Review by Heathen Harvest: We call it the Judas breed... The sample that opens a CD described by their label as StereoBeatCrushingNoiseCore heralds the dark days to come. Syncope has at least 45 CD-r releases on the Austrian label system breakdown Recordings, and if representative of the elusive artist, then the world of industrial weirdcore can rejoice. Syncope compress violent, bass-laden breakbeats with murderous movie sampling, distorted walls of noise, and almost anything else one could think of, all crammed into 11 tracks overflowing with alien cut-up mayhem. The songs have a dense feel to them, particularly as the mixes are quite dubbed-out, providing compelling layers to the percussion and rhythmic sampling. Like many in the world of core, Syncope's production is fairly good(IMNSHO), a little rough in places, but tracks carry their sounds adequately. I wouldn't necessarily call it smooth, but that's a little beside the point. It was diffifult to keep up with the frenetic changes in tempo and mood as breakbeats would suddenly give way to metallic found-sound clashings, the distorted stabs of film samples, finally closing with the throaty sounds of some sea-beast rising up to claim a world lost millenia ago. I was glad I wasn't on drugs for this review. But only just. Get a hold of some this stuff, somehow. Buckets of thrall!