PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[FreakAnimalFinland]

When I got to see Ahlzagailzehguh play at No Fun Fest 2008, it was also maybe first time I got to see the "mosh pit noise" type of thing. After set, going out and hearing guys not really talking about the noise but the DID YOU SEE ME CROWD SURFING MAN!! -type of excitement, almost like coming out of youthful punk gig. Of course seen people being into noise, but this type of shows where you got the mass of people, excitement and everybody is like heeellll yeeaaahh -mode was quite new thing. There is video of the show, but audio lacks all the bass and punch, so it wasn't really like this at the location.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcv53a3Cxvk

[SSRI]

Antichildleague / The Rita split CAS (Obsessive Fundamental Realism)
Four tracks of power electronics industrial from ACL. Good tracks that are not all-out harsh but rather creepy with more subdued, sleazy aggression. Good vocals and bad attitude. Enjoyable stuff, best ACL I've heard (which is very little actually).
The Rita does his textural study or whatever. It's alright but more background sound for me than something to listen to actively.
Dubbing is not the loudest but you've got volume knob in your stereos, right? A5 covers with feet in fishnet stockings.

Squamata - Rust Fetish CAS (Freak Animal)
Harsh noise elite tape. Metal junk bashing and pedal noise, lots of variation but relentless and raging forward all the time. Extremely skillfully edited and perfectly paced.

Love the covers as well. I used to share a rehearsal room with the guys back in the day. It was this underground basement shared with many bands, all with a designated area in the same large room. Most had drums and amps and stuff but there was this one space with metal junk and I would wonder whose are these. I got to know them in no time of course and they told they had thought the same about my gear, hah.

It's a crying shame that no Squamata has been reissued. A complete works collection including all the existing unreleased material would be in order asap.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Yeah, there was talk about it long ago and i have 60 mins of unreleased stuff still saved..

[k.p.g]

Tahma - Live 2-4 (self-released)
As mentioned in the Finnish form, I started my morning with this.  3 live sets of what sounds like sputtery tape and feedback ringing for an eager audience of Finnish freaks.  This tape is in turn dubbed onto a recycled commercial tape, which really bodes well for my shitty, American sensibilities.  Good stuff here!  I am not sure how old this project is yet, but it sounds like Tahma is still finding their footing a bit in live arena.  The foundation there is very good though, so I can imagine live shows to follow will be very good.

Rautakymi - Ei tasta maailmasta (Freak Animal Records)
Forgive my laptop for not having the right set up to properly punctuate this release.  I do not have time to resolve that issue here.  Should that matter though?  I just wanna talk about a record, and a good one at that.
Rautakymi on record has seemingly been much different than what I saw live.  No issues with that, as the recorded material is pretty great.  The tape on Tribe was a muddy hellscape, and this CD sounds like a warehouse being slowly eaten by rats.  Very great stuff!  It is very harsh, yes, but not punishingly so.  Some of the "crazier" parts are often mixed off into the background while some single tone is wailing front and center.  It makes picking apart random sounds you hear all the more fun. 
I like this artist quite a bit.  I know the Finns do.  Maybe other parts of the world should too.

[k.p.g]

Various Afterlives - Remorseless Greed (Hospital Productions)
Massive compilation, haven't revisited it in years at this point.  It holds up so much better than I could have anticipated!  Lots of dark ambient flare before the final D Side takes everything by storm.  Even artists who I am less partial to like Linekraft and Alberich are delivering some knockout tracks here.  Guess I'll be sticking this one back up on the shelves, as it's pretty damn great.

[prelapsus]

Yeah I revisited that in the last 12 months too since I got a working tape deck again and it's amazing. So well sequenced, consistently high quality. I can't believe how easy it is to get through in a single sitting.

[Minus1]

Coffin Vomit - A Rosy Smile.

3 tracks / 60 min.

2024.

Well, this was sitting in the S+W shop a while ago. I sampled it, liked what I heard, and pressed BUY, without really knowing anything about CV. (It appears to be a one-man show - Patrick Bjørsrud being the guilty bastard!)

