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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Star
Last post by Minus1 - Today at 06:08:05 PM
Quote from: prelapsus on Today at 04:11:41 PMI find Elephant in the Snow genuinely punishing to listen to. I've sat through it a few times and come to the conclusion I just don't enjoy it much. It's the repetitive sample collages that drive me insane. It's definitely an interesting project though.

You hate Sardine? 😂

To each their own, of course. (I'm the only person I know who loves the Vomir-Legion Of Andromeda split.)

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CLASSIFIED ADS / Re: SCREAM & WRITHE New & Used...
Last post by absurdexposition - Today at 05:29:01 PM
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    New Arrivals 312: Bent Window Records, Clinquant Pudendum, Hei runar Myrkrunar, Helen Scarsdale Agency, Industrial Recollections, Innen Books, Input Error, No Holiday, Old Captain, Orb Tapes, Recordings for the Summer, Throne Heap, Unrest Productions, and various metal releases and publications

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    • Back in action. All orders that came in while I was away have been shipped as of Dec. 19th.

    • I started a Substack. Not likely to be super active, as time is not often on my side, but there are plenty of ideas and thoughts to be collected for future posts when I can swing them. It's mostly for any writing/content that goes beyond the scope of this newsletter. Anything noise-related will still appear here, and there is now a section herein with links to the latest posts. The first post is a recap of the books I read this year, with commentary. There will be a new post tomorrow.

    • Anju Singh (The Nausea) scored the new short horror feature from Kier-La Janisse, The Occupant of the Room. The soundtrack is excellent and reworks some material that can be heard on the Requiem LP we released last year (note a special guest sound appearance by The Rita as well). The short itself, starring the twice-Cronenberg-cast Don McKellar, is nice and eerie. It's viewable now on Shudder as part of Janisse's The Haunted Season (inspired by the spirit of the BBC's annual A Ghost Story for Christmas series of the 1970s) and is screening on select dates throughout North America. As an aside, I've been shipping all books for Janisse's Spectacular Optical publishing imprint and her latest on Robert Downey Sr. is now making the rounds.

    • In other soundtrack news from S&W alumn, Andrew Nolan's score for Justin Oakey's Hangashore has been well received at the eastern Canadian festival premiers the film has had so far (as has this film itself). A tape version of the soundtrack is due out on Absurd Exposition at some point.

    • I performed at Vancouver Noise Fest XI last weekend, and have uploaded footage from the fest to the S&W YouTube channel. Anju Singh pulled off another well-curated edition with great attendance, an awesome sound system, and some very fine performances. Mot's first show outside of Victoria(!) being my personal highlight.

    • Here's footage of the mighty Hermit from the show we played together at Lot 8 in Victoria the previous weekend.

    • New Absurd Exposition releases are being worked on, due out in the coming weeks. This will be one of the last batches before Absurd Exposition ends and everything finally shifts to be under the Scream & Writhe banner.




    New Arrivals

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    Bent Window Records

    • Death Potion / Asmodexia CS

    • Deliriant Fracture / Molena CS

    • Edge Of Decay - Seized For Serenade CS

    • K2 - Geld Ist Alles CD

    • Le Kriz An - Fuck Nazi Scum CS

    • Level of Existence - Enclosure CS

    • Molena / Diminish CS

    • Morrigan & Overzealous - Mechanisms of Catharsis CS

    • Mot / Angelic Marks - Ross Bay Harsh Noise CS

    • Mourn - It Was Good While It Lasted CD

    • N. Antoni - Bleak Bend CS


    Browse all titles from Bent Window Records (14 in stock)



    Clinquant Pudendum

    • K2 - Im Notfall CD-R

    • K2 - Live at Soup CS

    • Reona & T. Mikawa - Live at Bar Ishee CS


    Browse all titles from Clinquant Pudendum (3 in stock)



    Hei runar Myrkrunar

    • Of The Wand And The Moon - Behold The Trees CD

    • Of The Wand And The Moon - Behold The Trees LP


    Browse all titles from Hei runar Myrkrunar (10 in stock)



    Helen Scarsdale Agency

    • Jo Montgomerie - Ephemeral Rituals CD


    Browse all titles from Helen Scarsdale Agency (21 in stock)



    Industrial Recollections

    • Odal - Black CD

    • Odal - Lenin Stinkt! CD

    • Odal - Moral Majority CD

    • Odal - Nihilist Dogs CD


    Browse all titles from Industrial Recollections (17 in stock)



    Innen Books

    • Melissa Paget (Mass Marriage): Hardcore Angel Zine


    Browse all titles from Innen Books (1 in stock)



    Input Error

    • Hand And Knee / Mallard Theory / Slacking - Beneath Hidden Pittsburgh CD

    • Kazuma Kubota - Hakanasa CD


    Browse all titles from Input Error (25 in stock)



