Cassette Review // Princess Disease & Straight Panic "Princess Disease / Straight Panic Split" (Black Ring Rituals Records)

https://blackringrituals.bandcamp.com/album/princess-disease-straight-panic-split

Sharpness drives us into distorted blasts as this one starts.  Usually we have that distortion coming through like feedback- which is a sharp sound- or the static blasting through but I'm not used to them being at the same time.   Words are being spoken now in a somewhat distorted way and this is somewhere between industrial and Pain Chain.   Words are screamed now as well.  The music and screaming go so well together.

Typically when I listen to things along the lines of harsh noise they tend to either come through like a machine gun or a flamethrower.   With Princess Disease, this feels more like torture.  It's slower and prodding, just tearing you limb from limb and breaking every single law which exists about torture.  The fact that this has vocals coming through with the sounds feels like it's more accessible to people who are into hardcore or metal, but for me it's just the pain that this conveys.  I love it.

On the Straight Panic side we come through with this slipstream which sounds like a highway.  People are talking and saying things like "Fuck yeah" as we drop into these really deep bass beats.   The beats continue with the static and it feels like EDM merging with harsh noise.  Vocals can be heard screamed through now and this is just getting heavier and more in your face by the second.    This feels abrasive and there is a ringing behind it, such as your ears might get after listening to this at full volume.  

As I discussed previously that harsh noise can have this flamethrower way about it, Straight Panic brings that as this feels like a sound which is just leveling full cities.   The beats and screamed vocals add another level to it and this is just that type of sound I love because I feel like if this is being played live it might make people uncomfortable to the point where they just plain out leave.

While I had not heard of Princess Disease before, I most definitely have heard of and love Straight Panic.   Whether you've heard of either of these artists or not though isn't the point so much as that you should just be listening to each of these artists on the whole.  This split cassette provides you with that little slice of each of their sounds and it is definitely not a cassette to be missed.