Genre: Noise / Experimental / Ambient

01 Cut & One Figure - An interview in New York ( or were we just in London )
02 15 Degrees below zero - The burning bush
03 Kadaver - Serenity in the shadow of the sword
04 Circle six - Inception
05 As All Die - The season of destruction
06 Thee virginal brides and Cheerleader 69 - Is architecture erecting a substitute cock?
07 Clear Stream Temple - Negative affirmation
08 Brain quake - Drowning again in sin
09 MICHAELTHOMASJACKSON - Ash
10 Sound 00 - 1000+1 Tilt
11 Ctephin - Day of prayer

Safe in my European home. Well I and many others thought we were. Until that fateful day when the Twin Towers collapsed in a mass of concrete and burning flesh and steel. The devastation of the event broadcast around the world in glorious Technicolor and brought into our living rooms as we sat trying to eat our food. Terrorist war struggle is the new entertainment. The repercussions of revenge from a nation wounded to have far reaching consequences across the globe. The domino effect in unstoppable flow. The war mongers fingers itching on the trigger of devastation. An eye for an eye. Blood for blood. The dead will be avenged one way or another. If it just so happens to suit the political and economic agendas then even better. Any excuse is better than no excuse. US global policy being to blame for Armageddon time. The dominant bully finally get the slap in the face it so richly deserved. Tragically it was the innocents who suffered. Same as it always was. Not the men in suits whose actions had started the whole ball rolling. The lessons of the past are never learnt. The same mistakes are made time after time and the only conclusion is the body bags steadily mounting up. As another year rolls in the only certainty is that the carnage across the world will continue unabated. Fun times in the war zones of your choice. In the name of religion. In the name of my father. In the name of corporate greed. Happy fucking New Year. Meet you down the morgue baby.

Approaching a release like this is a daunting prospect for a reviewer. The very subject matter needing a great deal of restraint for fear of offending anyone. Even I who upsets more than others with my outrageous statements in reviews treads carefully. To tell you what I really think about that fateful day would result in a bombardment of hate mail against this website from certain quarters. Best then I stop now before my mouth causes me more grief that normal. I've probably done more than enough with the opening paragraph anyway. Therefore I'll approach this review differently. You've read the title. You know what its about. You have your own views on the subject. Instead I'll just quickly cover each group and track with a very brief description along with a thumbs up or down at the end for the release as a whole.

01 Cut & One Figure - ‘An interview in New York ( or were we just in London )' kick things off with a 6+ minute of Eastern styled guitar strumming, which steadily gathers momentum, over barely decipherable background effects and samples. The mood fairly dark and foreboding as a sudden noise rush at the finish hits home. Probably not the wisest choice of words to use here .

02 15 Degrees below zero - ‘The burning bush ' is a static and bleep filled piece of dark electronic ambience before transforming halfway through into a slightly edgy beat orientated piece with accompanying effects.

03 Kadaver - ‘Serenity in the shadow of the sword' goes for the sonic noise approach with a dizzying and ferocious piece of piercing electronics that could shred skin from a thousand paces away. Heavy and vomit inducing as only this genre of music can be.

04 Circle six - ‘Inception' follows with a cut n paste job of various samples and fearful feedback and electronics that stop and starts at will. The squealing electronics akin to receiving a scalpel thrust into the brain. This track ending on a sombre meditative note that is the calm after the storm.

05 As All Die - ‘The season of destruction' features our Clint, well he is a friend to Heathen Harvest, in a sample and noise feast that manages to mangle and mash up ‘California Dreaming' like you've never heard it before. Well it sounds suspiciously like ‘California Dreaming' to my ears. I'm sure Clint will tell me differently. Excellent…as all of As All Die pieces of music are.

06 Thee virginal brides and Cheerleader 69 - ‘Is architecture erecting a substitute cock?' arrives with an old school Industrial noise track of suitable demented electronic sounds over a robust chanted sample that is a symbolic call to arms. Very creepy in the extreme.

07 Clear Stream Temple - ‘Negative affirmation'   is one of the highlights to be found here. Not that this takes anything away from the other participants. Featuring many looped samples and beats the words spoken by Mr Bush and company making the aftermath a justified reason to act out revenge on a global scale. This made more sphincter inducing because it actually then happened. God save us from idiots in power.

08 Brain quake - ‘Drowning again in sin' is a depressingly oppressive piece of dark ambience that is as cold and devoid of life as a nuclear winter. The music chilling to the marrow as it throws giant shadows and caustic rain in every direction.

09 MICHAELTHOMASJACKSON - ‘Ash' starts with the sound of bells tolling then adds various snippets culled from the emergency services records taken on the day of the tragedy . These are mixed over minimal electronic frequencies. Heartbreaking.

10 Sound 00 - ‘1000+1 Tilt' is 9+ minutes of darkest ambience. The sounds are your typical ambient affair but with a nice touches throughout that separate it from the normal fodder that typifies this genre.

11 Ctephin - ‘Day of prayer' rounds off the recording with the longest track of 11+ minutes that features a speech made for President Bush over highly charged dark ambience. This track a fitting epitaph that quotes the bible throughout it.

‘With Eyes Wide Open For A Brighter Future…9/11 In Memory And In Myth' is a controversial release in the same vein as Hate-Male - ‘Live At The Twin Towers' and should be approached as such. Whatever your views it is a release that deserves to be heard and the artists appearing on it are all to be congratulated for their contributions. Thumbs up all round.

PS…if you buy this direct from the label also pick up a copy of the Seven Morgues ‘Something to Cry About' cdr at the same time. It hasn't been reviewed here on Heathen Harvest but trust me when I say its one amazing release also.