condition (record/cover): NM / NM

Edition of hand-numbered 114 copies (this is 23/114) with silkscreened sleeve.

The first vinyl release on Cristiano Renzoni's Urashima imprint out of Italy, and the record that set the visual and conceptual template the label would follow for more than a decade. Werewolf Jerusalem is one of the most prolific projects by Richard Ramirez, the Houston, Texas harsh-noise veteran active since 1989 and also known through Black Leather Jesus, Fouke, An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter, Emetic, and dozens of other aliases.

Werewolf Jerusalem has been running since 2001, and its sound centres on what the genre's specialist dialect calls Harsh Noise Wall (HNW): atmospheric static studies, brutal drone matter, crackling textures, mood-setting sheets of sustained distortion that reject any conventional notion of development in favour of physical-acoustic presence. Ramirez has cited Chop Shop as the first major influence on the project, and has consistently organised individual releases around genre-cinema themes: science fiction, giallo, and (as here) old horror film imagery.

Two long-form tracks across the LP, bringing Ramirez's tense and dark HNW construction into direct dialogue with the jagged textural density his noise peers were exploring in parallel (The Rita, Vomir, and the broader HNW axis the Urashima catalogue would subsequently document extensively). Issued in a limited numbered vinyl edition in February 2009, with the signature Urashima hand-numbered card sleeve. The foundational document of what has become one of the most focused noise imprints anywhere.