PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[AXNAAR]

ELP: S/T can you even imagine what would happen if more of their stuff sounded like "The Barbarian"? Best song ever.

Peak of their career 1st song on 1st album - never heard anything else from them that even comes close.

Tarkus side 1, Fanfare for the Common Man, 1/3 of Brain Salad Surgery, a handful of other tracks. Such a great band but you could assembled DLP of everything essential.

Sound, I'll give those a listen!

[Zeno Marx]

http://andthensheliedagain.blogspot.com/2016/01/markus-schwill-endzeitgeneration-split.html

I thought we'd discussed Endzeitgeneration, but a search didn't finding anything.  For those fiending for crude electronics, power-electronics, and industrial hybrid ala Einleitungszeit, Cazzodio, early Thorofon, and the like.  Not as spiced with industrial as I'd like, but they're very well good anyway.  I've heard maybe one other tape, and this is in line in quality with that as well.  The Schwill side is fine, but you grab this for the Endzeitgeneration.  I'd add them to the wishful box set thread.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

HASSOKK "KAI BETONAS TAMPA NIEKIO MANIFESTACIJA" tape
Narcolepsia
I don't remember much of previous Hassokk tape. I remember that I liked what I heard, but also that wasn't so memorable. But this is perhaps simply the qualily which is not flaw, but simply matter of style. If I should drop some names, of course lo-fi rawness of Body Cargo could be obvious reference, but perhaps I may say this brings my mind closer to Alfarmania! If not by sounding the same, but the atmosphere of multilayered slowly drifting soundscapes of industrial waste, which isn't really aggressive, but suffocating. Nice!

CONTRARIAN / STEVE FRENCH split tape
CONTRARIAN / METH LAB EXPLOSION split tape
Factotum
Two C-10's. Steve French offers like poor man's Masonna. heh. Short average harshness with some vocal noises/screams.  Contrarian on first one is closer to "power violence" kind of stuff. If you'd leave Apartment 213 / MITB kind of roaring shouting, but less ambitious songs. More like just jamming 5 min worth of things.
On other split, it's more towards noisecore/noise fusion, and Meth Lab Explosion equally forgettable material. I guess the whole small edition C-10 underlines the spontaneous flow of material. Tapes being Fact042 and 082, so 40 releases between them....

WHITESWAN "TO THE POINT OF EXHAUSTION" tape
Narcolepsia
I feel there are levels in "filth", and while some of it is really good, others don't do much for me. I think debut Whiteswan promo tape was very promising. "Insatiable Lust" was decent, but tracks very alike. New tape offers more variety sonically, but also stretches material perhaps longer than project has ability. 40 min length of Whiteswan makes clear that there should be improvements made before he should make album. Vocals leave quite a lot to be desired. Effects? Or just scream louder. Especially 20 minutes B-side long track indicates sounds aren't that interesting if they are stretched into too long tracks. All in all, band still has potential, but should just focus rather than rely on easiness of being "lofi" & "raw", as best bands of that style usually have very distinctive qualities in sounds besides being rugged.

BIZARRE UPROAR "15 years... PURE HATE" CD
F&V
This era of BU is quite extensive in output, but looking back almost 10 years ago, band did set up very unique style for itself. Raw and ripping sound consisting pretty much metal junk, feedback and vocals. Some hectic stutter-loops and slower grinding loops of metal & chain sounds, but also actual physical live action what sounds like walking around in factory hall and dragging scrap metal and chains. Barbaric and physical approach isn't really lo-fi by any means. Its very sharp and in-your-face. This CD includes also bonus material what wasn't originally on the 5x tape box. It's well chosen, as it doesn't break the atmosphere at all.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

DEVELOPER / MASS COMM split tape
DEVELOPER / SORCERER TORTURE split tape
Factotum
Dates back to 2013. All here are quite high pitched in sound. I know artists probably dislike to be lumped together, as there is certainly differences here. Nothing here is sort of MSNP type of brutally saturated heavy duty harsh noise. More towards Facialmess/Thirdorgan later days of Putrefier kind of stuff. Instead of hammering or constant aggression, especially Developer cuts you short distorted cuts and electronics signals and small metal objects into hectic noise. Developer side of Mass Comm split is best of here and Sorcerers Torture may be weakest. I miss true amplification and heavy bass crunch. Despite all-in-red dubbing on chrome tapes (both c-20's), it doesn't sound loud. This is perhaps the weakness. Developer would most likely benefit greatly from hard handed mastering job what would add some bulldozing frequencies.

