Heart & Crossbone's fearless leader David Opp is a longtime C-Blast pal, and I've been trying to turn as many people onto the completely fucked up and

amazing sounds that he's been releasing, most of which are bands that David actually plays in. Let me tell ya, this dude is out to crush...so far, we've been

treated to the twisted drum-chaos and sampler-splatter violence of his Cadaver Eyes project, which consists of David sitting behind a drumkit and whipping up

a hurricane of blastbeats, fragmented samples of old death metal albums that have been turned into abstract blasts of downtuned brutality, and glitchy noise;

then we were flattened by the convoluted drum-machine dirge experiments of Mildew, which approximates the sound of a malfunctioning Godflesh concert being

received by the transmitter on board a deep space freighter. And then there's his actual "band", Barbara, a drums n' bass guitar duo that's just as crushing

and contorted as his other projects. Blown out, raw doomy dirge and slowed down, minor key black metal riffs with hysterical screamed vocals and massively

distorted instruments. Deformed math rock riffs melting like hot tar over pounding drum solos and rumbling bass feedback, creeping into stretched out

spacious atonal doom a la Khanate. Really catchy, melodic riffs pop up outta the sludge here and there. Long, extended slabs of droning feedback erupt into

chaotic powerviolence. Tightly played but sprawling noisy sludge metal, like a noise rock Darkthrone meets Man Is The Bastard. Or Lightning Bolt and

Godheadsilo trapped in an evil murk filled oubliette. Grinding, crushing, feedback-blasting splattery blackdirge mayhem.