Rising Sun On The Morning After

"Rising Sun On The Morning After" – 2004 – N.C.C. – 3” CDr – Limited to 28

Tracks:

1. Inches From Your Sleeping Face 4:27

2. Oral Sex With A .357 10:30

3. Blood Drenched And Smiling Into The Sun 5:30

Total Length: 20:27

Beauty And Pain
Clint Listing

Ah harsh mind numbing noise with a driving force of harsh harsh industrial.

This is some tense sounds going on here. The pain factor of these sound sources.

I don't know how to explain it correctly but the crunchness of this release is

just making me so god damn pleased.

This is just the soundtrack I need in my current pissed off state.

I now need to go find more of this Mr. Marax recordings as see if they hold up

to this stellar 15 minutes of insanity.

Marax have here mastered the deconstruction of sounds and have brought me to my knees.

The artwork on this 3" is 1st rate too. N.C.C. has something special going on here.

Worm Gear
Scott Candey

This is a 3 song 3" CDR, and conveys a more volatile side of Marax. "Inches From Your Sleeping Face" uses gritty shifting high tones and fluttering statics to produce a biting tension for nearly 3 and a half minutes before the direction shifts into mid range noise swashes. "Oral Sex With a .357" comes in at 10 and a half minutes and is only slightly less subtle than its title. Built around a looping throb, heavy low distortions and shrill high end ping pong off of each other at varying pulse rates. Stop and starts eventually find their way in giving it a spastic random flow, but the sounds stay more or less consistent until the last couple minutes where it all becomes more feverish. "Blood Drenched And Smiling At The Sun" closes this out with some sharp edged harsh mid and high textures and what sounds like distant frantic screams or sampling looped deep in the background. A more piercing and abrasive side of Marax than those seen on the "For The Love of Death" series, but nice to see a project not afraid of some clear diversity in its catalog.