[holy ghost]

Dead Neanderthals - Endless Voids: I ordered this from the band and obtained a download code in the meantime. I'm a big fan of their Polaris album, and totally dig the drums/sax combo. This is an 80 minute live show with a host of extra musicians, lots of slow, evolving drones, muted cymbals, some synth, starts with a slow build, lots of reverbed out guitars and just builds and builds. Really excellent stuff!! I also ordered a few of heir other records and I'm hoping for some really out there free playing as well. Excellent transition from "free jazz" to "improvised sound art" without moving into pretentious territory. A+!

Bastard Noise - Rogue Astronaut: Hadn't listened to this one in a while, really great. Very much resembles Sun Ra in terms of scope and context, adding a Interstellar storyline, very dense and varied. I don't mind the chanting vocal parts in the middle but I much prefer woods deep subbass growled low end vocals.

[Ashmonger]

Last Dominion Lost - Towers of Silence (LP, Silken Tofu/The Epicurean): So, I had listened to some tracks from this LP a while ago on bandcamp, but never got around to buying it, then when I saw it at the Noisefest in Kortrijk I bought it. Seems a bit wrong now, waiting to buy it until one of them dies... Anyway, it's a really good piece of Industrial music. Varied approach, interesting sounds, interesting percussion, good sound and a sober but nice layout.

Unclean - Syntiinlankeemus (CD, Filth&Violence): Having heard the name Unclean around these parts quite often, I hadn't checked it out yet, but I decided to do so when this release was anounced. Quite a lot of samples, sparse vocals. Best track is Who Are You? Really bleak. Goes more into a Death Industrial direction. Good decision to get this.

Scatmother - Purulent Sublimity (CD, Filth&Violence): Filthy layout and perverse lyrics, does the job well. Belt-Buckle Discipline is a good opener, that sample is very effective too. But then the rest of the noise, well, it's not bad, but it doesn't do much for me. The vocals do show a good degree of variation between the tracks (with and without effects), but the tracks themselves aren't very interesting, seems like not much is happening...

Caligula031
Private Venus (C40, Lake Shark Harsh Noise): Nice packaging, lovely pics, hehe. Best track is the last one, the noise with the lady talking is really nice. The B side is very interesting too, apart from the Italian track of course, since my Italian is about as good as my Swahili...
Amria (C30, Wrath Productions): More good PE from Caligula031. Two long tracks, though it sounds like there are more tracks...
Slavetrade2000 (CD, Filth&Violence): Rather lo-fi (though not very lo-fi) filthy sound, quite some metal junk work, vocals a bit more buried. Cool album. I do wonder, however, what a cockring sounds like...
Topography of Smut Vol. 1 (CD, Filth&Violence): New tracks are good, though I like the tracks from Amria & Private Venus more. Albanian Meat Market is quite a different style, long tracks, more atmospheric especially Silver Shoes, but good too.

Clamor (tape, self-released): No title, no label, no information, only listed as tracks I to IV. Bought it from them at the Noisefest. Structure is the same as the gig, starts quite calm and gets a bit rougher towards the end. Not bad, but the gig was better. It just sounded better.

Analfabetism - Av Hjord Är Du Kommen (CD, Malignant Records):When I first listened to it at work on the Malignant bandcamp I wasn't into it, but I gave it another try and concluded that it actually is interesting. Now when listening to the CD I've come to the conclusion that it's very good Death Industrial (even despite the name which is a bit I don't know, just doesn't sound too good). Especially the 5th track with the great percussive elements is very good.

Climax Denial - Dehumanizing Environments (CD, Malignant Records):This is really good! For the most part there are no vocals. Clear sound, very atmospheric, there's an ambient quality to this as the tracks are long and slowly moving, it gets progressively bleaker or so it seems. Great artwork too!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Scatmother - Purulent Sublimity (CD, Filth&Violence): Filthy layout and perverse lyrics, does the job well. Belt-Buckle Discipline is a good opener, that sample is very effective too. But then the rest of the noise, well, it's not bad, but it doesn't do much for me. The vocals do show a good degree of variation between the tracks (with and without effects), but the tracks themselves aren't very interesting, seems like not much is happening...

I think I was going to write about this but didn't? I listened this and new S.T.A.B. Electronics CD same day. Both vile stuff and crushing loud electronics. It's hard to draw line when something is like "pure power electronics", and when something appears like "noise with vocals". And to really define what is the difference. With these two cases, I would associate STAB to industrial/pe, while Scatmother sounded almost like grindcore transformed into electronics. Without being grindcore in the traditional sense of word. But instead of being at all "experimental" or innovative like the best of PE could be, it would be just vulgar blasting energy. Not saying it would be bad, just that there seems like significantly different motivations in making such stuff?