    No Holiday

    • Debt of Nature - Robin Diamond's Lungs LP

    • Masonna - Freak-Out Electrolyze CD

    • Masonna - Freak-Out Electrolyze LP

    • Masonna - Hyper Chaotic CD

    • Masonna - Hyper Chaotic LP

    • Schloss Tegal - The Grand Guignol 2LP

    • Sissy Spacek - Non-Linear 3x7'' + CD

    • Total / Merzbow - Merzbow Mixed Total LP

    • Werewolf Jerusalem - God Has Shot Himself LP

    • Werewolf Jerusalem LP


    Browse all titles from No Holiday (17 in stock)



    Old Captain

    • Linekraft - Hunger For Life CD

    • Linekraft - Junk Suicide Pollution CD

    • Of The Wand And The Moon - Vargqld CD


    Browse all titles from Old Captain (4 in stock)



    Orb Tapes

    • Crank Sturgeon / Mot - Strep Team Go / Captive CS


    Browse all titles from Orb Tapes (9 in stock)



    Recordings for the Summer

    • Hermit / Michael Barthel / Fear Of A Planet / Anna Schimkat ' Unfair Noises CS


    Browse all titles from Recordings for the Summer (2 in stock)



    Throne Heap

    • Throne Heap T-Shirt


    Browse all titles from Throne Heap (7 in stock)



    Unrest Productions

    • S.T.A.B. Electronics - Instrument For Operating On Mutant Women CD


    Browse all titles from Unrest Productions (6 in stock)



    Various metal releases and publications

    • Abruptum - Obscuritatem Advoco Amplect re Me CD

    • Bardo Achivology #2

    • Bardo Methodology #1

    • Bardo Methodology #2

    • Bardo Methodology #5

    • Bardo Methodology #7

    • Beherit - At The Devil's Studio 1990 CD

    • Beherit - Bardo Exist LP

    • Beherit - Celebrate The Dead CD

    • Beherit - Engram LP

    • Beherit - Messe Des Morts CD

    • Beherit - Messe Des Morts LP (glow in the dark)

    • Blasphemy - Blood Upon the Altar LP

    • Forbidden Temple / Ultima Thule LP

    • Impaled Nazarene / Beherit LP

    • Liber Ketola: Timo Ketola Monograph Book

    • Revenge - Infiltration.Downfall.Death LP (blood red)

    • Revenge - Scum.Collapse.Eradication LP (blood red)

    • Ride For Revenge - The King Of Snakes CD

    • Ride For Revenge / Below CD

    • Ride For Revenge / Sons And Daughters Of Satan - R.F.R.S.A.D.O.S. CD

    • Undor / Ride For Revenge CD

    • Venus Star - Smokeless Fire LP

    • Words As Weapons #1



    Second Hand Arrivals

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    Altar Of Flies - Music For Readmaster 69 And Other Pieces CD (sealed)
    Atrax Morgue - Slush Of A Maniac CD
    Aube - Evocation CD
    Bastard Noise - The Analysis Of Self-Destruction CD (VG+/VG+)
    Being - Battery Cages III CS
    Black Leather Jesus / Hiroshi Hasegawa - Control Your Surroundings CD
    C.C.C.C. - Amplified Crystal II 2CD (sealed)
    Courtis-Romero - Psychomemory Of... 3'' CD-R (VG+/NM)
    Current 93 - Sketches Of My Nightmares And Dreams Occurring CD
    Geronimo CD (VG+/VG+)
    Heinz Hopf CS
    Jeph Jerman - Arcane Facture CD
    Kapotte Muziek - Verder CD (VG+/NM)
    Kjostad - Captive CS (sealed)
    Knurl - Dichromatism CD-R (VG+/NM)
    Knurl - Interthiodide CD-R (VG+/NM)
    Lasse Marhaug - White Inferno CD
    Limbs Bin - Compassion & Vision CD (sealed)
    Masonna - Inner Mind Mystique CD (VG+/NM)
    Menial Rips - Live In The Green House CD-R (VG+/NM)
    Pholde - An Instance Of This CD-R (VG+/NM)
    Pholde - Not Present To The Senses 3'' CD-R (VG+/NM)
    Richard Pinhas, Merzbow, Wolf Eyes - Victoriaville Mai 2011 CD (NM/VG+)
    Spastic Colon & Bastard Noise CD (VG/NM)
    Turbund Sturmwerk CD

    Other Genres
    Black Flag - Annihilation CD (VG+/VG+)
    The Angels Of Light - Everything Is Good Here / Please Come Home CD (VG+/VG+)
    The Angels Of Light - How I Loved You CD (VG+/VG+)

    More second hand books added Dec. 19! - Have a look.

