OK, so I know we're told not to judge a book by its cover, but when its cover is a twisted slab of corroded metal that has been forcefully folded into an eight-pointed CD case held together by a screw and nut, it's difficult not to get a little carried away before you wrestle the CD free from its packaging. Yes, the packaging for Broken Diode's 'Screaming on the Inside' is as old-school industrial as it gets. It's heavy, tactile, industrial, and it screams with fucking brilliance. It will have those of us who are sad old record and CD collectors (like myself) simply wetting themselves with excitement. It seems almost irrelevant at this stage to explore the music, as its metal case is more than enough to satisfy. However, when you do forcefully eject the professionally duplicated CDr and its cover from the case and are faced with the torn-up back of the cover model, the large fold-out poster, and of course the CD itself, everything falls into place, with the case becoming just one intricate piece of the whole release.

Musically, the seven tracks that make up 'Screaming on the Inside' are as harsh as the metal sleeve that encases them. Intensely unrelenting waves of noise, screaming high-pitched squealed frequencies and distorted washes of sounds are thrown together to create an unceremonious racket of extreme properties. Track after track, the intense waves of noise batter your senses as they tear shreds from the speakers they spew forth from.

To say that what Broken Diode have done here musically is extreme is somewhat of an understatement. The unrelenting sonic attack of pure noise and distorted, shrill sounds is a punishing listen that stretches the definition of music way past breaking point and then some. Lying somewhere between power electronics and harsh noise, 'Screaming on the Inside' is as punishing as it gets. Listening to track after track is as difficult and challenging as you'd expect from a release that produces such a slew of harsh electronic noise.

From start to finish, the whole package that Broken Diode has offered up with 'Screaming…' is one of intense harshness and ferocity. Its definition of industrial and noise couldn't be more concise, with the amalgamation of extreme sonic attacks and the corroded metal of its sleeve making a perfect union.

If you have any interest whatsoever in the more extreme edges of noise, then you could do a lot worse than 'Screaming…'. Likewise the sleeve, which is worth the purchase price alone, is more than attractive in its own right, and will have industrial collectors salivating wildly.

Limited to 100 hand-numbered copies, it's guaranteed that this won't be around too long, so buy, buy, buy and prepare to go deaf!