Blue Sabbath Black Cheer — HN

The short and simply titled “HN” offers up four slices of grimy, pitched black and nasty noise matter from this doomed and murderous US two piece; whose sound hangs in a grim & diseased place between Harsh noise(with some wallish dwells), dirty and sleazed old school industrial pounds, and soured tar black ambience.

Though the album is released under the banner of BSBC it’s in reality made up of one purely BSBC track, two  collaborative tracks by the solo projects of the two members of BSBC, and  a deconstructed and blackly stripped version of a BSBC track by HNW & Harsh Noise canadian legend The Rita.  

So the album starts off with the purely BSBC  track which is entitled  “Existence Distortion” and comes this comes in at just over the twelve and a half minute mark. The track starts off with this thick ‘n’ tarry black  hacking and devilish purring guitar like tone that sounds like it’s come from the deepest and darkest pits of hell. Pretty soon more grey ‘n’ black noise textures are slowly, but surely added to the track as you slowly become buried alive in the tracks ultra bleak  and intensely black hack ‘n’ throb. As the track goes on it just seems to get denser, more hopeless and blackly suffocating as the pair add on more sonic weight and textural grimness- you can pick out zombie like moans, battering dark storms tones, barren tolling and all manner of bleak and tar black noisiness.

Onto the second  track and we have a collaboration between Dried Up Corpse & Nervous Corps (which is basically the two solo projects of the two members of BSBC) which is a ten minute track untitled track. And this track sees the pair pulling-out this great mixture of droning, blacked and brooding noise throb that’s under stitched by this distant clattering ‘n’ fan belt slipping industrialized noise swoon. Later the track starts to become very thickly judder bound, feeling like a mixture of walled blacked noise and sleazed industrial dwell. The track slides out with  layers of looped ‘n’ coarse metallic grating tones, which actually make you feel  almost physically sick due to the way the tones are run together. The track mangers to sound both huge and threatening, yet suffocating and chilling too.

Thirdly we have a collaboration between Nervous Corps & Dried Up Corpse(which I guess must mean one person came up with the noise textures, then the other blackly abused and raped them) which is fittingly entitled “Pure/Filth” and this once more comes in at around the ten minute mark. This  track comes straight in with a billowing ‘n’ grating noise tone that’s under scoured by this huge blacked ‘n’ feasting noise drone, which sounds like your descending into a room full of a million blue bottle flies. This track is slightly simpler and more striped in its feel than the first two tracks as it’s just built around  just the great blacked feasting tone and grating ‘n’ billowing noise swings and grinds.

So lastly we have the deconstructed BSBC which is entitled “Drowning Witchers 1” and it's the longest track here at just under the thirty minute mark. This track finds The Rita focusing the projects sound down into it’s most bleak and blacked  form with a series of overlapping ‘n’ intense ripping static like noise tones; that are deep & blackly bass-lined in there brooding and brutal menacing. The track just seems to build and build the intensity and menace to truly suffocating & darkly brutal highs .  This is such a nasty and evil sounding track, it’s must be one of the most blacked examples of wall-ish Hash noise I’ve ever heard.

“HN” is certainly one of  the most dark, sleazed and menacing Harsh noise meets sludge and blacked industrial noise releases of the last few years. So if you like your noise pitch black, sludgy, extremely nasty and completely hopeless this is a must have tar black masterpiece!