The Black Scorpio Underground
has been active since 2005 and is the main project of Joe Truck Kasher. The
project’s first release was ‘Attica’ in 2009, since then there have been around
15 releases, including some impressive split releases with The Haters, Vomit
Arsonist and Werewolf Jerusalem.
The completely improvised Necrochasm
makes good use of tortured samples and electronic pulsations a lot of songs intensify
without exploding or erupting. It is themed around hatred, anger and darkness. In
part, there are sounds derived from Black Metal, creating storms of noise. Long
passages of murky ambience dominate the album, as if stuck in bleak purgatory; fogging
everything over, ready to be broken up again.
Sounds that resonates bleak
nightmares is built via samples on Garden of Mutilated Saints; electronic
hellish ambience, low level drones, hidden melody and static hiss. Sometimes
they all work together, at other times they are introduced to cut into the
sound and break its continuity. Necrochasm uses silence as a weapon for long
periods of time to begin tracks or strike them dead. Gunshots are repeated on
Mortuum until they become a rhythm; a beat made from the violence of life.
Painful drones coupled with humming feedback surround the rhythm until field
recordings and electrical static expand everything to higher levels of
bleakness. Kasher uses cold synths, sampled suffering and deep drones that are cuts
of sharp electronics.
Necrochasm partly lurks in a
foggier Blackened Dark ambient territory. Compared to their live performance this
is a lot more layered and complexed. Sometimes I wanted more sonic violence
from BSU, I was awaiting bigger eruptions like those on their split with
Werewolf Jerusalem. It seems the project’s scope on this release is quieter; allowing
for more intricacies and exciting accidents to happen and grow within the sound.
It’s becoming apparent they are making rapid moves to operate in their own
sonic territory. Only time will show the directions that The Black Scorpio
Underground is taking as it begins to reach maturity.
Choppy Noodles 2017.
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