Rectal Anarchy

On any other site, I would have given this album a score somewhere in the 90's. But this being a metal site, I'm knocking it down to 75 to acknowledge the fact that many of you would not enjoy this record regardless of what I could say, and yet some of you may find it to be an interesting point of departure into the world of noise and power-electronics.

I'm surprised that this record made it into the discog here. It's not really a split album, but a full-on collaboration between GBN and Merzbow (perhaps the most celebrated noise musician of all time). So, of course it's just noise. It's Merzbow! Once in a while you may hear something that resembles a human voice or a rumbling bass amid the maelstrom, but for the most part it all just swarms together in a horrific mess. You know the slaughterhouse-of-torture-living-hell-and-death image that really brutal metal always seems to evoke in the listener's mind's eye? Well, "Rectal Anarchy" is the sound of extreme metal enduring that same kind of excruciating demise that it so often champions. Droning feedback, detuned guitars, pitch shifted screams of terror, and distorted oscillators roaring over everything. No beat to hang on to. No room to breathe and no breakdowns. No whimping out. Total fucking sonic destruction... Love it or hate it, this is as extreme as it gets.