PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[acsenger]

Masonna/Controlled Death (split tape, Trapdoor Tapes)

It looks like this 2018 recording is Masonna's first in 6 years. It's very different from his previous over the top, frantic noise: he screams much less and it blends in with the music a lot more than previously (so it's not in your face like before), and the music is not fast cut-up noise either. Gone are the psychedelic effects he used on some of his later albums too. Instead there's lots of reverb, and overall the music is much less harsh and busy and a lot simpler than before. I like it, but it's nowhere near outstanding.
The same can be said about the Controlled Death side too: you hear distorted synths playing simple, ominous themes. Just like the Masonna side, the music is very simple. There are some growl-like vocals towards the end.
While neither side is earth-shattering, not all music has to be, and this cheap-looking tape (the black and white xeroxed artwork can barely be made out) is a good release overall. It's hardly material that's worthy of a vinyl or CD release, but as a tape, it works well.

[WCN]

Absolutely caning this new T.E.F. - Framework album which handily is on Spotify. Absolutely relentless fast paced harsh noise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q76gEVRj0y8

Not really a "cut-up guy," but this album is balm for the soul.

[Bloated Slutbag]

Absolutely caning this new T.E.F. - Framework album which handily is on Spotify. Absolutely relentless fast paced harsh noise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q76gEVRj0y8

Not really a "cut-up guy," but this album is balm for the soul.

For additional caning, please see TEF's previous Dada Drumming missive, Consequences In Conversation. Good for a sense of how far the project has, and has not, progressed. Very much of the THANK YOU SIR, CAN I PLEASE HAVE SOME MORE! persuasion.

[ConcreteMascara]

Absolutely caning this new T.E.F. - Framework album which handily is on Spotify. Absolutely relentless fast paced harsh noise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q76gEVRj0y8

Not really a "cut-up guy," but this album is balm for the soul.

Just picked this up last week from Dead Gods and on first listen it's almost too unrelenting. I mean there's not a misplaced second or sound, it's all very good but the level of detail and speed just wear my focus down pretty quick until I'm just sitting there letting it wash over me. which is good too, but for truly focused dissection, it's best to listen to it in parts.

[NaturalOrthodoxy]

Absolutely caning this new T.E.F. - Framework album which handily is on Spotify. Absolutely relentless fast paced harsh noise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q76gEVRj0y8

Not really a "cut-up guy," but this album is balm for the soul.

for truly focused dissection, it's best to listen to it in parts.

Most of my music consumption is minutes at a time on public transport/lunch hour/doing emails at work so it's absolutely perfect for that. Spotify is indispensable to me!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

FINAL SOLUTION "Mass Death" CD
Der Bunker
What a great surprise it was to see there was unreleased 1992 session of FS found somewhere! It's from old tape copy, therefore extra tape hiss.  Tasty FS assault has power that is rarely beaten by "newcomers". I may have said it many times, but it may be said again. While FS certainly is like americanized and "hardcore" version of Whitehouse, and while it is so simple to the core - how often you get to hear bands that would reach this intensity? Hardly ever. Excellent.

SATORI "Psychopathology" CD
SATORI "Dispossession" CD
COD label
Psychopathology is great! It is the missing twin of Satori CD published by Functional/Tesco long ago. Collects the rest of old original material.  80's UK industrial-noise with physical, raw and intense feel to it. Primitivism is all advantage here. Nobody does stuff like this these days. I don't feel it is nostalgic, but almost like step towards apocalyptic future, where "tech" is no longer available, and you got to make best out of what you can use from assorted scrap and waste electronics.

Dispossession in other hand, is 2018. And "tech" is available. Not bad. If I heard this 20 years ago, I would be probably blown away. Computer edited industrial music, where rhythms and echoes, efx and such are done "professionally". Yet it is so synthetic in a way that doesn't appeal to me nowadays too much. There is clear lineage of traditional old school industrial to this material, but I just don't get the same feeling from "edited" material as I get from something physically crafted. Plugin efx, digitally boosted sounds...  Not bad, but this is something I would listen as soundtrack of movie rather than album.

[bitewerksMTB]

IRM "Virgin Mind" 2cd (Old Captain)

Nearly two hours of droning, heavy percussion (drums & metals), vocals and whispering, piano bashing, etc. Not a bad track on either disc but the 2nd gets higher marks as it has the heavier, more intense tracks.

[Mikerdeath]

Consumer Electronics - Nobody's Ugly

big sound for big permanent moods

[bitewerksMTB]

Einstürzende Neubauten ‎– Strategies Against Architecture II 2cd (Mute)- classics; the booklet is amazing with details about sound sources, lyric fragments, etc. for each song. I'd forgotten how much mayhem they caused in their early years with setting stages on fire. Unfortunately, the one time I saw them perform, they barely used most of the equipment they had on stage, let alone, set the place on fire.

