Released
1999

Label
Malignant Records

Reviewed by
Kim Ann Alexander

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Last Edit/Update
01 July, 1999

Stone Glass Steel

Dismembering Artists
(The Lost Album -- Restored)


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Track Listing

1. Procryptic Spirillium
2. Sectarian Cicatrix
3. Martyr Cartel
4. Proserpina Potentate
5. Elimination Flick
6.Viral Nepotism
7. Abortive Fortis
8. Acidburn Aesthetic
9. Emitter Emulsion
10. Mezuza Palooka

    Programmed, remastered, and produced by Philip Easter, tracks on "Dismembering Artists" were originally sampled and recorded in 1991. That was quite a long time ago to be doing this type of music...which is termed by Malignant Records to be "Ambient/Industrial."   Just take a look at the coverart, which *screams* industrial. I agree with that term for the most part, however after hearing this release, I would add "Noise" to that description. Subgenres of Noise have been ever-growing, so ammending that term would be to include, "Dismembering Artists."
    By now you might be wondering what this release actually sounds like? There are elements of crashing reverb, harsh guitar (sampled and probably tweeked by Philip to a near excruciating limit), loops of clicking and pounding bass/percussion, yet there are also elements of chugging undertones, noisy and offensive sonic blasts and textures, and buzzing drifts.
    What is really interesting about the style of SGS's work is the effort in Easter's combining all these samples to create small and temporary bursts of near chaos within a track which holds the overall theme of the piece as unique and rather disturbingly omnipresent and cohesive. Sampling genius at its finest, Stone Glass Steel is a release worthy to be  in your player if you enjoy industrial assult techniques in sound sampling and programming.