Continuing to use ideas, themes and mythology from Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart as a launch pad for his deeply intimate, intensely abrasive electronic soundscapes; the title of this limited edition disc is itself a quote from Barker's classic novella. Thusly, Cenobitic visions and deeply felt emotional masochism rule the day as you make way through the nine exclusive tracks and remixes. Actually, it's all remixes, save for the final eighteen minute epic "The Nameless Saint", which I'll dig into in a moment. The bulk of this hand-assembled, limited edition disc collects a variety of imaginative and sometimes radical remix experiments that all draw from the Theologian album Pain Of The Saints for their source material. These new visions are often completely unrecognizable, however. In many of them, only the most scarified and mangled wisps of the original music are found, a benighted presence buried inside a wall of hellish rhythms and sumptuous synthesizer arrangements. Most of he artists featured here were unfamiliar to me at first, though all of them have drawn my curiosity to investigate more of their work. Among these lesser-recognized names are Tonikom, Three Winters, Kidaudra,Pattern Behavior, Zex Model, rounded out by cult synth/EBM master Statiqbloom.

What better to open this slab of dread than a remix from Theologian Prime himself? "Piss And Jism (Video Mix II) " is crushing synth-death ritual, an electrified ritual calling the winds of Armageddon, waves of deep, distorted sound sweeping over endless plains of devastation, a sunless realm of grinding death industrial drone and monstrous utterances, everything swirled into a radiation-heavy mass of horror. Absolutely fantastic. Three Winters offers "Self Flagellation As Faith - Boundless Hate (Remixed By Three Winters)" which finds the Nordic electronic outfit bleeding heavily through into the dire ambience of the original, transforming it into a fucking killer old-school EBM style slammer with heavy duty darksynth piled on top, dervish drum programming driving them into a neon-lit urban desolation. Tonikom lays down a breakbeat-driven, slightly bitcrunched shadow-mandala with "Blessed Prey - Prey Receive" laced with baroque orchestrations, seraphic choral textures, and creeping glitchery, somewhere between Ohm Resistance-style experimental bass music and the darker corners of classic trip-hop. Pattern Behavior's own rework of "Piss And Jism" washes so much of the original jagged structures away, stripping it down to a pounding Wax Trax-style rhythm seething with grim angelic howls, shuffling percussive layers, and heavy doses of midnight menace. Kidaudra remixes "Without Trust, Your Love Is Meaningless " into a skittering beat-driven phantasia of warping synthesizers and ominous mood, resulting in a terrific bit of pulsating industrial disco bliss. Zex Model molds "Iron Pierces Flesh And Bone Alike" into this mysterious assemblage of dark ambience, demonic hissing and distant evocations, and more dancefloor-wrecking EBM vibes.

One of the standout contributions comes by way of neo-darkwave heavy Statiqbloom (an off-again, on-again live member of Theologian) produces a stunning remix of "Redemption Is An Impossibility" with additional new vocals from Jessica Way of Barren Harvest / Kinit Her / Worm Ouroboros. Fade uses the nerve systems of the original to unleash some nightmarish industrial that feels like something halfway between Skinny Puppy, Tackhead, and Twitch-era Ministry with powerful percussive arrangements and his signature sinister vocals, a dark and violent undercurrent thrumming beneath the surface complexity, drum sequencing and vintage synthesizer sounds woven together into infectious power. Definitely one of my favorite adaptations contained here. The last two tracks return back to the creator, first with Lee's rework of "Self Flagellation As Faith - Claustrophobe" into crackling black ambience teeming with gorgeous ethereal female voices, ceremonial percussion, added vocals from Drencom's B.J. Allen, and huhe, hypnotic sound loops that curl skyward into absolute blackness. The other is a sprawl of fearsome death-ambient called "The Nameless Saint" from Theologian that shows Lee at his more restrained, crafting shallow pools of obsidian synth, soft swells of tectonic bass, incoming siren-like warnings and washes of haunting celestial electronics, later falling over into an abyss of controlled drones and titanic sheet-metal rhythm.

Comes in a roughly DVD-sized full color sleeve with a sticker reproduction of one of the astounding Barker-esque interior images.