PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[bitewerksMTB]

Vagina Dentata Organ- live in berlin 1-sided picdisc 12"; fun record. smashing glass & drumming, makes me want to crank the volume. too bad there's no side 2.

Windhand- s/t LP; doom metal with female vocals. nothing original or special but i like them. one song sounds so much like Cough (split w/them due next month) that i thought they shared a band member.

Anenzephalia- kaltwelt (or whatever) LP; this is really good, like everyone said. previously, i only liked the live rel's. sold off the debut 7" & LP years ago, neither were that great but a cd with both would be welcome, maybe i'd like'em more now. best side of the new LP is the one that starts off with the music box. wish the vocals would get a little more intense at times.

also have played everythng by Cough & i'm waiting on The New Sadism "Urge to Kill" LP!

[Ritual]

IRM "Order4" CD
This is the best thing to come out of Sweden. Monumental industrial masterpiece! Such great tension constantly building itself up and occasionally erupting in short bursts of violent chaos.

[yosef666]

V/A "Art of deviance"

I think the dubbing quality also has to do with the overall impression. + I've got a few complaints that the right or left channel on one or another tape has been muted. No one else noticed that? Well, I hope Corrosive Art will resolve these issues

No dubbing issues on my copy. It sounds fine on both my home stereo system and my walkman.

[online prowler]

RL:ZZ - Phantom Silence - when expectations are too high, it is not good. After previous tapes, I thought this will blow me away. Well, this is good album, but it seemed that tapes were better

Yannick Franck - Hierophany - I've heard about this artist for the first time, but got curious since Monochrome has released it. And it's basically what it states - good ambient.

Halalnihil - Pyrocumulonimbus - my oh my. Took a copy just because I was curious and didn't want to miss a release on Murderabilia. But this project sounds like a joke to me. There are a few decent parts, but overall it's like LLN on drugs. And track titles.. Fuck Wolf Puppies And Their Dead Mother .. are you for real?

Vulgar Disease - Alarma! - this one is good. maybe a little too long (almost 80 minutes), but overall good noise/pe

Haven't heard this V.D. release. Enjoyed his album - Odio, Caos Y Destrucciòn - on Turgid anno 2012. Good shit. Haven't checked out RL:ZZ yet. The release on Unrest seems to have potential - Shrine - I think the title was. Have anyone heard cuts from the new IFOTS yet?

[Scat-O-Logy]

Once again listening to Peenemünde CD and can't but worship it. One of my favorite "industrial noise" releases. Any recommendations?

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Well, in month or so, Peenemünde "II" CD on Freak Animal. Style has changed quite a lot, but in my opinion, for better! THIS will kill. When I heard the unfinished tracks while visiting band member, I just offered CD deal instantly. It's colder, more electric, yet noisy stuff.  Same time coming Jaakko Vanhala's new CD, Budrus CD. Both are absolute masterpieces. Vanhala's CD could be boldly said to be harsh noise album of the year - easily. If not of decade! hah.  Budrus in other hand is something utterly unique. Material that I don't think anyone has made. Mixing drone, power electronics, downtempo beats, acoustic instruments, etc.. and while elements may feel like "oh, I see.." I can say it doesn't really sound like what one probably expects? Brilliant.  And also coming Bizarre Uproar "unsafe and insane" CD (1st LP on digital format) and Bizarre Uproar "mass/ff" CD...  "FF" is possibly one of the most rare BU releases and I don't know anyone besides myself who actually had it. Not even artists himself, hah..  This pre-dated Mass, but has the similar atmosphere of ultra brutal thick and heavy textured instrumental noise. Together these two things present different side of BU what is not heard on any other BU releases and therefore really demanded to be re-issued properly...
So yes, playlist has been consisting mostly rotations of my own next releases, and some of then unnecessary long delayed due reasons that aren't clear even to me. But good to see all these coming soon!

[Human Larvae]

The Budrus I heard from 2009 was quite exciting. Looking forward to this new output!

[Scat-O-Logy]

Well, in month or so, Peenemünde "II" CD on Freak Animal. Style has changed quite a lot, but in my opinion, for better! THIS will kill. When I heard the unfinished tracks while visiting band member, I just offered CD deal instantly. It's colder, more electric, yet noisy stuff.  Same time coming Jaakko Vanhala's new CD, Budrus CD. Both are absolute masterpieces. Vanhala's CD could be boldly said to be harsh noise album of the year - easily. If not of decade! hah.  Budrus in other hand is something utterly unique. Material that I don't think anyone has made. Mixing drone, power electronics, downtempo beats, acoustic instruments, etc.. and while elements may feel like "oh, I see.." I can say it doesn't really sound like what one probably expects? Brilliant.  And also coming Bizarre Uproar "unsafe and insane" CD (1st LP on digital format) and Bizarre Uproar "mass/ff" CD...  "FF" is possibly one of the most rare BU releases and I don't know anyone besides myself who actually had it. Not even artists himself, hah..  This pre-dated Mass, but has the similar atmosphere of ultra brutal thick and heavy textured instrumental noise. Together these two things present different side of BU what is not heard on any other BU releases and therefore really demanded to be re-issued properly...
So yes, playlist has been consisting mostly rotations of my own next releases, and some of then unnecessary long delayed due reasons that aren't clear even to me. But good to see all these coming soon!

