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Laserblast is a cheap & at times charmingly bad slice of lo-grade 1970’s Sc-fi. It’s one of the early productions by B-movie legend Charles Band, and here on Band’s Fullmoon Pictures, we get the first ever Blu Ray release of the film.
Ma¾ované Kvety & Xeroxové Motýle is a both a compilation and a new album. It’ is a celebration of the decade of activity of Strom Noir (the moniker of one Emil Mat’Ko.) Released on Zoharum this is Emils 15th album since beginning releasing music in 2008. Mixing raw electronics with drones and de/re-constructed guitars this eleven track album showcases the creativity of Emil perfectly. The album splits into Against A Dwarf recordings from 2012-2014” and Painted Flowers & Xeroxed Butterflies (recorded 2015-2016).
With an album cover drawn in felt tip pen by what appears to be small children, Welcome is from the outset an odd album to pigeonhole. The project is the brainchild of two Italian proto metal/ occult rock pioneers, Thomas Hand chaste formerly of Death SS, Witchfield and Sancta Sanctorum, and Alex Scardavian of Paul Chain Violet Theatre, whilst Claud Galley of Death SS and Paul Chain turns up on a couple of tracks to add bass.
Since the late 1990’s this Chicago based musician, electro-acoustic composer, & multimedia artist has been creating a body of often stark & moody work that sits somewhere between modern classical compositions, improv, and edgy sound art. Here’s a recent self-titled CD release on Another Timbe- which offers up a three tracks for piano & organ- and each is extremely skeletally-yet-eerier intriguing in it's use of the inside & outside of both instruments.
Catacomb Resonator is the first new release in five or so years from this respected & shadowy Finnish two-piece, who create a ritually charged dark ambience & occult ceremonial music.
Dense, distorted, heavy electronics are the linking factor for the split between Canada's Wet Nurse and Idaho's Ten Thousand Miles of Arteries. Whether slowly ambulating, heavy industrial or bleak, dark, and vicious atmospheres, both acts put forth grim, electronic offerings on this release from Malignant Records. While both bands approach this goal differently, their pairing on this split matches their styles together well.
Spanish avant garde composer Carlos Casas has been sporadically releasing music since 2008. He is also an established visual artist. His 2017 album "Pyramid of Skulls" is an immediately esoteric, rough-hewn organic collage of field recordings. There are four tracks, each fifteen-eighteen minutes in length, making for a lengthy seventy minute album.
Nordvargr needs absolutely no introduction, active in the dark ambient / industrial scene since the late 80’s, very few other names carry as much weight as this.
Wehrmacht Lombardo's 'Tight Crossed Legs' is a c60 tape out on the Swedish label Ominous Recordings, it takes in two sides to one wall each, the first being 'Fijaciones' and the second side being 'Las Piernas Cruzadas'. The artwork is by label head JSH and features the eponymous 'crossed legs' of a woman who appears to be wearing tights.
From the people behind last year’s excellent Unsung Horrors- a guide to lesser-known horror films. "Monsters?-We’re British Y’ Know!"-A Celebration of Peter Cushing is a new, glossy, colorful & packed tome about one of the great & most loved horror film actors of all time .
Don’t Look In The Basement was one of the bleaker, well acted, and at times unsettling exploitation films of the 1970’s. Here, along with its surprisingly good sequel, we get the first ever Blu Ray release of the film.
Serbian based project Dosis Letalis is most known for its walled noise/ HNW releases, but from time-to-time, they put out softer or more ambient type releases. And that’s exactly what we have here with The Other Side Of The Void- it’s a digital only release that offers up six thirty minute examples of lowercase noise wall.
Here’s a C20 from last year- and it offers up two fairly formal & straight examples of walled noise from this often progressive UK wall-maker. Neuro walls is one of the more recently labels from respected French wall-maker Julien Skrobek- and sadly this tape is now completely sold out, with no download option…so if you're interested in this you’ll have to go down the discogs route.
Following last years' evocative Extinction, San Francisco's Common Eider, King Eider are back with their latest ritualistic offering, Shrines for the Unwanted, Respite for the Cast Aside. Like a dark ambient travelogue through a bleak and uninhabited landscape, Common Eider, King Eider quickly build up an engaging atmosphere, and use their massive talents to expand it to an impressive scope. With only four tracks on display, Shrines makes the most of its run time and enthralls with each intriguing turn.
Fish Out of Water are a folk rock group from Bournemouth, fronted by vocalist Marie Green. They play a style of music largely influenced by the likes of Fairport Convention, or Steeleye Span in that they take traditional material and update it for the times. The Hares on A Mountain E.P. is the band’s second release following their debut album Carp Diem, the E.P. is released on Talking Elephant Records.
Here’s a real treat for fans of bad movies from Vinegar Syndrome- this DVD takes in two great examples of so-bad-they're-great filmmaking. We have The Executioner, Part II a decidedly wonky & haphazard action film from 1980’s. And from the 1970’s - Frozen Scream a puzzling, often jarringly cut, and at times surreal arty mad doctor/ zombie film.
Smiling Men With Bad Reputations is an attempt to be a give a balanced & even- handed listeners guide to the work of one of the most creative bands of the 1960 ’s, and their two main songwriters. I’ve been a fan of The Incredible String Band, for around ten plus years now, and heard all of their output, but never really ventured very far into either Williamson's or Heron’s work- so when I saw this book was out it seemed a very appealing proposition.
Industrial metal pioneers Godflesh end 2017 with their new album Post Self . Over two years in the making, Post Self explores a different side of Godflesh, taking in their formative influences to conjure something informed by late 70’s/early 80’s post-punk and industrial music.
Ichiro Tsuji's seminal industrial project, Dissecting Table, should need no introduction to readers of Musique [Machine]. One of Japan's longest running industrial acts, Dissecting Table has a mile long discography, all of which is worth checking out. 1992's Zigoku, his much heralded third release, has been remastered by Tsuji, and re-released on vinyl by Andy Ortmann's Nihilist label.
Helloween have become something of an institution over the years and with their current Pumpkins Unite world tour in full swing it feels a most appropriate time for this reissue. Unarmed was originally released in 2010, to coincide with the band’s 25 anniversary, the album features re-recordings of several Helloween classics in quirky and interesting styles.
This self-titled album was the one & only release from this seven-piece Boston band who blended together early prog, Jazz rock, and psychedelic rock/pop into a fairly unpredictable brew. Originally released in 1970 on RCA, and not reissued until now by Esoteric Records- which is, of course, one of the Cherry Red family of labels.
New Facts Emerge is the 32nd release from English post-punk legends The Fall. It’s their first full length since 2015’s Sub-Lingual Tablet, and it’s very much of a mixed bag- with inspired wonk-ness & sonic un-balancement, sitting alongside the rather pedestrian & at times bland.
Spa Moans is Chicago's Jenny Pulse. Obedient Vibrations is her new mixtape produced & arranged by Spa Moans, bringing together minimalism and an obsession with early 90's RnB and house music acts.
Slaves is another slice of Jess Franco sleaze from the 1970’s. And here we have a recent region free DVD reissue of the film on Full Moon Productions, which is part of their series of Franco reissues. I believe the film is both fairly rare and is offered here uncut for the first time.