As usual. I doubt exact number needs to be. I am quite sure my list will be modified / edited when trying to remember what all happened this year and what was last year....
LINEKRAFT all four release brilliant. Primitive Survival Instinct, Bankrupt of Morals as well as Howling CD and murder series 7"!
JUNKYARD SHAMAN "Lost Mind" tape
PAIN APPENDIX "Toward Infinity" tape
AMES SANGLANTES "666" LP
MOOZZHEAD "Doors of Perfection" tape, but also all recent works!
ALTAR OF FLIES "Återblick" 3xLP
LETTERA 22 Exposition Of Clove LP
UMPIO "Marisko" CD
LAU NAU "Puutarhassa" CD
VIOLENT SHOGUN "Brittle" CD
top label. Stuff what maybe individually didn't make to above, but always pleasure to get box!
Narcolepsia 2022 all strong!
Satatuhatta 2022 all strong!
Noisextra and WCN has been great for 2022.
Satatuhatta releases have indeed been strong. I enjoyed Corral Shut - Ramshackle a lot! The first tape was good but this is a lot better with more piercing sound. Covers feature images of decay that fit for the concept.
Edit. Other 2022 releases and reissues that everyone should get:
Long Live the Death of Video compilation
Contortus - The Reality is Hidden for a Reason
Grunt - Hehku
Bizarre Uproar - Cunt Animal
Bizarre Uproar - Pakkosyöttö reissue
Macronympha - Ultimate Vibrator reissue
Secret Apex reissue
Bizarre Uproar - Cunt Animal
Grunt - Hehku
Edge of Decay - Vein of Metal
Kovana - Club Catharsis
Contortus - Reality is Hidden for a Reason
Also Corral Shut and Mold CDs, all Vincent Dallas and Moozzhead! and so many killer reissues - Monde Bruits, Texas Chainsaw Dopefiend, Mangled Clit, Kakerlak, Macro...
Merzbow: hope.
Surprisingly good. Heavy mid 90s Merz vibe. My favourite album of the year.
Bizarre Uproar: pakkosyotto.
Ok, not a 2022 release, but I'm very glad to have it on a proper CD relase
Scatmother/Pissoir Rouge: toxic masculinity.
Finest filthy power electronics.
JSH: job 16:9.
No frills old school hn.
Salò Saloon: hybris.
Very well crafted classic pe.
Corral Shut - Ramshackle cd
H.Ö.H - Lukuisia ulkopuolisia käsivarsia tape
Pain Appendix - Toward Infinity tape
Moozzhead - Waist Watchers Anonymous tape
Barstool Mountain - III cd
Altar of Flies - Återblick 3lp
Grunt - Hehku cd
Mogao - Finger Pointing to the Moon cd
Haudat - s/t tape
Some reissues / compilations:
Grunt - Installation of Blood and Steel cd
False Creak - Dark Water Otter Whores cd
Evenings - Wormwood cd
Nuori Veri - Vakaumus cd
The Rita - Magazine cd
Many great releases this year. I will try to make a list soon, but I think overall, at least for me, Satatuhatta wins the cup again!
Amateur Hour - Krökta Tänkar Och Brända Vanor 2xLP
Mogao - Finger Pointing To The Moon CD
Hands To - Bio Electric CD Comp
Klara Livet - Varandra LP
Pain Appendix - Towards Infinity CS
Al Margolis / If, Bwana – Iceless, Faceless CD
Jon Collin - Bridge Variations LP
V/A - Two New Lips CS
Jason Crumer - Thin Ice CD
The Craft – Not Art But About Art 7" lathe
This is more or less top ten in no particular order - there must be lots of releases that didn`t just cross my mind at this point and are left out because of that. But in a nutshell... Satatuhatta pushing out great stuff and going almost beyond noise (?) with mega tactile works from Mogao, Kartio etc.
Sweden ruling with outstanding overall quality in the experimentalism (Discreet Fam & Happiest Place...) Tribe Tapes putting out solid CD`s & New Forces released one of the finest box sets since the Witcyst box set, cheers for that. Two New Lips comp was also stunning. Most finest sound artists out there on the same tape using same ingredients to make tasty abstract mush... 18 tracks and yet somehow good overall. Crumers "New Age" CD was tasty af! Had a discussion with some long time noiseheads and I was really pissed off to find out they did not enjoy it. I think the Thin Ice and for example Arv & Miljö`s latest LP`s swim in the most interesting waters. Well... to each his own I guess.
Arv & Miljö LP that came out just now was left out only because I have not yet had the time to get the physical version to my self for better consumption.
perhaps also addition:
BEST newcomers (as far as I know, they have no former noise projects at all)
Kylmäkovamaa
Haudat
RMMS
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on December 12, 2022, 03:23:25 PM
perhaps also addition:
BEST newcomers (as far as I know, they have no former noise projects at all)
Kylmäkovamaa
Haudat
RMMS
Haudat is only one from this bunch that i have heard, but it is really good. Kylmäkovamaa is interesting, but the name of the project is really offputting with it's Kotiteollisuus vibes hehe
One of the best reissues this year:
Mangled Clit – Erotakill
WNC podcast is very welcome noise media.
There is again many brilliant records out that I don't even try to remember the best ones.
Most important thing in year 2022 was gigs! I was involved four of noise related happenings in Finland.
