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BASTARD NOISE  Our Earth's Blood Part III  7" VINYL   (Rhetoric Records)   8.99


���� Here's another older, out-of-print Bastard Noise release that we got ahold of recently via a warehouse find from one of our distributors. Released on the long-gone Rhetoric Records label, 1996's Our Earth's Blood Part III was another furious installment in Man Is The Bastard's sweeping anti-human saga, featuring the quartet version of the band fronted by Eric Wood's barbaric vocals. It dishes out four tracks of brutal "caveman electronics" that once again combined their hardcore-derived ferocity with a mixture of psychedelic harsh noise and extreme power electronics influences. And as usual, the result is monstrous. "Our Earth's Blood" a nightmarish mass of feral, snarling vocals, howling feedback manipulations, and ultra-distorted low-end synth-slime, a seething, sadistic assault of bestial electronics that gradually grows more powerful and violent. "HR 2202" is a slightly more subdued electronic noisescape, but still pretty abrasive, while "Lost And Found" is a direct threat against the notorious German label/bootleg operation of the same name, spelled out in no uncertain terms as Wood spews his deadly, death metal-esque roar across a pestilent clot of noxious noise and abrasive glitchery. And closer "Campfire Hymn" finishes this up with a seriously creepy dronescape, once again haunted by those bellowing, gut-churning screams. Brutal.