AUSTRALIA - Industrial / noise

[FallOfNature]

Expect a split tape with myself soon. Just an EP, one track each. We had planned a collab but with a lot on the plate for both of us, that will have to come later.

[NO PART OF IT]

NECKHOLD

fuck yeah, i was lucky enough to see them play at Red Light District several times while they were living in Queens NY, and every time it was insane. hands down some of the best & most action packed exciting live harsh noise i've ever heard. heavy energy with punishing execution. the unspoken communication between the two of them translated through live electronics was impressive to witness. where the Incapacitants revel in an ongoing trance of noise bliss, Neckhold's level of violence exploded so fiercely often sets were over in a matter of minutes and everything around them left a wreck.

they recorded and sent a master for an LP on Trash Ritual but soon after the label ceased activity and it was shelved. the brothers turner several times said they would mail it to me to release as a cassette on collapsed hole noise, along with new material, but nothing ever arrived. still hoping a package shows up at my door someday...

until then - if anyone has the Neckhold tapes on Sounddesign, Trapdoor, or Scumbag Relations for sale or trade in the US, drop me a PM! or anything not listed on discogs as well.

edit:
i'd also like to get ahold of this as well: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Scvm/release/2448538
"This compilation was released to document the unique and diverse wave of hardcore, grindcore and noisecore that came out of Australia between 2007 to 2008. Time for a bomgbong."

I'm sure I've said it before, but one of my favorite harsh noise projects.  Wish someone would get that unreleased material out.  The email I found for them ushered no response. 

[NO PART OF IT]

Kurt Volentine is from Australia (80s tape loop/noise guy).   Wish he could reissue some of that old stuff. 

[Electro Surgeon]

BLUNT FORCE HEAD TRAUMA

https://innercityuprising.bandcamp.com/album/retaliation

[no_baizuo_allowed]

Some humble thoughts on the W.O.L.C. ᛋᛋ covenant as we approach the 10 year mark. *Orig. Lineup only*

https://www.discogs.com/lists/-%F0%9D%94%92%F0%9D%94%91%F0%9D%94%8F%E1%9B%89-%F0%9D%94%97%E2%84%9C%F0%9D%94%98%F0%9D%94%88-%F0%9D%94%9A%F0%9D%94%92%F0%9D%94%8F%E2%84%AD%E1%9B%8B%E1%9B%8B-/630837

AMEN.

[Into_The_Void]

I don´t know that much about Australian scene beside some of the major and most influencial acts (like SPK), but I would like to suggest the Fanaticism tapes, perhaps the most interesting death industrial (and the closest thing to the Nekrophile stuff) recently released which I´ve listened to. Here a link to their bandcamp: https://fanaticism.bandcamp.com/

[expectorant]

I don´t know that much about Australian scene beside some of the major and most influencial acts (like SPK), but I would like to suggest the Fanaticism tapes, perhaps the most interesting death industrial (and the closest thing to the Nekrophile stuff) recently released which I´ve listened to. Here a link to their bandcamp: https://fanaticism.bandcamp.com/

When seeing the title of this thread pop up tonight, I immediately thought that I should mention Fanaticism. Quality stuff, with a minimal and effective aesthetic. Dark and mysterious atmosphere all around, from the sounds and visual presentation, to the label simply emerging and anonymously releasing a hearty amount of C60's (I love em long) over the course of two years, and then vanishing once their work was done.

Thanks to your post, I was happy to take a look at their Bandcamp and find that a previously unreleased piece ('Kreuzigungsmesse') was posted last Christmas. Glory to the new born king!

If anyone has copies of the 'On Wretchedness and Sin' and/or 'Ordensstaat / Imperiale Theologie' tapes for sale or trade, please do get in touch with me.

[Electro Surgeon]

TONE GENERATOR from SPK fame has a new full length coming out early next year!

[Into_The_Void]

I don´t know that much about Australian scene beside some of the major and most influencial acts (like SPK), but I would like to suggest the Fanaticism tapes, perhaps the most interesting death industrial (and the closest thing to the Nekrophile stuff) recently released which I´ve listened to. Here a link to their bandcamp: https://fanaticism.bandcamp.com/

When seeing the title of this thread pop up tonight, I immediately thought that I should mention Fanaticism. Quality stuff, with a minimal and effective aesthetic. Dark and mysterious atmosphere all around, from the sounds and visual presentation, to the label simply emerging and anonymously releasing a hearty amount of C60's (I love em long) over the course of two years, and then vanishing once their work was done.

Thanks to your post, I was happy to take a look at their Bandcamp and find that a previously unreleased piece ('Kreuzigungsmesse') was posted last Christmas. Glory to the new born king!

