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"In grim imus nocte et consumimur igni" is an eight CDR box set that offers up some of best and most brutal European Hash Noise Wall around. With the set offer up seven full length (well at least 30 minutes, but many over this length) disc from the following acts: Namazu Dantai & Ptomain, Terminal Erection, Drevne Bolesti, Placenta Lyposuction, Die Reitenden Leichen and TFT. With the eighty discs offering a high quality DVD- R back -p of all the seven discs audio tracks
On his new album as Cría Cuervos, "L'Ombilic Des Limbes", Italian dark ambient musician Eugenio Maggi proves himself an incredibly meticulous conjurer of hallucinatory soundscapes. The seamlessly subtle yet dense interplay of elements, large dynamic range, and overall spacial depth of the mix all work to create a complete, evocative audio environment
Barn Owl are the San Francisco based duo of Evan Caminiti and Jon Porras, and "Ancestral Star" is the ninth release by this heavy guitar based drone project. The album is as powerful and unstoppable as an ever burning, ancient and immense ball of flame, with the project keeping this almost religious fire burning as they shift between heavy reverb soaked oriental guitar playing and super massive feedback drones. With each new track Caminiti and Porras seem to be ever expanding, pushing their own boundaries and always reaching beyond what they achieved in the previous track
This release is a bit of a mystery. I tried to Google who was behind this project but to no avail. The only thing I know is the artist once collaborated with someone called J. S. Zeiter (who appears on one track.) And in the liner notes a couple of musicians are credited for their help, including (of course) Danny Saul, whom I've written about on this site before.
For the almost 30 years that I've been listening to "Industrial" music, Gen Ken Montgomery was a name I was familiar with but somehow passed up. Being sent this release for review will do a lot to rectify that.
From the looks of this cover, I was expecting another Black Metal release. But actually this is blackened Dark Ambient -- no guitars or drums to speak of, just synths and various processed sounds.
"Ruined Hope" finds this long running Vancouver based one man project offering up a c30 worth of very brutal, loud and unforgiving juddering, drilling and grinding HNW matter.
This lengthy titled 3inch CDR finds brutal French HNW act Å kicking up a really nasty, layered and searing wall of extreme noise that both batters and roasts your mind in equal measures.
'For 2’ is a compilation of eleven pieces recorded by Germany’s Carsten Nicolai between 2003 and 2008 that are thematically linked by devotion. Like its 2006 predecessor ‘For’, also released by Line, each track carries a dedication suggesting focus points for the compositions, that while not always conceivable act as a portal through which Nicolai’s synaesthetics can be digested with more context than usual.
Einer Nielsen was a Danish medium of the first half of the last century that claimed to be able to invite physical phenomena from the spirit world, a claim that was often refuted and once led to a spell in prison. This ectoplasmic analogy is perfectly suited to this two-part sound sculpture, representing one of over ten solo releases so far this year for Norwegian Andreas Brandal, head of experimental noise label Twilight Luggage, who has been soundtracking the darkside since the late eighties.
This CD and DVD release is a celebration of 25 years of O Yuki Conjugate. What you have is a recording produced by all the members of the three line ups of O Yuki Conjugate in a studio in West London 25 years after their first ever gig at the Newshouse pub in Nottingham.
Well, just looking at the 'sensitive' artist on the cover (or I'm pretty sure it's the artist here anyways) I knew I was going to hate this record. Probably the kind of thing I was expecting to be sent to review one of these days... To be fair, however, Darren Keen of the Show is the Rainbow isn't the worst musician I've heard. At least he's competent enough stringing a melody together (after a fashion), and that's more than I can say for some self-styled 'artists' out there...
Mem1 is a very ambitious duo combining modular electronics with cello. As far as I can make out, this release features collaborations with other artists.
Museums of Sleep brings together two of the most creative and respected minds in HNW and noise in genreal- we have Norwegian Andreas Brandal who is highly prolific and features in the following projects: Flesh coffin, Hour Of the Wolf, Drevne Bolesti, Avmakt. And Canadian Cole Peters whose is in the great & always inventive HNW/ Harsh noise project Gomeisa and runs the stasis label.
This C40 put out by the mysterious Absence tapes brings together two sides of tight, precise and entrancing Harsh noise wall matter. With a side long piece from Fouke Richard Ramirez's bigfoot obsessed project, and a side long track from the XSXCXEXBX a secretive four pieces that features members of the Absence tapes collective.
Phelios is a dark ambient project created by Martin Sturtzer that began in 2002. “Astral Unity” is his first release with Malignant Records (although he has released material with Eternal Soul Records and self released material also).
Among the records in my collection is a live collaboration between Loren Mazzacaine Connors and Keiji Haino. I would have given more than a few body parts to have been watching the two of the playing the music I hear on that disc, but in my mind’s eye I saw both of them hunched tightly over their instruments, eyes down, hair over their faces, releasing one plangent string of notes after another.
The spectularly prolific Krimson had a busy year in 2009, releasing in more than two dozen releases as Churner on his own Violent Noise Atrocities label. Amongst them was this 3" CD, entitled "Against the Grains". Here, Krimson delivers an appropriately 'churning' 20 minute slice of emotionally neutral harsh noise wall. His tendencies towards freewheeling harsh noise freakouts and general frantic activities are mostly suppressed, though I intuit there are bursts of restless activity just beneath the threshold of audibility. There is a 'foreground' and a 'background'; a feeling of spacial depth and denseness, showcasing the sophistication and intuitive intelligence of Churner's compositions.
“Bedem” finds German HNW project Die Reitenden Leichen (aka Matt Nihil whose also runs the Monolithische Aktion lable, and is in numerous noise projects like MX Nihil, The 120 Days, ect) offer up a c20’s worth of brutal, moving and rewarding HNW matter.
Pumpkin Buzzard has reputedly spent most of their career dabbling in other genres, releasing lengthy albums on experimental and noise label Jeshimoth, but for the purposes of their foray into sludgy rock and roll, "Knowledge Zombie", all they play are atonal, bass driven stoner jams, mostly limited to 4 (power) chords.
Goatsnake is a doom-metal group from Los Angeles that happens to be on the greatly esteemed Southern Lord records. This is a reissue of the Flower of Disease album from the year 2000.
If I saw this in a record store I’d be expecting something completely different to how it sounds. Never judge a book by its cover I guess but the artwork on this just makes you expect you’re about to hear an Ozric Tentacles album. Big patches of colour on an 8 panel fold out sleeve that look like they’re done by some stoned hippies with a big packet of felt tips. No offence to anyone who likes that sort of artwork but it really gives completely the wrong impression of the album contained within it and could easily stop people casually picking it whilst browsing. But that aside what does the music sound like?
This split brings together two of the most prolific, brutal and unrelenting Harsh Noise wall acts. On the right hand side we have Serbian based Dead Body Collection whose amassed twenty plus release of his gory and medical obsessed barbaric sound torture since the project inception in late 09. Then on the left hand side we have the black plastic bag wearing, nihilistic and total unrelenting French act Vomir whose amassed coming on for sixty plus releases since the project started in 06.
“Melancholia” finds this Italian based Harsh noise & HNW project offering up a twenty minutes worth of agitated and droning walled matter that nicely crawls into your head in a very spiteful and nasty manner.