https://www.noisextra.com/2023/03/22/s-core-my-candle-has-died/Possibly my all time favorite S*Core. Episode consists bunch of references to interview in SI#12 (
http://www.nhfastore.net/si12 ). Only existing S*core interview conducted within... 20+ years?! It was done via letter mail, in Japanese, by Teito Sound Company boss Takahiko. At the same time inspiring, but also melancholic reading due the S*Core being gone.
This LP too, I doubt anyone has the masters and only small quantity of LP exists. That's how its going to be, and perhaps in S*Core way some stuff you let go, so new things can happen. S*Core probably doesn't exactly know how inspiring material has been to many people.
https://www.noisextra.com/2023/03/29/brighter-death-now-innerwar/Listened latest Noisextra and picked up year 2000 album of BDN into evening playlist. Simply because it must be one of the albums I have least memories. Classics are classics, but despite I have this one as LP and CD, didn't have that clear memories of it. Well, it is BDN allright! Sound he is very much known of, and amusinly enough, like gets mentioned in noisextra, we all know what he used as gear. He printed lists of gear in Innerwar sleeve for example. Regardless of that, even if he'd basically spawned sub-genre of its own, none of those bands really sound like BDN does. Also curiously, in Rogers interview, he mentioned that he doesn't understand artists who can just choose what they sound like and do that. He says when he does stuff, it just comes BDN. Its not sound he has chosen to do, but it is what comes when he starts to make sound and can't make something else. I doubt I have ever read any artist say that. Perhaps that is the crucial difference of BDN and those who just consciously try to emulate the master... ?
Episode did evaluate Innerwar meaning in BDN discography. Its brutality in sound, CD being on Relapse, being featured on Gummo film soundtrack, etc etc.. Perhaps episode could have discussed also little bit of context of genre itself. BDN as one of the biggest reasons why certain subgenre even exists. Not that he was totally alone creating the sound like this, but certainly for a lot of folks, I'd think it is safe to say, early SPK, Nekrophile Recordings and such were not things they were exposed to - but CMI and along it pitch black cold morbid sound of BDN was heard by a lot of people outside the core of industrial music. Now handful of decades later, it all seems old tales, but I am pretty sure that what to us seems 100000% obvious, there must be hundreds of new people along thousand(s) of Noisextra listeners who may be "what is this band?!" who could benefit from few nuggets of "obvious information"... ? There is great piece of writing on Bardo Methodology magazine (don't remember which issue, one of later) where lots of curious BDN/CMI related info is found.
