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The Temple sees The Skull Defekts refocusing their droning, hypnotic, often weighty and noisy sound into more muscular and tribal rhythmic noise rock form that’s laced with occultic undertones and dense creative flare; with a liberal use of vocals and a high dependence on doomed metallic meets punked riff matter.
Music for installations is not seldomly more experience rather than music. Listened with full attention it might appear a bit dull, but as an ambiance—a mood—it can work quite well.
Eucalypse sees Merzbow weaving in a more atmospheric and at times melodic guitar lines and noise textures into his dense noise sound. All to make an album that feels like mixture of the noise cinematics of 07’s Coma Berenices & the emotionally singed guitar and noise scapeing of 06’s Minazo Vol 1
Brethren of The free Spirit are the duo of guitarist/composer James Blackshaw and lutenist/composer Jozef van Wissem.The Wolf Also Shall Dwell With The Lamb is the projects second album of sublime, earthy and beautiful collection of folk/ classical stringed tracks that are both hypnotic in the repetition and atmospheric and melodic in there flow.
Live in Italy 1999 plus is a highly enjoyable, wonderfully performed and filmed hour long concert recorded at the Tpo in Bologna on the 29th of May 1999. The concert takes in the electronic, sampled and big percussive sound of Death in June, as well as the tight yet melodic neo- folk acoustic side of the project too.
When it comes to 'extreme music', the Japanese seem to have cornered the market for years. The emancipation of noisemaking has made it possible to make noise an international sport, but still there's plenty of intense stuff coming from under the rising sun.
La Vie Electronique 1 is the first of a series of 3 cd sets that bring together a selection of early tape material by electrroinca godfather and Space music /Kosmische Musik legend Klaus Schulze.
Eravamo Così Felici is the first non cdr release on the Italian Division of Turgid Animal noise label that’s run by Italian noise pervert extraordinaire Nicola Vinciguerra(Fecalove,etc).And it finds a rather satisfying and brutal boiling up of Italian vocals, power electronics, analogue and digital discharged,melted harmonic electronics and more than a few hints of lost and dammed roman Catholicism with the mashed-up mass and pray like chants that hover through the albums violent yet creative unfold.
Orcustus self titled début album is a no nonsense slice of mainly speedy ‘n’ spiteful old school Norwegian black metal. The band are a two piece featuring two seasoned Norwegian black metal-lers in the form of Taipan(Amok , Abattoir) on vocals, guitar & bass. And Dirge Rep on Drums who has blackedly pounded for the likes of Gehenna, Gorgoroth, Enslaved, Aura Noir & Nattefrost.
Watermill is one of the most beautiful, enchanting and approachable long form pieces by noted and past New York based Japanese composer and performer Teiji Ito; taking in his usually love of Native American, Chinese, Tibetan, African, and Japanese traditional music to weave a truly spell-binding, often intricate and compelling piece that stays more in melodic and atmospheric end of his work.
Our Earth's Blood IV takes the listener on one hell of a sonic journey that seesaws between violence and blacked atmospherics touching down in: Power electronics, noise, brooding ambience, dark electronica, grim cinematic, doom metallic’s and all manner of compelling experimental matter-spreading it’s impressive and varied sonic wares over a whooping 5 disks.
Dusty Mason is Ben Purscell, a rural Pennsylvanian stone mason by trade, who has recently taken to carving headstones. Ahab's Revenge - Hot Tears, Cold Ocean is undoubtedly a more refined and cohesive album than his previous work with the Grave Cowboys. Their lone album, Dead Man Shoes includes some fine songs, and listened to in pieces works well enough. In the end, though, it comes across like so many first albums do, as an unfinished work in progress, an artist, or in this case a band, figuring out how to navigate their way through the recording studio. Dusty Mason on his own sounds relaxed away from the confines of the hard-lined clock tick-ery of the studio, having recorded Ahab's Revenge... at home. With no outside intervention, these recordings are almost like diary entries, personal reminiscences of daily events and thoughts. Not that these songs aren't well though out or, if you'll pardon the pun, carefully hewn. It's just that Dusty's personality is indelibly imprinted onto each one. It would be easy to lazily file this music under alternative folk or country, and though there's certainly a little of both folk and country elements, it doesn't fit neatly into either category. It's distinctly American music, seen through a dirty lens, slightly out of skew.
Musically Kinit Her sit in place somewhere between mid-pace 90's Scandinavian black metal, dark horror metal, darkly hued folk rock, blackly sounding Russian and Jewish sounding string pluck and bow, along with hints of ritual elements and a damned theatrical air. And if all that wasn’t an interesting enough concoction just wait until you hear the vocals.
From Wasteland Mausoleums, the last collaboration between Finish noise maker Cloama & the more atmospheric fellow countrymen Blutleuchte was one of my favourite releasers of 07; with it’s mixture of gothic cinematics, dammed world music and general creative/atmospheric genre pick and mix. So I was very excited to see this appearing.
Violent Nun is a reissue of the first 7inch from Uk Hardcore funster The stupid’s; this was originally released way back in 1985 & it shows the band with a more American punk based sound than their later distinctive speedy and memorable UK core sound.
Perceiving The World with Hate is the next grim yet creative sonic chapter in Striborg’s distinctive take on the black metal genre, it shows Striborg repeating old tricks effectively but adding in a few new ones to the blacked pot too.
Adventures in sound is a rather splendid compilation that focus in on early electronic & Electro-Acoustic composition, musique concrète, and avant garde composition. Collecting together tracks from: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry and Edgard Varèse. Making this an highly enjoyable, varied primer and introduction to these old avant-garde masters
Varde follows on from the dread soaked sea bound wonder of Elegi 's first album 07's Sistereis- but offers up a denser, more aged, textured and varied edge to the projects doomed classical meets grainy electronics sound.
Jaennerwein are a new Austrian folk band from the Salzburg area that mix together the alpine folk sound of bands like Sturmpercht & Falkenstein with neo-folk and old school folk elements along with often quite cinematic and atmospheric leanings.
One-way Ticket to Candyland pumps out a manic and strange melding of jagged hardcore meets overloaded lo-fi synth and wavering gone wrong synth drum patterns; with the odd drifts no less strange, un-nerving and sickly ambient dwells and ebbs
Urfe is a double disk concept album based around a deranged, surreal and sinister take on an Alice In wonderland type tale. It finds English Post Black metal project The Axis of Perdition focusing in on the more grim, unhinged ambient and black industlized cinematic side of their sound, with defined blacked metallic elements not appearing until midway into the second disk and then only fleetingly.
The Bujùn Freak Show is a two way split between two acts that mix: quirky beats, noise, Plunderphonics elements, the odd hints of industrialized matter and atmospheric guitar scaping. All in all it’s an fairly enjoyable and creative split packaging in a eye catching 7 inch card sleeve with retro pictures on
O Ajuntas das Sombras is a darkly enchanting, often hypnotic and at times very creepy shot of earthy woodland and ritual based dark ambience and chilling drone craft with hints of slowed and damned folk matter woven in here and there along the albums deep dark and compelling woodland track.
Box is Stupid is a really luxurious and rather neat boxset that brings together 10 cd's worth of early out print 1990’s tape releasers by Japanese noise tearing duo The Incapacitants. It's really a must have item item for any serious and discerning noise fan