PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[holy ghost]

Vile Intent - Machine Into Flesh LP - a little late to this party, but oh well. i listened to this album on the VI website when it first came out and wasn't really dazzled and forgot about it. but some voice in my head said try it again and I'm glad I did. unsurprisingly sounds a bit better playing off the actual vinyl rather than MP3s. sharply executed powerviolence with an emphasis on the violence. and i love the art direction, really simple but brilliantly executed. like a mix of 2009 Hospital Prod and the first two Gridlink CDs.

This is a seriously great LP. I saw them a few years back and the show was absolutely unreal. Great band. I really hope they aren't done for good.

[ConcreteMascara]

Laudanum - The Coronation mp3s - great sludge/doom with ambient parts that don't suck. I need to grab a physical copy of this.

If you can find it, I really recommend getting a copy of Laudanum's The Apotheker album. Pretty vicious and original sounding sludge, a bit more up-tempo too. Maybe Brainoil you mentioned not being a million miles away as a reference.

Thanks for the recommendation! got a copy a few days ago and have been enjoying it since. definitely reminds me of Brainoil at times but also Bloodlet circa "The Seraphim Fall", but with a great use of samples on top of that.

Subliminal - Gracebudd CD - the more I've listened to this album over the past year, the more it grows on me. simple but easily enjoyable rough electronics, repeated vocal mantras, etc.

[absurdexposition]

I'd love to see a thoughtful compilation or boxset of all the old PHT tapes/cdrs, but I think maybe the market for that is way too limited?

I think a very limited market is certainly the case. PHT seems to cater more towards the Iron Lung fanbase than it does to the noise spectrum, whether it's intentional or not that's just how it seems to be. I would back a rarities collection out of personal interest.

Vile Intent - Machine Into Flesh LP - a little late to this party, but oh well. i listened to this album on the VI website when it first came out and wasn't really dazzled and forgot about it. but some voice in my head said try it again and I'm glad I did. unsurprisingly sounds a bit better playing off the actual vinyl rather than MP3s. sharply executed powerviolence with an emphasis on the violence. and i love the art direction, really simple but brilliantly executed. like a mix of 2009 Hospital Prod and the first two Gridlink CDs.

This is a seriously great LP. I saw them a few years back and the show was absolutely unreal. Great band. I really hope they aren't done for good.

Great band. Seen 'em many times. They played back in October and will likely play again now that Brant is back in Canada for a bit.

[bitewerksMTB]

Skin Graft "Dystrophy" cd- found this in a box of tape last night; excellent harsh noise especially the 3rd & 4th tracks. The 3rd sounds like multiple tape machines forced to play in reverse while being tortured the whole time. I believe I have a LP or split LP with S.G. I'm going to have to re-listen to.

Bizarre Uproar "Unsafe and Insane" cd-  Whether it's the cd or the lp, this is a classic of harsh noise mayhem!

Sewer Goddess "Hymns of Infliction" cd- damn good death industrial esp. the final track, "Nature of the Black Liquid".

[Johann]

Regarding Skin Graft to those interested I highly recommend checking out the Blackout LP on Tesco, such a filthy sounding record...I remember it sounding like police scanner recordings of domestic violence and crude broken electronics. I really need to go back and give it a listen as it's been years...

For those interested though https://www.discogs.com/Skin-Graft-Blackout/release/1682677 cheap too!

[david lloyd jones]

listening to the latest batch of tapes from obsessive fundamental realism,

penetration squadron- not the mort original sounds, but done well and enjoyed
rotate- heavier more dads ended than prior, growling vocals and a great Ugandan Christian Antigay diatribe sampled.
subklinik-death obsessed slaughter prods ambience from a damp crypy near you. stood out for it's simplicity andambience amongst other releases
scatmother/wonderland club split. my favourite of the batch, scatmother with growling rumbles and squealing feedback.
wonderland club present a side long track made with great ability that reminded me of early spk and sleepchamber, funnily, despite sounding nothing like either. quality release.

