LISTEN AND DIE! 6x LP Box set
Urashima
Great release in many ways. Line-up is pretty solid. It has the big names, but also couple smaller ones. Most of all, everybody delivers. Pretty much all american bands are solid. I think Diktat may be at their strongest here, while Discordance perhaps at their worst. Atrax Morgue is plain insane. Somewhere in fine line of genious and stupid. Iugula Thor doing their better works. Sshe Retina Stimulants too.
My only complaint is basically why so many of these reissues have revisioned artworks. Especially front covers. In context of noise, I can't think of many less interesting things than blatant uniform presentation to utmost minimalism. When you got the same BOLD CAPS font just saying LISTEN AND DIE! in front of big black box... I just think how much better would have been just to use the Slaughter Productions original vision. Great box, what could be then just a notch greater.
VIDNA OBMANA "No Sacrifice" LP
Urashima
1984-1985 material compiled from No Sacrifice For The Weakling (1985 C30 Tape Zeal SS) and unreleased archived music. Not sure how the covers should look here, but as it's barely just re-issue, but more like compilation - and that it looks decent, it's ok!
This could be even the BEST V.O. what I have heard. Even if previous reissue on Urashima was good, I must say this is better! It's the 80's industrial noise in the way I like it most. It has crude sound, but it ain't just trying to be "rubbish". Instead it has innovation and composition and clever usage of all the brutally noise and grim sounds. All what it loses to modern day "aggro" and "filth", it wins simply on being structurally and texturally interesting.
A ton of stuff been on playlist, but not yet time for further comments...
