ORT is a trio from Dortmund, consisting of Hellmut Neidhard (aka guitar drone grandmaster "N") and the rhythm section Simon Dümpelmann and Dennis Müller, who previously played together in a notoriously loud sludge metal kamikaze company.Consisting of two long instrumental compositions, "Maschinenhafen" shows the band from an even more epic and atmospheric side than previous material, while still allowing passages of heavyweight massiveness and noisy aggression to march forward like a symphony of drone, sludge metal and gruff nosierock. Someone once described ORT's music as "something that is martyred into your brain until you forget to breathe".Trace elements of early Earth can probably be found in ORT's sound and style as well as a kindred spirit to the dystopian aura of Killing Joke, and the instrumental pigeonholing of a band like Blind Idiot God is not quite as far away as the uncompromising nature of Sleep's "Dopesmoker".Maschinenhafen - music between epic atmosphere, rugged directness and massive heaviness, recorded live in the renowned "Tonmeisterei" in Oldenburg.