PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[John Cagefight]

Incipientium - Untitled
self released - 2024
This release went out in a short run of 13 copies to be distributed at a performance at Discreet Music shop just over a year ago. It's very excellent kosmiche sounds that fits right in with the rest of the artist's catalog of highly narrative works and follows a similar pattern where more abstract or droning sections give rise to wholly excellent melodic reliefs. Side A features a series of synthesizer test tones sustained, twinkling, breathing, and overlapping until they give rise to a reverb-soaked feedback and chord swell finale. Side B opens with a room recording of muffled voices and gong tones that move into a brief passage of meditative om-chanting. This gives way to the cassette's crescendo of highly epic melodic guitar riffing that escalates into a pitch bending, feedback, and tape squeal triumph. As the cassette winds down I can only think "Its impossible for me to listen to Incipientium and not think about Popol Vuh."

Tahma - II
Satatuhatta - 2025
I'll confess this is the first Tahma release I've taken in, and my oh my does it hit all the right notes for me. I'm quite excited to go back and find a copy of the self-titled cassette on Satatuhatta from the year prior. Distinctly dirty, stop-start noise that gives me deep empathy for the Stop and Play buttons on the artists Walkman. Some particularly melty tape warble sections that pepper the on and off frenzy help instill a real swampy aura across the affair, and occasionally the pacing of the manic scramble will yield for some very brief moments of lingering electronic sustain to give the listener a chance to hang their coat on something - but never for any length of time. Nothing sits or rides for more than say 5-10 seconds, always cutting to the next series of hiccups and stalls. If I space out enough I can imagine the pacing of a high-tempo free jazz percussionist wailing on his kit - but its all anonymous mid range scrape and pummel. Massively appealing in every capacity and works distinctly well in the 3" length / format.

[Tribe Tapes]

Awenydd - Untitled K7 (August 2025, Not On Label)
Initially keyed as a "weird PE" project Awenydd has continued growth into something new on every release, the idea I'm given now is that of an auteur crafting each tape with a different approach yet fitting into the same canon and aesthetic established since the start. Side A starts in komische territory before ramping up into a spiritual aggression, this is augmented by a more prominent use of vocals and percussive elements as the tape trudges forward.

Ineffable Slime - Deep And Desperate Fictions CD (2025, Virtues)
There is not anything quite like Ineffable in the contemporary landscape, a high-fidelity barrage of noise that echoes Worth's brightest moments yet proudly incorporates his esoteric influences as part of the sound instead of merely style. Again it's a high-fidelity effort, but broken through immense digital clipping and samples that are ten times louder than anything else in the mix. In lesser hands this would strike as amateur, but the artist wisely uses these idiosyncrasies to craft a hallucinatory mass.

Outdoor Horse Shrine / Euronet K7 (2026, Absurd Exposition)
OHS delivering another bout of well-tuned gnashing. Euronet is a name I've been hearing praised for a while but haven't been able to acquire any releases until now, it's common to be underwhelmed in such a case but their track here I greatly enjoyed. Harsh that complements OHS well but with distinct detours into more unrecognizable, strange sound sources. I'd hope to see a more widely-available release from this project soon, a CD would be an instant buy.

[k.p.g]

Death Agonies/Piss Horn - Split (Survivalist)
A split that shows off that subsection of the Canadian noise scene flirting with the punk & metal realms.  Most will know the parties involved here for being in names such as The Endless Blockade, Intensive Care & Column of Heaven.  These kind of projects served as great gateways into noise when I initially came from circles such as that and noise rock.  Was curious to listen back and think what my opinion is now.
Overall opinion is that while this stuff is not bad, it is certainly lacking in what really gives me joy out of noise nowadays.  Death Agonies side is fairly standard "creepy drone and sputtering oscillator" type sound, akin to Bastard Noise.  The end of the side trails off into this creepy whistling wind sound that I found myself closing my eyes to peacefully.
Side B with Piss Horn took me by surprise with it having more of a PE presence.  I am familiar with Bloomer's history in noise; Stegm shows the man can do something in this territory.  But I always thought that Piss Horn fell more into harsh noise.  Man, guess it's been a while since I've heard this split.  This side holds my interest more than Side A, especially as it carries on with some harsher sounds being peppered in. 
Overall though, I wouldn't consider this to be something essential to seek out.  Plenty of other stuff from Bloomer, Andrew Nolan and Eric King that is far more interesting to grip.  Still glad I took the time to give this a listen.

Magnetic Coroner - Black Hole (Gracious Host)
Probably closer to the kind of material I would be more likely to pop on nowadays.  Recently returned to the loop work of Weston after we set up a trade together.  It's been a while since revisiting this specific title though.  With this coming from 2019, you can still hear him finding his groove with what Magnetic Coroner would become as a project.  Some parts move slower than others, but transitions are pretty on point, even this early on.  The journey has been a fruitful one for the project since, but early glimpses of genius are great to look back on in cases such as this.

[groesk]

Casket Mush - Ruptured Through the Depths of Human Remains (2022)
Pretty no nonsense gorenoise with a distinct Last Days of Humanity influence.
https://youtu.be/o-CLUe1T9G0?si=blGDQcBIxWe8KxyU

Coconut Lobotomy - Digestive Vomit Fantasies (2026)
this one is pretty wacked out gorenoise. influenced by LDOH and Torsofuck, it's actually pretty well done. the clean bass has a nice presence,  and the pitch shifted gurgles are a force in the mix. drum machine is also great and right in front. the samples miss a lot more than they hit, but it's kept to a minimum. also has a fairly short runtime, like most pure gorenoise does.
https://coconutlobotomy.bandcamp.com/album/digestive-vomit-fantasies