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With over 80 releases to his credit as Dead Voices On Air, Mark Spybey's project debut is still much sought-after, even following a re-release. Abrader was first released on Akifumi Nakajima's (Aube) G.R.O.S.S. label in 1994. The 2009 reprint saw the addition of two bonus tracks (featuring cEvin Key (Skinny Puppy) and Cold Spring's Abrader Redux sweetens the pot again with two further tracks from this time frame. Now coming in at 7 tracks and over 67 minutes, Abrader Redux is the definitive edition for fans clamoring for a reissue.
Thoughtless is just over seventy-two minute journey in densely battering ‘n’ billowing Harsh Noise Wall form. It’s an unrelating attack from the off, featuring an impenetrable mesh of droning lows and rattling mids.
Krovopuskanieis a dark ambient/death industrial project hailing from Russia, with their first release on Bandcamp appearing in 2020. The name translated to English means ‘bloodletting’ or ‘therapeutic phlebotomy’, the withdrawal of blood from a patient, for various medical reasons; so a neat name.
Sunset Glow stands as one more creative and daring singer-songwriter albums of the 1970s. As it found the genre's normal tropes been blended and at points bent out of shape with elements of experimental jazz & prog/art rock, with an often jammed-to-freaking-out compositional flow. Here from Esoteric Records is a CD reissue of the album- featuring a 24- bit digital remastering of the album.
The House Of The Lost Women is forlorn, at points troubling family drama liberally dotted with female flesh ‘n’ perversion. This early 1980’s Jess Franco feature has a small cast of just five actors, with Franco regulars Lina Romay and Antonio Mayans among this number- with both giving great performances to the backdrop of a deserted Spanish island. Here from Severin is the first-ever Blu-Ray release of the film- featuring an uncut print of the picture, a few on-disc extras, and a CD featuring a selection of soundtrack music from Franco collaborator Daniel J. White.
Making their debut on Blood Harvest, Tampa, Florida's Vacuous Depths unleash the depraved death metal madness with Corporal Humiliation. After a well received demo and some serious line up changes, the new trio hit the studio to record this blasting slab of heavy, vile death. Although hailing from Tampa, Vacuous Depths channels classic sounds from scenes the world over, truly making this album their own.
Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki is the 1992 sequel to 1988’s original- the first film was a demented blend of slasher 'n' giallo, with extreme gore & a fair bit of sleaze. This sequel while still having giallo elements in its make-up, is less sleazy ‘n’ gore bound- with a focus more on arty drama and are-they-mad-or-not thriller. Here from Unearthed Films, who reissued the first Evil Dead Trap last year is a new Blu-Ray release.
Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things is a grave worm wringing ‘n’ coffin lid creaking blend of dark comedy and ghoulish horror- with a keenly sinister at points damn eerier atmosphere. The 1972 film was the second directorial feature from Bob Clarke- who will be known to genre fans for his excellent proto-slasher Black Christmas, and popular 50’s set teen sex comedy Porkys. Here from VCI Entertainment is a new fifty-anniversary release of the film- which is available in three separate editions- DVD, Blu-Ray, or 4K Ultra HD- with each featuring a new 4k scan of the film, and a good selection of extras.
Murder in a Blue World is a 1973 crime thriller set in a dystopian future written and directed by Spanish filmmaker, Eloy de la Iglesia (The Cannibal Man, No One Heard the Scream and Hidden Pleasures) and starring Sue Lyon (Lolita, The Night of the Iguana and Alligator), Chris Mitchum (son of Robert and star of Big Jake, Rio Lobo and Summertime Killer) and Jean Sorrell (Day of the Jackal, Belle De Jour and One on Top of the Other).
Sinemis' Dua is a concise thirty-minute collection of short atmospheric electronic pieces. They could be described as modern classical, downtempo or art ambient, with tuneful choral pads, string synths and piano. Each of the seven tracks contains strong, strident melodies and resolves within about four minutes, similar in structure to old synthesizer LPs from artists like Jean Michel Jarre.
Remember The Night is a thoroughly charming, often heart-warming, and wonderfully acted festive romantic comedy from the early 1940s. The film neatly side-steps the cliches often associated with the genre, for a generally entertaining and engaging picture. Here from Powerhouse films is a Blu-Ray feature HD print of the film, a commentary track, new and archive extras, an eighth-page book, and a poster.
Tearing Your Mind To Pieces severs up eight slices of constricting and deeply oppressive sound craft, which mixes together dense and tarry industrial ambient, gloomy PE, and general thickly pressing ‘n’ hope muffling noise craft.
