WHITE CENTIPEDE NOISE PODCAST

[Cranial Blast]

I liked this episode with Nick Forté. I guess I had no Idea about his involvement with noise. I just knew him to be a member of Raspberry Bulbs, a band in which I absolutely love! I listened to some of his Green Tea stuff and it is a bit "psychedelic" in ways, sort of reminds me of CCCC, which is great! The origins behind the names of not only "Green Tea", but the album titles was interesting. I dunno if I agreed with his frustration over the D.I.Y. scene and the frustrations over the scene of noise being oversaturated, it's still "noise" the people into noise are often running on Judge Dredd theory of jury, judge and executioner, so I don't think it matters how many "artists" spawn from it. It's time that will sort that out, it's not taking away from any other unnoticed "talented artists". Don't agree with him there, but Nick seems like a pretty awesome dude and loved the interview and it brought my attention to the fact he makes noise!

[Fistfuck Masonanie]

It is also interesting what they talk concerning the top lists. One obscure Ramirez project gets on the list, and conclusion is that because man puts out too much of stuff, and he is veteran in a scene, some of this type of highlights remain unnoticed. If if would be new act, people would probably check out and start raving about it, but how often you see people raving about last months ramirez bandcamp upload? Don't know. But I would assume there could be occasional reason to do so. Wouldn't mind people who follow his work in dedicated manner, remind all the others about highlights of his (recent) stuff.

Richard still puts out a lot of new high-quality releases between projects but there is an emphasis on the 90s reissues at the moment. I generally keep a pretty good tab on his new and reissued output regularly as there are so many gems. I do spend the time to sample a little bit of everything from all of the releases and here is a quick overview of the "newer" stuff from the last couple of years I've really liked:

Richard Solo:

• PPP
• latex catalog, leather catalog
• Richard Ramirez/Respirator

Richard has been slower to put out solo material on Deadline/Room 2A, but some highlights from the last couple of years have been PPP, latex catalog, and the very recent split with Respirator. 

The new split with Richard and Scott Houston's Respirator is great! Scott returns after a lengthy hiatus and his material is more low-key and focused on nuance. Richard's track has a lot of dynamics and gradual progression while remaining harsh. It starts off slow and subtle and builds very well.

PPP and latex catalog are harsher releases that showcase Richard isn't just a "wall" or textural artist and there is a lot of skill and depth to his sounds.

Black Leather Jesus specific on Deadline/Room 2A:

• Tell It to the Marines
• Mary/Vicky
• Serie Torso 1
• Serie Torso 2

All are absolutely crushing BLJ releases that further cement the group's sound. No matter who the lineup is, Richard brings the best out of everyone, however, these releases in particular really stand out.

Black Leather Jesus side-projects:

• Rope Cosmetologist
• Cruel Map of Women's Bodies

Both are projects with anonymous and sometimes rotating members from the current Black Leather Jesus roster. They aren't groundbreaking in terms of new sounds, but just perfect old-school no-nonsense noise. Rope Cosmetologist is more in a hazy reverb drenched metal noise sound and Cruel Map focuses more on dense and crunchy textures.

There are a lot of other recent BLJ releases and a truck full of reissues from Richard, BLJ, and additional side projects that are worth everyone's time I could dive into more, but I'll keep it "short" and stop here.

[WCN]

OUT NOW! I traveled to Kortrijk, Bloody Belgium to visit one of international noise's most authentic maniacs, VINCENT DALLAS. He showed me around his charming family home and studio in this first European episode of Noise Cribs, only on WCN TV Premium at https://www.patreon.com/whitecentipedenoise

Preview: https://youtu.be/VNpJgkozqrs

[WCN]

OUT NOW - WCN Podcast with Yosuke Konishi of NWN! Prod

Today we make a sidestep from the noise world to talk with Yosuke Konishi of the mighty metal label Nuclear War Now! and Helios Press, a new vinyl pressing plant opening later this year in Brady, Texas. Despite the genre differences, we had tons to talk about regarding correlations in underground music scenes, the history of his label, and of course the collaborative festival with Hospital Productions happening in Osaka next month.

NWN! has just launched a fundraising campaign for Helios Press, so go to https://www.nwnprod.com/ to check out the very special offers available for supporting this important independent endeavor.

The Patreon exclusive EXT. segment of this episode goes much deeper into behind-the-scenes label and distro shop talk, and is sure to be of interest for those involved in DIY operations. You can check out that 40+ minute segment at https://www.patreon.com/whitecentipedenoise

Also - listen for the unreleased demo version of BLASPHEMY's "Fallen Angel of Doom" (track) played in full during the episode!

https://youtu.be/I67xn18RlC8?si=UaSHd6HLFaf02oNu

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Nice episode. I recall I was in touch with NWN right away when the Blasphemy live LP came out.

I noticed like week ago NWN launched its own podcast where NWN related people are being interviewed. I didn't yet get to listen any episodes.

