Navicon Torture Technologies saw its first official release in August of 1997, in the form of "Amalgam: A Collection of War Poems", a split CD featuring lo-fi ambient noise and power electronics from NTT along with Negative Eight, a genre-bending electronic side project of the grind/industrial band Negativehate, whose members happened to live just around the corner from NTT frontman Lee Bartow (who would come to be known as "Leech"). As an outlet for this release, and with the idea of more to come, Leech founded the Annihilvs label.