Been listening to Vala a couple times today (well, the actual Noise tape and the "Dragon" speech once) and I like it more and more each time. I wasn't a huge fan of it at first but it has definitely grown on me. I still stand by the opinion that there should have been 2 more tracks instead of 2 spoken word pieces, and I have always been a fan of spoken word but it is a bit much here I would have preferred some sounds over it ala "Nigger Dog".
Flesh Spear - Raping Soil (Posh Isolation) - I think I may have given this a small review somewhere deep in this thread, but I don't remember so here is another short one. Flesh Spear blasts out two 7 minute tracks, one per side, of raw Noisecore. The closest comparisons I can give are Funeral Mongoloids and Ritual Hate, the latter is a Noisecore band from the states. This features the usual blasting drums, guttural grind vocals and quick tracks with some stop/pause button switching, but not between every little 10-30 second blast some just charge onward for a few "songs". Outside of the drums I'm quite sure that there is no traditional rock instruments being used here, just pedals twisting feedback and currents of static buried under tape hiss. If you like the bands I mentioned or stuff like Tortured Hooker then I would highly suggest this tape.
