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Ventilation Cycle is three track walled noise release from Cincinnati, Ohio's Whore’s Breath. Each track hits around the ten-to-eleven-minute mark, and each is a fairly rapidly weaved example of crispy ‘n’ crunchy wall texturing.
God Himself Had Disavowed Theology is a greyly searing and brutally crude example of nihilistic HNW. The single track comes in at the forty-seven-minute mark, and it remains unrelenting in its staring into the void numbness for it's full runtime.
Whazho is a German live dub / trip-hop duo who released one previous album in 2018. Their new album, "+ -" has come in 2023, released on the same label as their debut, Gutfeeling Records.
Distributed by 101 Films and streaming on digital platforms, ‘The Gates’ is a new horror film by Irish director Stephen Hall. It's a 19th-century set Gothic horror, that harks back to Hammer Films as a medium-budget production rather than the micro-budgeted indies and the occasional more expensive movies with starrier casts which now dominate the British horror market.
Yakuza Graveyard, the 1976 crime drama from director Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale, Fall Guy and Virus: The End) is the latest film to find its way to Blu-ray for the first time from Radiance Films, the company set up by Francesco Simeoni to distribute those often forgotten classics of world cinema. The movie stars Tetsuya Watari (Graveyard of Honour, Yukai and the Yakuza video games), Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood, Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion and Kill Bill Vol.1), Tatsuo Umemiya (Prince of Space, World War III Breaks Out and Sangyo Supai) and Hideo Murota (Kagemusha, Rashamen and Original Sin).
Originally released as part of 2019's On Corrosion 10 CS anthology, She Spread Sorrow's Orchid Seeds sees its re-release again through The Helen Scarsdale Agency on digital and LP. Fans of 2021's Huntress will revel in hearing Alice Kundalini's quickly out of print earlier work, and a strong, female-forward introduction into the themes and sounds that would blossom on her later album. At only five songs, Orchid Seeds is short and sweet, and a nice look back at She Spread Sorrow's lesser-heard material.
Red Sun is a late 60’s West German melodrama come crime film- with the genre elements largely reduced and fleeting until it’s resolved. It’s a film that feels very much akin to the work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder- with its wondering & loose structural feel, and the decidedly improvised to stiltedly theatrical feel to the acting. The film certainly is an engaging, at times subtle skewed cinematic experience. And here from Radiance Films is the first-ever region free blu ray- taking in a commentary track, a few other on-disc extras, and a bulky 52-page booklet.
Par-Antra II: TAA is the first album of new material from Finish dark ritual ambient collective Halo Manash in eight years, as well as a sequel/follow-up to one of their early albums 2004’s Par-Antra I: Vir. The CD release features five tracks.
Night Has A Thousand Eyes is an intriguing & wholly engaging crossbreed between tense noir and uneasy psychological horror. Throughout this late 1940s film, the tangible feeling of both mystery & eerier disquiet are kept very much alive- as they are skillfully blended with the noir tropes & atmosphere. Here from Powerhouse is a new Blu-Ray release of the film- taking in HD print of the picture, a new commentary track, and a mix of new/ archive extras.
Ronnie severs up two brain-battering examples of walled noise from the long-running/ highly prolific California project Koobaatoo Asparagus. Each track comes in at dead on the half-an-hour mark, and each is as densely sonically brutalizing as the other.
Here we have wall noise split, which rolls in at just shy of the two-hour mark. It features two fifty-three-minute tracks- one from Michigan-based Polarlicht which is an example of numbing ‘n’ grey drone bound ‘wall’. And a rawer ‘n’ rolling example of the form from Poland’s Sado Rituals.
Search for sound masking and you’re likely to stumble upon a host of corporate-minded demonstration videos marketing the technology as a means to improve the acoustic ecology of workplace environments by effectively combatting two separate but interrelated problems: lack of noise, such that one is able to hear everything and the other side of that coin (i.e., being too loud, so no one can productively accomplish their tasks). The idea is that the imperceptible injection of noise measured at the right frequency and amplitude will assure that neither of these ubiquitous problems of space and hearing will get in the way of a job well done.
Inspired by the Greek myth, Leda is the 2021 movie from producer/director/cinematographer/writer Samule Tressler IV (Syzygy, Headboy TM and Social Animal Social Soul). The film is his first feature-length directorial work, he has previously worked as an actor and most significantly as a cinematographer on the highly-rated 2022 crime thriller Boundary, directed by Anthony Faust. The film stars Adeline Thery (Are We Not Cats, Come to the Show and Suicide or Lulu and Me in a World Made for Two) in the title role, with CC King (Delivering Christmas, Marriage Story and Neon) portraying the younger version of Leda and Douglas Cathro (V/H/S/2, A Host of Sparrows and Heads of Tails) as her father.
