, textured dose of extreme noise. Released in a limited edition of fifty copies.