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BASTARD NOISE  The R.A. Sessions  7" VINYL   (Riotous Assembly)   8.99
The R.A. Sessions IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

���� Another long out-of-print 7" from Bastard Noise that we stumbled across as part of a recent warehouse find at one of our distributors, the R.A. Sessions 7" was released on the defunct grindcore label Riotous Assembly back in 2000, and got a lot of play around here when it originally came out. The music featured on this EP is pretty typical of what Bastard Noise were doing around this time, blending Eric Wood's brutal, bestial vocals with constantly shifting electronic noisescapes that moved from moments of calm to the violently caustic; I'm still a big fan of that sound despite their moving in a heavier, "proggier" direction later in the decade.

���� These tracks show some variety, from the squealing industrial dronescape of "The Approval Of Constant Rape" (whose lyrics constitute an over-the-top call for the destruction of the people behind German punk distributor Lost & Found - yikes!) that fills out the a-side, all infested with shrill high-frequency machine-squeal and jittery mechanical noise, to the more concentrated blasts of alien power electronics and bleak isolationist ambience that make up "Pink Flag Truth" and "Space Burial (Preserved For Eternity)" on the flipside. Pretty harsh stuff, and still as powerful today as it was back when it first came out.