Les Chasseurs De La Nuit - Nebelwerfer (7", Heidrunar Myrkrunar): Not familiar with the Homo Homini Lupus album, but this 7" certainly is good. Nebelwerfer is a very good neo-folk track and Unconditional Love is some kind of power electronics, which is pretty good too, interesting combination. Must check out the Nebel Leben album soon.
Rectal Machete - Ultra-Misogynist (C60, Obsessive Fundamental Realism): Sound quality differs between tracks, but in general the music/noisecore is interesting, not only blasting, but also slower parts, some noisy/experimental rock kind of stuff nearly or more grindcore parts. Vocals aren't my favorites though. And an hour of this kind of stuff is a bit much for one sitting. Nice inserts too, hehe.
Akitsa/Prurient (CD, Hospital Productions): The first Akitsa track starts with a synth piece, then some cool Harsh Noise, then more synth, then goes into Black Metal. Second track is Black Metal. Both have some cool parts and are generally not bad, but certainly not the best Akitsa material. I'm not very familiar with Prurient, but this is not much to my liking. Just slow, nearly calm distorted electronics, some far away classical music here and there, but I don't really like the sound of the electronics either, so with 30 minutes that's not great. That being said, I'll give it some more spins, maybe it's a grower.
Psychosadist - Your Pain is my Only Pleasure (C60, Obsessive Fundamental Realism): A while ago I got his first demo from Hiisi Productions, but I wasn't into it, so didn't keep it. Later I got the split with Cadaver Gutter, which was better, so then I decided to get this album as well. Again, nice layout on the OFR release, though the insert with titles could be better, now it's just a piece of paper with the titles on them. The music itself is more Death Industrial, with some Power Electronics parts. Atmosphere goes from grimy to gloomy.
A.Z.A.B. - Intrinsic Deathmass of Zionicidal Ruination (tape, Vanguard Productions): Someone doesn't really like the chosen people, so much is clear. This is Power Electronics which is quite good overall and some really nice tracks too, but a playing time of about 80 minutes, is just too much.
Spic - Blood In The Streets (tape, Vanguard Productions): This on the other hand is a really short tape (less than 15 minutes) with three tracks of mostly feedback PE with some crunch and sparse use of spoken vocals. Really good!
Hatespeech - Take Back Your Country (tape, Vanguard Productions): Rather short tape, certainly not bad, but I got the feeling that the focus is more on the ideology/lyrics than on the sounds, the vocals and the noise don't gel well together. The noise itself is rather simple, on the last track it's basically a rumbling sound that varies a bit here and there, but not too much. Will get some more plays, but not convinced straight away.
Lone Wolf Insurgent - Defeat Never, Victory Forever (tape, Vanguard Productions): Same ideology as Hatespeech, but more interesting, although quite simple being vocals, which are pretty good, reminds me a bit of Brethren (if I'm not mistaken, has been a while since I listened to Brethren), over a basic distorted background, with some nice feedback here and there and lots of samples with some nice background synth sounds. Nice tape.
Siege Electronics - My Descent into Dissent (tape, Vanguard Productions): Death Industrial and Power Electronics tracks are both present, not utterly bleak or aggressive or..., but overall pretty nice sounds and quite some samples. Worth of checking out.
Zyklon SS - Iron Division (C40, Der Bunker): I quite liked prior ZSS releases, but since there's so much being released all the time, I skipped this. Until I saw one copy still available on discogs and decided to get it. And fuck, glad I did this. Really good tape! Reminds me mostly of Genocide Organ and maybe some Grey Wolves stuff here and there. Hardly any vocals, but lots of samples. Was surprised that there's no metal abuse anymore, though. Anyway, recommended.
Veriyhteys 1 (Comp CD, Sakaramiina Records): Really like most Vapaudenristi stuff and was interested to see what the other bands were like, so I got this. Vapaudenristi tracks are good, but not as good as the last album. Genocide Wolves sound like rough RAC with some Black Metal sound thrown in. First track is good, 2nd track is less interesting. Stuff like "do what is right" always cracks me up though. Pagan Skull: not very good. Sankar'hauta is more in the Viking Rock vein, sometimes bordering on some Pagan Metal, but I think that's mainly due to the guitar sound. Cool vocals. Valkoiset Paholaiset are ok, but nothing that sticks it seems. Pylvanainen are musically good, but I don't like the vocals. Marder is cool, sounds like live recordings, so pretty rough sound, but enjoyable music. All in all it's a cool comp, only wish I could understand what's on the back of the booklet.
