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BASTARD NOISE / WITCHES OF MALIBU  split  7" VINYL   (Skull Records)   7.99


���Another new collaborative recording between Eric Wood's amorphous Bastard Noise project and likeminded pals, this 7" features the Skull teaming up with another SoCal outfit called Witches Of Malibu, which turns out to be a new project from Richard Skott of 80's era industrialists Hunting Lodge and space rockers Farflung. Together, these guys blurt out a fantastic blast of monstrous power electronics across the two tracks, which ends up sounding like a bit of a throwback to BN's Rogue Astronaut-era material.

��� That sound is exactly what you get with a-side "Abomination", a vicious assault of deformed caveman electronics, Wood's slurred death metal-style growl stretched into an almost somnambulant murmur as he lays out his anti-technology / anti-human screed over the whirring analogue effects and squealing synth noise. That smoldering black noisescape is laced with massive mortar-like blasts and nightmarish goblin-shrieks, the sound continuing to evolve into an ever more evil and disturbing war zone of industrial rumble and foul smoking synthesizer chaos, utter apocalyptic chaos channeled into a five minute blast of electronic hate, Wood's sound generators belching agonies of pained feedback and hellish ghostlike screams. Real bad-dream material here, and one of the band's more terrifying recent efforts. In contrast, the b-side "Infinity Sprung From Glided Machines" is virtually dark ambient, gleaming black obsidian dronescapes stretching out beneath a blasted black sun, washes of grim synthdrift gradually infected with those blasting oscillators and chirping insect electronics, but never straying all that far from that vast black Lustmordian ambience that calmly churns in the depths, the sound slowly evolving into a sinister, psychedelic glitchscape where demented demonic screams echo far in the distance, a primordial galactic deathvision.

��� Limited to four hundred copies.