It is much more different to pass out on stage that your own floor.
JSH - Job 16:9
Rotat - Disfigured Onanist
Depravar - Traces of Agony
Contortus - Reality Is Hidden For A Reason
Sodomy From Beyond - Hatred Scheme
Bizarre Uproar - Cunt Animal
Oh man... So many super good releases again this year. It's good thing that my record shelves are running out of space so I can't put the latest purchases into record shelves after one listen. Everything is easily available next to my stereo setup and listening chair and that's why I've been dwelling deep with the new releases. I have to brutally count out stuff like
Worth's Sacred violence noise and
Altar of Flies Återblick (WCN) to ease out the listing because those was originally released as tape during 2020 and 2021.
These are the ones I listened to a lot. And listed ones are not in any particular rating order.
Dressing: From the body to the door CD (Oxen)Well executed junk metal bashing and klanging spiced up with pedal noise. Starts minimally with smaller metal objects and crispy electronics. Builds up to total mayhem towards the end.
Scathing: No Night Worth Saving CD (Phage tapes)
Scathing: Blind nectar consumption TAPE (Satatuhatta)No night.. CD is cut-up noise but not too wild "everything goes" style. Kinda reminds me of Worth, but still bit more electronic and harsh. Ends up with a long ambientish dwelling in swamps and sewers track. Gives you room to breathe after the blasting. Blind Nectar consumption tape pretty much continues where the CD ends. Organic, psychedelic and surreal tape noise just the way I like it.
Spate: Dogmono CD (Sinkhole entertainment)This is some well made crispy mid and high end HARSH noise. Good focus on the frequence surfing on the top of the source material. Hands on feel with room sound. Has a live feel without layering sounds too much.
Barstool Mountain: Everything!Two tapes and one CD. Each released by different label. As a Mattias Gustafsson fanboy what there is not to like? Maybe bit "relaxed" and harsher approach than his works as Altar of Flies, but there's nothing wrong with that. Still organic, still super good, still top of the nordic noise scene.
Ames Sanglantes: Canada 666 LP (Hospital Productions)Wasn't familiar with this project before and still haven't heard any other releases than this, but nevertheless this vinyl is superb stuff. Good sounding harsh noise with vocals. Kind of "simple stuff" but when it's good, it's good. Canadian Masonna without the razor sharp cut-up feel.
Pain Appendix: Toward infinity TAPE (Satatuhatta)HEAVY and organic sound journey. Field recordings and GOOD junk metal bashing with carefully selected source material. Full of details and this one has sort of oldschool industrial feel with almost musical qualities at some point. Pull the strings!
Moozzhead: The Doors of Perfection TAPE (White Centipede Noise)Moozz fan here, so what can you do? Master of nowaday's harsh pedal noise. Cut out the dry bones and leave the flesh and fat. Juicy and always fun harsh noise with glassy bourbonic aftertaste. And I love bourbon and the sound of shattering glass!
Cyess Afxzs: Americhams CD (Rural Isolation Project)
Cyess Afxzs: Tápies TAPE (Satatuhatta)Both releases are masterfully composed artsy harsh noise. I almost dare to say that his works reminds me a bit of Jaakko Vanhala's noise... Constantly changing layers of sounds. Junk metal, pedals, ambience. Brutal and beautiful. Reminds me of a clinically white art gallery with nasty and abstract paintings and weird sculptures. This guy seems to know his sound and vision. Both releases are SUPER good stuff.
Skin Graft: Final Judgement CD (White Centipede Noise)This topic's starter already described this as "AOR noise" and that description fits pretty damn well haha! Dark, heavy and slowly building low end suffocating americanoise. Graps you from the throat straight from the first second and doesn't let go until the end.
Lettera 22: Surface ego TAPE (Second sleep)Slept on with the Exposition of clove vinyl, but at least got this. First copy was poorly dubbed version, but managed to get a new one. Not harsh but detailed broken tape noise with electronic beeping and humming. Italian version of Umpio's and SM/DP's insect electronix?
Violent Shogun: Brittle CD (Tordon Ljud)Rémi has been productive during last years, but it doesn't matter because every single release has been gold. Brittle is the quieter side of VS. He says: "Credits for the inspiration when I put this album together go to Altar Of Flies, Höh, Josh Peterson, Kjostad, Current Worming and Ochu." For my ears those are just the guidelines, because Brittle stands 100% on it's own feet. Perfect music for the late night listening and sleep deprivations.
Darksmith: Imposter CD (Throne Heap)Surreal field recordings, sound collages and tape manipulation. Sounds the same as the beginning of movie Blue Velvet looks.
Toanche Dwelling: Hyleidos TAPE (Absurd exposition)Murky, lo-fi, broken noise for the deserted factories and train yards. Another Lynch movie reference here, but if Darksmith was Blue Velvet, Hyleidos is Eraserhead. Timeless noise that could have been released in the 80's or 2020's. I love it!
Slacking: Cycling Through Bother & Bliss CD-R (Prose Nagge)First listen with this was in car while driving to cabin. Dark late autumn night in the northern part of Finland which is well known for it's UFO sightings in the 70's haha! Slowly evolving broken signals and soundscapes. Haunting loops topped with screeching metal sounds. Hypnotic stuff to listen in the dark or while driving your car through the forest roads while trying to spot some extraterrestrial action in the sky.
