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#21

GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Live show reports / commen...

Last post by FreakAnimalFinland - December 24, 2025, 09:57:10 AM

It is curious that in Grunt video, it is kind of collage of fragments of songs. Hengellinen Eugeniikka (Spiritual Eugenics) comes as a whole, but rest are fragments of songs. Backing video runs out in the end and you got the few seconds of windows desk showing, before video re-playing.

This last song of the video is song from next album (assuming its get finished!). It's "studio full length" with several tracks, and very much Grunt "PE/industrial" style material, but difference is that there are bunch of source sounds from other artists. Not collaboration, just source sounds in each track.

#22

GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Live show reports / commen...

Last post by HateSermon - December 24, 2025, 05:04:43 AM

This guy has some footage from the gig. Not entire sets, but longer clips:

https://youtu.be/kfWho9OiS4I

Judging by these, everyone sounded incredible. I really like the dizzying brutalist structures in Grunt's background video. Matched the sounds perfectly.

#23

NEW RELEASES ANNOUNCEMENTS / Re: Autophagia - "Communicate"...

Last post by Balor/SS1535 - December 24, 2025, 04:17:44 AM

For those interested, this is a live recording included on this album!

#24

GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Live show reports / commen...

Last post by FreakAnimalFinland - December 23, 2025, 08:35:03 PM

Human Larvae doing heavy an noisy set. Often songs would have bassy, throbbing and oscillating synth tone, metal junk harsh noise layer and processed aggro vocals. He would come in front of the stage to do vocals, have some hands-on vibe on doing sounds. No backing video. Good stuff.

Grunt set was perhaps 33 mins or so, making it unusually long compared to other recent sets. Some old tracks I have played before, some old tracks I never did before, and new material, including unreleased stuff. I doubt I have ever "rehearsed" so much for noise set, so it went pretty much as intended. Been playing variations of the set for months with PA and not really any other obstacles than getting to know how this massive and sub-bass heavy PA react with my set-up.
I have hesitate to travel outside Finland to play as carrying all needed gear is such a nuisance, but when I was told Anenzephalia will be there, of course couldnt say no.

Anenzephalia belongs to the masters of cold and bleak industrial sound. I would suspect the high energy Grunt blast was probably louder than Anenzephalia's bleak synth driven material. Set consisted only new stuff and it is indeed very much current age synth technology and quite minimalistic tones and narrative vocals. Good idea displaying video footage with two projectors. One screening old videos on table cloth and new material on bigger screen.

There was about 140 people who paid in plus all the rest, so pretty good crowd! 

[Worth]

#25

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

Last post by k.p.g - December 23, 2025, 06:26:52 PM

Worth - Blinder (Prose Nagge)
To have something this fully realized is truly special; a beautiful LP that gives you all angles of this project without wasting a moment of time.  I'd venture to call this a perfect record.  A habit so many of us possess within noise is to fill a format's maximum allotted time (see: C90s, 80-minute CDs).  Worth side steps this notion with the LP format but giving us a total of 25 minutes, when a standard LP side tends to be just a little shorter than that.  Awesome.  Restraint shows power.  I'm really sad we won't be getting any more from this project now...

#26

GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Live show reports / commen...

Last post by MassaConfusa - December 23, 2025, 05:39:45 PM

Anybody who attended the Human Larvae / Grunt / Anenzephalia gig willing to report on it?

[LA PORTA ERMETICA]

#27

NEW RELEASES ANNOUNCEMENTS / Re: Dunkelheit Produktionen | ...

Last post by dunkelheitprod - December 23, 2025, 05:28:07 PM

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Although La Porta Ermetica has not yet released many albums, the roster is far from unknown. Featuring the talents of Adriano Vincenti and founding members of the legendary group Ain Soph, this Italian super group means business. "Horti Lamiani" is a show of strength and a real piece of ear candy for those waiting to hear new ritual frequencies.

The sounds themselves are a testimony to the long-running experience of those involved. Tasty throbs and basses are mixed with classical instrumentation, evoking an atmosphere one may know from acts like Halo Manash or Trepaneringsritualen. Never losing sight of experimentation and innovation, La Porta Ermetica also utilises unconventional elements like female singing to forge something truly original. There is always skill and fine tuning to be found, while still remaining fresh and free.

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#28

GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Star

Last post by urall - December 23, 2025, 04:22:39 PM

I've seen a full set before on Youtube, but it seems to be offline now. On the WCN discord someone posted a 10sec live clip, which seemed interesting.

[Phantom Selector]

#29

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

Last post by k.p.g - December 23, 2025, 03:31:54 PM

Phantom Selector - You Are Your Own Apparition (self-released)
Tense & patient Jersey noise of the late night variety.  The project just decided to revive itself after an 11 year hiatus, and this makes for a good comeback.  This disc is one you put on and close your eyes to, as it doesn't ever burst through too harshly.  Like waves gently crashing on the shore...

Wolf Eyes - Intrusion (Gods of Tundra)
Connelly-era murk; it's dark and to the point.  I find this period of the band to be marked by how much of a downer releases are.  Stuff with Dilloway had those moments, but there is so much joy in the exploration of the sound to be had.  Feels more like three dudes getting too high and trying to freak each other out; party noise maybe?  When it comes to the Mike stuff though, it's all pretty dour, maybe a bit formulaic.  Fuck it, when it works, it works really well, and this is a case of it working really really well.

#30

GENERAL VISUAL ART / LITERATURE DISCUSSION / Re: Seen and not seen's, recom...

Last post by Cranial Blast - December 23, 2025, 12:49:29 PM

I finally picked up this film called Family Portraits (A Trilogy Of America) on DVD. It's like 3 short flicks rolled into one whole film about dysfunctional family life and darker themes in regards to that and probably falls somewhere between drama/horror combo. It came out in the early 2000 era, which generally not a big fan of films from this time, but had seen some of the graphic violent effects and looked more real and practical, so immediately grabbed my attention, also should mention it's three shorts span from 1997 to 2003, so not sure if this was intended by the director or if it's more of a collective of sorts, but looking forward to checking this one out!

Was a big fan of the Cutting Moments short while knee-deep in collecting "extreme cinema". Not sure how it holds up nowadays though, budget possibly diminishes its impact. Should pull the DVD and give it another look at some point.

It's one of those weird ones that's been floating on my list for years and just hadn't gotten around to it until now. I was a lot more into films years ago and not until more recently just started rewatching things again and picking up some other odd ones along the way that I've been wanting to see. I picked up this weird sci fi/horror flick called Xtro, a really bizarre one!