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Timothy McCormack is an American modern classical composer who creates very textural, often noisy/ non-harmonic work. The Hand Is A Ear is a perfect title for this two-track collection, as McCormack's compositions often focus on the physical relationship between the performer and their instruments, with often very lengthy dwells of repetitive/ droning tones.
Harbinger (2026) is a British occult horror directed by James Crow, with a screenplay by Simon Cluett, produced by Shogun Films and Miracle Media.
Beasts Unleashed is a Blu-ray set from Eureka bringing together two American sci-fi films from the 50's, which sit in the alien invasion and creature feature sub-genres. There’s The Beast with a Million Eyes-which focuses on an isolated farm where a craft crash-lands and starts altering first the behaviour of the animals, then the humans. The second film is The Beast of Hollow Mountain, which sold itself as a western dino-focused creature feature – but is in reality much more of just a traditional western, with dino action tacked on.
Originally released in the year 1980, as a cassette on Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records, White Souls In Black Suits was the first sonic fruit from Sheffield’s Clock DVA. The band, who later became known/ respected for their work in the genres of post-punk and EBM, offered up their first release as a jam-focused blend of old school industrial, avant-jazz, and experimental jam rock. Here from Mute, as either a double vinyl or CD, is the first release of the album in thirty-five years, with the remastered original fifty-minute/ nine track album being joined by four bonus tracks.
Now here we have a release with a perfectly fitting title… as this just over fourteen-minute ‘wall’ literally sounds like a mass of bone-white squirminess, just about to burst, ready to fill your nostrils with sour decay and your vision with a mass of white, seething wriggle.
Lynchian Injury is an hour-long slab of staring-into-the-void wall noise from this relatively new Oregon-based project. The single track is a simple yet effective blend of rolling drone-heavy bleakness, with a thin crackling static edge.
A Circle Of Skin is the third album from The Fields Of Hay, which is the solo project of Stuart Carter (Splintered, Theme, Sarcasm). What we have here is a three-track instrumental affair- mixing guitars, electronics, found sound, etc. The feel throughout is decidedly glumly moody- blending building dark folk/ drone rock, atmospheric noise elements, psycho ambience, and uneasy electronica.
Siôn Orgon is a Cardiff-based sound designer, experimental composer and multimedia artist with a career spanning over two decades. He is a long-time collaborator of Thighpaulsandra (Coil and Julian Cope) and a full-time member of the band, Rocketgoldstar. He has also collaborated with Damo Suzuki (Can), The Waterboys, Peter Christopherson and a host of other artists along the way.
3 For HNW! Is a three-way noise split, bringing together two US projects and one rather mysterious project. The tracks featured run between five minutes and just over half an hour.
Released in the early 1970’s, Forest Of Beastly Desire (aka Juyoku No Mori) was the second of six roman porno films filmed in Sweden by Japanese studio Nikkatsu. The film blends moodily shot softcore with drama and tragedy- it is relatively well acted (for this type of thing), and the whole thing is well shot, with some great use of lighting & colour. The plot revolves around the loves and losses of blond haired/ twenty something Mamy- played by centrefold model Lisbeth Lindeborg. Its soundtrack features music from key krautrock band Amon Düül II
Forty years after its initial release, industrial legend Z'EV's Schönste Muziek is finally given a state-of-the-art remaster. Metallic, booming percussion fills the air, generating the thick atmosphere for the five album tracks, as well as the newly included "Titan Night," which has been unavailable since 1984! Loaded with banging steel and metal that is the lifeblood of heavy industrial percussion, Schönste Muziek feels like more of a treatise than an album, but I cannot remove my forty-year-thick lens. With that, it is an interesting work, but it tends to be a bit monotonous
Shuji Terayama’s The Boxer treads some familiar lines as a tale of sporting endurance and personal redemption, but the director’s experimental impulse and counterculture tendencies couldn’t resist adding some fascinatingly experimental moments to what appears to be, on the face of it, one of his more conventional films.
