All of the other recent released that I've listened to from these two US industrial/noise outfits have been pretty goddamn great, so a split 7" featuring Custodian's ultra-brutal assaults of harsh noise and Pusdrainer's fearsome mangy power electronics/electro-shock hatred is pretty promising. Both projects deliver awesome blasts of entropic blackness on their respective sides, with Pusdrainer delivering a rhythmic track that's particularly cool.

Coming from a death metal background that saw him playing in bands like Brodequin and Foetopsy before experimenting with extreme noise, Custodian's appreciating of the cathartic power of volume and aggression has resulted in supremely brutal junkscapes from the beginning. On "Situation In Distress", he starts off by blasting the listener with rhythmic blocks of brutally loud and abrasive junk-noise, then settles into a constantly shifting industrial noisescape where massive chunks of rhythmic electronics and extreme distortion are carved into jarring stop/start loops, waves of demonic machine noise and scrap-metal avalanche collide into violent (but surprisingly hypnotic) walls of sound, and percussive blasts of juddering metal/feedback are delivered in jackhammer-like bursts of sound.

Pusdrainer's "Not Another Second" is one of this Cincinnati power electronic/harsh noise artist's pure PE-style assaults, and it's a serious pipe-cleaner. While mangled blasts of harsh feedback and distortion are smeared across the rumbling bass-squelch of the synthesizer, the vocals are heavily treated with an array of flanging effects and filters, and soar like cyborg screams over the fetid black amplifier vomit. There's a couple of spots where that ear-wrecking noise is even formed into a monstrous rhythmic loop that for a moment gives this the appearance of some kind of rabid, demonic techno.

Released in a limited edition of three hundred copies.