And I thought about putting this in the HNW thread, but really, these walls are not Harsh, or even Noisy. 😂 But they are... er... sort of walls. I mean, they don't really "go anywhere".

Each track is exactly 20min here. CV seems to like things that are exactly 10min, 20min, 30min, 15min, 5min... A sort of OCD math thing? I like it! 😂

The track titles and artwork point to... erm... dentistry... or lack thereof.

Track 1 has a strange high-pitched fire type crackle over a deep rumble. It's called Postmotem Pink.

The blurb at Abhorrent/Bandcamp goes:

"Norway's Coffin Vomit returns to AAD for the third time with his new full length album "A Rosy Smile". Three long excursions through thick slabs of decrepit textural Harsh Noise Wall that make a perfect soundtrack for contemplating death's inevitability. Skin starts to decay and wither. Maggots chewing through bloated carcasses. Bones splinter and crack over time. Slowly we rot."

Erm...yes. Because track 2 is basically that. It sounds like something is being eaten. I'm disturbed. This is sparse and sinister. It's called Fleshy Lipstick.

The 3 tracks segue right into each other.

Track 3 comes crashing in, like an animal of some kind, that was doing the eating in track 2. Causes Of An Asphyxial Nature. I dunno. This gives me demon-pigs vibes. The Revenge Of The Pigs.

So this is really an hour of sparse, lo-fi, and fucking disturbing sound. Mr Bjørsrud knows how to get under my skin.

Some Noise just overpowers and numbs. Some Noise is breathtaking in other ways.

This Noise is downright fucking sickening.

Does this sound like a bad review? Fuck no! This is genius. This is compelling. I love it. 😍

I'll floss tonight.

[k.p.g]

Sunday Sunday Sunday...

Palokoro - Vapaat Miehet Kulkemaan (Freak Animal Records)
This round's listening of this tape was much more pleasant than the first one I had.  Harmonious passages gently float to the churning of tape.  Winter tape more than a summer tape, but can be enjoyed at any time of the year!

DMDN - Agonistes 1 & 2 (Industrial Recollections, reissue)
Technically a collab with Thirdorgan that was not labeled as such in order to bypass the "one entry only" rule imposed by G.R.O.S.S.  My ear is pretty damn clogged as this one goes, but I still can make out most of the disgusting noise that is at play here.  I love it.  Much more sloppy than I could have anticipated.  Part 2 is far superior to part 1.  Makes me curious though to see what true solo DMDN sounds like though.  See a release on PURE, that might have to be next.

[Flames of Torture]

Rautakymi - Ei tasta maailmasta (Freak Animal Records)
Forgive my laptop for not having the right set up to properly punctuate this release.

You can set your keyboard layout to Finnish! It's easy to change back and forth to English or whatever.

On my keyboard:

[ = å
' = ä
; = ö

+ Shift for capital letters.

[Kaaoskultti]

Bizarre Uproar – Hardline (2026, Freak Animal)
Maybe it's their best to date, indeed. Can't even begin to describe the songs, although the instrumentation is quite fond of repetition of motifs within a large crescendo's context. But there's something about this release which makes it fiercely hypnotic and restless. A surreal sense of presence so omnipresent it becomes mind-blowing, really well put and structured. Loving this one, came out today in the mail aswell! Cigar uproar.

M.I.A. – I Love You (2013, Phage Tapes)
Deranged, versatile, atmospheric electronics with muffled production. Hm, once again N12 comes to mind as in a thematic/music synthetizes. Heavy electronic handling but not much as would be in a BU album, subtle texture work, and menacing aura codified on suggestive titles. Strength in Solitude might be a different case, with loud clashing noises matching with an amelodic thudding note.

Misery Engine – Dark Winter (2022, No rent)
Although I loved Eyes of the State, this one does the project's worth justice aswell. Thematically solid, compositionally intricate, and an unnerving atmosphere all add to the package we got here. GO-ish but a far cry from traditional PE, add laying layers of interesting territory through which this release explores.