[ConcreteMascara]

Going through some tapes picked up on tour and some from trades before that:

Plagues - Of Ash And Relic cassette - New Forces & Thief cassette - Strange Rules
My probably my first knowing exposure to this project, I didn't know what to expect sound wise. Somewhere between harsh noise with vocals and raw power electronics, all with a touch of melancholy, it straddles a line similar to Prurient's "The History of AIDS". the rawness is not like F&V but more 2004-2006 Hospital Productions / Truculent Recordings type of thing.
After a few listens to each I prefer the "Of Ash and Relic" tape because each track is nice and long, starting with well recorded metal abuse recording and turning into full-on harsh assault with tasty vocals on the A-side. The B-side is more morbid complementing the full-on assault on the first half. but the "Thief" album is no dud! Again for my taste I prefer long tracks so the 15 minute b-side with it's slow build, ominous bells and simple but nicely textured assault really succeeds. the A-side starts with the longest and heaviest track and then goes into several stripped down numbers that work well as a build-up to the B-side.
worth mentioning, all the material is really well mixed. will be checking out more Plagues material!

Kyle Flanagan - Mind Eraser cassette - FTAM
Very nice cassingle of harsh noise. lots of variation, especially in the b-side track. clearly some metal abuse, feedback, pedal work. the focus shifts throughout the tracks in a natural, but un-rushed fashion. i think the a-side track has some kind of looping yell or scream that was slightly annoying after a bit but it eventually gives out. generally I like that this feels removed from the militant or ultra-grim imagery and aesthetics of most noise. not that I'm getting hippy vibes but just something slightly removed from the norm.

Rosebud - Perverted and Pious cassette - self-released
Interesting tape from this newer act out of Toledo, Ohio (if memory serves me right). a bit like the Plagues tapes, it's a mix of harsh noise with vocals into rough p.e. territory, but this one is a lot looser in structure and sound. themed around a sex abuse scandal/child abuse ring in Ohio, the vibes and aesthetics feel more p.e. than it actually sounds. but maybe i'm splitting hairs. there are some really good parts that come and go over the approx. 20 minutes, and then some bits that sound less focused. i feel like if some of the best ideas were more developed into separate tracks this would be even better, but as it stands it's good listen that shows potential with future development.

Skin Graft - Demolition CD - Liquid Death Records
I've seen Skin Graft live several times but I don't think I've heard much of his recorded material, so I'm certainly no expert on how this newest album fits in with his discography. what I can say is it's five massive slabs of unforgiving noise. dynamic it is not, murky and unpleasant it is in the extreme. really bad vibes stuff that wallows in it's barely changing, long-form glory. the sound of hangovers and black mold growing. special mention to the last track, "Total", which starts heavy and somehow gets even heavier as it goes along. this ripping noise starts in about halfway that sounds like the CD is breaking apart in the CD player, not in a glitchy way but in a very physical way that's just perfect. and then it gets better from there!  really, really good album!

[bitewerksMTB]

Organum ‎ "Horii" 12" and "In Extremis" LP (L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords)

The LP is excellent as it's all metal-noise. Discogs says TNB were involved; "I.E. Part 2"  is the best track here- really heavy and harsh. The side long piece has a little of everything: feedback, droning, metals; it kinda sounds like they're fucking around with something with a fan blade. The LP tracks were reissued on two separate cd's released by Robot. I'd love to have this all on one disc, slightly remastered, maybe with some bonus tracks from the same recording sessions (if they exist). That would be PERFECT.

"Horii" is his droning with what sounds like some sort of flute or something plus pitched down Gregorian chants along with metals being moved around. Never noisy but it's damn good. The second side is a super short track, which, I failed to flip over to...

[FreakAnimalFinland]

BIZARRE UPROAR "Indoctrination of fist & cock" CD
F&V
Not seen many reactions to new BU album! It may be that people do not even realize it is actually out. Even if BU does merely 1 album a year, it tends to be that CD comes first, LP comes after half year or so, and some re-issues between them, new album is just few months later...
This was already recorded 2018 and was just waiting to be released for a while so it wouldn't be out too soon.
Album is in many ways "traditional" BU, but pretty much equally many ways something completely new!
What we have here, is more crispy sound, more attention to detail with tasty filter-box modulations of crashing metal junk loops and oscillations. It is slow paced, it is somewhat minimalist, but nevertheless step towards the older style of BU where crashing metal loops are in key role. No aggro vocals, no blurry boombox recording, plenty of repetition, yet always something happening. I like where BU is heading, clearly not stagnating into one style!

CERVICAL SMEAR "Real-death enthusiast" CD
F&V
Violent and ripping power electronics / noise filth. What more could be said. What it lacks, is the uniqueness, but if you're looking for sonically and visually fierce in your face assault, that's what you get here. Stoning stubborn females, corpses, dead fetuses,...   Like could be concluded for some of the other such "new school approach", it's almost like over the top goregrind aesthetic applied to PE.

