End the week on a hard note. Newly up at archive.org, the instrumental “mechanized wisdom (burzum rmx)” (attribution unclear), which is pithily billed, with full self-knowledge, as “experimental, electronic black metal music from taiwan.” There’s little more than a tough beat and a grindcore sludge, which combined bring to mind the Earache Records catalog at its best, with additional wisps of industrial-goth aura. This track may be preaching to Ministry’s converted, but it’s a hardy sermon (MP3).
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