Hallucinocide was new to me, but I had actually heard Novasak on a compilation that I was also on over a decade ago, so he has been kicking around for quite some time. Inner Demons is a known quantity by now (or it should be if it isn’t yet), so we know the formula: a 3” disc with good music. So let’s get right into the music. Hallucinocide kicks off this split with a screeching squeal of feedback to open up “Dissociative Entity (Live at Beerland).” But this is not the wall of noise I expected from this burst. This is more along the lines of pounding power electronics and yelled vocals. However, this has a lot more variety than a lot of PE stuff, but still has a lo-fi rawness to it that I enjoyed. Feedback and pulsing percussion, lots of screaming, and a ton of distortion. In other words, it was a good time. Novasak is up next with “Maximum Liability,” which starts off with a lot of fat analogue action. This is like listening to a 1980s video game soundboard that suddenly gained sentience and is now trying to communicate with the outside world. The only problem is that no one knows what it is trying to say, so it gets more and more frustrated and increasingly agitated. It has so much to say and no one understands it. If you like it circuit bent and burned to the ground, this is one to pick up. This album weighs in at around 19 minutes.