PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[Ashmonger]

Mania/Coma Detox - In The Peripheral Margin of Trauma (LP, Freak Animal/Filth&Violence): Great metal junk fueled power electronics, great cover and layout. Nice matching of artists too, after several spins I'm still not certain who is who...

Shift - Altamont Rising (CD, Cold Spring Records): Solid work, clearly made by a guy who knows his craft, good, but brutal sound. Still, after having heard a couple of Shift's releases I don't see this ever become my favorite PE, don't know why...

Rectal Machete/Funeral Mongoloids (C15, Hiisi Productions): Rectal Machete is really cool harsh Noisecore with neat feedback. Funeral Mongoloids, not my cup of tea.

Xenophobic Ejaculation/Reek of the Unzen Gas Fumes (LP, Viva Angel Press): Far from familiar with all XE material, but this does sound quite typical for this project from what I've heard. Feedback, vocals, some distortion/crunch/loops, starts with a repeated sample. Second track is better in my opinion. Reek of the Unzen Gas Fumes is Black Metal/Grindcore with drumcomputer/beats. Some really catchy guitarwork inbetween all the chaos, good stuff! (Looking forward to that split with Konflict, though it seems half of their tracks are also on this split...) Layout is cool, minimalistic, but fitting, pitty the center labels got swapped. I was thinking what both of these bands/projects have to do with each other and I think the answer is: HateFetish!

Puce Mary - Fear and Pleasure (C30, Posh Isolation): Really good tape, hadn't heard it before, but good thing that it got re-released. Seems like I prefer her tapes to the Persona LP, haven't heard her other album(s) yet so I don't know whether it's that I prefer the shorter works in general or not...

Pedestrian Deposit - The Architector (C40, Monorail Trespassing): Got this at their gig in Antwerp. Really great gig by the way. I think some of the parts of this LP were included in the gig. This is a really good, different styles of electronics, great sounds, though I might have liked a bit more of the Harsh Noise parts...

[urall]

Pedestrian Deposit - The Architector (C40, Monorail Trespassing): Got this at their gig in Antwerp. Really great gig by the way. I think some of the parts of this LP were included in the gig. This is a really good, different styles of electronics, great sounds, though I might have liked a bit more of the Harsh Noise parts...

cool, that show was at a friends house, too bad i had to miss it..

[bitewerksMTB]

Last night, I listened to Atrax Morgue/Murder Corporation & Iugula-Thor/Sshe Retina Stimulants records out of the LISTEN & DIE! box set released by Urashima. I haven't listened to anything out of the box since receiving the original cass. release so everything, except my side, is 'new' to me. AM is the best; MC is good but the last few minutes were tedious. I-T is harsh with excellent vocals/feedback/organ droning (I think?). SRS is nice synth/feedback sounds, much better than I was expecting as nothing from SRS has ever interested me beyond one listen.

L&D! con't- Diktat/Discordance: Diktat songs are PE made up of synth/loops/radio or tv sounds/distorted drum-machine/vocals. A little bit of everything including political lyrics. Discordance is a bit of a tease. I was expecting violent feedback & vocals to kick in at any moment from the low-end droning sounds but it never does. He hints at nasty feedback but it always fades away. No vocals. Now, the Americans: Skin Crime/Bacillus is up first. Bacillus does short tracks of looping, cut-up destroyed noise. I'd love to know what his sound sources are because I didn't recognize anything. I love how damaged it all sounds. SC is heavy, static scratching destruction. Again, I couldn't figure out what sound sources he could be using. There are some voices in the mix. SC may be the be best side, so far, next to AM. His track ends with some feedback & sounds of,maybe, metal start coming through the static... Slogun/Deathpile do exactly what they're known for. I love how abruptly Slogun ends most of his songs. DP's best is a track with porno moans & lots of synth action.

The sixth & Final L&D! record is Surgical Stainless Steel/Taint- SSS is Mark Solotroff repeating "cunt" over n' over with low-end synth and lots of feedback. Good stuff, I think, this is third best side in the collection. As for Taint, I got through it without wanting to turn it off.

Also listened to Jason Crumer's "Ottoman Black" LP(Urashima); it's the single best noise record ever to be named after a piece of furniture people rest their stinking feet on. Recommended.

Climax Denial "In the Absence of Self-Control" LP (Urashima); good record, much better than I remember his tapes being (not bad but nothing that ever drew me back to them). I like his vocals but for a few songs, I kept thinking "yowling cat" but that grew on me. Does anyone know how this LP compares to the new cd on Malignant?

[coinbender]

Francisco Meirino - Beyond Repair
and
Francisco Meirino - An Unnecessary Nothingness

both excellent

[eyestrain]

Not a specific review but...

Through and through, the new batch from The Epicurean/Epic Recordings is stunning. There's an obvious red through running through the awesome live LPs given by both Last Dominion Lost and Post Scriptvm as well as Anemone Tube's breathtaking EP that maybe functions as a segue to the highly anticipated (at least here) The Golden Pavilion. Highest recommendations from me. I feel like I'm living in a different headspace all day because of these albums.

