Since forming late in the latter half of the past decade, the

California-based extreme noise outfit Actuary has been steadily cranking

out a stream of split releases that saw them sharing wax (or other

petroleum-based substances) with everyone from Merzbow, Bastard Noise and

Gnaw Their Tongues side-project Aderlating to cult underground noise spewers

like Winters In Osaka, Bacteria Cult, Juhyo and Fetus Eaters. Keeping up

with their prolific output has been a daunting task, but also a rewarding

one, as Actuary has been pretty consistent in quality, offering epic-length

blasts of abstract electronic chaos, extreme psychedelic circuit-fuckery and

monstrous synth abuse with each new release that are primed for some serious

sonic skull-melt.

On their first real full-length Cd 'The Reality Is, The Dream Is Dead',

Actuary returns to present us with four new tracks of intense noise that

covers all of the different aspects of their sound. The opener 'Spiritual

Armageddon' sends spasms of squelchy electronic carnage through a massive

rumbling dronescape, evoking visions of high-end robotics in the throes of

mass suicide in the bowels of some subterranean forge, interspersing the

blasts of crazed glitchery and hyper-speed tape-vomit with passages of dark,

reverberating factory ambience. 'Heat Of Eternal Punishment' blends together

scraping metallic tones and textures with more of that violently spastic

sine wave manipulation and sputtering distortion, later shifting into fields

of fearsome industrial soundscaping and layered, processed samples that

ratchet up the panic level to nearly unbearable heights. Corrosive buzz saw

drones flutter and fluctuate across the 'Pool Of Perpetual Torment',

building into crushing waves of percussive industrial pummel, malfunctioning

engine roar and mangled electronics. And on the final track 'Baptized In

Flames', the band works up a smoldering, apocalyptic noisescape infested

with the sounds of clanking metal chains, pulsating distorted synths, and

the howling of mutant cetaceans, and by the end of the album has transformed

into something resembling an entire megalopolis being consumed in a hell of

nuclear fire.

The malevolent, psychedelic electronics that Actuary exudes across

'Reality' takes the sort of brutal cyborg chaos found in the likes of

Bastard Noise and Government Alpha, and drenches it in a heavy coating of

dextromethorphan delirium, making for some of their heaviest noise so far.

Released in a limited, hand-numbered edition of two hundred copies as part

of the 'Crucial Blaze' series, 'The Reality Is The Dream Is Dead' also

features a thirty-two page art zine assembled by the band, filled with

strange, surrealistic artwork from members of the band as well as

contributions from FetusK, Mories (Gnaw Their Tongues), Chris Dodge (Spazz),

Jay Randall (Agoraphobic Nosebleed) and more...