WIRE WEREWOLVES - tsathoggua

WIRE WEREWOLVES - Tsathoggua
c15, 2009, SR #
Edition of 70

REVIEWS

After working with Jay Howard on the new disc that we
just released through Crucial Bliss recently from his
band Bacteria Cult (which also includes Chris Dodge
from Spazz/..Hellnation/..Despise You fame), I started
to check out his other projects that I wasn't as familiar
with. His other electronics-based project Circuit Wound
works with highly textured and psychedelic blasts of
harsh noise, pretty killer wall-type stuff that we'll be
keeping an extra eye open for in the future, but the
other project that he seems to be especially busy with
at the moment is a duo called Wire Werewolves with
Evan Pacewicz (who has also performed and recorded
harsh noise material under the name Moth Drakula).
Using guitar, programmed rhythms, analog synths,
vocals, tapes, and electronic debris, Howard and
Pacewicz create a necrotic mix of fractured basement
black metal and minimalistic death industrial,
sometimes fusing the two modes together, sometimes
veering far to either side. The new split LP with Wire
Werewolves and Snakes Alive that is also listed in this
week's new arrivals list showcases the more metallic
side of WW's sound, but this cassette titled
Tsathoggua is almost purely electronic, devoid of
anything that overtly resembles black metal.
Tsathoggua is an eerie trip through musty, mouldering
corridors, the sound coming from staticky synthesizer
drones and soft minor-key guitar arpeggios, washes of
crackling electrical energy and samples of echoing
footsteps and metal percussion. The atmosphere is jet
black, but the sound is purely old school industrial that
resides somewhere in between the blackened industrial
ambience of Allegory Chapel Ltd. and Wolf Eyes.
Roughly fifteen minutes of primo factory-skulk, limited
to 70 copies and packahed in a cool transparent cover
- CRUCIAL BLAST

Circuit Wound/Moth Drakula collaboration, this time
without the metal influences. Two sides of icky synth
and garbled junk metal, a rather morbid atmosphere to
it all. - CIPHER PRODUCTIONS (AUS)