EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Haus Der Lüge
One of my EN favourites, especially the Maifestspiele section of Fiat Lux, highly unsettling piece of sound. Not always a friend of Blixa Bargeld's mannerisms though.
Absolute Supper 2cd comp
Classic Swedish compilation, sums up what Cold Meat Industries was about pretty nicely? Classic era covered, with BDN, Megaptera, Deutch Nepal/Frozen Faces, etc industrial greatness, and Ordo Rosarius, Protagonist, Puissance bombastic goofiness that I can hardly stand at all these days. Go drape yourselves in velvet & read some poetry in a castle somewhere... Most important though is the CINTECELE DIAVOLUI track closing it. Mortiis never was better than with this project. Edit: have to mention that NACHT is almost as amazing as AGHAST.
Going forward with the Esthetics Of Cruelty compilation felt natural. Only a few years older than Absolute Supper, the focus here is almost solely on harsh noise, power electronics and similar, of which there was hardly anything on the previous one (BDN came closest I suppose). It's not a compilation of CMI acts (though some were), but a guide to what was going on in the Swedish harsh scene back then (released in 1999). Wide variety of names, some still active & important, some forgotten. INSTITUT, IRM, TRERIKSRÖSE, MOLJEBKA PULSE, PROIEKT HAT/IRGUN Z'WAI LEUMI, BAD KHARMA and BLOD are among the more known. Could just as well have been a Segerhuva compilation, for what it's worth (half of the artists appear on the Sweetness Will Overcome comp) - all of it far from the Gothic cheese that has diluted the CMI catalogue. Someone ought to re-release the IRON JUSTICE album.
