PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[FreakAnimalFinland]

SJ cd is most definitely among their best of latest "come back".
Some of the stuff sounds goofy, not brutal. At the best they are when they calm down. The Whitehouse "tribute song" indeed is pretty weird. I like combination of sounds to droning tonality, but it's still weird they end up taking pretty 1:1 idea from Whitehouse/Consumer Electronics...

[RG]

Lurker of Chalice - s/t 2LP
6-7 years later and this is still a favorite. Bizarre, dark, & hypnotic. Wrest is a supremely talented musician (Leviathan's Massive Conspiracy Against All Life is another favorite)

Neurosis - Sovereign mLP
Good material but of course doesn't compare to full lengths. Some nice trademark monumental "doomy" riffs and lots of atmospherics. Signpost of where they were heading.

Urfaust - Verräterischer, Nichtswürdiger Geist 2LP
Ehhh...at one time I liked this. Not so much any more. Going in the trade/sale box.

Nurse With Wound - Second Pirate Session - Rock'N Roll Station Special Edition LP
Got this in a trade many years ago. Listened once and never again. Gave it another listen today...going in the trade/sale box.

Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - various vinyl and tapes
3-4 years ago when I started really getting into noise/pe I liked this group a lot and bought quite a few of their releases. Now when I listen, I wonder what attracted me to them in the first place...? I still like some material but it's not stuff that I'm going to pull off the shelf very often and I can definitely eliminate the bulk of what I own. It seems like for a few years they saturated the market with too many releases and it all started sounding the same.

Ex.Order - Broadcast 23 LP
Mania - Grotesque Mirth 7"
Sick Seed - Man and Machine 7"

[Nyodene D]

Lurker of Chalice - s/t 2LP
6-7 years later and this is still a favorite. Bizarre, dark, & hypnotic. Wrest is a supremely talented musician (Leviathan's Massive Conspiracy Against All Life is another favorite)

I've heard that Massive Conspiracy was intended to be the second LoC full-length but ended up being released as Leviathan because of contractual reasons.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Huh.. that new Sektor 304 just kills!! Its better in everything where previous had some flaws. I suspect best industrial album of 2012, even if we still have 10 more months to go...

[RyanWreck]

Hmm. There are few CD's I have actually broke or thrown away and Soul Cleansing is one of them. Found it used at the local Hastings listened to the first 3 tracks and threw it out the window at a stop light.

[Nyodene D]

Huh.. that new Sektor 304 just kills!! Its better in everything where previous had some flaws. I suspect best industrial album of 2012, even if we still have 10 more months to go...

absolutely.  If i make a year-end list for 2012, it'll be in the top 5, even though it came out on Dec 27, 2011.

[bitewerksMTB]

Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - various vinyl and tapes

I heard a few things & liked'em but after looking at how much they've released, I never picked anything up. Still, sort of, curious about a full-length or 2 but not all of
those split releases!

[icepick method]

Huh.. that new Sektor 304 just kills!! Its better in everything where previous had some flaws. I suspect best industrial album of 2012, even if we still have 10 more months to go...

Track 3 on the new album is total Dissecting Table homage.

[ConcreteMascara]

Lurker of Chalice - s/t 2LP
6-7 years later and this is still a favorite. Bizarre, dark, & hypnotic. Wrest is a supremely talented musician (Leviathan's Massive Conspiracy Against All Life is another favorite)

I've heard that Massive Conspiracy was intended to be the second LoC full-length but ended up being released as Leviathan because of contractual reasons.

What I understand was it was originally a Leviathan album, but then there was beef with Moribund Records and wanted to take it to Battle Kommand and release it LoC. Moribund threatened to sue Leviathan and BK so eventually Moribund did release it as a Leviathan album. The CD text on the CD shows up with the LoC track titles though.

[RyanWreck]

Speaking of Leviathan is Wrest still in Jail for beating and tattoo gun fucking his girlfriend?

[RG]

Speaking of Leviathan is Wrest still in Jail for beating and tattoo gun fucking his girlfriend?

No, he's out and already recorded & released a new Leviathan album (True Traitor, True Whore). I just ordered the tape from Profound Lore and will hopefully receive it this week.

I read on some forum a few months ago that the accusations against him were false and charges were dropped. Apparently the woman in question is a nutcase with a history of making false claims against boyfriends.

Look what the postman had for me today:

Altar of Flies - Let New Life Rise In The Face of Death tape
Pogrom - Multicultural Degeneration tape
Unclean - Obsceneties tape
S.T.A.B. Electronics - The Non Alliant II lp
Grunt - Ritual of Mortality tape

gonna be a good day of listening to new shit!

[bogskaggmannen]

GROUNDHOGS "Hogwash", "Split" & "Thank Christ For The Bomb" LPs.

[RG]

That's a fine package to receive. Especially S.T.A.B. Electronics LP. I haven't really heard much response about it, it's a great album/2nd part.

I've only given it one spin so far and it was on in the background while I did some shit around my place so I wasn't giving it total attention, but I liked side B better than A. The long track was really good. I'm gonna have to sit down and listen to both vinyls back to back sometime soon.

Just listened to the Pogrom tape. Holy fuck! Fantastic album.

[RyanWreck]

That STAB LP is great. I enjoyed the whole thing but the standout tracks were "Cannot Stop Myself" and "Unlust". Unclean I have talked about at length and did an interview with so I think everyone knows my opinions on that, I love "Manwoman".

[JHT]

Ryoji Ikeda - Matrix

This is very physical almost headache-giving experience. Album uses mostly just sharp-pitched pulsing sounds with very minimal and slow variation but sound pattern changes according to your position in room. So it's quite eerie three-dimensional ambient music. Would probably produce even more interesting experience in bigger room than just in my quite tiny living room.