PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[ARKHE]

Sewer Election - Sex/Death cd

Well, some Swedish stuff with obviously no melodic noodling included.  ...  Second track is more laid back, though.

Hah, that was the first track I thought of when melodic Swedish noise was mentioned. Of course not realy melodic, but it has tones in some extremely simple melodic fragments over the vacuum cleaner or whateverit is.

[P-K]

np : the cd from the Martin Bladh/Bo I Cavefors set.......does it get any better ?

[hannes]

Sewer Election - Vidöppna Sår Lp, my favourite with SE so far.
Esplendor Geometrico - Kosmos Kino Lp, I never get tired of this.

[bitewerksMTB]

RIDE FOR REVENGE under the eye cd; pretty good. like the vocals & nasty guitar tone but feel some of the non-metal elements do not work so well but also feel that this needs a few more listenings. some of the drumming brings Joy Division to mind. the guitar tone/vocals kind of remind me of Brainbombs & one song, the drumming sounds like a drum machine so Big Black comes to mind (may not be intentional on the band's part but I like that I think they mildly sound like non-metal acts rather than thinking they sound like other metal bands. Though one song has a celtic Frost feel).

GRUNT someone is watching cd; haven't heard this since the orig tape was rel'd. remembered nothing from it other than the "who told you my name" loop. good stuff!

[Bleak Existence]

Final Solution - all new power

[WAR]

so far today:

chris isaak - silvertone lp 
of course, this dude makes great rock music with a badalamenti/lynch vibe. i love this album.

forza albino - mot cs
great minimal PE. deserves the recent praise. definitely not ashamed to fuck a dude and sound really creepy when he talks about it.

deathpile - gashbutcher cs.
some of the best material in my opinion.

ninth massacre - flesh cs.
was just able to score this from jason hodges. great collab(?, ive read a few different things about this.... not sure how it actually went, and who was actually involved. care to comment bitewerks?) with kieth brewer and richard ramirez. loving the anguished dude fucking samples.

axebomber - fall 2011 demo cs.
meh black sabbath infused hardcore. terribly quiet tape. would have been exponentially better with a little mastering, but whatever. i have two copies. if sombody wants to try it out, let me know. i'll trade it for pretty much any other cassette.

[Nyodene D]

axebomber - fall 2011 demo cs.
meh black sabbath infused hardcore. terribly quiet tape. would have been exponentially better with a little mastering, but whatever. i have two copies. if sombody wants to try it out, let me know. i'll trade it for pretty much any other cassette.

whoa.  i'm sitting next to their new singer Bob right now. we're blazed and watching cowboys and aliens (not the guy on the demo).

[ARKHE]

NEUNTOTER DER PLAGUE - Doors Beyond Doors
ARZACHEL - s/t
FAMLENDE FORSOK - One night I had a frightful dream
AGATHOCLES - Theatrical Symbolization of Life
PSYCHIC TV - Dreams Less Sweet
(first proper encounter with Psychic TV's music... bizarre experience, very unsettling...)

[vinci.]

Various Atoms – White Eye Of Winter Watching 2 x CS
great, really great.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Various Atoms – White Eye Of Winter Watching 2 x CS
great, really great.

It is very good, yet I think there are two notable things:
1) many lesser known bands mop the floors with the bigger names (although not always)
2) most longest tracks are among worst. Removing couple unnecessary c. 10 minutes pieces and perhaps some non-exclusive stuff, one would have actually made perhaps mere 30 min shorter comp, but with very much improved level of focus.

But still, impressive comp! I don't think I can imagine almost any modern day compilation with such variety.

[Ashmonger]

The Vomit Arsonist - Patience/Violence (C20, Danvers State Recordings): This sounds like Ambient, with the recognizable TVA power electronics/death industrial beneath it. Gives it a strange feeling, like you can't turn it up loud enough. Good, and will have to listen to this again, but probably not his best output.

Grunt - Ritual Of Mortality (C30, Institute Of Paraphilia Studies): Heard the B-side on youtube and wasn't certain whether I liked it or not at first, but I got the tape anyway and am glad I did. Really good stuff, though I seem to like the A-side more than the B-side.

Nyodene D - Caged Dog/Common Criminal (7", Phage Tapes): Listened twice, not bad, but I'm not convinced yet. Vocals are good though. Will play this again.

Faux Pas/Grain Belt (7", Phage Tapes, Small Doses, White Centipede Noise): Faux Pas is good, but not really special. Grain Belt is really good, noise made mostly out of metal clang and scraping and echoing vocals, though there's a fair portion of distortion as well. And indeed that loop at the end is nice. Thinking about checking out some more Grain Belt.

[bitewerksMTB]

IOPS animal comp tape- side 1 played so far. really good stuff esp the Grunt track
HARASSOR tape on Husk Records

[Ashley Choke]

Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Lord knows I've tried, for well over ten years now to get properly into TG. I simply don't find them very interesting. This has some really good moments, but for most part the dry studio sound and GPO's annoying voice just kinda ruins it for me. Guess I need to give the first two albums some more attention, but really all I've heard, including the so ever praised Heathen Earth has just not done it for me. The two Disipline versions is utterly boring, way too dominated by the analog kick.

Whitehouse - Total Sex
Another classic, and this on the other hand is simply fucking fantastic. Opposed to popular opinion I seriously don't think PE has ever been done any better than this. Found Leichenlinie and some other GO reissues cheap in my local second hand. Will be picking them up next week, that might broaden my horizon, but really, Death Over China?? They have a lot of work to do convincing me with song titles like that haha

V/A - Suomi Finland Noisecore
Still enjoying this quite alot. Nuclear Voice is so good, sounds like it's recorded and gaffatapehead overdubbed on a Taiwanese walkman!

[P-K]

dug up some Taint cd's....Whoredom, Victimology, Sex Sick etc.....amazing nasty work.

Hive Mind 'death tone' .....rather good claustrophobic throbbing & droning synth work.

Söldnergeist 'spur2'  cd ......never get tired of this one. classic.

[ironfistofthesun]

A hard month on the trowel so..

Halloween 3 lp..bit pricey but a very rare find!

The monster club soundtrack lp ..weird English Amicus anthology film..Classic in every way. Ghosts of my childhood pour through my speakers..cost a bomb but worth every penny

Cut hands 1/2 lp..ye ok? some parts sound like weak computer drum programing but quite like the swirling/chaotic electronics in the background. Vinyl is cut nice and mastered and very good!

Dome boxset 5lp's...

Mittageisen  x2 cd 1981-1986...fantastic swiss coldwave/industrial bit gothy bit shoogazey recomended

Machinefabriek Veldwerk cd. Some of my fav cold spring releases were from machinefabriek.. I can only class it as very dark sound art! dont be put off the "happy" cover art!!!

Daphne oram Reworked (private dreams and public nightmares)  cd ..not as academic as i thought it was going to be...in fact quite like coil's/cyclobe more trippy darkness than electro- acoustics. Great!