Prior - Dripping Tongue.

Prior – Dripping Tongue – CD/Download – Black Mound Sound Lab – [bmsl/005] – 2025

https://blackmoundsoundlab.bandcamp.com

https://prior-noise.bandcamp.com/music

          1. SPIT B[01]LOOD.

          2. SPIT C[02}UM.

Prior is a UK project that has been releasing since 2001, Prior’s work lies heavily in Death Industrial, but also leans into Power Electronics, Ambient and Harsh Noise. Her work came from earlier projects like Decoherence and Resection. There have been split releases with Crepuscular Entity, Superfuzz, Ennaytch and Grot. Prior has played live artists like Distraxi, AM NOT, Ordeal by Roses, Gender is the bastard, and Khost. Dripping Tongue comes a beautifully presented, fold-out sleeve with a small booklet all covered in different artwork.

A bass note is repeated as ambient sounds play out around it on SPIT B[01]LOOD, sometimes the repetition fails, which grabs the listener's attention and pulls them back into the work. Subtle changes in and around this can be felt as the repetition quickly becomes familiar and the changes act as sudden surprises in the experience of hearing the work. The noises become increasingly aggressive towards the middle of the track and replace the bass with percussive repetition to allow the  surrounding chaos to move into  the central focus of the work. You are left with a cacophony of noise with vocal sounds buried within it.

A sampled vocal is warped into an intro to SPIT C[02]UM and woven into drones and more percussion, this is tribal and nightmarish. I am unsure if the vocal is sampled or made by the maker of the noise, but it continues throughout the track, the percussion intensifies as does the chaos of the noise.

This leads me to say Death Industrial is in good hands in the UK, there are a select few artists in there pulling it to their own sounds and creating strong work with it (S.T.A.B. Electronics, Slow Murder, Prior, AM NOT). As an object this CD is very well presented and the sounds made are strong. I have been playing this for a few weeks repeatedly and very much recommend buying it, the link to the label is at the top of the review.

Nothing and Nobody 2025.