This is not, as I first assumed, a vinyl reissue of the split cassette that these two noise outfits released a while back on Hate Mail. It's all new material from both, released on the killer Husk label, and features one new side-long track from each band.
I've really been digging the newer material from The Black Scorpio Underground. The earlier stuff that I heard from the band was interesting enough take on sinister industrial muck, but man, they've been honing that sound into something that gets more and more malevolent with each new record or tape that's been coming my way. Their side of this split is titled "Alone In The Orchard Of Souls" and it's a heavy nightmarish driftscape made up of low-end subterranean rumble, distant metal-on-metal reverberations, mysterious voice transmissions and unsettling scraping/crunching noises that slowly move to the foreground of the recording as you slip deeper into their murky abyssal ambience. After awhile, the band introduces strange wailing voices and distant screams, heavy metallic clank, and layers of heavier, more abrasive drone and over modulated noise drenched in cavernous reverb into the track, shifting from the more ambient feel into a fearsome blackened industrial din that begins to resemble a ritual sacrifice taking place in the depths of some vast underground foundry. Another killer horror-scape from this outfit that comes pretty close to TOMB / Terrorgoat / Sistrenatus levels of industrial dread.
Werewolf Jerusalem's "Further Suspects In Rail Killings" is a bit different from much the stuff that I've been hearing lately from Richard Ramirez's HNW project. The washed-out droning static that is almost always the center of his bleak, minimal noise-meditations is here, but it's buried beneath churning layers of metallic scrape and clang for almost the entire first half of the track, forming a desolate factory-ambience that goes on for awhile. Around the midway point, though, Ramirez kicks in with his signature walls of ultra-distorted rumbling static that totally takes over, occasionally changing in intensity and density until it eventually returns to the abrasive metallic scrapescape that began the track. Dense, immersive noise.