Corral Shut: Ramshackle CD (Satatuhatta tapes)BRUTAL, RAW and HARSH as fuck metal junk bashing and screeching. Nothing more to say about this blunt to the core masterpiece. If you like junk metal noise, you like this. Period.
Amek-Maj: Bar De Trod TAPE (Narcolepsia)Finnish noise superstar of the moment! He has developed a sound and style that is instantly recognized as Amek-Maj. Weird laboratory of some demented factory where wheels are constantly in motion and radio is stuck to play loops of classical music. Organic sound with layered details.
I might have forgotten something, but like I said in the beginning; so much quality stuff coming out all the time. Trying my best to keep up with the new releases, but it's impossible to catch or remember everything. One could easily enjoy contemporary top quality harsh noise with only Satatuhatta releases (couple of honorary mentions for 2022 goes to
Junkyard Shaman and
Free-Tala), because EACH ONE of the tapes or CDs the label puts out are top notch stuff, but checking out what is happening everywhere is important for me at least. And it goes without saying that I love everything what guys like
Aprapat and
Umpio/Kartio does. All their releases are in my top lists automatically including this year's
Reef Crasher TAPE (New Forces) and
Marisko CD (Satatuhatta).Couple of things still not heard like the new Kjostad CD or Masonna/Prurient CD. I think that those would include my top list, but I'll wait for the first listen till I got the physical copies. From more industrial side of noise I enjoyed
Grunt's Cast iron hand 10" (Old europa cafe) and
Geography of Hell's Verdun 1916 CD (Hospital Productions)Also a LOT of mega good re-releases came out this year:
Incapacitants: Feedback of N.M.S vinyl (Urashima)
Incapacitants: Quietus vinyl (Urashima)
Hands To: Bio electric 5-CD box (New Forces)
Monde Bruits: Tapes 1991-1994 5-CD box (Industrial Recollections/Audio Dissection)
Secret Apex: Secret Apex CD (Satatuhatta)
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on December 12, 2022, 03:23:25 PM
perhaps also addition:
BEST newcomers (as far as I know, they have no former noise projects at all)
Kylmäkovamaa
Haudat
RMSS
True that. My absolute favourite of these is definitely
RMSS. I know that he took his time to arrange his first tape before releasing it. Very different than almost anything else in the Finnish scene at this moment with his Broken Flag meets
Ashley C approach. A lot more than just "another noise tape." Really looking forward his (hopefully more) future releases!
Hard to pick a list and there are a ton of things I haven't heard yet.
The stuff that Packing Plant, Cloister, and Fieldwork put out this year were all stand out releases.
A great year for filth with the Wrath reissues (BU Mother and DVD Box Set were well done) and F&V making a return with new nasty shit. More please.
IOPS "Long Live The Death Of Video" and HO "Fucked To Death By A Horse" were both killer.
Lastly, the recent Abscheu and Am Not should not be overlooked. Glad to see new Unrest.
Looking forward to more filth and hatred in '23.
#1 is TEF - Wrought
Unbelievable precision harsh noise of the highest caliber. Straight up should be on top of all your lists. Buy the CD now.
Masonna/Prurient - Annhiliationism
I love the alternating tracks style of split and their works complement each other perfectly. I'm glad it saw the light of day this year, and the presentation is gorgeous.
FFH - A Step Ahead
Perfect PE; I wasn't totally pulled into the last few but this one keeps sucking me in. Mysterious and violent stuff.
Total Sweetheart - Early to Bed
C60 of wild shredding pedal abuse. I keep coming back to this one, just the kind of stuff I love. I'm hoping to catch them live soon. TX is shredding ass lately.
Joe Colley - Deformation of Tone
It was just a real good feeling seeing new, heavy material from Joe. It didn't quite click at first, but I keep coming back to this one.
Best reissue...
Mangled Clit - Erotakill
Awesome package, incredibly nasty material. Perfect sleazy PE.
Honorable mention because it hasn't come out yet...
That new "Wounded Son" on Hospital - special edition is gorgeous, samples have been great...surely going to shred.
Best live set that wasn't AFA/TEF....
DSM III in a bar's basement hallway was awesome - loved how it kinda channeled Alberich with a looser feel. I bought their tape from Cloister on the way out of the bar.
Best show that didn't happen...
A certain hero from another country who will be visiting the US when you least expect it....
Label of the year...
I gotta tip my hat to Tribe Tapes; awesome layouts, good prices, great distro updates, and a consistent, extremely high quality release schedule of newcomers, old-heads, and reissues from beyond the grave.
Noise in the news award...
I'm still kinda mind blown the homie Raven Chacon won the Pulitzer in Music. I'm glad he's getting invited all over the US to blast some museum donor class people with harsh noise, his set in ABQ earlier this year was legit stunning.
I fucked up....
All the new Murder Series releases - I dug the aquatic malevolence of the Lussuria one, but I have not stepped to Grunt/Linekraft/Phocomelus. I need to right that ASAP.
Golden Purifier - Walpurgisopfer
Best tape of 2022.
Quote from: Femeheim on December 14, 2022, 03:09:34 PM
Golden Purifier - Walpurgisopfer
Best tape of 2022.
Agreed. Phantasmagoric post-mortem industrial executed with razor-sharp refinement. My most listened to tape of the year, by far.