[Deadpriest]

Today I have mostly been listening to To Live And Shave In L.A. and brutal death metal. :)

[Johann]

This Sunday morning I'm listening to the Cluster classic Grosses Wasser, beautiful mix of electronic ambient and semi classical piano. Each note fills like room as an electric haze drifts from the speakers...excellent use of multi tracking on this album, with occasional movements that remind me of Neu! and the last track drifting into some darker electrionic territory before ending on a more avant rock moment...Been a long time since I've listened but they never disappoint. I assume most have listened, but to any who haven't it's really quite worth it.

[cr]

listening to the latest batch of tapes from obsessive fundamental realism,

penetration squadron- not the mort original sounds, but done well and enjoyed
rotate- heavier more dads ended than prior, growling vocals and a great Ugandan Christian Antigay diatribe sampled.
subklinik-death obsessed slaughter prods ambience from a damp crypy near you. stood out for it's simplicity andambience amongst other releases
scatmother/wonderland club split. my favourite of the batch, scatmother with growling rumbles and squealing feedback.
wonderland club present a side long track made with great ability that reminded me of early spk and sleepchamber, funnily, despite sounding nothing like either. quality release.

Just listened through these as well.
My favourites in the first run are the Subklinik and the Scatmother/Wonderland Club tapes, but this could change after the second run.

All in all, another great batch from OFR!

[Peterson]

Have two out of the batch on the way - looking forward to it, and a little pissy that I slept on some of the older OFR tapes. This morning, while stressing about re-recording vocals as always, and assembling some tapes for upcoming releases, I revisited the Arv & Miljo/Krube split CS from Fragment Factory. Felt like sort of an asshole for my dismissive attitude toward the A&M track on first listen, so I gave it another chance to much better results - really nice subtle tape-degraded electronics alongside field recordings and nicely warped and layered piano tape loops/backing tracks, whichever they are. At some parts, they overlap to become chords from the notes, which is a nice technique; I may be one of those musique concrete fags to some extent taste-wise, but I don't mind admitting I'm a sucker for piano tones fucked with on magnetic tape. I could easily imagine a piece like that set to grainy photo-montages of nostalgic/idyllic childhood memories, naturist or nudist photography, stuff like that. Very arty, but who gives a fuck? Krube track still didn't do much for me - descending-scale bleep-bloop thin electronic submelody against repetitive water sound. When I listen to stuff like that, I grasp criticism of my own work better - some pieces seem done more for the creator than some imagined listener.

[bitewerksMTB]

 Alfarmania ‎– "At Ulleråker" cd ; "Skräcken" cd; "Hålögd Insikt" 10"- everything is damn good but the 10" & "Skracken" are my faves due to the vocals sounding like they were performed inside a barrel along with the general foreboding, heavy atmosphere of the electronics.

Just received Interracial Sex's "Boy" cassette on New Forces. Listening to the sample on the label's bandcamp right now & it's EXCELLENT:

https://newforces.bandcamp.com/album/boy

[Kim V]

Today I have mostly been listening to To Live And Shave In L.A. and brutal death metal. :)

Why do i have to think of The Fast Show when reading this

[Kim V]

scatmother/wonderland club split. my favourite of the batch, scatmother with growling rumbles and squealing feedback.
wonderland club present a side long track made with great ability that reminded me of early spk and sleepchamber, funnily, despite sounding nothing like either. quality release.

Sounds like i need to get my hands on this one.

[Deadpriest]

Recently I have mostly been listening to depressive suicidal black metal, (which for me means Striborg, Xasthur and Nortt) (I am under the weather more's the pity)

Sickness (Flesh and Bone -his best work that I've heard, bought it some years ago from Blossoming Noise webstore which I swear was the best one I ever saw but has now disappeared ayyynd Mudlark which is also great)

Hair Police (fucking everything, they're the tits: Drawn Dead, Mercurial Rites, the Certainty Of Swarms, Hair Police, Constantly Terrified)

Despite being under the weather a fine time has been had!!

You ain't seen this right!!

[bitewerksMTB]

Last night was the Ottis in the Woods cd on Filth & Violence. I have an idea who's responsible but this doesn't sound like their usual work. It has some familiar elements but there's more going on here. A lot of is loops, junk metal, vocals/feedback, & what sounds like tape manipulation. And considering the subject matter, it's fairly restrained. This is one of those releases that most will miss out on for whatever reason... It's cheap on Discogs & I recommend it!