I have been whining about lack of good (Black)Metal podcasts. It is curious that for noise we have multiple, and they tend to cover genre fairly well. In case of metal podcasts, I have yet to hear any that would cover BM in ways I think would be good. Very little use for heavy metal nostalgia, jaded drop outs, guitar heroes or whatever. Remains to be seen if NWN can offer other things!

About DMM mastering, it is not really "eastern european thing", but invented by german companies and widely used in Europe. Advantages and disadvantages of this and more can be very easily found:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_metal_mastering

Many times it would benefit if guys who does the master, would acknowledge if DMM is used, due the more harsh high frequencies tend to be boosted/distorted and one can easily cut some of the frequencies that get boosted. So many metal music releases tend to have fuzzy cymbals and guitars as no matter if you got it "mastered for vinyl", it may not have been mastered in way that one remembers what DMM usually does for the sound.

[Cranial Blast]

Nice episode. I recall I was in touch with NWN right away when the Blasphemy live LP came out.

I noticed like week ago NWN launched its own podcast where NWN related people are being interviewed. I didn't yet get to listen any episodes.

I have been whining about lack of good (Black)Metal podcasts. It is curious that for noise we have multiple, and they tend to cover genre fairly well. In case of metal podcasts, I have yet to hear any that would cover BM in ways I think would be good. Very little use for heavy metal nostalgia, jaded drop outs, guitar heroes or whatever. Remains to be seen if NWN can offer other things!

About DMM mastering, it is not really "eastern european thing", but invented by german companies and widely used in Europe. Advantages and disadvantages of this and more can be very easily found:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_metal_mastering

Many times it would benefit if guys who does the master, would acknowledge if DMM is used, due the more harsh high frequencies tend to be boosted/distorted and one can easily cut some of the frequencies that get boosted. So many metal music releases tend to have fuzzy cymbals and guitars as no matter if you got it "mastered for vinyl", it may not have been mastered in way that one remembers what DMM usually does for the sound.

Yosuke did one of those NWN podcast interviews with Ryan Förster that was a pretty good interview. There is a lot of good talk about the early beginnings of when him and James Read started up Conqueror and how they'd have like no room or rehearsal space and they'd play in this tiny room that was like a closet with mice running around them frantically when they'd play loud, haha. I hadn't noticed if Yosuke had done anymore of these type of interviews on his podcast, but would be cool if he did more or one with James Read next. I was surprised to see him on WC podcast, but it makes sense as that 2 day show in Osaka is coming up. I can't remember who had said whether it was Oskar or Yosuke about noisers being more open to metal, rather than vice versa but I think that is quite accurate. My brother is going to the NWN/Hospital show and he's metal/punk and he told me he's skipping out on the noise day to explore Japan instead, haha...I think he's nuts for doing that, but he doesn't like noise. I wonder how many other people feel that way about it.

[Bloated Slutbag]

he told me he's skipping out on the noise day to explore Japan instead, haha...I think he's nuts for doing that, but he doesn't like noise. I wonder how many other people feel that way about it.

I'd wager more than a few. Even among noise persons proper. Which is not to dig at noise persons proper. I think that's kinda great, really.

[Wild Nature Acolyte]

I have been whining about lack of good (Black)Metal podcasts. It is curious that for noise we have multiple, and they tend to cover genre fairly well. In case of metal podcasts, I have yet to hear any that would cover BM in ways I think would be good. Very little use for heavy metal nostalgia, jaded drop outs, guitar heroes or whatever. Remains to be seen if NWN can offer other things!

I think the general demographics of people into various sub-genres of metal have a limited attention span anyways, so being aware of your targeted audience also plays a big factor, similar to social media, marketing, etc. I think the idea itself is good but do have a hard time believing many people actually sit down and listen to interviews/podcasts in their entirety (1-2 hours or longer) unless if that is what they already do anyways. Wouldn't be a bad idea to do a livestream interview format either, similar to Discord or the spaces feature on X/Twitter. I've seen it work in other areas of interest.

[Hakaristi]

Yosuke did one of those NWN podcast interviews with Ryan Förster...

In part 2 there is some noise talk, mainly focused on The Rita and BA. KU.

And the Regere Sinister episode has more noise discussion, exploring Finnish noise / BM connection, etc. Great listen.

[Cranial Blast]

Yosuke did one of those NWN podcast interviews with Ryan Förster...

In part 2 there is some noise talk, mainly focused on The Rita and BA. KU.

And the Regere Sinister episode has more noise discussion, exploring Finnish noise / BM connection, etc. Great listen.

Oh nice! I wasn't aware of a pt. II. I'll have to check that one out. Thanks for letting me know that.