Rotat - Disfigured Onanist (something about this one really engaged me in a year where my interests and listening habits were pretty disconnected from my noise habit, somehow a classic work of Finnish filth harsh noise that also has some of the surrealisms and degenerate weirdness of your junk noise classics, Smell and Quim and Slicing Grandpa and the likes - good)
Grunt - Hekhu (love how the track o-rengas sounds like two noise tracks at two different frequencies played over one another, like a tug of war between sheer chaos and something more meditative and strange)
Golden Purifier - Walpurgisopfer (ketamine atmospherics, hypnotic, saw Paul play a couple times this year and he ripped)
Network Glass and Jason Crumer - Prerequisite (randomly ordered this off bandcamp after being struck by the odd pairing of artists and was very pleasantly surprised, tons going on sonically and nothing sounds too jarring, it's well edited and at times skull numbing heavy)
Green Lawnmower Blood - The Peace of a Virtual Reality (my favorite dom release this year, love the lawnmower man, loved the cybernetic heaviness of this, weird shit, don't know what to say)
Masonna/Prurient - Anhilationism (annihilating indeed)
Star - Yutris (came out last year but fuck it Sam is my homie and his recent show sort of reinvigorated my enthusiasm for this thing as an art form, truly weird idiosyncratic and expressionistic stuff)
Slacking - Cycling through Bother and Bliss (hallucinatory noise)
One more that I forgot, Mindfold's CDR for Prose Nagge. Again these guys are friends but I love what they're doing. It's like abstract PE, breathing new life into the genre.
Quote from: AdamLehrerImageMaker on December 14, 2022, 11:08:01 PM
Rotat - Disfigured Onanist (something about this one really engaged me in a year where my interests and listening habits were pretty disconnected from my noise habit, somehow a classic work of Finnish filth harsh noise that also has some of the surrealisms and degenerate weirdness of your junk noise classics, Smell and Quim and Slicing Grandpa and the likes - good)
Grunt - Hekhu (love how the track o-rengas sounds like two noise tracks at two different frequencies played over one another, like a tug of war between sheer chaos and something more meditative and strange)
Golden Purifier - Walpurgisopfer (ketamine atmospherics, hypnotic, saw Paul play a couple times this year and he ripped)
Network Glass and Jason Crumer - Prerequisite (randomly ordered this off bandcamp after being struck by the odd pairing of artists and was very pleasantly surprised, tons going on sonically and nothing sounds too jarring, it's well edited and at times skull numbing heavy)
Green Lawnmower Blood - The Peace of a Virtual Reality (my favorite dom release this year, love the lawnmower man, loved the cybernetic heaviness of this, weird shit, don't know what to say)
Masonna/Prurient - Anhilationism (annihilating indeed)
Star - Yutris (came out last year but fuck it Sam is my homie and his recent show sort of reinvigorated my enthusiasm for this thing as an art form, truly weird idiosyncratic and expressionistic stuff)
Slacking - Cycling through Bother and Bliss (hallucinatory noise)
Much of my excitement was focused on:
Incipientium
Kyle Flanagan
Organ of Corti
Blind Date
Amateur Hour
And a handful of great reissues, including Monde Bruits, Government Alpha, Surface of the Earth, Hijokaidan / Incapacitants...
Puce Mary - You Must Have Been Dreaming
Completely slept on by "format fetishists"
should probably make 10 more screen names so I can continue agreeing with myself and promoting my shell companies.
A few favorites, not all noise..
Organ of Corti - Auras & Incus/Malleus 7" (discovery of the year for me)
Incapacitants - As Lous as Possible (reissue, favorite harsh noise release of the year)
Vincent Dalles - various cassettes, all good
Genocide Organ - Attitude Ethics (missed the physical tape, but great old school pe)
Secret Apex (reissue, new discovery for me)
Joe Colley - Deformation Of Tone
Violent Shogun - Brittle
Merzbow - Flesh Metal Orgasm (reissue)
Tenka - Hydration (ambient, perfect for hiking)
Henning Christiansen – Op. 163 Penthesilea
Lucrecia Dalt - ¡Ay! (exp. pop, different form the earlier more abstract albums)
Astrid Øster Mortensen - Skærsgårdslyd
Kali Malone - Living Torch (layered drones)
Tyrant 7" (punk, oi)
Still have to track down the new Self Abuse 7"s..
Quote from: New Forces on December 14, 2022, 11:42:57 PM
Much of my excitement was focused on:
Incipientium
Organ of Corti
....
Both Incipientium releases this year were really good indeed! Organ of Corti was good, but I kind of forgot the whole thing because I stuffed that in my cd shelve after first couple of listens... Need to listen it again asap.
I also forgot to include
Rotat: Disfigured onanist for my list. Sleazier side of harsh noise just the way I like it and Rotat is one of my favourite Finnish projects overall at the moment.
Quote from: Yvette on December 15, 2022, 12:28:58 AM
Puce Mary - You Must Have Been Dreaming
Completely slept on by "format fetishists"
Maybe, but I know that there was A LOT who wanted to get new PM stuff, myself included.Not slept on it by purpose, but spent unusual amount of effort and almost got it, but didn't. So yeah, I have not heard of the stuff yet. Maybe one day, if reissue is being done. Not in hurry. I do not need to rush after every file out there in internet. Have time to wait that actual release, actual album is in my hands.
