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Canadian heavy metal band Goat Horn were formed in Ontario in 1999 by three veterans of the local music scene, Jason Decay (vocals/bass), Brandon Wars (guitar) and Steel Rider (drums). The band recorded three albums of raw old-school doom metal before calling it a day in June 2006. Voyage to Nowhere – The Complete Anthology compiles those three albums in one set along with some bonus demos and live recordings.
From the late 1960’s Larks On A String (aka Skřivánci na niti) is slyly cutting, grimly surreal, at times darkly humour-lined satire of the Communist regime- where suspected bourgeois elements of society are literally sent-to-the-scrape-heap. Here from those champions of the New Wave of Czech cinema Second Run is a recent Blu-Ray release of the film - with the disc taking in a new 4K scan of the picture, a new commentary track, and a few other extras.
Existing for a few years in the late 1980’s Semantics were an avant-jazz supergroup, bringing together the impressive talents of bass player Elliot Sharp, multi-instrumentalist Ned Rothenberg, and percussionist Samm Bennet. The band released just two albums their 1986 self-titled, and 1987’s Bone Of Contention- which saw the three-piece weaving in touches of off-kilter world music into their avant jazz rock sound.
Originally self-released in the year 1979 Mental Detentions was the first odd-electro sonic fruits of Robert Rental, aka Scottish electronica come early industrial sound maker Robert Donnachie. Here from Klanggalerie, we have a CD reissue of the album, which shifts between dense dronings, ramshackle boundings, and waving drifts
Well-known and long-time Norwegian sound artists Runhild Gammelsæter and Lasse Marhaug see their two-year collaboration released this month, Higgs Boson. their second collaborative LP, the pair rekindled their flame as a duo in 2019, and began work on this current release before the COVID lockdown. Drawing inspiration from many subjects (from experimental Japanese cinema, French comic books, landscape photography, and much more), the duo continue the physics-inspired collab (their last release was Quantum Entanglement) and further prove how art and science are forever entwined.
The wonderfully entitled Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things is a mix of wacky sit-com, psychodrama, and bizarre/ badly fated romance. The early 1970s American low-budget film nicely flirts with both sleazed trashy-ness and chuckling-in-the-dark satire of both the formal nuclear family and hippy-ness. 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, a bonus film, and a few shorts.
Slow Murk Façade is the fourth release from discordant no-wave meets baying sax duo Elsinore. The Pittsburgh duo brings together RJ Myato- guitars, drums, and voice. Luke Farkas-Sax.
Itchy Blood is a four-track journey into dense ‘n’ slowly searing harsh noise matter. The tracks blend feasting ‘n’ scrubbing noise with shifting space-out yet drowsily mid to high-end oscillations.
The Black Death was the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, over a five-year period it killed worldwide between twenty-five and fifty million people. Den Sorte Død are a Swedish duo bringing together Offermose and ANGST- their name is danish for The Black Death. Sound-wise we find synth-based dark ambient/ritual music with a cold, monochromatic feel, which is topped with a surprisingly progressive edge. Undergangen is their second album with four in total. It was originally self-released in 2019- here it's reissued by Cyclic Law.
No Name is a split between two US-based wall-makers, we have Iowa-based Layman and Kansas City-based godNOISEgod. The first offers up two fifteen-minute tracks, and the second a single just shy of thirty-minute wall.
If you’ve ever wanted the gorgeous reverse-delay soundscape of My Bloody Valentine to go on forever, becoming its own place of sonic immanence, then Rafael Anton Irissari’s latest release, Agitas Al Sol, is the answer.
The Stare is a recent two-track from Worship- a decidedly secretive wall-noise project, who themes all of its release around nude/semi-glad females and makes entrancing at times fairly creative examples of the genre.
The Roadrunner Years is a three-disc CD set bringing together the three 1980 albums from New Jersey Thrash metal project Whiplash. Featured here we have 1986’s Power And Pain, 1987’s Ticket To Mayhem, and 1989’s Insult To Injury. With the sound going speeding mayhem, to varied-paced material, and more formal fare.
