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[Grunt – Kiveen Ikuistettu (Freak Animal)]

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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REV...

Last post by Fistfuck Masonanie - Today at 06:33:33 PM

Grunt – Kiveen Ikuistettu (Freak Animal)

Absolutely gorgeous packaging on this new release. The CD is housed in a 52 page hardcover book with the photography work of Mr. Aspa. One of the most professional and beautiful noise packages in recent memory.

The CD itself documents two live gigs. 6 tracks recorded live in Kaarina, Finland 3.5.2025 and a single long track recorded live in Lahti, Finland on 14.12.2024.

The sounds on the first gig are varied across the ~23 minute set. The opening track sounds similar to the latest Karike CD. Very raw and very minimal metal scraping. It's very organic sounding and electronics are only added sparingly to evoke atmosphere. The remaining songs venture into more traditional PE territory with industrial loops, vocals, and what I assume is a synth.

The PE focused tracks at times remind me of material close to Petturien Rooli or World Draped In A Camouflage. This is very much a set of pre-determined songs and not improvisational in nature. The tracks flow and segue into one another nicely and feels like a very composed and well intentioned mini-album or EP.  It's interesting to hear such well developed songs executed in a live setting. Seems like the crowd enjoyed it as well due to the enthusistic cheers at the end!

The second gig starts off in a somewhat similar nature to the first gig with organic metal scraping and jostling. This time there is some mal-adjusted feedback simmering like rattle snake ready to strike. However! There is quite the level of dynamics to this one. I won't overtly detail what it sounds like as it's somewhat different. I really enjoyed how this one develops. I like that Grunt as a project has been stretching out and exploring various styles in the last few years.

Rautakymi – Ei Tästä Maailmasta (Freak Animal)

Debut CD by this contemporary Finnish artist. Tribe Tapes had re-issued the Pinta tape earlier this year, so I'm somewhat familiar with the previous work. Pinta is one of only two tapes from the artist before this album.

This continues the very raw straight to 4-track noise approach. It has a warmth and slight murkiness from recording straigh to tape. It's not easy to tell what each source is which adds to the enigmatic nature of the sounds for me.

I hear a lot of metal scrapping tape loops manipulated in a variety of manners. There are also a lot of filter sweeps and/or phaser effects of some sort. Backward tape loop sounds and very murky crumbling textures.

I wouldn't say it's straight harsh noise, it's definitely a little experimental while playing in the harsh noise sandbox. I think I need to relisten to Pinta, because I remember that being more straight ahead.

I was curious about the titles so I asked Google to translate. The album title "Ei Tästä Maailmasta" in English roughly translates to "Out of this world" which is a very fitting title. The sounds do actually feel somewhat alien, or maybe paranormal? There is also some sort of theme of science and knoweldge if you look up the other titles and a fitting sample on the latter half of the album.

Very unique sounds and I'm still wrapping my head around it. Will be giving it more spins in the upcoming week.

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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REV...

Last post by Cranial Blast - Today at 05:42:55 PM

Clinic Of Torture - Memento Of Punishment CD (IOPS)

A very interesting live performance on this one and perhaps now my favorite Clinic Of Torture release yet. The album starts off with the longest track and most interesting composition over the album. First track intros with this distorted synth that builds this really stark atmosphere, that is almost hard to put into words, but sounds excellent and really captures the mood! It properly lays the ground work for what lies ahead, which is some nice junk metal under reverb, giving the sounds such a close up, gives lots of great depths and range across the track. The other tracks on the album give a nice torment to the ears with lots of loud piercing shrills and buzzing sounds. It's perfectly balanced in the sense that it feels like audio torment. All of the sounds culminate nicely in the mix, giving good climax for the performance as a whole. The last track really builds in a fury of tearing distortion and more feedback shrills, definitely a nice closing track in contrast to where it all started from the beginning. This is easily one of my favorite releases this year and the packaging is prepared nicely, just like some of the other previous IOPS releases like Steel Corset, Anatomical Venus, ect. I'm not sure exactly where this live performance was captured, but whomever was there to capture this moment in time, I'd consider them very lucky!

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CLASSIFIED ADS / Millstone Vinyl closing week

Last post by bogskaggmannen - Today at 03:16:26 PM

The mailorder will close in one week - homepage will be offline around the 24th of November. Lots of good stuff still available - please help me clear out!

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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: New interesting releases o...

Last post by prelapsus - Today at 01:42:12 AM

Pretty positive this was one of the tapes that Linekraft had at Hospital fest

https://www.discogs.com/release/35401927-Linekraft-Life-Industry-Death

Maybe I was mistaken and he just had all 6-7 copies on display as there doesn't appear to be anything else on Discogs listed. If anyone who was at the fest bought stuff, please let us know.

I've been fiending for this. Tesco briefly had copies but they all went.

#5

NEW RELEASES ANNOUNCEMENTS / work surplus - ritual heaps

Last post by RitualHeaps - Today at 12:31:30 AM

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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Soundcloud, bandcamp ?

Last post by Olion - November 15, 2025, 06:49:14 PM

New Olion stuff.
Three cold ambient walls inspired by Icelandic ice deserts and waterfalls.
Feel the static frost and immerse yourself in it.

https://olionele.bandcamp.com/album/etherfall

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CLASSIFIED ADS / Re: Metal to the Core 1986 || ...

Last post by metaltothecore1986 - November 15, 2025, 05:40:01 PM

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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Dunkelheit Produktionen

Last post by impulse manslaughter - November 15, 2025, 04:17:01 PM

I placed 3 CD-orders a while ago and they arrived quickly without any problems. A LP-order from June is still pending as i had to reject 3 sets of test pressings. Glad I didn't announce pre-orders for this after ordering. Usually set a release date and announce pre-orders about 2 weeks in advance, when i already have all the production parts here.

#9

GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Dunkelheit Produktionen

Last post by NAR - November 15, 2025, 11:23:50 AM

Exactly what Mikko says here. These pre-orders months in advance are confusing. When the record is actually available people often do not care any more. Early pre-orders for CD-releases are just total bullshit. It's a small investment to get them produced and they are ready in 3 weeks.

3 weeks, more like 4 and if all goes well... at this right moment I have one CD in production for 2 months with no valid explanation so...

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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Dunkelheit Produktionen

Last post by NAR - November 15, 2025, 11:21:27 AM

I use my fair share of pre-orders and it helps get stuff going.
Speaking for myself, a pre-order means the release is already in production and making a early order helps get other things going on in the meantime. Also, for very limited stuff, helps getting an idea if something needs a bit more copies or make it realistic smaller.

What can go wrong with pre-orders is when those are funding pre-orders, but those should be clearly stated as what they are. In those cases, you don't know if or when it will sell enough to send the release to production and that can be a problem.
I think that's probably the case with Dunkelheit here, but in the end Bernd is getting stuff done so...