PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[FreakAnimalFinland]

JAAKKO VANHALA "here be lions" tape
even better than the Feral Earth. This is the style of harsh noise what doesn't get dated: GOOD HARSH NOISE ! Dynamics, interesting sounds, tasty layering, perfect timing of knowing when slow down, when to make abrupt change to next thing.

WINCE "mushed down retardation" tape
perhaps one could say same thing - except Wince is less controlled, less high fidelity, more crude, more barbaric. Still very well done and interesting!

SEX FACTOR tape
Finland + UK collaboration of filthy and noisy power electronics. While some will probably say this is so expected from F&V label, I'm actually surprised how good it is. Not because standards of label, but because I never heard satisfactory material from Bagman (uk) or Dark Session (fin), but together, fuck, this is actually very good release! Some shadows of the 80's Sutcliffe Jugend may be around, not to mention whole F&V / Bizarre Uproar vibe, but regardless of pure basic elements, Sex Factor tape is very positive reminder of power of up&coming newer guys.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

been listening shitloads of tapes, but despite many good, not something I have much words to comment without repeating.

KAM HASSAH "private conversation vol 1." tape
huh!! I was big fan of the split 7". This tape started slow. Suffocated field recordings, but when b-side continues, things start to move on. Brilliant use of tasty reverb (unusually tasty!), crackling noises, muddy droning noises... Simple, but simply brilliant! I would really need to check out what all these Italians are doing, since pretty much everything I come across is pure gold, and for some reason I don't see much talk happening?

[eyestrain]

ABC Diabolo - Give Rise to Doubts 1995 - talk about something possibly ahead of its time.  crossover prog HC.  still has that crossover thrash feel of their 1st album, but the songs are like an advanced His Hero is Gone or Result insofar as songwriting.  smart album.

I adore this album. My high school all-bass power violence band did a cover of "Go Round In Pacifist Circles". Still listen to this quite often.

Vivenza tracks from Bruitiste LP and CS
My favorite from this untouchable master.

Knurl Vorticose CDR
Has such a massive discography, but I find too much to be drenched in high-end "white noise". This album (and "Torus") is flawless though. Perfect length, perfect crunch. Many, many replays lately.

Blacklodge MachinatioN DLP
I thought the "T/ME" split saw this project get somewhere really fresh and addictive. This new piece has its moments, but it's too song-oriented. The greater plays of creativity have been condensed into quick, hard-to-notice sections of 3-minute songs.

Dead Body Love Candles CDr
30-some perfect minutes of harsh noise.

[bitewerksMTB]

"Knurl Vorticose CDR
Has such a massive discography, but I find too much to be drenched in high-end "white noise". "

I wish you could hear more of the sawblades/metal (scraping, banging) that he uses. He's pretty good live. I saw him with 3 large sawblades, you could hear him strking them over the feedback/static low-end coming from his amp plus there were sparks from some of the strikes. I was waiting for one of the sawblades to break & hit him in the face. Use to have some good photos I took of the set but accidently deleted the file they were in.

[Bleak Existence]

The Rita - vice baron

[FYA]

been listening shitloads of tapes, but despite many good, not something I have much words to comment without repeating.

KAM HASSAH "private conversation vol 1." tape
huh!! I was big fan of the split 7". This tape started slow. Suffocated field recordings, but when b-side continues, things start to move on. Brilliant use of tasty reverb (unusually tasty!), crackling noises, muddy droning noises... Simple, but simply brilliant! I would really need to check out what all these Italians are doing, since pretty much everything I come across is pure gold, and for some reason I don't see much talk happening?

Indeed, excellent tape. I was totally amazed with the now defunct project Women in the Woods, I think Kam Hassah dude was involved on.

[audiodissection]

Merzbow "Noisembryo" CD
Perfection exist.

Merzbow "Artificial Invagination" mCD
As above...

[FreakAnimalFinland]

SICK SEED "Elephant man" tape
obscurex
huh! I somehow postponed listening this when I heard it was some live gig rehearsal recording of low quality... but no no. It is solid SS material! Grainy lo-fi element is very much suitable and especially vocals come out very well. Songs have very rotten sonic approach and being real live-band line-up, songs get some depth and natural flow on them. No brutal hammering, but disturbing gutter butchery.

URINALS "II" tape
Narcolepsia
I would think something like Hijokaidan, CCCC or Incapacitants filtered through the mayhemic Danish tape noise ruggedness.  There is feel of live noise, distance of amplified recordings (as opposed to line-in), both sides slightly different. Synth works of b-side makes me think of CCCC while drums(?) and fierce noise on a closer to HK. Hardly the most memorable noise release out there. Tracks appear to be jams what start and end abruptly, but still manages to operate on interesting level.

