Favourite Prurient release?

[burdizzo1]

I see no one has mentioned the "Despiritualised" 10". Why not? Thought it was great, meself!

I confess, I don't own an awful lot of Prurient, and I remember really not liking "Palm Tree Corpse", so perhaps that put me off a bit. Must re-visit it. However, always found Prurient a bit hit and miss, so that's probably why I didn't invest too much in them. "Cocaine Death" was OK...

Glad to see "Women Pissing" got a couple of mentions, though. Strong. Plus, great title and sleeve!

[BirdBolt]

personal favorite collaborative work would be the 'snail on a razor' collab cd w/ Hototogisu... love the long droning distant sound of that album, the ferocity of the noise takes on a trance-like quality with the blunted nature of the recording.

Yeah, this is a really good one. Two very well matched projects who know how to get the most out of some feedback. Definitely got a bit of a trance-like / hallucinatory thing going on. A highlight in Hototogisu's discography, too!

[Cranial Blast]

I see no one has mentioned the "Despiritualised" 10". Why not? Thought it was great, meself!

I confess, I don't own an awful lot of Prurient, and I remember really not liking "Palm Tree Corpse", so perhaps that put me off a bit. Must re-visit it. However, always found Prurient a bit hit and miss, so that's probably why I didn't invest too much in them. "Cocaine Death" was OK...

Glad to see "Women Pissing" got a couple of mentions, though. Strong. Plus, great title and sleeve!

I've got the tape version of Despirtualized and is indeed great! It seems a bit more grounded in an industrial sound for Prurient, that tape in perticular seems like something that could be influenced by Atrax Morgue, has sort of that PE, but yet death industrial type of sound, at least that's how it sounds to me.

[prelapsus]

My favourite will always be Frozen Niagara Falls. The harsh/melodic/more structured combo on that record works really well and I think it stands as a really unique and well executed record. Although it's grown on me a lot over time I was so disappointed when the more abstract and even longer Rainbow Mirror followed it. A total change in direction.

FWIW I think the project has had a bit of a resurgence recently? I find the Linekraft collab and the Agonal Lust collabs both excellent. Destroying Electricity also one of his better works in the more ambient and melodic vein, I really like it. Would love to have that one on vinyl even if I'm not totally on board with the art direction.

[re:evolution]

My favourite will always be Frozen Niagara Falls. The harsh/melodic/more structured combo on that record works really well and I think it stands as a really unique and well-executed record. Although it's grown on me a lot over time I was so disappointed when the more abstract and even longer Rainbow Mirror followed it. A total change in direction.

I 100% agree with your comments on both albums. I then remember Dom saying that Frozen Niagara Falls was very much focused towards a more metal-oriented audience, given the label Profound Lore who released it. Perhaps the same scenario of audience focus can be said of the the heavy electronics aligned Casablanca Flamethrowner album issued on Tesco.

[prelapsus]

My favourite will always be Frozen Niagara Falls. The harsh/melodic/more structured combo on that record works really well and I think it stands as a really unique and well-executed record. Although it's grown on me a lot over time I was so disappointed when the more abstract and even longer Rainbow Mirror followed it. A total change in direction.

Yeah I need to go back to Casablanca Flamethrower. I hear a lot of love for it but it never totally clicked for me.
I 100% agree with your comments on both albums. I then remember Dom saying that Frozen Niagara Falls was very much focused towards a more metal-oriented audience, given the label Profound Lore who released it. Perhaps the same scenario of audience focus can be said of the the heavy electronics aligned Casablanca Flamethrowner album issued on Tesco.

[Earth O.D.]

I guess I could say they hit the right segment, as "Casablanca Flamethrower" CD was the first Prurient (aside from "Carte Blanche") I got actually quite recently, and the heavy electronics sound and theme concept got me right away. It is a bit hard to take at one sitting, but there´s some phenomenally oppressive stuff there. I´d highlight "Beneath the Wheels of a Black Raven" and "Guadalcanal Necrophilia".

I used to check out some Prurient a lot earlier, but the mentioned melodic/beat-oriented crossover stuff some friends recommended always annoyed me, and the whole thing just passed me by after that. Thanks to this thread I just had to get Hototogisu/Prurient "Snail on a Razor" which sounded fucking great. Can't wait to blast it proper.