A lot of releases are seemingly slept on. I have yet to get some of Altar of Flies CD's that came out. Organ of Conti CD just arrived, not yet listened. They could be on top list, but are not yet as I have not heard. Still couple weeks more to go of 2022 and I know there are still bunch of interesting releases to come.
How I see "best of 2022" type lists, it is not the objective and all inclusive thing, but based exactly on personal scope. Out of things you heard, out of things you even known to exist. Some guys most likely didn't buy single item this year, but got piles of stuff in trade or such. I'd be curious what is best of those instead of dozen people voting for obvious thing like Nekrophile box or Merzbow "noisembryo" reissue. As great as they are, and welcomed on list, of course. But lets say like PAIN APPENDIX tape making to few lists here. And every guy who bought it and I talked to, praised it.
some favorites:
Crawl Of Time - There Are No Prayers My Tongue Can Utter That Could Do More Harm To You Than What You Will Eventually Do To Yourself (Cloister Recordings)
Human Larvae - Pure Sex (Freak Animal)
The Sun - The Loss Of One (Total Black)
Agonal Breathing - Blessed Are Those Who Mourn (No Rent)
Dead Boomers - Aspen Liberals (Cipher Productions)
Misery Engine - Shahadat (Black Artifact)
Golden Purifier - II (Fieldwork)
Agonal Lust/Serration - Like A Knife (Cloister Recordings)
New releases:
Blind Date - Thank You (Usagi)
Corral Shut - Ramshackle (Satatuhatta)
Kjostad - Music For Organic Performance (New Forces)
Lettera 22 - Exposition Of Clove (Nashazphone)
Mold - Mold (Satatuhatta)
Spate - Dogmono (Sinkhole Entertainment)
Reissues:
Hands To - Bio Electric (New Forces)
Macronympha - Ultimate Vibrator (Usagi)
Masonna - Masonna Vs. Bananamara (Urashima)
Merzbow - Flesh Metal Orgasm (Old Europa Cafe)
Monde Bruits - Tapes 1991-1994 (Audio Dissection / Industrial Recollections)
Incapacitants - As Loud As Possible (Total Black)
Best label: Usagi
Pretty miserable year, hard pressed to think of anything more than Green Lawnmower Blood, The Flea Circus and the Spate disc. If I didn't limit myself to one per label, Hospital had a few more this year that would rank.
Best noise-adjacent releases of the year, no real order...
T.D. - Nothing New Under The Sun CS (The Gift Of Music)
Marlon Rohl - Twice The Ice CS (Self-released)
Deep Grey - Self-Healing Transformation Seminar CS (Focus Media)
Hand & Knee - Cait Sith CS (Detachment Programs)
Slacking - Cycling Through Bother & Bliss CD (Prose Nagge)
Thom Elliott - Desperate Living CS (Pleasure Dome Tapes)
Scathing - Blind Nectar Consumption CS (Satatuhatta)
Ineffable Slime - Blasted Reception CS (Self-released)
Mallard Theory - Muscovy Supremacy CS (Fusty Cunt)
Drunk Transaction - Untitled CS (Self-released)
I have to admit 2022 hasn't been a year of noise for me ...... but still here I am.
Some I'd consider best of of 2022 are
Oswald Resurrection – United States Of Autopsy
This is Dom and Trevor ward. 5 cassette release for 40 bucks. A "shitty" old tape feel that has all the charm of the old grey wolves cassettes. Each tape starts off with a abstract sample barrage then follows with the old washed out strength through awareness feel. Vocals and noises. I appreciated its consistency and listened to all 5 in one sitting. Seems like a tribute or just keeping the grey wolves spirit alive which is very welcomed.
IOPS - Various – Long Live The Death Of Video
Gave me some nasty shit I needed. Was a gift from Mikko, thank you. Especially liked the BU shitlover's track. Left me wanting to buy the grunt IOPS cd...
Lussuria murder 7" was memorable. More beat based atmospheric (per usual). My review will admittedly give no justice. It was the first murder series I've thrown on the turn table in years and that gave me a nostalgic rush. It felt great. Made me pull out all the oldies. Thanks Pat.
Noise wise this year I'll leave it at that.
Анатолий Грюх – Грюх
Systemic Sewage – Hyper-Mechanization Of The Hairless Ape
In general discovering tribe tapes, not really a specific release but just the fact that he is doing such a great job.
Yellow Gas Flames live in Nashville- have not felt this way about a noise set since I was in Highschool.
Really need to get Grunt-Hehku, if anyone can direct me to a USA source.
always a pleasure to check these lists, but it is usually a hard exercise to write one, not really sure why. anyway, giving it a try. lots of stuff missing, of course, but here are some personal favorites that I believe deserve to be mentioned and discussed. might try and edit the post / write some notes a bit later.
OCHU "AMOKNAGEN / ABGANGSGENOM" CS (Hatband)
LINEKRAFT "HOWLING" CD (New Approach)
SCATHING "BLIND NECTAR CONSUMPTION" CS (Satatuhatta)
IDLER / HATTIFNATTAR CS (Satatuhatta)
ZALHIETZLI "LE FOUDROYÉ" CS (Satatuhatta)
Reissues:
BLACK LEATHER JESUS "JESUS IS STONED" CD (Industrial Recollections)
CRYPTOFASCISME "LA MORT VISIBLE & LA MORT INVISIBLE" 2xCS (Dogmatics In Outline)
KNURL "OBJECTIVE CONSTRAINT" CS (Absurd Exposition)
AGRESSOR "LLAMAS DE MUERTE - THE COMPLETE ULTRA SESSIONS 1986-1987" 2xLP (F.O.A.D.)
