PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[P.i.L.-Lu]

Xenophobic Ejaculation - Vala
My favorite material from this project, definitely XE at its very best. The buried vocals and samples that slowly emerge slightly above the mix only to recede again. I find the second tape great to just relax and work on art to.

You got that right. One of the finest by XE, ever. Soundwise it is just top notch, filthy and natural, a total trip.

The second cassette shows hefty balls. Now, who else has balls to put that kinda recording covering the whole tape? Well, Rockwell/Ramleh had, too. And I don't mean the content, but how to make it work as a listening experience.

Yeah, now there's ZSS who does it, too, but I see ZSS uses it more like distancing aural collage creating transgressive effect, not like an in your face statement you don't wanna hear, but being forced to listen to anyway the way XE does.

Props to the man behind XE for not softening his take on like Rockwell/Ramleh did when explaining G.L. Rockwell's words being "over the top".

[brutalist_tapes]

have been drinking schnaps, smoking and listening to crude & bleak harsh noise.. standing strong in the face of another meaningless day of existence!

treriksröset - sexregler
what can you say? hard to explain why this works.. cool distortion pedals and right attitude? nonetheless a classic, in my eyes. liked everything i've heard so far. anyone heard the new LP? should probably be good.. there is just something about this project for me, hard to pinpoint, essential northern harsh noise.

mathausen orchestra - necrofellatio
one of my all-time favourites, and this tape is one of his better ones, although i love them all. total audio abuse and sonic filth without any other purpose than polluting the air waves. excellent! still some of the most intense stuff out there, for my money.

wince - traum
never gave this a chance until now but it is amazing. cool concept, amazing sounds.. the album has a kind of recognizable quality in a way, i think.. maybe it's just the cover art and the fact that it's so well-executed, therefore memorable.. modern classic? i would almost say so. kind of new to this project, stupidly enough, but the LP on tordon ljud should surely be worth checking out?

thinking about listening to enancephalophonic next, a fine contemporary purveyor of the evil harsh noise..

[FallOfNature]

Peste Noire - La Sanie Des Siècles - Panégyrique De La Dégénérescence
Only album of PN that I really like and listen to. Not a lot else to say about this that forum users probably don't know.

Setherial - Nord
I decided to revisit this after the announcement of the LP reissue. Fast Swedish Black Metal that never quite reached the heights of their peers in Marduk or Dark Funeral at that time. Unfortunate really when I consider them a superior band for the most part. No exception here, and the second album is fantastic too. New LP cover is shit however, so I'll stick to my old CD for now.

Heretic Grail - S/T
Another solid release. Didn't grab the tape but the bandcamp will do for now. Hopefully there's a CD or LP release next!

Subklinik - Of Bones And Death
Subklinik doing what he does ie catatonic Death Industrial. I prefer this release over the previous one by a touch.

[Andrew McIntosh]

Subklinik - Of Bones And Death
Subklinik doing what he does ie catatonic Death Industrial. I prefer this release over the previous one by a touch.

Not sure if I'm following the chronology correctly, but more recent Subklinik leans more to Dark Ambient than Death Industrial. This release is almost BDN pastiching, which is not a bad thing in this case.

[Baglady]

HARNESS - Sweeping Nature's Back C30 (Idiopathic)
More rough and mean than any previous recordings I've heard from this duo. Crusty earthy textures belched out in unhealthy fog, side A really sets the mood. It's on the flipside where it gets menacing for real though, bringing the grit of side A with them while at the same time ending up not far from ZONE NORD's Roferon A, with their own particular murk intact. I really like this direction, and hope to hear them explore this oozing hole further and deeper. Very strong tape!

[FallOfNature]

Subklinik - Of Bones And Death
Subklinik doing what he does ie catatonic Death Industrial. I prefer this release over the previous one by a touch.

Not sure if I'm following the chronology correctly, but more recent Subklinik leans more to Dark Ambient than Death Industrial. This release is almost BDN pastiching, which is not a bad thing in this case.

It can be difficult to know, the discogs page is all fucked up and I think there's 2 self titled releases. With the reissue series I'm doing it should put everything into correct chronology to an extent.

Monotheistic... that I released was certainly dark ambient. Of Bones and Death gives me total Megaptera/BDN/Black Slaughter era Atrax Morgue vibes, I'd personally class it as Death Industrial but that's a term that people often disagree on.

[brutalist_tapes]

listened to the rita - voyage.. the killing sessions (SE/treriksröset) cherry point - night of.. yesterday while on shrooms.. was heavy man, groovy vibes. gained a new appreciation for this kind of stuff. used to be of those mostly PE-guys, but i've begun (also before the shrooms.. haha) to appreciate HARSH noise more and more. still not a big fan of the overtly spastic stuff though.. but maybe i can still learn?

[FreakAnimalFinland]

PSYCHO EX-GIRLFRIEND tape
Bacteria Field
Huh huh... first side being loooong answering machine messages from desperate crying ex-girlfriend going mental. Sets up the mood to erase all the petty issues for blasting harsh noise of the b-side!

ATROPHIST / YANA split tape
October 2018 live recordings from both, from Lepakkomies venue in Helsinki. I have very limited experiences with Atrophist, but YANA is obviously something I'm very familiar with. For some artists, live tape may not me ideal format, but these two succeed very well. YANA has always been studio-live recordings of the duo, so live situation barely changes how it's done. Perhaps noisier. Quality of sound little bit messier. But good tape. Should look into Atrophist's discography later on...

DETERGE "Prince of palo alto" tape
Bacteria Field
This ain't so different from split LP with Mania, but somehow Deterge's "noise with vocals" approach to power electronics works for me best on tape. At least at the moment. One can't really say there would be tracks on can really remember. There is ripping energy and noisiness.

