I've dug everything that I've heard from prolific Norwegian noise artist Andreas Brandal so far, from the blackened kosmische improv of Torture Gnosis to the dense harsh noise walls of Museums of Sleep and the horror-infested harsh noise of his solo project Flesh Coffin. It's the latter project that we find Brandal engaged with here, reappearing with the new cassette Raise The Dead that just came out on Prairie Fire, featuring more of Flesh Coffin's unique combination of minimal ambient creep and destructive harsh noise. This half hour long tape delivers six tracks of Brandal's brand of violent low-fi necromancy, with titles like "Skulls In Her Eyes", "Open Casket" and "The Time Of Spiders" all evoking a series of moldering graveyard visions. Compared to some of the other Flesh Coffin releases that I've heard that focused more on a harsh wall aesthetic, this stuff is much creepier and more unsettling, the deformed soundscapes comprised of malfunctioning electronics and waves of crushing scrap-metal chaos, monstrous gurgling and ghostly sounds suddenly looming out of the blackness, broken mechanical loops, bursts of bestial vocal noise, and strains of horror movie-style instrumental music appearing briefly among the eruptions of murky low-end clank and scrape. In a manner slightly reminiscent of Tourette and Oscillating Innards, Brandal creates a tension throughout his recordings as he carefully balances the more brutal noise passages with pulsating Atrax Morgue-esque ambience and stretches of eerie minimal drone. On tracks like "Casket", the blasting noise dissolves into creepy, varied soundscapes made up of distant clanking and scraping noises, ominous dark ambience, curling tendrils of grim synth fog and ghostly horns, and mysterious sound events occurring off in the darkness. An effective combination of filthy, violent noise and creeping, abstract horror soundtrack atmospherics.