SACRILEGIO "PODREDUMBRE 1986-1988" LP (F.O.A.D.)
Quote from: Strangecross on December 16, 2022, 04:58:10 PM
Really need to get Grunt-Hehku, if anyone can direct me to a USA source.
Malignant
https://www.malignantrecords.com/search/artist/Grunt
Loads to check out from this thread. Thanks everyone who has shared so far. If anyone knows of somewhere that still has the Golden Purifier CS I would love to hear it.
My personal favourites have been the Junta Cadre LP and Himukalt- Sex Worker III both on Total Black. Jumping Tiger 10" on Hospital Productions also excellent.
That Incapacitants As Loud as Possible reissue was also super nice. Great presentation.
i acquired much fewer items than anyone here so i have no clue about all the hot new releases in less-than-100-editions or fancy vinyls / boxes out there
but my most enjoyed releases this year are easily
- Haudat tape
- Circle Of Shit both albums on aussaat label
- Macronympha "ultimate vibrator" 2xCD reissue
but theres too much goin on for my budget, its crazy ... lots of good stuff that i dont even have (yet)
Yeah... so much interesting stuff coming out and a lot i've yet to check out. Could probably make a better 2022 list in the end of 2023, hah! But here's some favourites:
Masonna / Prurient - Annihilationism (Masonna material almost on par with his best classic stuff, crazy!)
Grunt - Hehku (the most listened one for me this year, amazing dynamic harsh noise and nice handmade packaging always a bonus)
VA - Feedback Solidarity
Rotat - Disfigured Onanist
HO - Fucked To Death By A Horse (first release i've heard from this project and a damn good one, violent harsh noise blasting all the way)
Amek Maj / Moozzhead (speak rally english or die!!!)
Bizarre Uproar - Cunt Animal
Kovana - Club Catharsis
Reissues:
Macronympha - Ultimate Vibrator
Bizarre Uproar - Pakkosyöttö
Merzbow – Noisembryo / Noise Matrix (ofc classic album but the bonus CD also super good)
Here's my top 10 of 2022:
BLIND DATE - Thank You (Usagi Productions)
T.E.F. - Wrought (Dada Drumming)
SPATE - Dogmono (Sinkhole Entertainment)
JIM HAYNES - Insomnia (Sentimental Productions)
OCHU - Amoknagen / Abgangsgenom (Hatband)
NETWORK GLASS + JASON CRUMER - Prerequisite (Misanthropic Agenda)
DARKSMITH - Imposter (Throne Heap)
MOLD (Satatuhatta)
SLACKING - Cycling Through Bother & Bliss (Prose Nagge)
WORTH - Penumbral Calypso; Early Garden Walls (Hospital Productions)
I did a solo podcast episode about my list and other noise highlights of the year, and I made a 15 minute documentary where people on the streets of Cologne at Christmas time listened to some samples and told me their thoughts. You can see both year-end WCN TV special's at https://www.patreon.com/whitecentipedenoise
I've already written at length about some of these here or elsewhere, but the rest have comments.
There's piles of stuff I have yet to listen to from the past year which might have been up here with the best, but there's only so much time. And then there are a handful of releases I had a finger or a hand in releasing in one way or another (Usagi, liner notes etc) which I truly truly adore, but lets keep our pants on, ok?
JIM HAYNES – Turbulence LP (Verlautbarung)
Oh yes. Album of the year...
JIM HAYNES – Insomnia CD (Sentimental)
...but this one aint far behind. If Turbulence seeks a way out of our known dimensions, Insomnia goes the other way. Here Haynes uses his warm hammering electric pulses, drills and mechanics to tunnel his way to earth's core, only to find it hollow and empty. And vast, very vast. Industrial/noise that takes you places.
T.D. - Nothing New Under The Sun CS (The Gift Of Music)
MOT &VIOLENT SHOGUN – Mangle CS (Absurd Exposition)
OCHU – Lähmung Des Wartens 12" (Verlautbarung)
ARTBREAKHOTEL – Karas LP (Buried In Slag And Debris)
SPATE – Dogmono CD (Sinkhole Entertainment)
Well, fuck me. Cyborgs having clumsy 4AM drunken sex using power tools. Kneepads and helmets on in case you have to watch. High risk noise. Dean's best so far!
PRIMITIVE ISOLATION TACTICS
Jackals Howling Across The Deserts Of Time CS (Lead Lozenges)
Compiling Beliefs CS (Buried In Slag And Debris)
Reissues and whatnot:
CRYPTOFASCISME - La Mort Visible & La Mort Invisible DCS (Dogmatics In Outline)
KYOSHI MIZUTANI – Inferior's Betrayal DLP (Ferns)
Pressing a DLP of some old Mizutani recording in this day and age must be a financial disaster, but at least I'm glad. Kudos! Great great set.
MONDE BRUITS – Tapes 1991 – 1994 5CD (Industrial Recollections & Audio Dissection)
Quote from: Baglady on January 04, 2023, 12:45:30 AM
JIM HAYNES – Turbulence LP (Verlautbarung)
Oh yes. Album of the year...
