Crimes Against Flesh And Bone - Spasmo
Greek E.C.T. has released this tiny and brutal little piece of art. A tiny 3" CD-R housed inside some rice paper and the CD-R itself is on a handmade black cardboard, all with some cool prints and everything. Even the thick cardboard has a lovely sort of chemical smell to it! The artwork looks cool and decent in a retro/old-school sort of fashion, think back to the artwork of Con Dom or the Grey Wolves. Anyways, I don´t know this act and this one is one of their newer releases. A Russian act that has been very active since 2022, releasing several albums and mini-albums in a short period of time. On labels such as Boiled Angel Records, My Little Fetish, Magma Pulse Records, etc. Don´t know any of these labels, but who cares?! We love the obscurity offcourse! The album itself is a very short one. 2 tracks, about 13 minutes and 22 seconds in total.
The first track is called Spasmo (like the album title) and it starts the thing with a sickening warbling sound, which slowly grinds into distortion. Additional background layers of moaning distorted old-school industrial sounds add up to the already depressing and sickening atmosphere. It does have a tendency to actually be over-distorted at times, but for some reason (unknown) it works to a certain degree. Brutal, primal, and highly primitive industrial noise. Much in the same style as early MB or Mauthausen Orchestra. There is a sample in the background of a woman screaming, could it be from the Possession art-house/horror flick with Sam Neil?
The second (and last) track Blood Covered Shrine Of Her Uterus adds more brutalism to the smörgasbord than the former track, which almost was based on a thing between ambient and noise. Here we are more in a sort of early power-electronics sound, with elements of atmospheric harsh noise. Incredibly raw and primitive, the artist has apparently a good knowledge to take the various advantages that this low-fi-approach offers. And he delivers it once again with the second track.
In just...about 13 minutes, the release delivers what it is meant to deliver. Nothing short on anything, and not too much either. And after you have heard it the first time, you actually want to listen to the torment once again! For me, it might just be the fourth time! Highly infectious, highly sickening, and primal industrial moods from Russia, highly recommended!
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