Now available as a limited-edition CD digipack with a Japanese-style obi strip.

I absolutely can't get enough of Sete Star Sept's barbaric noisegrind. I'm sure most people (including a lot of grindcore fans) probably thinks that this band simply repeats the same obnoxious formula with every song, but for me, this stuff is wonderfully cathartic. As a huge fan of the most extreme fringes of grindcore, harsh noise, improvisational music and noisecore, these guys combine everything I love about that stuff into a simple, but violently effective sound that still manages to tear my face off every time I pick up a new record of theirs.

The latest such new release from the �ber-prolific noisegrind duo, Sacrifice is their second album from the Tokyo-based band, another single-sided LP released by the Macedonian label Fuck Yoga. It again finds the duo of Kae (vocals, bass) and drummer Kiyasu (a former member of notorious Toronto power-violence band The Endless Blockade) continuing to emit their signature strain of diseased, ultra-distorted hardcore and cyclonic noise across another twenty-four tracks, and this time the band has employed one of their more blown-out and in-the-red recordings. You'd have to be nuts to expect any kind of coherency from any of Sete Star Sept's albums, but Sacrifice pushes the distortion and noise levels even little further, with everything distorted into near oblivion. As usual, these songs are largely comprised of twenty second blasts of discordant noisegrind chaos, assaulting the listener with their insane confluence of Scum style grindcore and improvisational chaos influenced by the likes of The Gerogerigegege and other Japanese harsh noise outfits; despite the inherent chaos and formlessness found in these songs, Kae is also capable of escaping the chaos with some monstrous riffs that come tumbling and screaming out of the maelstrom, while her garbled vocal vomit and electrocuted ape-shrieks are splattered across the sudden eruptions of insanely noisy crustcore. Oh yeah, this is by far the most distorted and noisy Sete Star Sept record these guys have put out, the recording pushed so into the red, the bass-heavy distortion so immense that there are huge chunks of this album that completely disappear into a storm of over-modulated Merzbowian noise, a hell of horrendous feedback and garbled bass-noise. It's the closest I've heard Sete Star Sept come to degenerating into full-on noisecore, tracks like "Death Circulatory", "Oiran", "Strange Stripper", "Wind Obsession" and "Stimulus Pursued " whipped up into ultra-violent cyclones of shredded riffage and almost free-jazz informed drumming that has been sped up to insane tempos, tempos that immediately crumble into washes of clattering, hissing noise. And yet there is some surprisingly technical playing going on among all of the sonic carnage, the duo skillfully navigating through their eruptions of compressed chaos.

Comes in a black and white digipack that features cool black and white album art from Edi Mirror.