JIM HAYNES – Insomnia CD (Sentimental)
...but this one aint far behind. If Turbulence seeks a way out of our known dimensions, Insomnia goes the other way. Here Haynes uses his warm hammering electric pulses, drills and mechanics to tunnel his way to earth's core, only to find it hollow and empty. And vast, very vast. Industrial/noise that takes you places.
Right on. This guy is
IT.
Shiver/Sa Bruxa split
Wastoid - Alien Asshole
Hikikomori - Awake You Sleeping Giant
Echthros - God Is Love
Maranata - Tarmac
Pain Appendix - Toward Infinity
Tantric Death - Hatemonger
MattxIbarra - Absolute Misery
Edge of Decay - Vein of Metal
Linekraft, all releases
Jumping Tiger - The Temple of Sadism
Corral Shut - Ramshackle
Organ of Corti - Auris
Blind Date - Thank you
JFK - Tape Archives 86-88
Heat Signature - Brain On War
Hands To - Bio Electric
Am Not - Cold+Disloyal (Unrest)
Excellent return, hits just as hard as older material
FFH - A step ahead (No Rent)
Four strong tracks, "Indefinite Violence" PE hymn of 2022
Bøltorn - Dødsverk (Tesco)
very polished sound, tried and tested norvargesque
Scum FC - Proper Dogging (Narcolepsia)
keep coming back to this one for it's sheer nastiness
Human Larvæ - Pure Sex (Freak Animal)
Probably the projects best work so far, coherent and sonically challenging
VA - Poison Vol.IV (New Approach)
Now that is a compilation. No fillers, pristine presentation.
Reissues:
Macronympha - Ultimate Vibrator (Usagi)
Essential reissue, with ripping bonus material
Wertham - Lombroso (BeTon)
Great to have on one CD, especially since my dub was very quiet
Militia - The black flag hoised (Infinite Fog)
Glad I picked this one up, had never heard this material before
Essential releases 2022:
All releases of Jim Haynes, ochu, scum.
Best reissues:
THE RITA - Magazine 2CD.
Yet another excellent noise year. We were really spoiled with re-releases and boxed sets like:
Macronympha - Ultimate Vibrator
Government Alpha - Xerxes
Dead Body Love - Tumors
The New Boyfriends - 3
David Gilden - Texas Chainsaw Dopefiend
Monde Bruits - Tapes 1991-1994
Secret Apex - Secret Apex
Merzbow - Noisembryo / Noise Matrix
The Rita - Magazine
Black Leather Jesus - Jesus Is Stoned
Mangled Clit - Erotakill
Heat Signature - Brain On War
Hands To - Bio Electric
That's easily a full year of wonderful listening right there! But no, it was not only old stuff but also brand new goodies like:
Altar Of Flies - Återblick
Masonna/Prurient - Annihilationism
T.E.F. - Wrought
A Fail Association - Down South
Kuttekop - Transverse Toxospumosis
Sissy Spacek - Threshold
Sissy Spacek - Electric Field In Parallel
Black Leather Jesus - Super 9½
White Gold - 3
Vincent Dallas - Doktersbezoek
Corral Shut - Ramshackle
Knurl - Sensory Eradication
....and so much more! Great stuff from Barstool Mountain, Scathing, Kazumoto Endo, Dressing, Rotat, Mold and many many others. And even more from Sissy Spacek than the ones listed above. 2022 really was the year of the Sissy.
A special mention goes to Merzbow - Animal Liberation. An artist I have always liked/loved (pretty much my first harsh noise acquaintance). He went down in quality since the glory days of the '90s but this one is the best since a long long time.
I'm going to be selfish and completely indulgent by posting an egregiously large list of releases from this year. I usually try to focus on a top ten or so to really give a more focused overview but I honestly didn't want to widdle my list down and there were so many good releases in 2022.
Best of 2022
Astro - Unbalanced Flag LP (*One of my favorites of the year, everyone is sleeping on this LP)
T.E.F. – Wrought (*Holy hell this is good, genius cut-up work and good dynamics across the disc)
Kazumoto Endo and Scum - Psychoacoustic Studies + Noise Snippets (*scum one of the best right now, takes skill to keep up with Endo)
scum / Unsustainable Social Condition - Necessary Downfall (*Excellent split, scum tracks were some of the best in 2022)
Systemic Sewage | Unsustainable Social Condition - All Available Weaponry (*Both Mumma and USC had a very solid year)
Systemic Sewage - Hyper-Mechanization Of The Hairless Ape (*Really unique listen, out there while kind of crusty DIY noise)
Dressing - 3 (*Dressing one of the top artist's in 2022 with multiple top-tier releases)
Dressing - From The Body To The Door (*One of the best and imaginative album's in 2022)
Cyess Afxzs - Ernst (*Every Cyess Afxzs release is excellent, if I had choose, this might be the best)
Cyess Afxzs – Kubin (*This one also sits high among his new releases)
Cyess Afxzs – Tàpies
Cyess Afxzs - Americhasm
Blind Date - Thank You
Blind Date - Answer Print (Really good small edition tape, more tape sound/musique concrète)
Vasculae - Broken Lust
Spate - Dogmono
Moth Drakula - S/T
Network Glass And Jason Crumer - Prerequisite
Slacking - Cycling Through Bother & Bliss
Skin Graft - Final Judgment
A Fail Association - Down South
Worth – Penumbral Calypso; Early Garden Walls
Macrosonic - Lords Of Sex (New collab material from Mhlest and Joe of Macro. Everyone should check this out.)