If PE from experimental side would seek interesting textures, rhythms and sound combinations, the other approach would be almost like downtuned guitar slamming, where anyone with lowest tune and exploding death metal distortion at max is fairly successful. It wouldn't matter if tracks are uniform to eachother or nothing so amazing happens within track. As said, it's very very thin like. I'm sure most would lump vast majority of power electronics into latter category without hesitation... One can't dispute the extreme brutality of Scatmother opening song! It's disc worth having even if not absolute hit album.

[Andrew McIntosh]

STAB Electronics "Day Of The Male" is pure heavy electronics satisfaction, indeed. I've heard a couple of Scatmother pieces on YouTube and they sound pretty okay to me in that format, so might be interested in this album.

The title track of Merzbow's "Psychorazor" is classic Merzbow in the full sense - all the swirling, jagged synth sounds and hard, harsh, constant forward motion, tension and release blurred together as with all the best Harsh Noise, a fucking brilliant reminder of how good Akita can get. The rest, though, left me underwhelmed, probably because it came after such a classic piece. More rhythm fucking, good on it's own but doesn't show up well compared to better material.

Right now listening to Third Organ's "The Pornography Of Despair" (a title I wish I'd thought of). Satisfactory stuff, fundamental cassette-era Harsh Noise, jagged but not too fast and spikey, lots of nice emphasis on screeching feedback at all tones and levels.

[cr]

Entre Vifs: No Signal (Impulsy Stetoskopu)

Released in 2015, but haven't seen much talk about this one. CD comes in a metal box with a nice booklet with pictures and descriptions of the used instruments and devices for this record (at least I think and hope so). For me, one of the best from last year.


Otherwise, this weekend will be full of listening to the 2nd volume of the Macronympha 6-tape boxsets - "Amplified Pittsburgh"

[ImpulsyStetoskopu]

Entre Vifs: No Signal (Impulsy Stetoskopu)
Released in 2015, but haven't seen much talk about this one. CD comes in a metal box with a nice booklet with pictures and descriptions of the used instruments and devices for this record (at least I think and hope so). For me, one of the best from last year.

Many thanks for these nice words. There are many (not only from my label) very interesting releases which are vanishing without any words... These words aren't so important finally, more important is that what is remaining in the mind.

[cr]

Entre Vifs: No Signal (Impulsy Stetoskopu)
Released in 2015, but haven't seen much talk about this one. CD comes in a metal box with a nice booklet with pictures and descriptions of the used instruments and devices for this record (at least I think and hope so). For me, one of the best from last year.

Many thanks for these nice words. There are many (not only from my label) very interesting releases which are vanishing without any words... These words aren't so important finally, more important is that what is remaining in the mind.

That's right! Thanks a lot for releasing it!

[vomitgore]

Entre Vifs: No Signal (Impulsy Stetoskopu)

Released in 2015, but haven't seen much talk about this one. CD comes in a metal box with a nice booklet with pictures and descriptions of the used instruments and devices for this record (at least I think and hope so). For me, one of the best from last year.


Otherwise, this weekend will be full of listening to the 2nd volume of the Macronympha 6-tape boxsets - "Amplified Pittsburgh"

I have Linekraft, Deathkey / BU and Deviated Sister TV from Impulsy Stetoskopu and all of these look and sound great (especially Linekraft). How is the Entre Vifs material? Have never paid a lot of attention to the project. "Noisy", percussive Industrial?

[burdizzo]

I remember, years and years ago, getting 'A Scent of Strength', and thinking it was pretty unexciting stuff. Nothing like the title suggested. Never followed them since, as a result, but now that I look for the CD - to see if my I still think the same - I can't find it the blasted thing...

[ImpulsyStetoskopu]

How is the Entre Vifs material? Have never paid a lot of attention to the project. "Noisy", percussive Industrial?

I think this performance includes some material from this CD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNt_8HEMC9k

[acsenger]

How is the Entre Vifs material? Have never paid a lot of attention to the project. "Noisy", percussive Industrial?

I only have their Heavy Duty CD which is harsh noise (from way back in 1986). They use self-made instruments that are pictured in the booklet. It's very "active" stuff, sounds like a lot of cut-up material in quick succession to create a fast-paced flow of harsh sound. Perhaps it gets a little monotonous after a while, but it's still quite unique stuff, thanks also to the band's futurist influences. You can't go wrong with this CD if you like harsh noise.