This is one of my favorite splits in terms of packaging. I thought printing on cloth was a cool, unique idea and I'd love if it caught on with more labels. My one complaint is I felt like the art turned out kind of murky, which led to me procrastinating on posting this since I would have preferred to find digital copies of the art online. It just wasn't happening with the Gravewax side, so I finally gave in and scanned it recently, and now I feel like it's probably just meant to look that way.
Gravewax is an obscure black noise project by Jen Lazarus. This side of the split features heavy sample usage, to the point where I almost want to say it's not so much black noise with some samples so much as it's samples with bits of black noise. It's interesting though, and with the chanting and church music it does a great job of creating a somber atmosphere.
I think I read somewhere that Goredick makes Gonococcus songs with nothing but layering his vocals. It sounds like there's something more than that going on here, but it's hard to tell. Either way, it doesn't sound quite like conventional gorenoise, and I mean that in a good way. Goredick recently posted everything by Gonococcus on Bandcamp, so check that out too.
I think this is sold out everywhere. I can't say for sure if Lysergic Meltdown still has copies or not because their store has been down for a while now (I was actually afraid the label was done until they posted recently that they've been on hiatus and will be back in October), but I doubt it.
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