Sissy Spacek had an MVP year with 4 crushing and essential CDs
Sissy Spacek - Reslayer
Sissy Spacek - Electric Field In Parallel
Sissy Spacek - Threshold (*Maybe the best if I had to choose just one)
Sissy Spacek - Mechanical Abstraction
Wasteland Jazz Unit - S/T 2xLP (*Perfect jazz noise freak-out, love this so much)
Bren't Lewiis Ensemble - Hand Signals (Absolutely stunning weirdo collage/tape work by a collective of artists)
Jeph Jerman - Flapndr
Jim Strong – 36fibulae
The Sun - The Loss of One (*I spun this A LOT, a really beautiful and personal-sounding tape.
Spring Of Life - Brown Bed
Vincent Dallas - Fantoom Klank
Vincent Dallas – Manische Hyperaktiviteit (*First of many excellent releases in 2022)
Vincent Dallas – Doktersbezoek (*Maybe my favorite out of them all)
Vincent Dallas & Moozzhead – Controlled Chaos & Sound (*Straight headbanging harsh collab)
Hymenal Opening - Fucked To Death By A Horse
Best of Richard Ramirez/Black Leather Jesus/Deadline/Room 2A
*I'm admittedly a huge fanboy of everything RR & BLJ and there is always a lot so they get its own section
Richard Ramirez - latex catalog, leather catalog
Richard Ramirez, Slacking - From The Wreckage
Black Leather Jesus - Super 9½ (*Highly unnoticed and excellent new album)
Black Leather Jesus - Série Torso 1
Black Leather Jesus - Série Torso 2
Black Leather Jesus – Make Them Cum Slowly (*DENSE c120 of new material)
Black Leather Jesus, The Rita - Adding And Subtracting Limbs
Cruel Map of Women's Bodies – Cruel Map of Women's Bodies (I)
Cruel Map of Women's Bodies – Cruel Map of Women's Bodies (II)
Cruel Map of Women's Bodies – Cruel Map of Women's Bodies (III)
Best Reissues
Mangled Clit – Erotakill
Government Alpha - Xerxes
Monde Bruits - Tapes 1991-1994
非常階段 + Incapacitants - Δ8000 / Prelude To Pallo
Dead Body Love - Tumors
Bizarre Uproar - Pakkosyöttö
Bizarre Uproar - Likainen Ehtoollinen
David Gilden – Texas Chainsaw Dopefiend
David Gilden - Noise Attacks The Suburbs
David Gilden - Depress / Regress Vol. 2
Macronympha - Ultimate Vibrator
Spate - Neuter
copy-paste from the other board circa Dec 11 plus two additions tacked to the end (spot em!). was evidently a good year.
Cyess Afxzs
Obsession of the week. Know nothing about this project save that the bc samples are pure fire and will hopefully be ingesting the shit proper in short order.
This was my tentative list, jerked out whilst partially shitfaced-
HÖH - HÖH
HÖH – Lukuisia Ulkopuolisia Käsivarsia
Mold - Mold
HÖH / Violent Shogun
Violent Shogun - Brittle
Mot & Violent Shogun – Mangle
Mot - Fretted (note to self, need to check other Mot)
Barstool Mountain - III
Barstool Mountain - II (Memory Eraser)
Barstool Mountain - Birth Canal
Altar Of Flies - Återblick
* prolly some other AoF-adjacent shiz need to top up
Aprapat - Reef Crasher
Corral Shut - Ramshackle
Jeph Jerman - Flapndr
Lettera 22 - Surface Ego
Kjostad - Captive (plus all the other Kjostad I didn't grab)
Heat Signature - Brain On War (this year?)
Blind Date - You're Welcome
Organ Of Corti - Organ Of Corti plus the 7"
The Flea Circus – A Touch Of Grey
Am Not - Cold + Disloyal
Umpio - Marisko
TEF! - Wrought
TEFAFA...FATAFE...TEAFFA...TFFAAE...AFATEF...one of those
JH – APEIROZOAN
The Keraunograph Organisation - Anatomic Stars/Recessional
The Keraunograph Ensemble - The Omnipresent Volume III: The Great Diagonal (abso-fucking-lutely amazing)
These I think technically for me 2022 (and KILL) -
Aprapat - Hot Lava Shampoo
K.M. Toepfer- Retrace No Steps
The New Boyfriends - The Fourth Season
!Worth - Sacred Violence (special bonus mention for damn near taking my sacred foutreing fingers off)
Plus, buncha stuff that KILLS but haven't properly indulged plus all the other shit I forgot (plus, I'm an idiot)
Plus stuff that I need but do not wish to name. Sure to KILL.
Gonna come back to this a...fair...few times. Maybe just delete everyone and leave HÖH but for now this ll do.
Most slept on (by me)
Toanche Dwelling - Hyleidos (just, so incredibly good, says bandcamp, need to cop release proper if such a thing is to transpire, at some point)
T.D. - Nothing New Under The Sun (no, it isn't, but it is. was. slept on. and, defeats all purpose, including the idear of posting word to the effect. which btw is a god thing.*)
Worst of 2022:
I don't know man, why you gotta be like that?