Zum released a solo piano recording from Silentist pianist/drummer Mark Evan Burden on a split EP with Growing. Silentist is Burden's strong modern classical influence, a band that takes classical or experimental composition into the harsh void of grind, punk, metal and whatever else in between with relentless intensity. Arranged for piano, complex drumming, bass, and oscillators by Burden with howling vocals courtesy of August Alston (Pig Heart Transplant, Lords of Light, Walls). Silentist has been described as “Nancarrow or Reich with blast beats” (Ed Rodriguez of Deerhoof).
The Tunnel 7” comes from the same recording sessions of the Silentist self-titled LP that did not fit. Led by ‘The Tunnel’, a disturbing and propulsive two minute exercise in brutal mechanical repetition, and followed by the drum/vocal blast of 'Supernatural Barriers' and the more psychedelic fury of ‘Paralytic’.