If anyone has copies of the 'On Wretchedness and Sin' and/or 'Ordensstaat / Imperiale Theologie' tapes for sale or trade, please do get in touch with me.

eheheh you´re more than welcome, yes their aesthetic is definitely one of the most interesting, and of course music-wise all the releases are great: low-fi, solemne yet raw, dissonant and utterly obscure ritual industrial veiled with noise. Yes the last release (you mean the 30 mins long digital only release, right?) is also very good.

[no_baizuo_allowed]

https://night-science.blogspot.com/2021/01/death-dedication-necroecclesia.html?m=1
Detailed review of a great recent release.

[morbid_dyspepsia]

I'm just going through my SOLAR ANUS cassette collection now. A short-lived Australian NOISE /PE label. All cassettes obtained between 2009-2011.

Label founder Andrew McIntosh (Screwtape, The Scroungers, Ethic Cleansing) generally provides a heavy brooding warmth of noise to his releases, only problem is they don't go for long enough! Funny because I remember he felt the same way about a few of my early releases.

This is a pretty stunning body of work here, shame I kind of over-looked it when I was younger. Glad I held on to these.

Current playlist-
The Haters / Screwtape
Von Einem / Screwtape
Screwtape - Mars In Cancer

[Electro Surgeon]

New 4 way split compilation of Aussie acts

https://innercityuprising.bandcamp.com/album/australian-noise-compilation-2x-cs

Down load it free

[no_baizuo_allowed]

Would be quite interesting to speculate on Nife Junger as the 'first' power electronics project in the southern hemisphere, based on a quote from a Xane interview. What we know: Extreme label. Rec'd 1983-84/released 1985. Somewhat akin to "MB or the more subdued moments of Mauthausen Orthestra" (quote).
For sure, something of that is kindled in this work, but that comes to mind more as an afterthought. With that said, considering this tape Gallows of Lust as something separate from Steicher's output is quite an interesting mental exercise. As far as I could dig into the background, NiFe is the innermost layer of the earth's core. Jünger can mean a 'disciple'... Not sure if its unrelated or if we should leave it at that. Ultimately this leaves more questions then answers - maybe that's the way things should be.
And I would love to get a better look at that front cover one day, as it's completely perplexing. I've tried tilting this image on its side and turning it upside down but still don't have total clarity.
And what's with the B-side title "The Lethal Waxworks"? Curiously abstract, but I like it.
But to ponder that the first "power electronics" release down here is a 30min prolonged cranial drill operation of synth pulsations, leaves me somewhat dumbfounded. Totally isolated one-man manoeuvre, way off the beaten path. Am I in some alternate universe? Because this is one very warped progenitor for Antipodean power electronics. Not even sure if we can definitively call it that. But again, it sure is fascinating to speculate.
At this stage, it seems to have left just a small burr hole in history.

[morbid_dyspepsia]

Some of my Solar Anus collection, hails downunder:

[no_baizuo_allowed]

Droll / Крот – split c20
Cretin Tapes, 2021

A split release of drone and concrète recorded in Tbilisi & Jakarta that is currently still available from the label and a couple more distros. Droll is on the drone-based side - with detail unfolding subtly, based around a tone that sounds like a slowed-down Georgian funeral chant. Not sure if that's the source, but it would make sense obviously. This side is slowly honing in on gradual shifts. Being his first release, one wonders whether Dross came into being during his journey to Georgia? ... & Крот, the mysterious ex-patriot project, has contributed a side that was recorded in Indonesia. Starting off with some kind of contact mic-focused scraping that is slowly enveloped by a more tape-loop based setting. The cassette releases of Крот, being longer than his 7", sort of remind me of Howard Stelzer - the kind of works that concretize a minute environment... Parts of the first LAE tape were recorded in Slavutych (a purpose-built village for Tchernobyl evacuees) and on the move throughout other parts of Ukraine. Крот on the longer cassette releases seems to usually be a grey-zone area of concrète sound-objects, something like an exploration of the environs of a stale couch in a room at the Poseidon Hotel (that was on the first LAE tape, "Посейдон Oтель"). Do time & place have anything to do with it? Environment and chance have everything to do with it.

Knowing nothing about either of these acts – all of that just written is pure conjecture. Still not sure where to place it or how to contextualize this one. The project can differ with each subsequent release - which is definitely a good thing for a project. One live Крот set I heard of a soundboard recording was total harsh noise indulgence; & the name itself comes from a drain cleaner brand involved in Krokodil injection. The cover has some kind of comic book image on the insert. By ingratiating themselves with the comic book panel, they have sort of become one with the strip. Did this tape come out before or after the visually-similar Крот t-shirt with the cartoon-ish Russian drain cleaner brand logo??? Much remains unanswered, but for those of us following the project (& the other Aust. experimental projects based in Tbilisi) this is a much welcomed new morsel from abroad.