I seen he had one with Chuck from Order From Chaos/Ares Kingdom that was pretty good too. I like what Yosuke has done with NWN. He's had some good bands come through without a doubt. I know that Blasphemy is like his big time premiere band, I know it's "Blasphemy" "pun intended", but I've never really much cared for Blasphemy. I find them to be a bit bland and boring and have never understood the hype, but however I like what they've inspired! Black Witchery, Conqueror, Revenge, ect. Are quite a bit better to me in that style and Death Worship, perhaps the BEST! Often hear Blasphemy tagged "War Metal", but I think their Canadian brethren Voivod did "War" anything better than anyone with shit like War And Pain and mighty Rrröööaaarrr! I'm really glad he's doing these podcasts though and I'd tune in for one of any band he has, whether I like the band or not, even though I don't really like Blasphemy would still be cool if he did a podcast with them. Definitely going to check those others out though!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

I have been whining about lack of good (Black)Metal podcasts. It is curious that for noise we have multiple, and they tend to cover genre fairly well. In case of metal podcasts, I have yet to hear any that would cover BM in ways I think would be good. Very little use for heavy metal nostalgia, jaded drop outs, guitar heroes or whatever. Remains to be seen if NWN can offer other things!

I think the general demographics of people into various sub-genres of metal have a limited attention span anyways, so being aware of your targeted audience also plays a big factor, similar to social media, marketing, etc. I think the idea itself is good but do have a hard time believing many people actually sit down and listen to interviews/podcasts in their entirety (1-2 hours or longer) unless if that is what they already do anyways. Wouldn't be a bad idea to do a livestream interview format either, similar to Discord or the spaces feature on X/Twitter. I've seen it work in other areas of interest.

I think "podcast" is such a vast term, that it barely describes what it offers. There are many metal podcasts, tube channels and so on. There is no lack of "metal content", but I don't see interesting BLACK METAL interviews out there. Like going through Thomas Eriksen podcasts, it is kind of weird that I, who can easily listen 3 hour noise podcast, had to listen Nocturno Culto interview of that podcast in three parts, struggling to get it all listened. It was just such waste of time. Would always hope maybe there is something there why it was made, so got to listen last 3rd.. but no. There are couple ok'ish episodes.

I don't think good BM podcast would need to acknowledge target audience really. Most of all one can recognize who are NOT the target audience. If generic metal bozo can't either care nor understand, or the crowd who insist on being into BM but cry about every traditional characteristics of BM culture... one can only trust the gut feeling that you could make BM podcast, and it is not meant for them. But some other people.

Target audience can be something you do not even know it actually exists. The quiet and unseen crowd who can't really articulate what they want, before it has come out. As example, something such as Bardo Methodology as magazine. Just about everybody thinks BM zines have become obsolete and no use for them anymore, suddenly there is magazine that has ability to recognize what makes each band interesting, and make good writing about it. Magazine sells several thousand copies as it does something no other magazine does.

I would assume same is with WCN. Not sure if Oskar could think there is "target audience" nor really what the crowd exactly wants. Just do something at first and audience starts to emerge. It might be still quite undefined what exactly would be ideal format, interesting topics of discussions, etc. I would assume amount of feedback compared to amount of listeners is so huge, you barely see any other facts what people really want except correlation that "bigger" artists get more views? Paradox may be that going on route of getting bigger artists to interviews may not be what audience really wants.

[WCN]

New episode of Unsound Heads with Nicoli Vargas out now!
https://www.patreon.com/whitecentipedenoise
Preview: https://youtu.be/KxfRrkkqfhU
Nicoli's project ZEBES: https://zebes.bandcamp.com/

[WCN]

OUT NOW - VINCENT DALLAS on WCN Podcast!

https://youtu.be/cPiDw8oqCJU

Carrying the banner for Belgian harsh noise internationally, VINCENT DALLAS is one man's vehicle for the ecstatic outpouring of loud, crude noise. With an aesthetic that is playful, matched with an attitude that is pure and earnest, anyone who has met, written with, or seen this guy perform knows that he's a real one. We conducted this interview in his home in Kortrijk.

Part 2 can be found at https://www.patreon.com/whitecentipedenoise, as well as the exclusive VINCENT DALLAS track "Anti-Record For Maniacs," utilizing his "Vincent Dallas Sound Entertainment!!" as source, and a give away noise competition for a chance to win a copy of the anti-record!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

I know that visiting someone every week would be plain impossible, but it is clear how nice the good sound and picture is in this type interview. No Fun Stockholm happened 2009, quite interesting to hear how it was significant point. It reminds how "glory days of..." is not really something that is needed for next push. You can get excited in times when things are already a bit fading out...
Unless I remember wrong, it was the last one, after last NYC fest year before. While fest was (or seemed to be) success till very end, I guess the enthusiasm, and the vibe was a bit different in earlier ones. Bringing fest to Stockholm probably not "the same", but nice to hear that Testicle Hazard being eye opener for Vincent Dallas and fest working ask kick to get their own fest going merely year later. Also what a tease at the end, haha! Bizarre Uproar mentioned and potential hot topics, and then cutting into patreon only.

Interview very much down-to-hear chatting about good things in noise. Also nice to see SI magazine plays little role in getting these fellows working together.

[WCN]

After delays on my end, we're finally close to finishing the 3xCD Podcast comp.

New and unreleased material from 46 artists that have been on the podcast in the first 2 years, each track paired with a short excerpt from their interview.

Will be sold at cost, but only to Patreon supporters. Premium Plus level gets it for free.

Final pressing size strictly based on number of paid subscribers signed up by April 8.

See the full track list and sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/whitecentipedenoise