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Death Factory is the early 80’s industrial toned, death industrial, grim analogue synth buzzed & slightly noise touched project of Chicago based Michael Krause. 'Prophecy of the Black Spider' offers up two 60 minute tape of grim 70’s & 80’s horror film influenced idustrlized electronics.
Nde are a two piece Belgian project & this is their debut album which is an ultra grim & unforgiving mixture of clamouring & often speedy lo-fi black metal, barren & evil martial drums, sometime ritual touched death industrial tone, & general noisy/ blacked matter.
For much of it’s running time 'Panoptic' mangers to summon up this wonderfully heady yet doomed feeling of 3am paranoia & sleepless-ness. It’s an album that somehow mangers to sound strange & awkward, hypnotic, drowsy & bizarrely soothing often all at the same time.
Kataract finds Daniel Menche harnessing & morphing field-recordings of waterfalls into one long picec of dramatic, often noisy & shifting sonic bombardment/ mood setting sonics.
The Psychogeographical Commission are a two piece English/ Scottish project who conjure up a sound that mixes together dark & swirling Coil like electronics, dark neo folk strum, and bleak joy Division or doomed English post punk like bassy lined indie guitar pop edgers.
Drevne Bolesti is a HNW project that brings together Norwegian Andreas Brandal (Flesh Coffin, Hour of the Wolf, etc) & Sarajevo based Sebastian Crnich (Smrznik, Ïîòåðÿííàÿ Ãîðëà ). This self titled is the projects first release & it offers up one long 40 minute track entitled 'Ancient Diseases' which is a thick & weather beaten wall of crunch & batter.
Fire in My Bones is an exceptional, varied & near faultless three disc compilation of African American Gospel music from between 1944 & 2007- which will appeal to anyone who enjoys passionate, varied & often suprising/off-kliter sonic fare.
´I´m Waiting For you…´ is a psychotic ranted slice of nasty sounding death industrial & slowed murderous Power electronics rants that very much bring to mind a more focus, less wondering & song biased take on Atrax Morgue.
Faceless is a very disturbing, original, often organic & brooding mixture of atmospheric guitar textures, cleverly placed field recordings & all manner of creative yet often uneasy sound making.
Bodies Floating In the Bay may sound like the name of another straight-up Gallio influence slice of HNW, and through there elements of walled noise here this is a much more complex & detailed beast that`s difficult to put into one noise bracket or genre.
Unsane is the first official & full length sonic offering from Italian Harsh noise project Alo Girl which is all the work of Cristiano Renzoni; runner of the Urashima label & the other half of Richard Ramirez An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter.
Nundata is a rather mysterious noise project I’ve seemingly been able to find little about…it’s even unclear were the project comes from some sources claim Japan others Serbia. Inudata is the first of a trilogy of concept albums but like the project it’s self’s it’s difficult to find any info on what the story is behind the album the only clue we have is the track titles “Last Iceberg collapse” & “Tsunami Warrior”.
Terra Sancta is an Australian project who has been involved in the creation of the most arid and desolate soundscapes since the mid 90´s. “Disintegration”, their latest effort, is a full length CD release on US Malignant Records and is a monument of cinematic wasteland and deeply buried mysticism.
Smell & Quim are sort of like a more northern English often gonzo & sick humour lined take Whitehouse’s brand of power electronics; with bizarre touches of working mans club varity act on acid edger’s thrown in to really mess you up. Powerfuck is the bands first album since 2004 Cosmic Bondage & for most of its run time rewardingly searing, perversely humorous ride.
Bully Hiss finds Canadian noise-technician Ryan Bloomer (Piss Horn, Stegm & Flatline Construct) offer up a c30 cassette worth of detailed, shifting & often quite complex noise matter that mixes elements of: Harsh Noise Wall, static crunch & texturing, juddering faulty engine textures, and even at times dramatic almost harmonic drone edgers.
Shark Knifing is the small, but perfectly formed new release from HNW master & the genres part inventor The Rita( aka Sam Mckinlay). This release offers up a 7 inch inside a wonderful 12 page picture booklet of shark been attacked with knifes, divers & shark related pictures/ drawings; plus a vinyl sticker and two-sided postcard making this one of the more classy looking HNW releases you`ll have come across.
Hunter Muskett were an English folk pop outfit who`s debut album “Every Time You Move” has become highly respected, sort after & valued since it`s release in 1970. This is its first reissue on CD format of the album that has being boot-legged many times over the years, here the album recording is taken from the original master tapes.
Goatriech 666 are speedy, blacked, damned & crude black metal three piece from Gussola, Lombardy in Italy; this five track ep brings together a selection of their clamouring, brutal & often speedy blacked craft from their demo, various splits & compilations. This is the second release on the new black metal label set-up by two respected underground noise-heads uk’s George Proctor(Mutant Ape, Karst & Murder Book) & Nicola Vinciguerra (Fecalove & Splinter vs. Stalin)
1897 is the second full length album by Australian electro/ acoustic mood setters Seaworthy on the great ambient/ electronic meets acoustic label 12k. It finds the three piece weaving a darker, starker and more melancholy work than their first album for the label the excellent Map in Hand.
Mrs Rice is the sonic clunking and noisy improv meeting of Australian Glass eater, manic ranter and noise maker Lucas Abela with Chinese Pianist Li Zenghui(who normally plays Sax) and percussionist Yang Yang.
After the enjoyable if slightly lacklustre first volume of the Japanese Bird project, Fukuro finds Merzbow back on inspired, caustic and very rewarding form. Offering up four barnstorming live drum based tracks that are full of sonic invention & caustic atmospherics.
The Project_ Pale sound is a dense, heady, atmospheric and often memorable mixture of: Synth Rock, Post- rock, doomed metallic’s and electronica with hints of shoe gazing and industrial edger’s. Our Inventions and How They Fail Us is this three New York pieces debut album.
The First Basket is a rewarding and genre varied soundtrack for a documentary about the history and trails and tribulations of Jewish American basketball players that goes from them playing with trash cans placed on the stoops of brownstones to the bright lights of Madison Square Garden.
The Gospels of the Gash is the final release from the apocalyptic and sleazy meeting of power electronics, sick brooding ambience and grim industrial clunking ‘n’ bleak drift that is Navicon Torture Technologies.