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innerwar - CMI.45

B.D.Ns first domestic release (for Relapse) is sure to surprise many in how totally harsh and brutal it is, owing its overall sound more to the (pre-B.D.N) Lille Roger style of power electronic noise, with its abundance of frying overloaded frequencies, high pitched feedback squeals, and mighty metallic grinds and scrapes, rather than the horrific moans and the beyond-evil atmospheres of something like Necrose Evangelicum or Great Death I & II. For Innerwar, Roger strips himself of the total darkness typically associated with his work and takes us on an unadulterated journey into the kingdom of scum... it is here that child molesters roam and serial killers stalk, and filth, depravity, degradation and subversity are the undisputed rulers of the land. Total gross out pics included! Relapse (the CD release, the LP was released by Cold Meat Industry - webmaster's note).

Jason Mantis.

Innerwar is undoubtly the ultimate release from BDN. Surpassing all that has gone before, this is some of the hardest, most scouring industrial that Karmanik has performed. The chaos, always has some definition, and I guess what is absent here, that is common in BDN's other recordings are elements of space, and the vastness, and silent passages. Innerwar is a more intensive assault, and possesses more top end/high frequencies, that should entertain the noise freaks also. Eight lengthy tracks, comprised of highlights such as Innerwar, No Pain, and the eerie shrieks and rumblings of War. Innerwar is the ultimate in pain... Innerwar is hate incarnate. Await the forthcoming holocaust that is Pain in Progress. Expected in the later half of '97.

Jason M. Healy