    Upcoming Events

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    Playlist

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    Action/Discipline, Agitant Group, The Apostles, The Beach Boys, Being, Belly Hatcher, Brainbombs, John Cale, Nick Cave, Coil, CTI, Current 93, Dead Kennedys, Deliriant Fracture, BD, Flamingo Base Jumpers, John Fleagle, Merle Haggard, Heinz Hopf, Magic Dragon, Nico, NoMeansNo, Pentangle, The Poems, Propagandhi, Ramleh, Lou Reed, Sex Pistols, Sisto Rossi, Slayer, Bruce Springsteen, Gary Stewart, Subhumans (Can), Tortured Ghost, Tripleface, Jerry Jeff Walker, Wispering, World Champion, Neil Young

    Mermaid Legend (Ikeda, 1984), The Occupant of the Room (Janisse, 2025), Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Peckinpah, 1973), Rio Bravo (Hawks, 1959)

    Abel Ferrara - Scene
    Stanislaw Lem - Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
    Stanislaw Lem - The Futurological Congress
    Robert Storr - Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977

    Of Import
    https://dulf.ca/dulf-aid-2/
    https://linktr.ee/montrealdulfsolidarity

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    #3
    GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Star
    Last post by Minus1 - Today at 05:25:14 PM
    I'm a Star ignoramus, but this thread got me investigating the 2CD Elephant In The Snow. Very interesting...

    Thanks.
    #4
    We've been absolutely hopeless with our label this year, and have been sitting on this forever, so without further ado and with plenty of sorries to everyone involved...

    EVIL MOISTURE - Take-Away Fangs CD
    A joint effort from Usagi and underground art print maestros Longest Night. As always with Evil Moisture / Andy Bolus: slippery tape sounds, rattling machinery, short wave ghosts and electronics in their death throes. But still, this is a slower piece of work than usual. A loose and broken lassez faire approach, unstable and unpredictable, at times more stripped down and then quite the opposite. Pairs incredibly well with the accompanying art if you ask us.
    A5 double-sided screen printed foldout thing in zip bag.

    Order at usagiproductions.se

    Gorgeous and voluminous A4 screen printed art book edition available from Longest Night.
    We command you to consider that one as well!

    https://www.longestnight.se/product/take-away-fangs-andy-bolus/
    #5
    GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Star
    Last post by prelapsus - Today at 04:11:41 PM
    I find Elephant in the Snow genuinely punishing to listen to. I've sat through it a few times and come to the conclusion I just don't enjoy it much. It's the repetitive sample collages that drive me insane. It's definitely an interesting project though.
    #6
    Distro:

    Freak Animal
    Old Europa Café
    #7
    out now

    BLACK MYSTERIIS - Ancient Altar CD



    Frozen shadows crawl through Ancient Altars, raw and unforgiving. Summoned by those who dwell in the German underground.

    CD comes with 8 sided Booklet

    limited to 300 copies

    Recorded by St. and Bavragor in 2018

    Sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JCLU863ZDw

    order:
    https://www.solrecords.de
    https://soldeviantrecords.bandcamp.com/
    https://grailofdoom.bandcamp.com/
    #8
    GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Star
    Last post by prolapsedlielack - Today at 07:59:25 AM
    Star is...an enigma. I wish the pictures I got of him at Hospital were clearer. His gear consisted of beaten up radios and tape players and a microphone(?) he would hold up to his mouth and mime vocals or breathe into. Greh form Noisextra put it best during their mix episode for the fest: "My only notes for this song are 'What the fuck is wrong with Star?'"
    #9
    GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Star
    Last post by Balor/SS1535 - Today at 07:08:00 AM
    I really appreciate the thoughts shared in the "Best Of 2025" thread about the Star/Kadef split, so I thought it would be interesting to broaden out the discussion with its own thread.

    Like I mentioned there, I have only listened to Elephant in the Snow at this point, but I very much enjoyed it for being so bizarre in so many ways.  It has everything from harsh noise to weird sample collages (often quite rhythmic!), and the story/fable/scenario (?) that is paired with it as the basis of the theme is opaque yet evocative.  The final track on the album is simply monumental.

    I'm particularly curious about the frequent description of the project as "personal," "intimate," and "introvert" noise.  Any expansions on this would be interesting to hear, as well as if there are any interviews with the project to be found.

    Aside from that, what are the other stand-outs in the small discography?  There are wonderful titles for albums and tracks throughout the discography, not to mention the range of cover art!
    #10
    GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: YLEINEN NOISE FIILISTELY S...
    Last post by RURAL RESISTANCE - December 20, 2025, 11:46:31 PM
    "Suomen distrot, onko teille tulossa..."

    Agonal Lust - Unabridged Suffering