PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[Nyodene D]

Listening to Crown of Cerberus - "Strength". Great tape, only one go at it so far and I am assuming that I will get a lot more from it after a few more, the last COC tape didn't start to get great until about 4 or 5 plays in. Doing an interview with Mack about this project and his label, watch for that on Pure Stench.

just got this in the mail.  excited to hear it, but what in the fuck happened to the artwork? pixelated and the layout is super weird, especially when it'd be way easy to turn the Tarot card thing and make it the front cover of the release instead of going across all three panels of the j-card horizontally...

[RyanWreck]

Listening to Crown of Cerberus - "Strength". Great tape, only one go at it so far and I am assuming that I will get a lot more from it after a few more, the last COC tape didn't start to get great until about 4 or 5 plays in. Doing an interview with Mack about this project and his label, watch for that on Pure Stench.

just got this in the mail.  excited to hear it, but what in the fuck happened to the artwork? pixelated and the layout is super weird, especially when it'd be way easy to turn the Tarot card thing and make it the front cover of the release instead of going across all three panels of the j-card horizontally...

Yea I agree. I didn't like the other COC art either. I mean it wasn't bad but it didn't feel like a lot of attention was given to it, same with this one. But then, I've never really looked at any of Mack's artwork, not really my style.

[FiEND]

artwork

I've always felt the blown-up jpeg is the rough xerox of "our generation."

[Ashley Choke]

Antonin Pagaille - Variations Sur Le Bonheur
Alleypisser related project. Greatly enjoying this, synthesizer experimentation in a variety of styles. Some of the material brings to mind early kraut rock, some more industrial based. Especially the last side which evokes an almost electro acoustic, more musical feel is amazing.

Altar Of Flies - Eremiten
My only exposure to this project of dare I say like-minded individual. Could do without the typical Swedish melodic noodling but overall this is superbly composed and a really interesting listen. Need to check out more of Mattias output.

Redrot / Aaron Dilloway - LP of the Michigan Boxset
Even being a huge Dilloway fan it's Redrot who's the most interesting here. Ultra lofi industrial with a completely unique atmosphere. What other material compares to this? found the recent LP to be more clean, didn't quite grab me like this. Dilloway side is not the strongest I've heard from him, but still pretty solid. Think I'll return to his most recent CD were he does something similar to aforementioned Redrot side later today.

[GEWALTMONOPOL]

Altar Of Flies - EremitenCould do without the typical Swedish melodic noodling

I'm intrigued by that. What is typical Swedish melodic noodling? I've never heard AoF so I can't comment but do you have more examples? Is it a recent thing or is the older generation guilty as well?

[bogskaggmannen]

I'm guessing he refers to that quite a few Swedes uses for example synth to include some kind of "atmosphere" to the overall recording, perhaps mostly directed to the newer Gothenburg and Malmö-groups like Ättestupa for example?

[Ashley Choke]

Correct!

Melodic is something I can't accuse you of Martin, haha

[GEWALTMONOPOL]

Well I'm a bad example anyway since I've lived in the UK for more than ten years and have never really been active or part of anything over there. My surprise came from having the industrial contingent of CMI and Segerhuva related projects in mind and wondering if there's something I might have missed. I'm very ignorant of the current GBG and Malmo scenes. Near total NFI.

For the playlist: NYODENE D - Every Knee Shall Bow, CD is on repeat in the car and I'm getting much joy from it. The second half is better than the first but it's still early days. I'll let this run for the rest of the week and digest it a bit more.

[RyanWreck]

artwork

I've always felt the blown-up jpeg is the rough xerox of "our generation."

Internet printouts altogether, really. The first Golden Rain tape on F&V was successful and pretty cool looking, besides that I really dislike this style.

This morning I've been listening to Crowley from Japan (traditional Heavy Metal with melodic Power Metal riffs and an evil atmosphere) and the extremely underrated band Axewitch, Visions Of The Past is way to good to overlook for anyone into NWOBHM and Power Metal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1n_9PooTk0&feature=related

[Järtecknet]

Altar Of Flies - Eremiten
My only exposure to this project of dare I say like-minded individual. Could do without the typical Swedish melodic noodling but overall this is superbly composed and a really interesting listen. Need to check out more of Mattias output.

compared to what? contemporary danish acts? in denmark i think its dominant melodic synths on a majority of the noise/industrial releases. perhaps you´re talking about personal references rather than any typical swedish noodling. perhaps it should be called typical danish noodling? ;)

[Jaakko V.]

Altar Of Flies - Eremiten
My only exposure to this project of dare I say like-minded individual. Could do without the typical Swedish melodic noodling but overall this is superbly composed and a really interesting listen. Need to check out more of Mattias output.

Altar of Flies 'Let New Life Rise in the Face of Death' is superb. Get that. Been listening to that one a lot lately...

[Ernpe]

Sewer Election - Sex/Death cd

Well, some Swedish stuff with obviously no melodic noodling included. I've been listening quite much only to harsh noise last few days, finding some recent stuff like new BU album quite not-enterteining at home (sic!) but this is along some of the best stuff I've come up with. First and last track very intense harsh noise with lots of everything happening, every enjoyable thoughout. Second track is more laid back, though.

[moozz]

I've always felt the blown-up jpeg is the rough xerox of "our generation."

Internet printouts altogether, really. The first Golden Rain tape on F&V was successful and pretty cool looking, besides that I really dislike this style.

The cover art of the Golden Rain tape Praise The Whore looks very much like it is not a pixelated online jpeg but art by Jukka Siikala. He paints these pixels/digital noise into some of his work.

[Ashley Choke]

compared to what? contemporary danish acts? in denmark i think its dominant melodic synths on a majority of the noise/industrial releases. perhaps you´re talking about personal references rather than any typical swedish noodling. perhaps it should be called typical danish noodling? ;)

They learned it from you guys, haha. Will have to check the other AoF release recommended here asap

Now listening:

Streicher - Ironclad/Bulldog Breed
Don't care to much for the Bulldog Breed tracks, in the end I feel the retarded vocals becomes too much. But the Ironclad tracks are so fucking good, like the "Melbourne, Australia" version of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania or something. Truly well-crafted lofi underground noise.

[Järtecknet]

haha. i always though danish acts were more in the hospital/prurient veine. thats what i hear anyways. yet i don´t know what swedish bands are being discussed.

you should get the tape on Sprachlos, Let New Life Rise in the Face of Death. best AOF recording so far.