���� More rare, out-of-print Bastard Noise action that we obtained as part of a recent warehouse find, this 2002 7" features the Eric Wood/John Wiese lineup of the band delivering two tracks of brutal insectile electronics for the Dutch imprint No Fucking Labels. As with other BN releases from the Wiese era of the band, this stuff is particularly harsh.

���� First track "Unleash The Cataclysm" hovers on the edge between eerie dronescapery and full-bore mutant electronics. The entire side features some extremely violent electronic noise roaring and sputtering and seething over a field of gleaming, almost kosmische synthdrift that's actually quite pretty. Beneath that squall of brutal distortion and chirping chaos and apocalyptic klaxon blasts, though, one detects shimmering steely drones that glow incandescent in the depths, and it begins to resemble an early Tangerine Dream piece infested with swarms of extraterrestrial insect life. In those moments where the noisier elements fall away, leaving just echoes of their violence dissipating over those darkened celestial drones, this becomes quite captivating.

���� It's not until the second track when those trademark beast-screams finally show up. "Punishment Legion" erupts into a barbaric chaos of guttural bellowing screams and insane, high-pitched shrieks that rage over a roiling fog of industrial noise, a miasma of distorted jackhammer blasts and frenzied glitchery, ultra-distorted low-end rupturing clouds of mechanical drone, demented electronic bleeping patterns rising and falling over that skull-scraping churn. It doesn't deviate from the sound that Bastard Noise had nailed down by this time, but it's powerful, crushing stuff, psychedelic electrified misanthropy delivered at bone-rattling levels of aggression and volume.