��� One of the more recent releases from Justin Marc Lloyd's paranoid noise project False Flag, an offshoot of the sort of extreme, avant-garde electronics he's pursued with various projects like Dim Dusk Moving Gloom and Pregnant Spore and his tape label Rainbow Bridge. False Flag's dark mixture of contemporary power electronics, malevolent synthesizer music and HNW aesthetics is the most abrasive of these various projects, and this tape released on Lithuanian industrial label Terror is a particularly heavy blast of dystopian noise. There is a strong current of early 21st century global conspiracy paranoia running through this tape, imbuing the slow black pulse and monstrous rumbling power electronics of tracks like "Muslim Police" with a intensely sinister and threatening energy.

��� Many of these tracks feature collaborations with other noise artists like HNW engineers Boar, Matt Boettke (Scant), and Divine Shell, bringing a decent amount of variety. Tracks move from the aforementioned blasts of crushing power electronics into sprawls of abrasive industrial rhythm and ghostly nightmare ambience, howling voices sweeping through the depths of some vast black abyss, fields of desolate drone shrouded in murky Lustmordian ambience and strafed with strange electronic sounds that resemble 8-bit star-fighters plummeting to earth. The cumulative effect evokes an expansive smoke-wreathed vista of charred cityscapes and nefarious factories, the sounds growing ever more dim and dread-filled as Lloyd and crew descend deeper into their aural pits of gurgling black electronics and decaying static, eruptions of corroded low-end rumble mingling with clusters of sweeping kosmische synthesizer. The track "Two Brothers" is distinguished by a blackened ultra-heavy dirge, a massive rumbling convergence of distorted drones and sinister samples that slowly evolves into a crushing, crumbling wall of harsh noise, only to be followed by the black-hole nebular driftscape of "Rage For Peace" that resembles some particularly spooky 70's era space music being absorbed into a fluttering swarm of pestilent electronics. The power electronics-style approach appears infrequently throughout the album, but when it does, the combination of Lloyd's heavily distorted and processed growl and the cardiac thud of the synthesizers suddenly coalesce the swarming noisescapes into something quite fearsome, at one point transforming into an intensely abrasive but strangely beautiful wall of elegiac, mournful synth noise that's on par with some of the mid-oughties output from Prurient. Another solid release from this project. Limited to 100 copies.