The new Epic Recordings also gives some industrial curios from End and Catatonic Existence. My ears for this kinda work are fairly virgin, so I'll just say that fans of Dissecting Table's "musical" efforts are likely to be satiated. Bass-centered grooves, metal-style percussion and death metal-like vocals all mashed up into 90's kitsch that's not to be missed.

[Zeno Marx]

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers - Drum Suite 1957 - the Latin percussion is great, but I can do without a lot of the rest of it.
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers - Cu-Bop 1957 - I liked some of this a lot, but I also had no use for a lot of it - they get rolling pretty nicely on the two longer tracks.
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers - Holiday for Skins 1958 - the best overall of these three albums - I'm listening to these for the percussion, and with that in mind, this and Orgy in Rhythm Vols would be the Blakey albums I'd recommend.

Muslimgauze - Betrayal 1993 - similar reaction to this album as Veiled Sisters and maybe Vote Hezbollah (which makes some sense given they're all from that same 1993ish time frame) - likable, decent material, but lacking in energy that would compliment it.
Muslimgauze - Minaret Speaker 2015 - from the same master tape as the Minaret Speaker 7" 1996 - 8 or more takes on one idea and then a few other ideas explored; if nothing else, this collection shows how exhaustive Jones could be with a track, exploring various mixes, slight tweaks etc - heavily distorted like what you'd hear on Zealot, but even with the repetition, I think I like this more than Zealot - funny that something like this represents, for me, his most successful material of distortion and simple rhythms - recommended.

[ConcreteMascara]

Grunt - Installation of Blood And Steel LP - years later this album still fucking crushes. the perfect companion piece to Seer of Decay in my mind.

Mania - Decrepit cassette - i can't pin-point what it is but after going through several Mania release this week, but this tape sticks out as one of the best. such pure, warm sounds of metal abuse, those insect like synth bits and horrendous vocal yelps. immensely satisfying.

Mania - Grim Conditions cassette - slower paced Mania (is that an oxymoron). continues to make me wish I could capture the sound of metal half as in any given Mania track.

Clinic of Torture - Slavesex cassette - very good, especially the a-side with it's crunchy low-end. I think CoT is one of those projects that has evolved into something better with every release. Eyestrain mentioned it as a contender for one of the year's best, and I'd tend to agree.

Black Air - Plague Ritual LP - so I put this record on last night and it got stuck into a locked groove and I listened to that unknowingly for 15 minutes plus. I don't know if that's a compliment or not but it worked for me.

[RyanWreck]

The sixth & Final L&D! record is Surgical Stainless Steel/Taint- SSS is Mark Solotroff repeating "cunt" over n' over with low-end synth and lots of feedback. Good stuff, I think, this is third best side in the collection.

Shit I wanna hear that, I loved the Murder Series 7'' from Self-Abuse.

As for Taint, I got through it without wanting to turn it off.

Hah, can't listen to your own material?

Also, you know of anyone who owns "Satiate"? That's literally the hardest Taint release to fucking find. I've been collecting Taint shit for years and years now and that and the Bellmead tape seem like urban legends, can't find a damn thing about them outside of the discogs page and have never even seen anyone mention either.

[Scat-O-Logy]

Grunt - Installation of Blood And Steel LP - years later this album still fucking crushes.

Absofuckinglutely! Just played it couple days ago myself and it totally floored me.

[MT]

ROTAT - Carnal Beauty

Listened to it while having morning coffee, and goddamn! Great tape of mangled up electronics, vicious scrap metal abuse (never gets old for me) and strange samples creating a unhappy atmosphere, heh. Criminally limited to 18 copies.... If you happen to run across one, do not hesitate.

[Baglady]

BLISTER PACK - Trini's Wad - C60 (Mother Savage)
Stuff like this make's me understand and at the same time question my motivation for doing noise. Very inspiring yet impossible to beat. American '90s crunch meets crazy japanese vocal noise.

V/A - Svensk Noise - C75 (Forever United)
Quite good compilation I think. Overall pretty harsh stuff from old and new names; Arv & Miljö, Backasvinet, Sewer Election, Quack Quack, Olympus, Heinz Hopf + 9 others... Some inbred gothenburgian one night stands, but also a few people ending up on tape for the first time. Alot of surprises.

[SiClark]

Clinic of Torture - Slavesex cassette - very good, especially the a-side with it's crunchy low-end. I think CoT is one of those projects that has evolved into something better with every release. Eyestrain mentioned it as a contender for one of the year's best, and I'd tend to agree.

Although I really enjoy the recent releases of this project 'Whip and Pierce' really stands out as the best release.

[sterilization]

Received my copy of Listen and Die! today from Malignant. I have not yet listened, but it's a REALLY nice package. Definitely worth every penny at $118.50 postage paid in the states. Very excited to get home this evening and dive in.

[Dr Alex]

Received my copy of Listen and Die! today from Malignant. I have not yet listened, but it's a REALLY nice package. Definitely worth every penny at $118.50 postage paid in the states. Very excited to get home this evening and dive in.

Huh! It's cheaper than from the label. :(

[sterilization]

Maybe not for you though. I'm sure it would cost every bit of $30 to ship it to ***Edit: Serbia*** (sorry)

It was definitely a lot cheaper for anyone over here though. And I see that malignant has now sold out!