71226 is a new release from this bleak and atmospheric wall noise project. This digital self-released affair finds this Wisconsin venture serving up a single/ dead on forty five minute wall that has a decidedly weather-bound/ battering ‘n’ baying feel.
Greeted by birds and warmly filtered loops of voice, the album immediately establishes a lush, euphoric soundscape. As the opening titular piece "Soñador" progresses, deep sub-bass sines swell in volume, indicating this is likely an album of electronic dub or downtempo with its implied chord progression.
Recorded in late 1977, this seven-track live album found space rockers Hawkwind trying out a new name, Dave Brock’s Sonic Assassins, a new line-up, and a more spacy, bounding, and at points punked take on their sound. Here from Atomhenge, one of Cherry Red Sub labels, is either a CD or vinyl reissue of this key/ important release in the band's history.
From the late 1970’s The Music Machine is an entertaining and rather charming slice of British disco-exploitation. It’s set around a north London disco competition, and focuses on Gerry, a wide-eyed, strawberry-blond twenties-something, who wants to break out of unemployment drudgery. The film features a likeable cast, lots of pulsing lights, sparking suits, disco ball spinning tunes, and groovy dance moves, plus some very British touches. Here from Severin is a recent Blu-ray release of the film, featuring a sparkling new 4k scan and a good selection of all-new extras.
Now here’s one of the more creative/orginal takes on the sharkploitation genre. A half-man/ half-shark serial killer, set in a genre blend of unsettling slasher & criminal-on-the-run thriller with touches of demented creature feature, action, and, of course, Jaws send-up. Here from SRS Cinema is a new Blu-ray of this 2026 film, taking in a director's commentary & trailer.
If you didn’t know any better, you might guess that Jana Irmert’s latest release is meant to accompany something — an installation, a perambulatory exploration of some subterranean environment, or, more prosaically, a film.
Percussion ensemble HIIIT returns with the third instalment in their collaborative electronic series, SIIIX. As the name would imply, HIIIT worked with six other artists to come up with the tracks for this latest volume, each sharing/manipulating material in a two-way exchange, unlike many compilations of this sort. In this way, both artists have a say at how the other's is shaped and moulded, and the interplay/interweaving is stronger and more intense. This leads to tracks that have more rigid intent and feel more like compositions instead of improvisations. But, at the heart of it all is the percussion, and fans of putting on headphones and zoning out to an ambulatory beat should take note, as all six pieces move fluidly and effortlessly.
From the early 1990s, Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky stands as one of the most camp, OTT & extreme prison films of all time. The dystopian future-set picture features a muscley, ragged-haired, and seemingly unkillable martial arts master who has been sent to a corrupted private prison. The film is an eventful comic book and dark comedy-edged affair, full of eye-popping, guts-pulling, head-crushing, and limb-ripping violence. Here from 88 Films is a dual-format UHD & Blu-ray release of the picture. Taking in a brutally vibrant new 4k scan, three new commentary tracks, and a mix of new/ archive extras.
Here’s a release that ties together unrelentingly juddering wall noise with distant, harmonically edged ambient. It’s not clear where the projects from, but the release appears on London’s HNW label- so we know it’s going to be of a certain standard.
Static Terrain is a forty-minute slice of crudely galloping ‘n’ nastily spluttering HNW from this highly prolific and long-running Californian project. It’s a simple/ no-nonsense example of the form.
The Beast is an exercise in manically nerve-racking, and totally unforgiving junk noise walling from Whores Breath (aka David Hilshorst). The just over twenty-seven-minute track finds this Cincinnati project truly going all out to create an impenetrable mass of ratting, forking, luching, and grating noise
Corpse is a 2019 horror movie written, directed, produced, edited and scored by Christopher Williams (Hell is Inside) and starring Joe Blackstock (no other movie credits), Walt Braley (Snapped), Reise Kitts (no other credits) and Mingo Perry (Death of the Final Girl and Neon Sinner).