Nailbomb was a collaboration between Max Cavalera( formally Sepultura, Soulfly, and Cavalera Conspiracy) and Alex Newport of noise rock/ metal project Fudge Tunnel. The project's sound blended together elements of industrial metal, Thrash, hardcore punk and groove metal. The project existed between 1994 and 1995- but they managed to release one studio album Point Blank, and one live album Proud To Commit Commercial Suicide. 1000% Hate is a two-CD set bringing together both of these albums.
Channeling the chants and ritualistic roots of civilization's ancestors, Italy's CHAIGIDEL & NERATERRÆ offer up their tribute to the Mesopotamian goddess Lamaštu. Dark and brooding, the eight tracks conjure up a time at the beginning of our recorded history, capturing the malevolence and terror of this ancient demon. Droning, deep, and rich, Lamaštu encompasses a range of the human experience through the lens of the darkly divine and menacingly mythological.
Ampscent is a two-piece project who creates an intense, shifting, busy and often disorienting brand of electronica/ IDM. This self-titled CD debut album follows on from their 2023 EP Nothing But The World. And this album is one manic, and at points highly dizzying ride- blended beat crafted, layered electro texturing, percussive & noise elements.
Exit Electronics is the rawer ‘n’ noise-bound solo project of Justin K. Broadrick (Godflesh, JK Flesh, Jesu, Final). Learn The Hard Way is the project's debut album, which originally appeared back in 2022 on Broadrick’s own Avalanche Recordings label. Here from Zoharum is a CD reissue of the album, and what we get is eleven tracks worth of crude bone-battering electro beats & skin scalding to roasting electronics.
Here we have the fourth box set in Imprint’s Essential Noir Collection series. The four Blu-ray boxset features five films, dating from between the years 1949 and 1953. And we get a good variation of different types of noir- going from a South African bound adventure. Onto a uncover investigation-based noir, though to a burst a crime syndicate take on the genre. Finishing off with a psycho drama come house invasion film, and a gothic-tinged noir-ish mystery.
Here’s a recent/ very well-deserved CD reissue of the soundtrack to Norman .J. Warren’s Sci-fi horror film Inseminoid (1981)- which was one of the more worthy/ managing to stand on its own Alien rip-offs. The score is by English composer John Scott (Repulsion, The People That Time Forgot, Doomwatch), and it’s purely a synth/electronic-based affair. With the twelve tracks featured here covering a fair bit of sonic ground.
AmnesiA (2001) is the first theatrical feature by Dutch director Martin Koolhoven best known for the international art house success Winter in Wartime (2008). The film is available here as an impressive two-disk Blu-ray set from the American label Cult Epics- which also features Koolhoven’s two earlier TV movies.
Witchtrap is a very 1980’s take on the investigating-a-haunted-house genre. It’s high in 80’s camp, full of stilted- often-unintentional amusing acting, cutting one-liners,and more than a few gore deaths. It’s a film that just sits on the edge of so bad-it’s-great, and while there are a few pacing issues- this is a largely entertaining slice of 80’s shlock. Here from MVD’s Rewind Series is a Blu-Ray release featuring a 2k scan of the film, a commentary track, and a selection of interviews.
In this feature directorial debut from Sebastien Blanc, we bear witness to a body horror nightmare of one man’s obsession to raise the dead. William (Tobi King Bakare) and his mother (Romona Von Pusch) both get involved in a serious accident, of which only William survives to go home to his adopted father Richard (Steve Oram). Plagued by visions of his dead mother, William struggles to recover but he soon discovers the dark secret his father has been cooking up in the basement. Richard has found a way to resurrect the dead, and he is not going to stop until his beloved wife has been returned to him.
Axe Witch are a Swedish heavy metal band formed in 1981 in Linköping, Sweden. Brought together by Anders Wallentoft (vocals) and Magnus Jarl (guitar) the band would go on to release 3 full-length studio albums (The Lord of Flies, Visions of the Past and Hooked on High Heels) and a couple of EPs (Pray For Metal and a 3 track maxi-single) before disbanding in 1987. The Last of A Dying Breed: 40 Years in Metal brings together classic tracks from 1982s Pray for Metal, 1983s The Lord of Flies and 1984s Vision of the Past, re-recorded for a new generation of metal fans and released in a beautifully packaged digipak CD for Hooked On Metal Records.
Lum is an Italian Black metal two-piece that weaves an often harmonic lined & grandly atmospheric take on the genre- which adds in touches of orchestration, folk and martial percussion to its make-up. Lunaria - I Racconti Del Falò is the band’s first full-length, following on from 2021’s EP L'feu e la Stria Ep. And I must say it’s a very well-realized full-length debut- blending well grimness, grandeur, melody & atmosphere.