PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[Zeno Marx]

Please do not include covers and images in your playlists.  Just a friendly request is all.

[online prowler]

Please do not include covers and images in your playlists.  Just a friendly request is all.

I see your point re space ZM. Personally I think visuals from albums are important part of the first impression and package, the whole. An indicator of both album concept and sound. I will continue to post imagery in the future as well, but I can of course limit the number and size of images to save space for others. This thread is quite enriching and schooling in many ways. But I feel if it was only an endless number of lists that it would be a stagnant read. This refers not of course to the content posted, but to the online experience of forum interaction. So all in all I think the certain types of threads where imagery plus plus is suitable, will profit from a variety of posts. Thumbs up for listings, reviews, comments, links and imagery!  

[Jaakko V.]

Altar of Flies – Rabbit Hole
Giancarlo Toniutti – Epigènesi
Giancarlo Toniutti & Andrew Chalk – Tahta Tarla
Helm – Silencer

All sublime...

[eyestrain]

Altar of Flies – Rabbit Hole
Giancarlo Toniutti – Epigènesi
Giancarlo Toniutti & Andrew Chalk – Tahta Tarla
Helm – Silencer

All sublime...

Couldn't agree more.

Pyhä Kuolema Kevättuulisormi (Pesanta/Svart): Gave this many more listens recently and it finally clicked. Beautiful album.

Leila Abdul-Rauf Cold and Cloud (Saadi Saati): Blatant Tor Lundvalling here, with his hand doing the cover art to boot, but its easy to look past as this album is far more complex and lush than any Lundvall album I've heard. Foghorn synths, trumpets (other brass too?), and sparse vocals. Oddly warm and rainy day here in Pennsy and this is the perfect soundtrack while I stare out the back window into the field.

Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, etc... Dialogue, Chemins, Récit... (æon): Berio's a brand new discovery for me. Massive discography, probably won't venture much farther haha. Yet, this is album contains so much calm, chaos and beauty.

[martialgodmask]

Grunt - Someone Is Watching
Have to agree with the love for this, brutal. Shamefully I've only just picked up a proper copy of it (last night in fact), but better late than never.

The Grey Wolves - Blood And Sand
Another of last night's grabs, again nice to have an actual "proper" copy of this. Sounds great and only five skulls for the CD version.

[Dr Alex]

Troum - Mare Morphosis
http://troum.bandcamp.com/album/mare-morphosis-cd-2013

Absolute masterpiece!!!

[fin de siècle]

V/A HOUR OF THE WOLF
Excellent compilation, musically coherent and consequent. Kristian Ohlsen`s piece with its Anenzephaliaesque oscillating synths sounds raw and primitive with lots of reverb. Martin Bladh ties in with his last "Island of Death" album with high frequency drones and drums, very well composed, musical, song-oriented ... Kevin Tomkins` track perfectly connects to Martin Bladh`s composition, very beautiful loop machine drone ... the last track is dark minimal drone. The display of the artworks in the accompanying booklet is a bit unsatisfying. The print and choice of paper is good, but in comparison to the high quality of the music, in my opinion, the artists would have deserved something more special, than just the plain booklet and a loose CD inserted into a plastic sleeve.

[fin de siècle]

Troum - Mare Morphosis

I just listen to it ... indeed outstanding!

[Dr Alex]

Fire In The Head - Confessions Of A Narcissist cd
Bizarre Uproar - Perverse Bizarre Humiliation cd
V.A. - Hour Of The Wolf cd
Silence Of Vacuum - 3 tape
Silence Of Vacuum - 4 tape

Fire In The Head is usual good album. Good but nothing special. Perverse Bizarre Humiliation is amazing album. I really like new massive sound direction. Hour Of The Wolf is something unique and special. More than 70 mins of dark and disturbing atmospheric sounds. A must have compilation!! Finally new Silence Of Vacuum and it's really nice sound work. This project have very unique sound approach.

[burdizzo]

John Watermann - Illusions of Infinite Bliss Nice to dig out an old LP now and again. This is one of his earlier ones, and reminds me of why I have quite a few others. Cut-ups, voices, and strange undertones. Luckily the bookwork wasn't too taxing!

[eyestrain]

Troum - Mare Morphosis

I just listen to it ... indeed outstanding!

Very excited to hear this!

[Jaakko V.]

Didn't quite comprehend the fuss around Oneothrix Point Never, but decided to give it another chance, and so I bought Returnal LP.

I'm sold.

Rotating over and over again, pure magic.

[online prowler]

Returnal is an excellent record. His best. The new material is so and so. I also enjoy his side / duo project Games. They did a very good 7" and 12" some years back.

Listening to Ivory Prince, self-titled album / long play ep released by Angoisse & Total Black. Completely took me by surprise. Single sided tape w five compositions in death industrial / power electronics country. Sparse, suggestive, uneasy and invasive album. Synths, drum machine, feedback and effected vox. Within its musical expression, it ranges as one of the top tapes of this year.

[Dr Alex]

Iron Fist Of The Sun - Embers 7"
Iron Fist Of The Sun - Who Will Help Me Wash My Right cd
IRM - The Cult Of The Young Men cd
Skin Area - Rothko Field cd
Atrax Morgue - In Search Of Death lp
Atrax Morgue - Esthetik Of A Corpse  lp+cdr
The Sodality - Beyond Unknown Pleasures lp
Sleep - Dopesmoker 2xlp
Troum - Eald-Ge-Stréon 2xlp
V.A. - Hour Of The Wolf cd


"Hour Of The Wolf" is amazing compilation and highly recommended! One of best releases of 2013.
If you don't like it, you don't understand!

[Scat-O-Logy]

"Hour Of The Wolf" is amazing compilation and highly recommended! One of best releases of 2013.
If you don't like it, you don't understand!

Haha! I seriously need to get this... Have played the IRM live (HERE) couple of times in the last few hours. This is so fucking amazing, can't wait for them to finish "Closure"!