���Be warned - this tape has been sold out from Survivalist for quite some time, and we only have a couple of copies left from the batch we picked up from them when the band came through D.C. earlier last year, so it's going to sell out very quickly. It's a fucking killer tape from the Toronto-based band, though, made up of various recorded material, some of which is apparently exclusive to this release. A quick, ugly blast of noise-mutated blastcore from this gang of misanthropes, which continues to showcase an even more savage and skull-crushing sound than what some of these guys did in their previous powerviolence outfit The Endless Blockade.

��� The first side of Precipice features seven songs that are going to eventually make their way onto vinyl via a split LP with psychedelic powerviolence / sludge weirdos Suffering Luna that's hopefully going to materialize in the near future. It's some of the best stuff yet from Column Of Heaven, further sharpening their ultra-violent sonic attack that draws from classic powerviolence and blackened death metal influences, while heavily layering their negativity in eruptions of discordant sludge, eerie samples, hallucinatory loopscapes, black veins of throbbing death industrial, and gleaming electronic drone. All of that emerges throughout these songs, with blazing black metal riffs tearing through the ferocious thrash, and bursts of abrasive synth and noxious effects ripping out of chaotic speed-fueled hardcore. The songs slam into the listener one after another, leaving you no time to collect yourself before the next hyper-speed assault kicks in. This stuff is a physical assault, and I can't wait to hear it when it finally ends up on vinyl.

��� The flipside features a handful of tracks that seem to be exclusive to this tape, including a crushing cover of "Eternal Woman (Hell Of Your Love)" by demented Finnish black metallers Ride For Revenge that is pretty pulverizing. That's followed by a pair of tracks from their noise / industrial alter-ego Wolves of Heaven, "Love Is A God From Hell" and "Hell Is A Love From God", the former mixing propulsive drumming with slowly building walls of crushing distorted noise and blown-out death metal guitar roar, with monstrous vocalizations woven into delirious looping ambience, amid waves of churning, chest-rattling low-end noise; while the latter is a swirling, strangely mesmeric mass of glitchy dissonant noise, a hauntingly minimal piano melody drifting over rumbling orchestral murmurs that emanate a cold, wintry majesty across the end of the cassette.