DEMONOLOGISTS / COCK E.S.P. split CASSETTE (Rainbow Bridge) 6.98��Just turned up a handful of copies of this extremely limited tape release featuring C-Blast black-noise faves Demonologists and the notorious Midwestern noise collective Cock E.S.P. This sucker was issued in a tiny run of forty copies by the experimental noise label Rainbow Bridge, each one hand-numbered, and now completely sold out through the label.
�� Midwestern black noise group Demonologists are up first, delivering more of their extreme electronic violence and fetishistic death visions. Their side opens with a brief intro of eerie horror-score style synthesizer music before exploding into their full and fearsome form, a wall of suffocating, intensely oppressive electronic static and low-end distorted rumble that sprawls out for nearly fifteen minutes. The whole sound is dense and suffocating, a harsh noise-wall style of sonic assault, with waves of crushing garbled static rumble strewn with bursts of high-end feedback. But what makes this stand out are those glimmers of creepy synthesizer music that repeatedly appear throughout the side, bits of horror-movie soundtrack style keyboards peering through the chaos, fragments of symphonic creep and sampled screams, and smears of nightmarish electronic ambience that are just as quickly consumed back into the cyclonic chaos. There's some vocals in there too, massively distorted power-electronics style screams that strafe the black static wall, but they're sparsely used. Intense stuff that fans of Aderlating and Crown of Bone will want to check out.
�� Cock E.S.P.'s side features ten super-short tracks of this long-running noise groups trademark chaos. Their material ranges from the surrealistic noisecore of "Supermassive Gloryhole" to the brutal over-modulated noise of "My Buddy Booth", with some of the other super-short tracks appearing as blasts of extreme feedback insanity and loud K2-esque junk-noise workouts, crumbling mountains of scrap-metal fused to spurts of psychedelic electronic overload, minimal industrial rhythms and fields of distant metallic whirr streaked by even more distant screams of horror and agony. Some of the most ferocious stuff I've heard from these guys in years.
�� Released in a limited edition of fifty hand-numbered tapes.