KNURL "A Turbulent Obsession" tape
Absurd Exposition
Knurl doesn't fail in any of his recent releases. Probably not in old ones either. Only thing recently is that it has quite same sounding releases. Much more droning, yet heavily distorted harshness.  Hard to exactly say how much better or worse this is than some of the other tapes from last couple of years. Certainly worth to get for Knurl enthusiasts!

V/A TEETH tape
V/A Juurimusiikkia Teknologian Jättömailta tape
Siunattu Hiljaisuudessa
both compilations ltd 50. One hour each. Juurimusiikkia... is more interesting to me. First of all, because there is all Finn's. And rather unknown ones. The Day Of The Antler I had not even heard before, and it proves to be probably best on the comp! Rest of the bands I am familiar with, and know they can deliver. For example Deattán is certainly better harsh noise than when I first heard it. 
Teeth is less interesting Hazarda Bruo Sonsistemo is the project I do like, but Kadaver, Mampos and 886VG... They are not necessarily bad, but there is some too easy seemingly digitally produced sound material here. Yet being ltd 50 tape, it STILL feels like they could deserve even bigger circulation.

ENTRE VIFS "Offrande & partage" CD
Aussaat
I was not expecting this good disc. Why not? Who knows. Four long excerpts taken from 4 live-in-studio sessions. What I was surprised with, was that this is so noisy. It has good amount of air left. Lots of detail. Self made metaljunk objects and such things have nice sounds. It is surprisingly raw and nasty, for being 2018 recordings. If they can do this stuff live, I'd be very curious to see and hear it one day...

SUTCLIFFE JUGEND "Relentless" 4xCD
Death Continues
Label said this is pure analog power electronics... Well... Perhaps not entire truth here. It is clearly partly digital. All sorts of digital efx, sampling, etc. Musically also plenty of variety. Starts with almost Sunn o))) type downtuned riffing with droning electronics and vocals. Proceeds via orchestral sampled to high energy industrial loops, eventually to more ripping and noisy material. There is plenty of droning and atmospheric stuff. Plenty of tonality and even chords. Nevertheless, none of this is bad thing. What we have here is one of the best SJ releases in recent years. Despite I do like several of their new CD's, it seems that if they wanted to end with style, I would say this 4xCD set was good decision instead of putting 4 separate albums. Don't expect "pure analog power electronics" like they did in the 80's. Expect experimental industrial they are known during this decade. Perhaps just better than several of albums they did!

[ConcreteMascara]

Throat - Bareback LP - Svart
Everything Throat has done post Licked Inch Fur has had an increasing level of detail and eclecticism in approach that has resulted in some very prickly albums that take a fair amount of time to digest fully. this is most apparent with Bareback. While I immediately thought it was one of the best records of last year, it's taken increasingly frequent listens to know and understand all the little detours it takes. it seems almost disjointed at first because each song does it's own thing, slightly different than those before and after. but it's still got that downer-pervert vibe running through it all. "Recut" is probably my favorite track as it made a big impression on me when I heard it live, but it's probably the closest to their oldest material. The opener and closer are both top-tier as well, but honestly there's not bad track on the album. If you haven't heard it yet, it's the perfect time as it's sweaty music for sweaty days.

Munition - Gaze/Gauze cassette - Absurd Exposition
short but effective tape of "industrial noise". there's a slight cinematic edge, but nothing too overblown. there's no moment of total overload, which I find a little disappointing but if you're looking for a heavy electronics influence in your noise, maybe this will do the trick.

[Fistfuck Masonanie]

BIZARRE UPROAR "Indoctrination of fist & cock" CD
F&V
Not seen many reactions to new BU album! It may be that people do not even realize it is actually out. Even if BU does merely 1 album a year, it tends to be that CD comes first, LP comes after half year or so, and some re-issues between them, new album is just few months later...
This was already recorded 2018 and was just waiting to be released for a while so it wouldn't be out too soon.
Album is in many ways "traditional" BU, but pretty much equally many ways something completely new!
What we have here, is more crispy sound, more attention to detail with tasty filter-box modulations of crashing metal junk loops and oscillations. It is slow paced, it is somewhat minimalist, but nevertheless step towards the older style of BU where crashing metal loops are in key role. No aggro vocals, no blurry boombox recording, plenty of repetition, yet always something happening. I like where BU is heading, clearly not stagnating into one style!

I'm looking forward to hearing the new album and your review has me very excited. The earlier junk metal material is my favorite period of BU. I think the CD has been slow to show up in distros and I'm just seeing it pop up in places now.

[DSOL]

new BU/Goatmoon was just released by F&V also