Xasthur - Xasthur (2006)^{Release ID: 5703}

Xasthur's penchant for haunting and lo-fi, dark ambient/instrumental pieces coupled with raw and repetitive BM is explored in full across the three tracks on offer on this 2006 EP.  Opening with the imaginatively titled 'Instrumental' the tone is set for a dreary journey through the dank mind of Malefic.  If you have any experience to date of Xasthur then nothing on here will surprise you.  The authentic sound of the artist is captured perfectly as the EP moves onto the more harsh 'Bubonic Plague' with its abrupt ending signing the song off seemingly before the track is finished.  Whether he genuinely ran out of tape or was just being Malefic, we'll never know.

I would suggest to any first time listeners of Xasthur that this would be a good gateway release into the discography, if three tracks of repetitive BM and dark ambience doesn't put you off then you have completed entry level Xasthur, now please move on to a full length to further the harrowing repetitious experience of Depressive USBM being delivered by one its finest genre exponents.