Heard Flayings is the second live-EP from Hæretici 7o74, the dark-ambient ritual-musick band of Ovro and Niko Skorpio. Their previous live-EP Haeretici, Schismatici, Excommunicati received stunningly positive reviews; Heard Flayings is even better, it succeeds in capturing the magickal atmosphere created by the duo's powerful performance at Club Depo in Riga, Latvia in May 2006.

Reviews

“The effectiveness of their work is, judging from the intermediate experiencing of listening to the CDs, breathtaking and most likely even the least receptive listener will be unable to avoid engaging in a more or less intense form of escapism, actively severing ties with the binding physical surroundings and letting herself be taken in the gruesome yet enrapturing journey undertaken by Ovro and Niko Skorpio. […] At any rate, Heard Flayings is, by any standard, an extremely competent release and if Haeretici, Schismatici, Excommunicati is even half as engaging, the future seems to have good things in store for this Finnish duo.” (Ventrilocution)

"The six tracks here collected give a perfect idea of the Finnish duo's powerful and menacing live sound, which moves like a serpent between walls of noise, rhythmic disturbances, bells, Thelemic chants and Eastern exotic instrumental samples. Bury The Thief! and Regurgitated Exit, in particular, are real avalanches that should be an extremely intense live experience, as they are likely to submerge the audience with their massive frequencies. Other passages, like opening Israel And The Broken Bell or Scorched Entry, would better fit a dim-lighted environment full of candles and incense smoke.
This black-surfaced CDr is another EP, so what you get are a bit more than 23 minutes of music. Probably not this year's most essential release, but still an interesting document of the latest developments in the Scandinavian Crowley-inspired dark ambient area." (Filth Forge)

"Historiology as pertaining to this duo’s bio aside, there needs be special mention that denotes a certain truth from the opine of marketing press, that being a quote gathered from a performance at a book launch when comments were “generated” along the lines of, “I don’t know where I went, but you took me somewhere strange!” The veracity of that statement is easily discernable in the first absorbing kaleidoscope of moonlit scrapyard scenes that lair unseen adepts to new modern gods of flesh, spirit and metal. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that this is a live album of improvisation; not a recitation of former ‘releases’, and it sounds live, the shredded gesticulations and recondite chanting is intimate, almost intrinsic.
Cinematics from a future desolation, sacred paeans trance with guttural exhortations, the first track, Israel and the Broken Bell a corrugation of serenity and wasteland. Choruses of bells rustle in scores like bursts of steam, riddled with gauss-like holes from some magnetic/pneumatic misfiring. It creeps from the start, bristling subterrene ambience haunted by the duo, Niko Skorpio and Ovro’s vocals, male and female both drowning in numinous vivification. Mechanical noises purl and roam as aural script. The otherworldly performance continues in encrusted basements of a vast city built upon ruin upon ruin, crushing the farthest levels into fragmented bourns of time. As the derelict structures trickle with dark water snatches of the past are captured in videographic loops, freakish instruments of what becomes more and more uneven as if one were being now crowded in chaos. It takes a while until the crescendo of the languorous opening of Hollow has you trapped in hydraulic purgatory. From there Hæretici 7o74 scrape and bleed a grisly trail all too enjoyable. Scorched Entry groans with hollow pipes grating against stone floors, pulled by something freakish – the nightmare periphery of the landscape is dense and relentless – that traverses with more fervid mechanic spasms. Fulgurant middle-eastern sirocco beams from the hills crudded with metallic refuse. A disturbingly out-of-whatever-place-you-were-once-in vocal round launches its outcry slowly consumed in distortion that ultimately surges a latticework of rhythm, nurtured by more unearthly voices. The finale, a wax cylinder’s escapade from another century.
For a performance recording of original work this is an excellent release. For its blend of dark ambient ritualism and application of rhythmic electronics it is sublime. The interesting use of live vocals into work of this kind definitely places Hæretici in an outpost of their own making, of their own world." (Heathen Harvest)

"The 23 minutes concert develops into six different movements that will please the lovers of early Current 93 as the sound and the themes treated by the duo are really similar to releases like the LaShtal 12”. The opening track Israel and the broken bell contains samples of Israel Regardie voice (he was one of the members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and he also wrote some books containing order’s documents). Also the closing Vive oncle Al basically contains the recordings of Aleister Crowley singing Vive la France. The track originally was recorded (along different Enochian Calls) on a wax cylinder and a decade ago it has been releasing on vinyl and CD on various bootlegs. Anyway… The six tracks create a good ritualistic ambience with echoed sounds, manipulated sources and if you loved bands like early Current 93, Anti Group and Lustmord you’ll want to check this one!" (Chain D.L.K.)

"Jos esikoinen Haeretici, Schismatici, Excommunicati ei pystynyt kunnolla kantamaan koko pituuttaan läpi, on Heard Flayings sitäkin intensiivisemmin mukaansa sieppaava teos. Kyseessä olevilla tekijöillä tuntuukin olevan tapana saada luotua kaikista parhaimman materiaalinsa liveolosuhteissa. Omaa väriään levylle antaa runsaasti samplattu perinnemusiikki ja -laulu, joka myös käynnistää levyn onnistuneen hartaasti. Sitten mennään parin hieman kevyemmän raidan kautta aina vaan intensiivisempiin tunnelmiin, huipentuen kappaleisiin Bury the Thief! (joka on aivan erinomainen esimerkki muun musiikin onnistuneesta kierrättämisestä) ja Regurgitated Exit. Jos jotain voisin tältä levyltä enempää toivoa, olisi se lopussa voinut käydä vielä meluisammaksi, mutta kaikessa rehellisyydessä Heard Flayings on sellaisenaan varsin täydellinen pieni paketti joka jättää haluamaan lisää." (Kuolleen musiikin yhdistys)