artist: STERILE GARDEN / NOVASAK title: format: split CDr label: Swamp of Pus www.swampofpus.com STERILE GARDEN: www.myspace.com/sterilegarden NOVASAK:www.novasak.com review: Iain Travis

A two track split offered up by Swamp of Pus Media featuring Sterile Garden and Novasak.
First up, Sterile Garden offers up slow, grinding moans of despair, forming an oblique exoskeleton around a vale of lost voices and growls captured quietly in the background and what appears to be the obligatory line-feed, which unfortunately, seems to only befriend the effects loops about midway through the song, and timidly at best.
However, the end, which sounds like an orchestra of garbage trucks and compactors, saves the track with flying colours.
What felt lacking in the beginning shows its ugly side in the end and is prepared to gnaw away at the skin when played at maximum volume.
Next, Novasak begins churning away with a rather callous low frequency that melts into stabs of bitter static and a wash of noise.
Whereas Sterile Garden seemed a bit unsure of the plot at first, Novasak dives head first into territory of which i'm sure he feels most confident and delivers, right up through the end.