Arbitrage
Propitiation Complete: The Shedding Of Dietys Blood
Reviewed by Eric Shirey
Here is nine songs of industrial metal from the one-man project Arbitrage. Repetitive, crunching riffs areaccompanied by the snarls and growls of Ross Assink. Like I've said about this guy before, he writes incredibly heavy guitar riffs. The samples are of weird things, like cans being crushed, weedeaters, and so forth. The tape even has a note on it that states, "There are no keyboards on this album. All samples were manually manipulated." I find that pretty cool. He put a lot of time into making his noises and samples. I'd also like to commend him on the tape's sound quality. The production gets better and better every time I hear a new Arbitrage tape. A definite improvement over the last one.