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Latrodectus Mactans is a thirty-three-minute slab of grinding, rumbling, and shunting walled noise from this Russian project. As with all of this projects work- it’s themed around a form of spider- this is the subject Latrodectus Mactans, aka the black Widow, or Shoe Button Spider. It’s native to North America and is venomous.
9 Jun 2026
Jasper Sharp interview
In the year 1971, Nikkatsu, the oldest/ at one point, the biggest film production company in Japan. Did something quite daring/ some would say crazy- they completely switched over their production to softcore adult films, which would become known as Roman Porno. Between 1971 and 1988, the company produced around 850 of these titles. The thing that made these films stand out from general softcore films is the often creative & inventive choices made- yes, the films primal focus is sleaze, but great examples of the genre are so much more than that. In the last year or so, there has been a spate of reissues of films in the genre from labels such as 88 Films, Third Window Films, and Klubb Super 8. One of the key figures/contributors behind these releases is Jasper Sharp- one of the world's experts on the genre, and the wider Pink genre it’s connected to. Jasper kindly agreed to give us an email interview discussing his history with the genre, his contributions to releases, and the new/updated edition of his book Behind The Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema on Fab Press.
4 Jun 2026
Faint Imprint Of A False Deity severs up three walls, each blends crude ‘n’ crusty weight with smaller jittering ‘n’ juddering detail. Each wall hits dead on the twenty-minute mark, and I believe this is my first taster of the work of this Portland, Oregon project.
Here’s a wall noise split bringing together two US projects- Florida’s Ivan Reash, and Portland’s Hana Haruna. Each party offers up two twelve-minute tracks- the formers are rather churning ‘n’ numbingly pummelling affairs, while the latter are all about dense grind ‘n’ sear.
Here’s a wall-noise split bringing together Florida’s Wilting GOd and Turin’s Rumonoise. Each party offers up a thirty-minute track that’s both seared and dense in their takes on the walled noise form.
Only Human — Planned Obsolescence
8 Jun 2026Armin Junge — Son of Banzai! More Cult Movie Posters from Japan (Book)
6 Jun 2026Accident Fantôme — Objets enchâssés dans des anneaux planétaires( Objects Embedded in a Planetary Ring )
5 Jun 2026Luigi Nono/Roberto Fabbriciani — Luigi Nono Volume 2: Works with Flute
5 Jun 2026David First — Revolutions
5 Jun 2026The Hazing — The Hazing (DVD)
4 Jun 2026Forbidden World — Forbidden World (UHD & Blu Ray)
3 Jun 2026Desire First Sex Experience — Desire First Sex Experience (Blu Ray)
3 Jun 2026
King Futile Interview
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.
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.
Crude ‘n’ Hope-corroding Walled Noise
Back in 2024, I got my first taste of Absurd Reality, and I was so impressed by how crude and nasty its take on walled noise was. Behind the project is South Carolina-based Krys Marshall, who also runs the Filthy Sounds Recording label. He’s since gone on to form No Fun HNW, which pushes the levels of nasty crudeness even more. Krys kindly agreed to an email interview.
