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"This is more or less a one man project with a few guests. Ryan Settee is the mastermind behind the music. This is his second High Watt Electrocutions CD. I have not heard the first one, but Jerry from Aural Innovations has spoken well of it. Anyway, the music is almost all instrumental, repetitive, dark, and moody and pretty damn interesting and cool concept album. It is available on CD and also a limited edition vinyl in only 400 copies. You get 10 pretty diverse tracks in 45 minutes.

"Mountains of the Pharaohs" starts slow, heavy, doomy, industrial but then the pace picks up with Ode to Snakecharming which has a very cool hard driving bass line and still this very raw, machine drumming and a mid eastern guitar line. Cool track. "Slow March" is still heavy and features a brief female vocal before moving into the slow "Light at the Speed of Sound", which I really like, with it’s cool mood, vocal like choir, organ and a great guitar line as it gets more repetitive and spaced out. The heavy stuff comes back with "Obliteration". The CD has a really nice bass sound. Still not too fond of the tiny, thin mechanical drums but musically, very cool stuff. "The Ruins of the Pyramids" has some very psyched out guitar and harmonica and is quite interesting and it leads into something very very different with piano and voice. That really catches you off guard for sure. This one is called "Headphone Opus", a suggestion perhaps? Anyway, Ryan plays a long guitar player buried underneath all the rest of the sound. This leads into the excellent "Tut will have his Revenge" track with more psychy guitar work and an uptempo. "Evilution" has a heavy guitar riff but it is balanced with a cool keyboard line and some vocals mixed quite low. The track is one of the longer ones and really develops into a monster. "Stripped Ruins" is an organ and harmonica piece that ends the record. Brilliant stuff. Not all that Egyptian despite the title of the record and songs but damn cool."

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