Crown Of Bone / Utarm

This installment in the Infernal Machines series of limited-edition tapes features two of Crucial Blast’s favorite bands in the black noise / experimental / industrial underground teaming up for a full-length album of corroded aural horror. The release includes artwork created by Mories (Gnaw Their Tongues, Aderlating) and comes in an edition of 200 copies on professionally manufactured cassettes. 
First up, Crown of Bone assaults the listener with relentless, largely unmoving walls of crushing, distorted black static on the tracks “Nazareth Impaled” and “Cathedrals of Rot,” both very much situated in the vein of artists like Vomir and The Cherry Point but with a hateful, blackened vibe. 
On side B, Norwegian necro-weirdo Utarm delivers two songs of low-fi, heavily layered black murk. The filthy, droning effluvium of “Reversed Revelation in the Third Dead Eye” sets the stage for the black, psychedelic din of “Restructuring the World,” which closes the split with an evil, blasted dirge.