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Burmese / Cadaver Eyes split cd (Industry002)
Cooperation inbetween .New.Scream.Industry. and Heart & Crossbones; released in January 2008.
We are extremely excited to say the least, not only to work with two bands we really love (Burmese and Cadaver Eyes); but also with Heart and Crossbone, who released some bands we love as well (Cadaver Eyes, bARBARA, Grave in the sky, amongst others..).
The Israelian band Cadaver Eyes is David Opp playing drums armed with triggers that activate a sampler alongside Eran "zax" Sachs who uses a no-input-mixer to help produce deep frequencies and drones. They describe what they do as "octopus-like grinding machine" , and i must say it gives a good idea of how it is, although it is best to hear it to make have a good idea of it all.
Burmese. Two basses, no guitars, drums, one singer.
This is the San Francisco monster that takes influences as varied as WhiteHouse, Brutal Truth, Burzum, Swans, Landed and Dropdead to sculpt their sounds as noisy 16rpm grind, tantrum electronics, confrontational lyrics, assaults for the senses. Simply as a point of reference, these guys did a Whitehouse tribute cd on Planaria (entitled 'White : Interpretations of Whitehouse'), shared a split 7'' w/ 16 Bitch Pile Up on Not Not Fun, 2 full-length albums on tUMULt, the 'Men' album on Load, a split cd with Fistula on Crucial Blast. `Nuff said. Fucking brutal.
Aquarius Records had these comments for the release :
''BURMESE / CADAVER EYES split (Heart & Crossbone / New Scream Industry) cd
We'd be hard pressed to think of ANY band that could hold their own on a split record with our very own local noiseniks Burmese. But if anyone can, it's Israeli noise combo Cadaver Eyes. But first off, holy shit are we psyched to have new music from Burmese. These guys are seriously sloooooow workers. Other than a handful of shows, we've heard nary a peep from these guys, there was the reissue of the tUMULt release on vinyl, but it's literally been years we've been waiting for a new record. Multiple lineup changes, disastrous tours, scrapped recordings, the sort of luck that has plagued these guys forever. But finally, they've beat the curse, and gotten us 11 new blasts of brutal, speaker shredding ultraviolence. Some confusion mix of Whitehouse style abstract noise, pummeling grind, damaged metal, freaked out power violence.
They may be down to one drummer, but they still have two bass players, and now THREE vocalists. They sound as good as ever, still furious and freaked out, sometimes offering up sprawling electronic dronescapes, sometimes, frantic flurries of lightning fast grind, sometimes convoluted lurching metallic crunch, and often all of the above at the same time. Hypnotic and heavy and seriously fucked up. Just another reminder, since they're loath to do it themselves outside of their sporadic releases, that these guys are quite possibly the best band in SF.
But then there's Cadaver Eyes, recorded live on WFMU, using just drums, vocals and no-input mixing board. And listening to this, it seems impossible that there's not two guitarists and multiple drummers and synths and who knows what else. The sound is dense and freaked out.
Spastic spurts of strangled grind, long stretches of speaker shredding electronic buzz and skree, long drawn out abstract dronescapes of howling vox and pounding drum plods spaced WAY out, culminating in the nearly eight minute closer, beginning with the strangely titled "Ba Yom Yom" and finishing off with an absolutely unrecognizable cover of "Sweet Home Alabama", a convoluted blow out of maniacally howling vocals, sputtering percussive crunch, LOTS of feedback, and thick walls of rumbling crumbling distortion. Awesome. And about as UN-easy listening as we can imagine.''