Hazard is the relatively recent incarnation for Sweden's Benny Nilsen, who at the tender age of 16 put the Cold Meat Industry label on the map with his excellent Lustmord-style This Crying Age CD, released under the name Morthond. That classic from 1991 took industrial-ambience to a new level of suspenseful atmosphere, as a clock sound ticked away as if towards the doomsday scenario of five minutes to midnight. Later, the young Benny was seduced by the sound of Ministry, taking Morthond/Morthound into an over-populated industrial-rock area. Now with Hazard he is back to the profound ambient soundscapes. North deepens his exploration into dark ambience, creating an equation between Europe's polluted grey wintry textures and the first world's technological automata that drone on as nature rests. Hazard adds a new narrative arrangement to the sounds of Thomas Koner, as tracks like "Absence Of Presence" and "Wound/Impact" feature cascades of metallic waves behind idling motor oscillations and cutting foreground scrapes, for an overall effect of one of the Hafler Trio's pseudo documentaries.