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PRURIENT Cocaine Death LP

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(Hospital Productions)
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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
A new 2014 vinyl edition of Prurient's Cocaine Death, one of my favorite releases from this long-running American power electronics/noise outfit. The LP includes all of the material that was featured on the original CD release here re-mastered for vinyl, and comes in a striking foil-stamped jacket with metallic silver print.
This disc has been listed in the online shop for awhile, but I never had a chance to get a review eked out for it until now. Released in the later half of 2008, Cocaine Death should have been an easy disc for me to rant about, since it's my favorite Prurient album. Actually, this isn't an album per se, but a collection of tracks that had previously appeared on a series of extremely limited cassettes that came out on Hospital Productions. Even though the tapes came out over a two year period, there's a consistency between the recordings that, along with the way that they've been sequenced for this disc, sound like they all came from the same session, and it wasn't until after I checked out the liner notes after having already listened to Cocaine Death a couple of times that I realized that this wasn't a brand new album.
The eight tracks are remarkably different from the rest of the Prurient catalog; there's still the core power electronics influence, but Fernow has used that as merely a foundation for these strange, fearsome chunks of black electronics. Assembled from the Cocaine Death, Caribbean Overdose and Tylenol Murders tapes and book ended by two unreleased tracks, this delves deep into the most blackened zones of Fernow's erotically-charged sound.
The first track "Pretext" initially takes form as a black oceanic surge of distorted ambience, buried vocals and a murky minor key dirge played on synthesized strings, a buzzing black metal intro piece, but then a throbbing bass line and washed-out drum loops comes in, and out of nowhere this becomes a combination of swarming Burzum-like buzz and a pounding John Carpenter soundtrack piece, cloaked in curtains of gauzy white noise and fronted by putrid, processed black metal-style croaks run through some weird effect. The title track is similar to the recent overdriven synth symphonies found on the Pleasure Ground and Black Post Society albums, the ultra-distorted minor key progression corrupted by an immense amount of distortion and overmodulation, turning the liturgical melody into a blasted warbling wall of buzz while the raging distorted vocals are recited, almost like spoken word, over the dense crumbling distorto-dirge.
"God Of Addiction" also has harsh, grueling PE style screams against a backdrop of swarming keys, but this time it's less distorted, more like a classic power electronics track switching out the harsh noise for an grim, gloomy black metal keyboard interlude, the gothic organ melody repeating over minimal percussive pound and crackling noise, and fused with slabs of dark spacey ambience. Then the distortion is cranked to the MAX for "Lay By Son"; as soon as the garbled, demonic vocals and analogue synth loop appear at the beginning of the track, this turns into a massive grinding hellscape of ultra-distorted PE vocals that are rendered completely unintelligible and nightmarish beneath the heavy effects and distortion, cinematic synths and dark pulsing electronic throb, a devastatingly bleak and evil fusion of early 80's film music, nightmare power electronics, and Abruptum-esque black noise, suffocating and impossibly dense, but really REALLY catchy and memorable.
"Garden Of tranquility" is another dose of oddly cinematic keys and industrial strength distortion, but the distorted noise is pushed to the background and muted and softened, all of the jagged edges and harsh frequencies smoothed out, leaving a slowly churning swarm of low-end crunch that pans from side to side while a creepy little melody is plunked out against another Carpenter-esque chord progression and a deep demonic voice recites a body of text. Another Carpenter/Goblin style electronic melody surfaces on "Eve Of Adam", but is nearly overshadowed by the shrieking, squawking black metal-esque vocals and rumbling noise. And "Historically, Women Use Posion to Kill" is about the closest that I've ever heard Prurient come to "black metal"; a simple moody keyboard drones on over brutally distorted drums, a super heavy bass throb undulates wildly around thick, corrosive slabs of saturated black buzz as intense blackened screams and miserable wailing drift across the background, sort of like Abruptum crossed with Whitehouse. Finally, the warm muted synthbliss of "Postscript" is poured over scratchy rhythmic plod and mysterious staticky sounds for an outro that sounds remarkably like the creepy heatwarped blackpsych of Yoga.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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