Alone With The Devil

KZSU full-blast noise rock stalwarts of yore return, tone down the intensity and take on a more eastern/mystical demonic flare, incorporating tribal beats and bells, eastern elements to their trademark lo-fi madness. As if these guys weren’t possessed enough, now it sounds like they’ve all been gang banging Linda Blaire. Sounds like dragging chains through an internment camp, strangling an eastern mystic with his own tambora, using dynamite in place of a kick drum, corralled tortured prisoners as vocals. Like Dead Can Dance being held at gunpoint by (old SF band) Chrome deep down a sewer tunnel, pleading for their lives. Fun for the whole family.

No FCCs. Try tracks 1, 3, 4

1) (3:00) a mid/slow plod with a tribal drum beat, eastern melody, the most accessible track
2) (3:43) soundtrack to the Death March of Bataan
3) (4:31) mid-up with the bells, electric guitar, ends with a demonic layering of subliminal voices whispering and shouting, creepy, watch false fade-out/ending
4) (3:06) a slow dreary plod through the abandoned factory, rain pouring through the roof, dragging one’s broken ankle chains
5) (3:13) more of a disjunct cacophony
6) (2:07) brief torturous plod