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Dancing In The Fire was the first of three albums released by the band set up by Conrad Lant aka Cronos, after he left rough ‘n’ ready/Satan-praising heavy metal band Venom. The album originally appeared in the early 90’s, and it’s fair to say it’s a schizophrenic/unpredictable/ at times downright sloppy affair, which often (tries to) blend and blur different sub-genes of metal/ rock, to decidedly mixed results. Here from Dissonance Productions, Cherry Red metal sub-label, is a CD reissue of the album.
10 Apr 2026
King Futile is the new project from Scotland-based Lea Cummings( Kylie Minoise, Official Music Team, etc), and it’s a big departure from his normal noise or retro sample & electronica sound. It's lo-fi acoustic music, with an outsider feel, and often quite tongue-in-cheek/ sharply sarcastic tone to the lyrics. So far, the project has put out three albums- Casual Misery, How To Have Fun, and Zen As Fuck. I tracked down Lea for an email interview.
7 Apr 2026
Chut is a seared slab of malfunctioning & slightly industrialised walled noise from this Bordeaux-based project. The just under thirty-minute track balances well a jerky/stop-start structure with a manically ripping ‘n’ hiss textural weave.
Here’s a two track walled noise split showing two different sides of the genre. From Kyiv, Ukraine’s Déjà Vu, we have a thickly crusty slice of churn ‘n’ jitter. And from Portland Oregan’s Hana Haruna, we find a blend of constantly purring low-end and eerier bouncing vocal ambience.
Skinheads — Skinheads( Blu Ray)
9 Apr 2026Target — Target(Blu Ray)
8 Apr 2026Day Of The Wicked — Day Of The Wicked (DVD)
8 Apr 2026Bekor Qilish — Consecrated Abysses of Dread
8 Apr 2026Vacant Align — 4326
Cliff Twemlow On Severin
One of last year’s real big surprises in the world of Blu-ray box sets was Bloody Legend: The Complete Twemlow Collection, as it was a wholly entertaining, fascinating, and at times heart-warming set. The Severin released boxset brought together the work of one of the UK’s unlikeliest movie moguls- Cliff Twemlow, a Mancunian bouncer/ body builder, who went on to write/star in/produce a series of low-budget/ largely SOV films in the early 80s to early 90s- these moved between action, thriller, sci-fi, and horror. His most notable/notorious film was 1983’s G.B.H., which landed on the video nasty list, though he was connected to other ten feature films, many of which got their first real full/proper release on the boxset. Opening up the set was the excellent 2023 documentary Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow, which really pulls you into the set. I caught up with Severn’s David Gregory and Jake West, director of Mancunian Man, to discuss the boxset and all things cliff.
The Fall
MES( Mark E Smith- The Falls main creator) possessed the ability to cram phrases into impossible spaces - “I’m hunting and I’m trying to find” delivered as “hut’na tryna find”; the eight-syllable “mere pseud mag editor’s father” hastily squeezed into a manipulation of time and space, heralded by the prior line “twice each at least”, the latter naturally repeated thrice.
A Vicious Means To An End is a decidedly constricting & airless example of the walled noise form. The twenty-minute track from this rather mysterious US project weaves together bass juddering, slightly aquatic jittering, and rumbling ‘n’ churning masonry tones.
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