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DEMONOLOGISTS  self-titled  LP   (Prison Tatt)   16.98


The latest offering from Indiana based black noise terrorists Demonologists, this untitled Ep comes to us from the Prison Tatt label, who has been mining some of the very best sounds from the black industrial/ambient horror/black metal sub-terrain through their ongoing series of limited-edition one-sided 12"s. The Demonologist installment brings us five new tracks of crushing hateful noise that'll rattle your walls, a combination of the extreme noise, black metal atmospherics, inhuman gargling vocals, and horror-movie soundtrack elements that these guys have been perfecting over the past decade. The record starts off with the crushing noise-eruption "Trenchant Flesh Monolith", a violent blast of rumbling harsh noise littered with brief moments of ghostly ambience, horrific guttural vocals that seethe beneath the churning black distortion, and ghastly pipe organs that drone on in the background, punctuating the wall of psychedelic chaos with blasts of gothic dread. That psychedelic quality extends to the other tracks as well: "Crystal Fangs" blends some ridiculously fucked-up processed vocal slime into the juddering, glitchy noise, almost like a pitch-black C.C.C.C. track; locomotive drones and swirling volcanic gases coalesce around a mass of massive low-end rumble and howling feedback on "Wash Me In Your Blood Until I'm White As Snow", only to peel back pieces of its rotting flesh to reveal glints of eerie orchestral melody. That haunted ambience reappears through the side in the form of hushed choral voices and sinister synth-drones, washes of ethereal black drift and mysterious radar pings, swells of discordant sound and metallic reverberations that are always obscured, always buried beneath the screeching, roaring Merzbowian noise. Recommended.

As with most of the other Lps released by Prison Tatt, this comes in a silk-screened black sleeve in an edition of one hundred copies.