���I wouldn't have doubted it for a moment if you threw this on sight unseen and told me that this was some long-lost early 80s recording from Bianchi. As he states in his typically incomprehensible sleeve notes that come with the recent 7" release of Amentest, the music on this EP was created by the use of "solemnoises and electrophobic waves", whatever he hell those might be. The two fairly lengthy tracks of morbid reverb-chamber creep that Maurizio Bianchi produces here are cut from a similar cloth as the type of primitive industrial noise works he was producing in the early 80s, as part of the early industrial underground alongside the likes of Whitehouse and Throbbing Gristle. Both "Amentest" and b-side "Testamen" are a bit of a throwback to that classic, desolate Bianchi sound, composed around rattling percussive noises that are run through heavy layers of delay and echo, generating fields of ghostly tremors and ecto-rattlings that ripple across the blackness in waves of over-modulated sound.

��� There are moments here that call back to the minimal, sinister industrial music of his iconic Symphony For A Genocide album, which still ranks as some of my all-time favorite material of his. Not as suffocating or oppressive as that album was, this 7" is still my preferred mode of Maurizio, each track rattling and clanking through a thin fog of murky reverb, primitive percussive loops clanking coldly beneath the echoing metallic drift, like the distant pounding of cadaverous fists against the far side of some spectral wall; the second track in particular exudes a nicely spooky quality, as strains of horn-like melody struggle to break through the waves of rattling metallic noise. Released in a limited edition of three hundred copies, includes a download.