Düsseldorf is one of the key and influential names in the Polish EBM scene. Amok is their third album, and it finds them blending other genre touches and elements in their sound such as Berlin school like electronica, live drums, new wave, and post-rock elements.
Tape is the first and only wellspring of electronic music. Anyone who tells you otherwise hasn’t done their homework. The medium gave rise to nearly anything that can be heard or listened to today by establishing the limit conditions for all sonic production: recording and playback. More modern forms of tape are having something of a renaissance of late, where artists like Eric Van Thyne have coaxed that magical erasure of fidelity that only analog tape can provide – the warbling and slow disintegration of a recorded impression. On his latest release, Tape 1, Van Thyne used the once-standard four-track Tascam recorder as his instrument of choice. There was a time when any amateur musician or group had one of these devices handy for making rather simple but ultimately warm and fuzzy recordings.
Night Will Fade And Fall Apart is a new(ish) two-CD set from Stockholm-based improviser/composer Magnus Granberg. On the first disc we have a forty-three-minute piece for a modern ensemble, and on the second disc, solo playing (aside from a vibraphone & piano track) of elements from the larger work. As its title suggest the work here feels both nocturnal and shadowy, with the pace of the main piece shifting as it progresses from decidedly active and mid-paced, to lullingly layered, and moodily pulled out
Nightmare At Noon is an entertaining-if-typical straight-to-VHS 80’s action film, which adds in intriguing if light touches of both Sci-fi and horror. It was directed by Greek schlockmeister Nico Mastorakis- of taboo-breaking nasty Island Of Death, action slasher mash-up The Zero Boys, etc. Here from Arrow Video- both in the UK and Stateside- is a new Blu-Ray release of the film, taking in a new HD scan of the film, as well as a few extras
Gothic Fantastico is a four-film boxset focusing on lesser-known Italian Gothic horror films of the 1960s. The pictures featured move from those that whole heartily embrace the genre tropes, to those trying to be more experimental with the form. This Blu-Ray boxset is from the folks at Arrow Video- and as we’ve come to expect from the label, we get a treasure trove of commentaries and extras, as well an eighty-page booklet, and double-sided poster- all in limited edition packaging, with reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork.
Here’s just shy of an hour’s worth of thickly roasting walled noise, that flirts and darts with occasional layer shifts 'n' textural deviation. Ennaytch is from Tucson, Arizona, and is seemingly a fairly new wall noise project, starting this year- with at present has eight releases to its name.
Kald Vind Blåse (translated Cold Wind Blown) is a three-track journey in grey and industrial-tinged ANW texturing. Each track hits at spot on the ten-minute mark, and each is a deeper trip into textural glumness.
Tokyo based Hiroshi Ebina is back on Kitchen with his latest, In Science and the Human Heart. Making his debut in the onset of the COVID pandemic and lockdown, Hiroshi continues to explore the themes of isolation and solitude, however this time with an airy ambiance focused more toward what happens to the human heart. Floating weightless, the listener is not suspended by heavy sounds that interfere with thought, but rather open spaces for their mind to wander and allow proper, uncompromised communication between their head and heart
Burial Hex is the horror electronics alter ego of Wisconsin native, Clay Ruby. Founded in 2005, Burial Hex has been very prolific over the years issuing a host of different releases, both on his own and in collaboration with a number of other artists including Zola Jesus, Iron Fist of the Sun and Sylvester Anfang II to name just a few.
Mad God is a darkly surreal, at points highly deranged trip into a shifting and vast dystopian world. The film is a highbred of animation, stop monition, and live-action footage and really, it’s epic in its scope, imagination, and creative derangement. Here from Acorn Media is a Blu-ray release of the film- taking in commentary tracks and extras.
Smut Without Smut Vol one brings together two softcore films from the 70s- with a cut and an uncut version of each- with the cut version focusing more on the story elements/genre traits of the pictures. One film is dystopian Sci-fi focused, and the second is a low-grade crime caper. As part of 101 Films UK's reissue of the AGFA cult film library, here we have a region B blu ray release of the film- with the disc taking in a commentary track on one of the films.
The fugue is a musical structure and a mental state, the latter describing an existential sense of disconnectedness, a loss of one's identity or grounding. It is to this definition that the late poet and Holocaust-survivor, Paul Celan, oriented himself in his "Death Fugues," a foundational point of reference for Christoph Dahlberg on his latest work, Blackforms. Celan famously declared that "Death is a Master from Germany", a line whose resonance has never been fully understood, perhaps because its meaning requires a breadth of articulation that language alone cannot disclose. Enter music. Dahlberg takes us on an afflicted journey into the cavernous reaches of mourning and loss, a passage that moves slowly toward nothingness.