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#1
Last post by groesk - Today at 07:33:07 AM
i've been trying to find what I can outside of the forum. here's the little I got.
teeth dreams - endlings. (harsh noise with drone influences)
Sukeban - Antagony (chaotic harsh noise, loses steam by the end)
yeah those are the two i found, i need to find labels or something to follow up on things.
#2
Last post by PTM Jim - Today at 05:54:06 AM
From what I understood at the time, he didn't want any Taint reissued. Toward the end maybe he changed his mind, I don't know because I never talked to him about anything like that.
Mikko, did he give you any permissions for reissue? I feel like you might be the only one he gave them to.
#3
I think one thing that rings true about Keith's work in Mania in particular, is how profound and relatable those uneasy feelings are, that are being meticulously being projected and expressed through the noise itself, through a foreboding sense of anxiety, desperation and isolation that continue to escalate. This time a year I've got terrible anxiety from season change to winter. I find myself drinking a lot earlier, a lot more often and going to bed almost always with nightmares and then waking up everyday to this depressed and anxious ridden state that makes you feel very guilty, self ridiculing, isolated and alone in those feelings and takes hours in the morning to return to a semi normal state of mind. I think Mania is the banner to those types of feelings and is precisely why it's so magnified to certain individuals, cause it feels so authentic to those types of experienced emotions. I never knew Keith, as I was late to the forum before he passed, but he's no doubt somebody I'd of easily been able to relate to on various topics. I'm glad he was able to communicate those feelings of anxiety so well with Mania to the point that it demands the listeners immediate attention.
#4
I'm still hoping for a Vice CD reissue, that would be essential! I hope to see that sometime in the near future and also still holding out in hopes for a big CD compilation that consists of a series of compilation track appearances and rare tracks. In my opinion, some of his best and most harrowing stuff in both Taint and Mania have been executed very well through various compilation appearances over the years.
#5
Another really great black metal demo to check out is the most recent Traum demo tape entitled Diminishment In Perpetuum, released by US black metal label Torture Palace Productions. Filled to brim with cold sardonic atmosphere and lofi production! Definitely something to check out, especially by those who have enjoyed much of the Blood Crescent catalog.
#6
Quote from: Fistfuck Masonanie on Today at 03:37:56 AMQuote from: Fistfuck Masonanie on November 16, 2025, 06:33:33 PMRautakymi – Ei Tästä Maailmasta (Freak Animal)
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 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...
Just wanted to note that I keep returning to this release. It's funny because I had a hard time making heads or tales of it the first couple of spins and wasn't even sure I liked it. It's really unique and doesn't sound like anyone else to my ears. It's very primitive and very alien at the same time somehow.
I often find the releases that confuse me reveal themselves with further listens, and this one has really opened up for me.
That's a really well written way of putting it, as I feel the same way about this album. It did not strike me immediately upon first listen. I didn't dislike it or like it, but I felt left feeling that perhaps I'll check this one out again real soon to see how I feel about it on a second listen. It's like how you described, it didn't grab my attention immediately or maybe how I thought it might, but maybe needs another listen and maybe a more focused deeper concentrated listen. Rautakymi's tracks on Freak Animal International vol. 5 didn't grab me immediately either, but after hearing them a couple times after first hearing, it became immediate to me after some more listens that this stuff is really good! It had then anticipated me big time for this album, perhaps Rautakymi is one of those artists that needs closer ear to attention, perhaps needs a closer examination to fully appreciate. I think at least in my experience that perhaps this is the case with Rautakymi.
#7
Quote from: Fistfuck Masonanie on November 16, 2025, 06:33:33 PMRautakymi – Ei Tästä Maailmasta (Freak Animal)
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 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...
Just wanted to note that I keep returning to this release. It's funny because I had a hard time making heads or tales of it the first couple of spins and wasn't even sure I liked it. It's really unique and doesn't sound like anyone else to my ears. It's very primitive and very alien at the same time somehow.
I often find the releases that confuse me reveal themselves with further listens, and this one has really opened up for me.
#8
Keith deleted quite a lot of his posts/replies too so his total was likely even larger. The only other forum I know that he posted in was one dedicated to mountain biking (which explains the 'MTB' on the end of his username) but noise didn't crossover into his discussions there.
#9
Last post by mag-maa - December 03, 2025, 11:15:25 PM
YKSI "CATACLYSMIC REPROGRAM" CD tulossa AAD:n kautta ehkä vielä tän vuoden puolella. 70 minuutin soosi (CD:llä bonusmatskua mitä ei digiversiossa). Eli projekti elää yhä ja ensi vuonnakin vielä julkaisuja luvassa, vaikka nyt mennytkin enemmän aikaa muiden projektien parissa viime aikoina.
#10
On another note, was listening to "Sawgasm Side B" off the Gilden box the other day...
Muffled screams, a drill going off in the background, an overall feeling of listening to some demented soul losing it in a dank, dark basement...if I had just heard this without context and someone told me it was a lost Mania tape, I could believe it.
Keith had mentioned in a post having some brief contacts with Gilden back in the day, and it makes me wonder if he had ever heard the Sawgasm tape and how much of an influence that second side might have been on the later conception of Mania.
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