New Peenemünde sounds very cool as I assumed it to be one-off project. Don't mind about style changes since PPT & PD have yet to disappoint me. I only have the Sprachlos CS by Vanhala and I think it's very strong release even though not really my kinda stuff. I have heard many positive comments about the FA CD but haven't purchased it because of the impression I got from the CS. Really fucking good, but not just something I would listen frequently. Same goes for Encephalophonic which I remember being quite similar? I have yet to purchase the self-released Budrus CD but at least the track on Untergeschoss didn't really impress me. The noise on that particular track didn't really work with Levas' strong vocal offering. That's just my opinion though. Your description about the upcoming Budrus album sounds very interesting. I must check that one out!
And last but not least, some BU reissues. Great news! I have "Unsafe And Insane" record and it's really strong BU and if I remember correctly, "Mass" is half an hour of pure noise terror. I just ordered an used copy of "Mass" 10" a while ago so this is quite funny coincidence, heh. Excited about "FF" since I haven't ever seen a copy (except the 15yrs of BU DVD).

Currently: SPK - Leichenschrei

[horse worship]

Prurient "through the window" - maybe my favorite Prurient album yet. I've been a fan of the various styles and shifts in the project, but this one combines perfectly the electronic music, some nice restrained yet nasty noise layers, and weird dejected vocals. Way more into his stuff being produced by Alberich than the dude from Cold Cave. Sometimes reminds me of a cleaner Nato-Uniformen.

[Scat-O-Logy]

I only have the Sprachlos CS by Vanhala and I think it's very strong release even though not really my kinda stuff. I have heard many positive comments about the FA CD but haven't purchased it because of the impression I got from the CS. Really fucking good, but not just something I would listen frequently. Same goes for Encephalophonic which I remember being quite similar?

Oh man, I must take that back. I listened the Sprachlos tape today and it sounded completely different than I remember. To my knowledge Encephalophonic is more cut-up type of stuff when Vanhala is just pure terror involving a lot of metals. On Sprachlos CS the sound doesn't really match my taste but the noise itself is quite strong. I'm currently listening to the samples of FA CD and I fucking love it. Good sound quality, giving a lot of kick to the noise consisting of hellish banging & scraping, pretty much destroying various metal objects. Damn, I was completely wrong about this stuff!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

This Vanhala CD that's in pressing is "Here be lions" CD. It has all the material of the tape and ultimate track submitted to one of Hästen & Korset tape works compilations and plenty of unreleased to make it worthy for those who may have heard those quite small edition tapes. And as said - in my opinion - as a guy who have heard quite a lot of noise, this does stand out both now, and as well as in general canon of noise...  I know it's kind of lame to say by label who put it out or of works of friend, but as one could know, I have not said that about every noise cd of Freak Animal so trust my word ;)

Encephalophonic has been evolving constantly. I had privilege to hear advance cdr of soon-to-be released debut cd, and I must say that even if being cut-up, and even if being not-that-far from some of his past works, this upcoming CD finally lifts Encephalophonic into top level of the international harsh noise genre. Somehow it flows better, moves with intensity and remains darker and more sinister than cut-up noise generally does. Keep eyes open for announcement in near future!

[metalpunk]

Yes, Vanhala is  on the top of modern noise scene for sure... a masterpiece.

[Scat-O-Logy]

Oh, so the Vanhala CD is sort of a compilation then. Seems like a nice idea and a fresh starting point for me so I guess I have to buy that one. I have the H&K comp but can't really remember how most of the tracks sounded. I remember enjoying it quite a lot though. Since we're talking about Vanhala, I stumbled upon his Tumblr page and from there was taken to his Soundcloud page just to find out he's going to release a CD on Erratic Sporadicism (which I thought was inactive btw) somewhere around 2013. The sample sounded phenomenal. A lot more experimental approach this time with a nice atmospheric touch.

"Vibrant and active experimental music based on electronics, sonic objects, baroque organ and other acoustic instruments, modular synthesis, tape manipulations, and field recordings done at various locations in Malaysia in 2008 & 2009."

I love it! https://soundcloud.com/vanhala/offaltextures-excerpt-1

I think my interest towards Encephalophonic started fading after their third CS, "Chronicity Of A Disease" which wasn't as strong as two of their previous ones (IF, I remember correctly). Metal Obsession was very good cut-up mayhem, with some nice acoustic junks and the presentation of SSR was very fitting in my opinion. Then came "Beauty / Death" on Emanuele's own Audio Dissection label, once again, very nice, but a lot shorter this time. I remember seeing the artwork for the first time and thought it to be... well... very appealing, hah.

I think I must count on you, Mikko, and buy the upcoming CD (and also to satisfy my obsessive collector-needs, heh). I assume you were talking about "Regressed Progress"? Seems like Emanuele already added it on Discogs.

Currently: Encephalophonic - Metal Obsession

[jesusfaggotchrist]

Pseudogod - Into The Wombs Of Cathesis: pretty good bestial black. Did remind me of a more death metal Archgoat.

Navicon Torture Technologies - The Church Of Dead Girls: definitely harsher than The Gospels Of The Gash, the only other material I've heard by him. Much better, I'd say.

[Levas]

NBS - From space chaos to cosmic noise - this was bad.. The title should be from one thin layer of oscillating sound to one thin layer of oscillating sound. It's just that - for an hour...

Currents of Death - Cretodoh! - this was in fact really interesting. It was described as perhaps the first PE project in Russia, and it sounds good. Not something brutal or so, more dark and atmospheric.

Reduction ad Absurdum - Do you feel crunch in your ass, yellow bastards? - after three nights of going to sleep while listening to this cd and remembering only first 4-5 songs, I'd say it's good. Half of that album. I don't know about the other half. But I guess it's ok too.