Hull, Scott

***Audiofilm II is the second installment in the Crucial Blast series of limited-edition 3" CDs from Scott Hull. Best known for his amazing thrash/grind riffage in the bands Pig Destroyer and Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Scott has been gradually revealing another side of his musical persona over the past few years, an obsession with cinematic soundscaping and darkly evocative film scores, mutant electronic textures and pitch-black isolationism that employs brilliant production trickery to immerse the listener in a vibrantly active aural environment. The first disc that we released, Audiofilm I, was a terrifying, lightless driftscape, filled with demonic processed vocal loops, massive low end ambience, and an all-around horrific vibe that had us comparing it to works from Lustmord, Lull, and the Ambient disc from Painkiller's Execution Ground. But on this second solo disc, Scott creates a much more frantic and energetic soundscape, this one alive with minimal bass-shuddering pulses and keening tone manipulations, layered swarms of insectile electronic chitter, swells of shadowy ambience, a couple of well-timed brain-melting plasma blasts, and vast tectonic drones. A brief (twelve minutes long) but amazing dose of abstract ambient/noise that will appeal to fans of Bastard Noise, the Japanese cosmic-tronix of Astro, and freaked-out 70's sci-fi synth soundtracks. 
As with the first disc, this 3" CD is packaged in a full color miniature folder with amazing artwork/photography from Seldon Hunt, and pressed in a one-time run of 1,000 copies.