Dead Eye Terrorist - The Extinction of Ego
Dead Eye Terrorist is (another project) by the same person who brought you the horrific and action-driven album Destructive Maelstrom by Circuit Corrupter. The Extinction of Ego by Dead Eye Terrorist is a limited cassette released by Spanish Marbre Negre. The cover artwork is absolutely exquisite! I love the morbid and extreme picturesque collage work within, and to top it there is also an intriguing and cool-looking sticker inside! 26 minutes journey into destructive and dextrous harsh noise, with eerie surreal moments here and there. All the tracks on the A-side of the cassette are called Ego Death 1 to 10, and a long single track on the B-side is called Degeneration. Another thing worth mentioning, this cassette has also been released on the label Phage Tapes (at the same time) in the U.S! The album has been mastered by the great Grant Richarson ( Gnawed )
The first track on the A-side starts with one of my all-time favorite actors. If I am correct, I have heard and seen the source of the recording from some film award in Germany. Where the (always) mad Klaus Kinski gets up front to make some sort of speech, which slowly turns into an intense performance. He is then dragged away from the scene by security guards, offcourse. I don´t understand what he is talking about, but it is something about Jesus Christ. The recording then stops and turns into a bone-narrowing beast of punishing sound. It all happens VERY quickly, a quick journey into the sound of cosmic harsh noise! Something is screaming, twitching, scraping its infectious claws at you.
The second track continues the onslaught without a single chance to take a quick breather. Almost feels like getting sucked into a black hole, the ears of the listener already feel like they are getting spaghettified here!.
The third track gets back to the action, with some hyper-ultra cyberpunk violence. The sound of someone´s brain getting fried in cyberspace, that is what this sounds like. Lots of sounds so far!
The fourth track rumbles and flattens the listener to a bloody splattered pancake, with lots of nasty things happening!
All the ten tracks could have been squashed into a single track, but cutting it all up into 10 tracks is far more fun. Gives the whole thing a kind of grindcore touch? There are some interesting sounds in there which make it more unique, retro and spacy sci-fi sounds and hidden vocals in there (I think!).
We turn the tape and continue with Degeneration on the B-side. Different style than the former short-tracks. A slow and constant wall of white and pink noise slowly built up, which then slowly degenerates into a multi-layered nightmare of sound. There is soo much going on that it´s hard to comprehend, as I said earlier... there is NO time for a breather. This machine runs and runs, and does not stop. Relentless brutalism beyond human understanding!
Think I have said this before, that Spain is slowly becoming the new place for extreme noise, not Japan! And Dead Eye Terrorist is clearly one of them, besides such cult acts like Soma, [Gyakusatsu], and Tube Tentacles! This is one tape that will be remembered!
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