Bastard Noise/Endless Blockade's "The Red List" Split

Ok...Holy shit.

While I expected this split to be great, I didn't expect anything half this amazing.

The Bastard Noise half of the split is not the excellent noise that we have all come to know and love, but instead a three-headed amalgamation of BN and Man Is The Bastard. Drums and the 'four steel girders' of MITB have an awesome orgy with the fucked up noise of BN and poop out super tight tracks that span everything from prog to noise to straight old-school power-violence.
The production is clean, but still raw, and helps lend a lot of power to the compositions, as well as creating space for all of the individual members of the group, including drummer Danny Walker from Intronaut and formerly from Phobia.

Lyrically much of the area covered has been covered by the group before, but like always, they manage to layer the vocals in such a way that they help push the music along instead of sticking out awkwardly. Themes of the downfall of mankind, disease and the loss of self penetrate the lyrics and the preceding text.

If you are a fan of BN or MITB I can recommend this with absolutely no hesitation, and to anyone else who is a fan of tight music put together in weird ways I would suggest checking it out. Even if you don’t dig it, at least you tried.

Listen to MUTANT WORLD OF SHAME and MOVEMENT TWO


It would be easy to think that it would be difficult to follow what BN did on their half of the split, and it would be for almost anyone except for The Endless Blockade. Composed of one fourteen-minute track called “Deuteronomy,” TEB runs the gamut of what they are known for. Right out of the gate they start laying down fast and driving material before collapsing into mesmerizing doom before jumping back to some more fast shit. This starts fragmenting into more slow pulsation and noise, melded seamlessly together, thanks in small part to Scott Hull’s (ANb, Pig Destroyer) mix.

As important as the music is, the lyrics demand a heavy analysis. One that I am not even close to being smart enough for. But I’ll try anyways, because it isn’t like anyone is reading this shit. What they have done here is linked the concept of language, as it exists as an abstraction for reality, to the continuous failings of humanity. These links are assigned values throughout history, either as events or groups, how they related to one another and how they were able to feed or starve the “other” side in pursuit of their own goals. These people and events may be different but a repeating pattern emerges when studied in any depth. Religion is repeatedly cited as being a tie to a past that hinders growth and is used to spread the worship of humankind’s end. When people are unable to think and love the way they want, the obsession with the end is all they have left.

Language as a trap.

Ok. Enough blathering, just go listen. SAMPLE OF DEUTERONOMY

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