The Last Son is a 2021 western that is rife with brooding intent, tense with moments of stark brutality, and edged with traces of both post and folk horror. Here from 101 Films is a digital release of the film- and it’s fair to say it’s one of the more impactful modern-made westerns I’ve seen in some time.
Here we have the welcome return of Powerhouse film’s Columbia noir boxset series- and for this fifth entry in the series, we have a six blu ray boxsets focusing on one of the most known, great and iconic actors of the noir genre Humphrey Bogart. And as we’ve come to expect from Powerhouse, we find a wonderfully curated and put-together set. With new 4K scans for each film, a great host of new & archive extras, and a one-hundred-and-twenty-page inlay book.
Aussie synth dreamer Midnight Odyssey began his "Biolume" trilogy in 2020. Vast, engaging synth-scapes cover the loose theme of "ruined civilizations," but also follow the flow and feel of 1970's sci-fi books and films. The first two albums were available on the artist's bandcamp (ruins of a Celestial Fire and Ashes from a Terrestrial Fall), with the final act in the trilogy being available on Echoes of a Celestial Ruin for the very first time (Echoes from the Thalassic Deep). Pulling together all the elements (air, fire, and water) to create a synthy, sci-fi version of Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire, this ambitious and atmospheric trilogy provides many hours of distant, explorative inspiration.
God Told Me To is a mid-70s supernatural cop thriller set in NYC, where a selection of seemingly normal folk are going on a series of killing sprees. It was directed by Larry Cohen (The Stuff, It Lives trilogy, Q: The Winged Serpent)- who always had his own distinctive twist on genre filmmaking- with the film blending in elements of the second coming & alien abduction to the cop thriller format. Here from the folks at Blue Underground is a new dual Blu-Ray and UHD Blu-ray release- featuring a new scan of the picture, a new commentary track, and a good selection of archive extras.
Here from the folks at VCI Entertainment/ MVD Visual is Bloody 70’s Horror Double Feature. The three-disc Blu-ray, and double DVD set takes in two Mexican horror films produced primally for the US grindhouse market. We have Mary, Mary, Bloody, Mary- a crossbreed of female vampire and gallio horror, and René Cardona Jr’s Blood Feast a rather muddled/ low-grade stalking rich guy in a house fall of cat’s horror. The set features new scans of both films, as well as lengthy video essays from genre expert/ historian Dr David Wilt.
Residing in a realm of suffocating low frequencies, Italy’s Clavicvla swarm my desolated ears with punch and agony!. Crawling death ambient with a stain of industrial, is what this one-man offers up with this new full-length Degeneracy Of The 5th Density.
Monochromes is a piano-based release that managers to bring together felt-if- at times angular beauty, with creative often textured playing. It’s a three-CD set, which presents us with fifteen tracks that wonderfully and most effectively move between the emotional and inventive.
Shadows Of Our Personality presents us with two-quarter slices of HNW from San Diego-based walled noise project Koobaatoo Asparagu. With the tone moving from dense pelt ‘n’ hack, through to weathered and swirlingly baying.
Morbid Death Tales is the seventh album from Bytom, Poland’s Throneum. It severs up eleven slices of evilly wonky 'n' crudely glamouring blacked death metal, which at points just barely hangs together as batters, sears, and crashes its way along.
Stephen Mallinder, co-founder of England’s electro Dadaists, Cabaret Voltaire, has been around the block a few times, to say the least. He’s moved halfway around the world, completed a PhD, worked as a producer, and now, under lockdown, created his latest solo work, Tick Tick Tick.
Nihiti is an experimental music project with sporadic releases dating back to 2009. Earlier albums contained elements of rock, new wave and other more active genres, but this new recording, titled Sustained, is in many ways classic ambient, imitating the serene, resolved feeling of 80's synth classics like Steve Roach's Structured From Silence and Quiet Music, and combining this with heavy FX processing like one might expect from a shoegaze band.