PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[l.b.]

AM NOT - Incursions cs

i talk this project up to anyone who will listen because this shit is absolutely monstrous, and despite releases on unrest and tesco i don't hear anyone (at least stateside) talking about it. this tape in particular is fucking spastic, each track is thick with sideways vocals, blown out scrap and strange electronics. sampled snippets of familiar political memories and tamon's usual conceptual bent tie it all together. much much better than a lot of other, better hyped contemporary stuff.

[Lazrs3]

Dave Gilden - Texas Chainsaw Dopefiend. Bought this cassette off the back of the last Special Interests mag, I had that feeling and I was right. It's really full on, nasty stuff with lots going off at the same time. I get the feeling it's hours of material pulled together to make one release. It stays interesting throughout.

Fistfuck - Fresh Sex/Slave Meat. This is a new New Jersey project that collaborates with Dani from Testing Vault, long intro and the other track has more bite to it, low level nastiness going on. Noise, big drones and infected vocals.

[DSOL]

Autoerotichrist - Cabin Fever- crushing release. one of my favorites for 2019

Controlled Death - Symphony For The Black Murder probably in the minority here, but I enjoy CD a lot more than I enjoy Masonna.

[bitewerksMTB]

Rips of rarities I found on a blog recently:

"Sinn & Form" comp.- Espl. Geo. doing what they do best; Nocturnal Emissons with a live excerpt featuring some excellent yelling (best thing here) plus MB, P16.D4 and a bunch of synth-pop acts I had mostly never heard of. There is a Chris & Cosey track that is pretty good.

Iphar Clinic "Torture Music"- this sounds like SJ. Same type of screaming & synth-feedback abuse. Maybe a collab with Best?

Proiekt Hat "Make Believe" or maybe it was "Make Do"- can't remember which release I listened to. First couple tracks were okay then it gets much, much better. It'd be nice to see early work (Hatband tapes) get some sort of proper release so more than 4 people could hear them.

[Major Carew]

Macronympha - 'The Spectacle of Ravishing Our Maidens'

This one seems like it updates itself every time I listen to it, I notice something new every time. Great tape.Fast becoming my favourite Macronympha release alongside 'Intensive Care'.

[Eigen Bast]

Grizelda - A War Drenched in Fantasy (CW Productions)
Formerly performing and releasing under the moniker Nefaria, Grizelda's debut tape represents a refinement and maturation of his ornate style of black metal. Three lengthy tracks weave dozens of brilliant riffs and buried vocals with a powerful rhythm section,the production lending an authentic sheen of grime. There is a distinctly Temple of the Full Moon vibe to the project, bringing to mind some of the more obscure releases on No Colours Records. Tasteful synth leads thread these tracks together, before taking prominence on the final track; a mournful, minimal piece of medieval ambient. Another supremely confident release from the most interesting circle in American black metal.

[ConcreteMascara]

Heretic Grail - The Hole of Treason cassette - Black Psychosis - first listen to this project. hadn't heard of it before getting this tape from Si. I guess this industrial with a hint of power electronics? I don't know but you get two long songs per side, each drifting into the next. pleasant enough, not super raw or punishing, but didn't make a big impression either. probably needs a few more plays to sink in at all.

Terror Cell Unit - Come And Test Christ cassette - Phage - probably the most leftfield TCU tape yet. I liked it more as an electronic album that gets harsh from time to time than as a power electronics tape. Reminds me a bit of Front Line Assembly's Total Terror albums at times, with nice mixture of political samples, squiggly electronics and occasional vocals. If TCU keeps moving forward in this style I'd say releases with shorter tracks and more songs would be the way to go to keep the variation up. but that's just my preference. definitely a tape worth checking out if you want something different!

Coffins - Colossal Hole 10" - HPGD Prod. - the few times Coffins has been mentioned on this board they've received a lot of hate. if you can't get down with this 10" I don't even know what to say to you. you probably take yourself too seriously. here you get everything you'd expect from Coffins with rawer production and the perfect length. this is one of those time where the demo versions of album tracks are way better. along with Buried Death it's probably the only release you need by them!

and a shitload of Anatomia. their music is basically a warm blanket for me.

[holy ghost]

Heretic Grail - The Hole of Treason
and a shitload of Anatomia. their music is basically a warm blanket for me.

