���� Released for Bastard Noise's 2015 Japanese tour, Our Earth's Blood Part V is the latest chapter in the band's ongoing series of ecologically minded electronic outbursts, which goes back all the way to the early 90s. This 7" features nine tracks in all, each a "statement" of anti-human / eco-conscious fury and a collaboration between Bastard Noise and one of their harshnoise compatriots, with all of them apparently hailing from Japan. And there are some pretty well-known names in here, from Guilty Connector and K2 to Toshiji Mikawa ( Hijokaidan, Incapacitants) and Hiroshi Hasegawa ( C.C.C.C., Astro), Facialmess and Government Alpha, as well as a few lesser-known artists like Katsura Mouri and Shayne Bowden offering their own skills in the creation of these terrifying noisefields.

���� It's all monstrous stuff, moving from squealing electronic hellscapes possessed by hideous, death-metal like roars, to squalls of extreme oscillator violence and rumbling low-frequency chaos, sprawls of skittering, insectile glitchery and malevolent black drone, grotesque digital vomitblasts and shrieking, garbled heaviness, with only brief glimpses of calm caught between the onslaughts of electronic savagery. The whole EP is boiling with sickening psychedelic electronics, but the highlight for me has to be the very last track, which sees Makiko Suda from grindcore band Flagitious Idiosyncrasy In The Dilapidation teaming up with Bastard Noise to assault us with a dual-vocal freak-out that feels like something scraped from the bottom of my blackest nightmares, the sound of demons slowly surfacing from the depths of a glistening kosmische driftscape.

���� Limited to three hundred copies.