KNULLKRAFT "Förnedringsnormen" tape
Narcolepsia
Perhaps some call this power electronics, but it's most of all just live action of noise and straight forward screamo yelling. That style of vocals is some of my least favorite style, which makes the recording much less interesting for me. There are good moments like spoken word pieces and such, but in general quite slim possibilities to impress in times when decent rough PE tapes ain't rarity.

ALO GIRL "Die erbin des dracula" tape
Narcolepsia
There are no surprises here. Mr. Urashima's project delivers harsh noise wall with crackling fuzzy sound many are familiar by artists such as The Rita or Vomir. I can't deny the charm of the material, yet I will ask myself will I ever listen this 2nd time? It's solid HNW which creates this unexplained stimulus which can be rationally justified.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

PAIN JERK / ENDON split tape
dotsmark
PJ here is all digital, all lap-top electronics with no overdubs. Occasionally the glitchy sound of computer is little bit too much for my taste, but PJ's talent of creating harsh noise is still there. It is possible to get over the lack of analogue harshness, but most definitely not his best efforts.
Endon is live assault of high energy band line-up noise. Perhaps not as intense as Endon full length CD, but still mayhemic mix of harsh noise electronics, screaming vocals, blasting drums and guitar noise.

NUCLEAR WITCH tape
LurkSleepKill
First release of label. Fast rough music. Influences of black metal, hc-punk and noise of some sort. Mysterious guy hardcore? Haha! Who knows. It's american band with member(s) of Jex Toth I think. MASSIVE vocal delay gets old quite quick, but if this improvised pretty free form ugly music is for you, can be worth testing?

NOVO PROGRESSO "swan song for decaying culture" tape
Järteknet
Scandinavian broken tape loops and weird grim decayed noise. Hardly much pressure or brutality, more of relatively slow paced decay experiments. More difficult stuff - and therefore also more rewarding experience.

[RyanWreck]

URINALS "II" tape
Narcolepsia
I would think something like Hijokaidan, CCCC or Incapacitants filtered through the mayhemic Danish tape noise ruggedness.  There is feel of live noise, distance of amplified recordings (as opposed to line-in), both sides slightly different. Synth works of b-side makes me think of CCCC while drums(?) and fierce noise on a closer to HK. Hardly the most memorable noise release out there. Tracks appear to be jams what start and end abruptly, but still manages to operate on interesting level.

Very good tape. I believe this is the guy who does Alleypisser as well.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

WINCE / SSRI split tape
Untergeschoss
Without doubt Wince belongs to new masters of harsh noise. Where's Wince LP ?? Why not already here? Solid recording after another on tape. At the same time fierce and crude, yet with wide range of sounds, layers and movement.
SSRI not bad, but due Wince being so strong, the rumbling lo-fi gutter noise remains just ok b-side.

H.Ö.H. tape
But SSRI still better than this obscure Finnish newcomer (?). Was told to be something around Chop-Shop and the Haters, and yeah... perhaps to be compared to very early materials of them. Think the lowest of Chop-Shop without cut edits. Or Haters in his most minimalistic form. Could be also compared to first tape of XXXX (fin). Seriously decayed minimalistic noise where almost nothing happens. It's mistake to call it "noise wall", since it hardly gives impression of wall. I don't know who did this, since artist mailed bunch of tapes without name or address, but appears to be from Helsinki according to postal stamps.

[bitewerksMTB]

Yeah, the Wince side of that split is really good. Make Freak Animal should offer to rel his vinyl debut?

Someone will soon be sending down 3 railroad/steam-engine LPs to me. Looking forward to hearing those.

Listened to http://cottageofelectrichell.blogspot.com/2012/07/satans-slave-1976-custom-soundtrack.html yesterday.

[RyanWreck]

I agree, been saying it for the last year: Wince is one of the best, if not the current best, American Harsh Noise acts. Everything he has put out is far above average. Vasovagal Syncope and Nerves is my favorite. Pretty much from 2009 on his stuff just kept getting better, although I wasn't a huge fan of the early material (i.e. Ass, Buried Rage, etc). I have yet to hear the split with SSRI but I look forward to doing so.

If Freak Animal released a Wince LP =

[HONOR_IS_KING!]

Excuse me.....


Glad to see you taking a lot of interest in Wince, Mikko. Oskar is awesome on so many levels. He has an incredible way of playing with metal that no one else really does in the No Coast.

[Ashley Choke]

Haha no you didn't all the loops on the NP debut is reel-to-reel. Next NP is pretty CT laced. Urinals is Mikkel and I btw