Love this band - missed the last DLP and somehow can't track down a copy. Anywhere besides NWN and HHR I'd be paying $40 for shipping alone.

[ConcreteMascara]

Heretic Grail - The Hole of Treason
and a shitload of Anatomia. their music is basically a warm blanket for me.

Love this band - missed the last DLP and somehow can't track down a copy. Anywhere besides NWN and HHR I'd be paying $40 for shipping alone.

You can buy it from the band on bandcamp. Shipping is $18 to the US. And the record absolutely slays. Best one yet!

[CLUBSCUM]

CON-DOM - THE BEAUTIFUL

[holy ghost]

Heretic Grail - The Hole of Treason
and a shitload of Anatomia. their music is basically a warm blanket for me.

Love this band - missed the last DLP and somehow can't track down a copy. Anywhere besides NWN and HHR I'd be paying $40 for shipping alone.

You can buy it from the band on bandcamp. Shipping is $18 to the US. And the record absolutely slays. Best one yet!

That's a hot tip! Somehow it's $26 to Canada (hey man they're right next to each other???) but that might just be worth my while.... I regret not buying it!!

[Peterson]

Clubscum, maybe you could post some actual reviews instead of vaguely-relevant images to the releases you mention?

[Decrepitude]

Heretic Grail - The Hole of Treason
and a shitload of Anatomia. their music is basically a warm blanket for me.

Love this band - missed the last DLP and somehow can't track down a copy. Anywhere besides NWN and HHR I'd be paying $40 for shipping alone.

You can buy it from the band on bandcamp. Shipping is $18 to the US. And the record absolutely slays. Best one yet!

That's a hot tip! Somehow it's $26 to Canada (hey man they're right next to each other???) but that might just be worth my while.... I regret not buying it!!

That's money well spent either way. Best DM album of last year. Also it might work well from CD too. At least I had some situations when I wanted to just wallow in decay and not get up to flip the record.

Might as well write something about what I've listened to while I'm at it.

Mark Bradley - Dreamstate CDr
Yesterday evening I had this sudden urge to dig up some old small batch CDr's to listen to. This was the only one I managed to listen to but all in all pretty good but nowhere near essential small edition ambient I guess using guitar and synths. Spraypainted CDr with a strange textured cover in sealable plastic. I also found a split CDr with Wereju that I might take a listen to today.

Steel Hook Protheses - Calm Morbidity
I have been listening to this very much the whole spring. At first the production kind of seems a bit static but with deeper listening there's a heavy hypnotic feeling on many of the songs with very well done creation of tension and dread without sounding like they're trying to hard. Some very well done sound design also elevates this from just another death industrial release. The A5 packaging is very cool too with very stunning visuals.

[bitewerksMTB]

Organum & The New Blockaders "Pulp" cd (Robot)- pretty much perfect as I've always thought Jackman's droning adds a lot to the scrap metal mayhem. This release has the Pulp 7" plus extra tracks along with the Wrack 12"& Raze 7" and ending with an  untitled track. I think this or some of it has just been released on vinyl but I like being able to listen to it all straight through as most of the tracks are reasonably short.

Clau D.E.D.I. "V.I.T.R.I.O.L."-  this is a rip of a tape from '84 on Misty Circles. Clau D.E.D.I. is the founder of Ain Soph. S1 is kinda what you would imagine if you've heard A.S. but S2 brings in some really harsh short wave-type noise. Sounds that really sit your fillings on edge & seem completely out of place as the first side isn't like that at all (mainly voice-tape, xylophone, some sort of string instrument,etc.). O.E.C. reissued it as a 3" cd-r  in '06 so there are copies available.

Does anyone know what became of Kevin of Robot Records? He was a wealth of information on industrial music.

[Eigen Bast]

Worth - Pompeii Treatment (Angst)
Twenty minutes of blazing hot, psychedelic harsh noise. Dynamic fried electronics rife with tension. Great fun with a killer layout. More visceral to me than the LP material. Fans of 00s American noise need to check it out.

Legless - Residual Damage (Angst)
Nasty stuff! Brought to mind Mo*te my first run through. Harsh noise bordering on hnw; very thick tone to the whole thing given how lofi the vibe is. Never wears out its welcome over its entire 40 mins; subtle in the way it creeps up on you.

Looking forward to the rest of this Angst batch!