A three-sided colossal live album recorded when the band appeared at the esteemed 2009 No Fun Fest in Brooklyn, NY held at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg , featuring the Eric Wood and W.T. Nelson iteration of the long running noise project. It's one hell of a set, with the Skull Ensemble detonating a pummeling performance of "Sewercide (For The "Mole People")" and the sprawling two-part "Rogue Astronaut" (which would later appear on the studio album of the same name). The sound and mix is great, slamming you down into the front row as the band hurls out a particularly ferocious blast of alien electronics and FX-pedal ultra violence.

"Sewercide" appears to be exclusive to this performance (and release), as I can't find it on any of the band's other releases. Sure sounds like something that could have oozed right off of Rogue, though: dedicated to NYC's underground dwellers, this slowly builds from slow-burn charred electronics and throbbing bass into an increasingly menacing death-pulse, weaving their primitive death metal-level vocal roars and demonic shrieks around a mix of machine-like thud and pulsating synths, with an almost Carpenterian synth-pulse emerging at the center of this grinding electro-dirge, squealing feedback and screeching oscillators going berserk, monstrous distorted throb running relentlessly at the heart of it all. A killer track.

It almost feels like a long intro to the two-part "Rogue", though, as this is where things get really heavy. The first half is slowly enshrouded in an atmosphere of dread, the restrained electrical hum and those distant siren-like tones setting a mood of impending doom that quickly fills the air, building its sinister ambience as more layers of abrasive electronics, gnarled drones and trippy FX metastasize around the slow-motion low-end pulse. As they move into the second half of the piece, though, this goddamn thing turns into a straight-up nightmare, as goblin-shrieks and some truly bizarre gut-churning vocalizations suddenly intrude upon the gleaming, dead-sky driftscape, the intensity building as the duo seethes beneath the weight of their corroded electronics, developing into a cancerous low-voltage drone like the sound of a foghorn hypnotically blasting through a thick, near-impenetrable cloudbank of black drift, becoming increasingly disturbed by surges of violent metallic noise that rage across the latter half of the track. This version of "Rogue Astronaut" easily rivals anything that Wolf Eyes did at at their scariest, and turns this into a skulldozer blast of Bastard Noise at their heaviest and most frightening.

One of the best live releases from Bastard Noise I've ever picked up, perfectly pairing the band's "caveman electronics" with fresh storms of atmospheric horror and foulness. Nearly fifty minutes of vicious sound. Absolutely punishing stuff.

Comes with a double-sided full-color poster, and limited to four hundred copies.