Italian noise duo OvO release their Abisso/Genesi cassette via No=Fi Recordings today, and it will be issued in a limited edition of 100 with silkscreened and hand printed cover art. While many of the tracks on the tape originally saw the light of day on the band’s Abisso LP, out on Supernatural Cat in 2013, the label promises: “These recordings sound more “direct”, dirty, nasty, with no filter. EVIL!”.
This new version of “Abisso” looses the first’s spine-shivering vocals, while paring the track back to an almost dub version of the original. But, as No=Fi promises, the result has a creepy immediacy that is more difficult to pin down, genre-wise, than “Abisso”‘s first iteration. What was once a bathetic, horror show of an aural experience–more akin to noise metal, is now an intriguing study in pace and sonic texture. In fact, this new “Abisso” would probably sound great with clipping.’s Daveed Diggs rapping over it, or the cats in Antipop Consortium; but even while moving in this intriguing new direction, the cut still maintains it’s noise metal core.