ANTICHILDLEAGUE "Infect Your Gut Infect Your Thoughts " tape
Bacteria Field
Fuck! Knowning ACL since early days of the project, how often you can conclude that almost 20 years of recordings and suddenly band produces their greatest works? Is it the move to smaller edition tape format, that made artists to add extra noisiness and extra brutality to sound? It is ripping and fierce. Good vocals, good sounds. Still it has industrial feel to it, due having actual tracks. 8 of them, totalling c. 50 minutes. If you ask me, 100 copies edition of this on tape is good - yet this would deserve to be CD album as well. It is unlikely Euro industrial audience is going to hear it otherwise?

FACTOR X "Tubeway army" tape
Anarchonismus
Older tape release picked randomly from box of tapes. Opened handmade wallpaper sleever and inside is small booklet and Factor X tape. Broken records and other sound sources, assembled into noisy yet surreal music collage. Could be lumped together with some AMK and J.Hammer recordings.

[brutalist_tapes]

leibstandarte ss mb - triumph of the will
say what you will, i think the samples work very well - actually adding something, in my opinion. combined with some of, for me, m.b.'s finest musical work makes this a classick in my eyes. mandatory come org. stuff for those interested in the deranged ways of industrial musick..

world - discography
this band simply ROCKS, in a non-fun-rock-'n-roll way. they simply blast their way through your shitty ear holes to your fucked brain. maybe on of the very best in noisecore? at least in my opinion. could be seen as a precursor to acts like intolitarian? not much of a fan of deathkey, but his approach in the aforementioned project is right up my alley!

cock and ball torture - opus(sy) iv
stupid but effective. i love this kind of stuff when it is done right, same goes for GUT. not much to say.. groovy riffs & gargling vocals.. some samples from porno flicks and the like. either you hate it or you love it! but this is one of those releases that are done right.

der stürmer - transcendental racial idealism
they really perfected that militant NS black/war metal thing by now, in my opinion. primitive, evil & hateful - like black metal should be. one of the few bands that is still too extreme for your "cool" friends. hail!

[online prowler]

ANTICHILDLEAGUE "Infect Your Gut Infect Your Thoughts " tape
Bacteria Field
Fuck! Knowning ACL since early days of the project, how often you can conclude that almost 20 years of recordings and suddenly band produces their greatest works? Is it the move to smaller edition tape format, that made artists to add extra noisiness and extra brutality to sound? It is ripping and fierce. Good vocals, good sounds. Still it has industrial feel to it, due having actual tracks. 8 of them, totalling c. 50 minutes. If you ask me, 100 copies edition of this on tape is good - yet this would deserve to be CD album as well. It is unlikely Euro industrial audience is going to hear it otherwise?

For me, this is one of the stand out album releases of last year - much in gratitude to the harrowing and violent vocal performances of ACL and genuine atmosphere of the record. Sold out quite quick to my knowledge, regardless of this I would say the record deserves a wider cirulation for the quality of the material alone. If not compact disc or vinyl, then digital at least. The latter might be a fact as I type, I don't know. Hellish effort, reader,grab a copy if you have a chance to track one dwn.

[Lazrs3]

ANTICHILDLEAGUE "Infect Your Gut Infect Your Thoughts " tape
Bacteria Field
Fuck! Knowning ACL since early days of the project, how often you can conclude that almost 20 years of recordings and suddenly band produces their greatest works? Is it the move to smaller edition tape format, that made artists to add extra noisiness and extra brutality to sound? It is ripping and fierce. Good vocals, good sounds. Still it has industrial feel to it, due having actual tracks. 8 of them, totalling c. 50 minutes. If you ask me, 100 copies edition of this on tape is good - yet this would deserve to be CD album as well. It is unlikely Euro industrial audience is going to hear it otherwise?

For me, this is one of the stand out album releases of last year - much in gratitude to the harrowing and violent vocal performances of ACL and genuine atmosphere of the record. Sold out quite quick to my knowledge, regardless of this I would say the record deserves a wider cirulation for the quality of the material alone. If not compact disc or vinyl, then digital at least. The latter might be a fact as I type, I don't know. Hellish effort, reader,grab a copy if you have a chance to track one dwn.

I loved this release, I think it was up there as far as her material goes. I liked the Rita split too. I have all the material and don't think she's done a bad release. I'd like to see an album on Vinyl.

[absurdexposition]

LINEKRAFT - Engineering Analysis of Inner Death LP
I'll need to revisit this soon because I felt like the A-side just kept getting better and better and I was prepared to make an addendum to my year-end list, but then the B-side left a bit to be desired. For some reason the abrasiveness seems to take a few steps back when the record is flipped.

PRURIENT - The History of Aids LP
Still one of the best things ever. Recently came back to it after a number of years and it always hangs around the playlist for a few days.

[brutalist_tapes]

LINEKRAFT - Engineering Analysis of Inner Death LP
I'll need to revisit this soon because I felt like the A-side just kept getting better and better and I was prepared to make an addendum to my year-end list, but then the B-side left a bit to be desired. For some reason the abrasiveness seems to take a few steps back when the record is flipped.

PRURIENT - The History of Aids LP
Still one of the best things ever. Recently came back to it after a number of years and it always hangs around the playlist for a few days.

maybe THoA is his best album after all? all the more atmospheric stuff is cool too, but that one is just so RIPPIN'..

[GEWALTMONOPOL]

Subjective of course but my favourite Prurient album remains Black Vase. It's his nastiest most primal during a stretch of harsh albums that kept coming over the course of that time period.

[brutalist_tapes]

Subjective of course but my favourite Prurient album remains Black Vase. It's his nastiest most primal during a stretch of harsh albums that kept coming over the course of that time period.

yeah, one of his best together w/THoA.. and the black-ish vocals are a nice touch!