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Canadian project Woods of Ypres is one of those bands that have been on the radar since 2002. It’s a band that we’ve all heard about in hushed tones for years; are they as good as the reviews they receive? Are they Black Metal, Doom Metal, Experimental? Luckily we have the proof in our hands (and ears).
This self titled c30 was the first release from Andreas Brandal’s (Flesh coffin, Hour Of the Wolf, Drevne Bolesti, and Museums of Sleep) Avmakt project that brews up a dark and nasty mixture of HNW, junk metal elements and dark noise textures. This tape came out last year on Cole Peters(of Gomeisa & Museums of Sleep) Stasis label.
This is another “untitled” release from the French master of crusty, brutal and unchanging HNW. And this was original released back in April of last year on the canadian Prairie Fire label.
“Sleep Forever” is the second release from French two piece HNW/ brutal ambient project The Sandman Wears a Mask. This new release finds the pair bluring the lines between HNW, Static texturing and noise bound ambience to create an album that’s heady in a brutal yet slightly surreal dream tinged sonic world.
This self titled release is the first solo release from French sonic wall-maker Alois Richter- whose also in the great dream based HNW project The Sandman Wears A Mask. This solo debut offers up four untitled tracks, and over 70 minutes of creative and atmospheric yet brutal wall-making.
“Twin Radiant Flux” is a collection of wonderfully soaring and restful processed solo ambient guitar pieces that where created by Scott Cortez- the instrumentalist behind Tucson, Arizona based ambient/shoegaze project Lovesliescrushing.
“Rautatie” is the 34th full length record from this quirky yet always rewarding Finnish group who specialize in locked rock grooves & multi-genre mixing. This time around the collective boil up and distil: 80’s power rock, AOR and post punk, heroic yet cheesy 70’s rock, punk rock riffing, hypnotic bass bound Krautrock, repetitive classical/jazzy piano textures, and moody /creative sound tracking elements into their distinctive and instantly recognizable sound.
"Hard Trainer" finds the highly prolific and mulit-project linked Richard Ramirez offering up a c30 worth of intense & perverse Harsh noise with wallish dwells and of course gay porn samples.
There are two forces at work here on "Sid Vicious Occult School of Motoring" - music and non-music - and they are constantly at war with each other.
This is the second reprint of Muslimgauze's first foray into the world of compact disc back in 1988- originally it apeared under the Staalplaat label flag.
This self titled CDR offers up just under 26 minutes of churning, sleazed and extreme HNW matter from this mysterious and perverse project that comes from somewhere in northern England.
This band mixes a variety of musical genres into a compelling, satisfying and very well crafted sound. First off, there is a big modern jazz influence here, with the weighty, luscious saxophone up-front a lot of the time, driving, or seconding, a lot of the melodies and rhythms. The drummer knows how to keep the various elliptical elements together, with a hard, often punky beat, on a lot of the tracks; the bassist keeps to a simple, yet effective staccato bullet-time, and the guitarist plucks and coerces his strings in a delightful, resounding way. They are all obviously adept and highly talented musicians, who have studied all of the classic 1970's prog-rock, jazz-fusion and early post-punk/electronica albums very carefully.
I have mixed feelings about this album by SND, inspired by, and developing the Minimal Techno and Microhouse sub-genres championed and made popular by the likes of Richie Hawtin, Robert Hood and Oval.
This two disc compilation is named after music journalist Scott McKeating’s father who passed away in 2007 following a typically sudden and brief struggle with pancreatic cancer. All proceeds from its sale go to the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund and all artists have donated exclusive tracks to the release that sewed the seed for McKeating’s Bells Hill label. The release largely maps out a loose family of free improv rock artists mainly based in Northern Britain, most of which orbit each other in a collaborative spirit encouraging experiments with noise and drones.
Upsilon Acrux' latest, "Radian Futura", is a careless and ecstatic instrumental rock serenade, a waterfall of notes that gives no pause for brevity. With one foot planted in lightly distorted, academic and classically progressive rock and the other somewhere between the rhythmically elastic, free flowing realms of jazz and the dramatic, classically inspired "Zeuhl" of Magma, the band dashes at top speed for the stratosphere. Whatever your thoughts as the music plays, it's hard to hold a grudge for long against a group with such high flying ambition and enthusiasm.
“...So You'll Die Pretty” is the third of twelve 3inch CDR releases that are been released by Irelands Bored Bear recordings. Each release in the series celebrate and pays tribute to one of the many projects of highly influential & respected Texas noise artist's Richard Ramirez.
What is the aesthetic quality of noise? It’s a good guess that noise as a musical category will always be an underground staple. Just the name alone conjures images of nails on chalkboard, static and general unpleasant sounds. Yet as of the last few years it seems noise projects are popping up faster than ever. Why? Maybe it can be accounted to the relative ease to produce noise? Honestly, add a few grating sounds plus a bit of distorted vocals or feedback and you’re pretty much there. So what is it that makes artists like Merzbow, Sutcliffe Jugend and Churner stand out from every other project?
This two way CDR split brings together two moorish & intense tracks of lengthy wall-making from these two great US based HNW projects.
Roro Perrot or to give him his full name Romain ‘Roro’ Perrot is better know to most as Vomir- the unstoppable, extreme and black bag wearing french HNW project. This new project it’s best described as harsh-noise-core meets extreme noise improv with a dada edge.
“The Heart Devour” is a caustic and brutal 3inch cdr split that brings togeather French black bag wearing master of unchanging HNW Vomir. And Atlanta, Georgia based noise/ HNW project Absence.Insolution( aka Nicholas Ender who also runs the Pigdurt lable)
“Young Blood” sees the return of this ultra-grim & murderous two piece HNW project from Sweden. This new release only offers up just under six minutes of playtime, but boy it’s an bowl wrenching ‘n’ ear pounding great six mintues worth of noise texturing .
Can you imagine what it might sound like to be walking through or under a vast waterfall of near boiling water…well “Bodil Jørgensen Lover” brutally recreates what it could sound like in a deeply seared ‘n’ face melting HNW form.
This release takes it's name from one of medical terms for a corpse, and the cover artwork for this brutal yet ghoulishly intense HNW release nicely follows the titles theme with a picture of an uncovered mummified & leathery corpse.
An Ark For The Listener is a meditation on verse 33 of Gerald Manley Hopkins poem “The Wreck of the Deutschland,” which concerns the 1875 drowning of 5 Franciscan nuns exiled from Germany. I’m not sure if taking one verse out of a rather long poem works but in case you want to know what verse 33 is here it is: