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Hum of the Druid and Fire in the Head - Split [Cipher Productions/Audio Immolation Industries - 2008]

This is a 12 inch vinyl split between the organic and clattering noise meets ambience of Hum of the Druid and Fire in the Head's industrialized sample heavy drone and often muffled beat bound attacks.

The vinyl comes in a black card slip sleeve with two stuck on grim line drawn black and white mini poster on either side of the sleeve; one for Hum of the Druid and one for Fire In the Head. The first side features the Hum of the Druid's side/track and is wonderful entitled A Swirling Carnival for Every Species. The track starts off in a highly grainy,boiling, muffled and sludgy noise manner that’s underlined by tinkling vibe tones and sinister ambience. As the track goes on it settles down into less noisy, more hazily organic territory with a mixture of random clattering , off-centre pale drone drifts and electro acoustic purrs 'n' whines; with towards the end rather haunted moans been added in to the sonic soup. Through out the track has a wonderful earthy and  sinister vibe with a nice shifting and altering hazy feel to the proceedings. I guess it sounds like a less controlled and noisy take on some of the starving weirdo’s work meets blacked ambience after trails.

And so onto the Fire in the head's side which is entitled The Coming Silence and is made up of several tracks that are mused into one long track. In total the side goes from droning and murky industerlized synth sheens meets ominous and sinister muffled serial killer texts, to slow 'n' murky beat power electronic work-outs, and tortured death industrial beats 'n' grim throbs. All in all an enjoyable and grim 20 minutes worth of material from Fire in the Head- which stays fairly close to what he has done in the past, but is the never the less rewarding and shifting.

So all in all a very worthwhile split with both parties offering up  consistent, varied and shifting sides a piece. For more info and samples drop in here.

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Roger Batty
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