ASKA - 'Dar Vanvett Gror' CD (Total Holocaust Records)
Debut full-lengther from Aska. After one demo and two splits mainman Pisk of Aska unleashes his most punishing work to date. With lyrics working around drug abuse and hatred, fuelled together with a violent production and sound, makes this the most complete Aska recording to date. This is not aimed to please your ears, you will not feel good when listening to this macabre and twisted journey into Pisk's tormented mind, there's only agony and hatred to be found here. Black Metal / Noise. Ltd x 1000 copies.
GALERIE SCHALLSCHUTZ - 'H.A.A.R.P.' CD (Tesco Organisation)
Based on a US military project referred to as HAARP ([High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program) near Gakona, Alaska, the material on Galerie Schallschutz's debut album is composed of extended structures that usually evolve from and into pulsating frequency patterns and deep enveloping patterns of noise. Crisp production and a subtle use of the stereo spectrum is used throughout. Presented in a super jewelbox.
Originally released on cassette in 2004 in a limited edition of 100 copies, "Badb" is one of the earliest releases from the Saskatchewan-based black metal / noise duo Wold. The nine tracks featured here revolve around the mythology of the war goddess, the spectre of doom that lurks at the edge of the battlefield. It begins at the heart of a roiling black blizzard and proceeds through a charred nightmare soundscape of icy corroded black metal riffs, fractured blasting, melancholic melodies blurred and smeared into malevolent new shapes, and scathing distorted witch-screams ripping through the blackness, all doused and drowned in Merzbowian levels of feedback and distortion abuse. Now presented on CD for the first time, this early swarm of Wold's psychotropic black metal / noise terror comes with all-new artwork from Pippi Zornoza. A stunning blast of black noise metal, highly recommended to devotees of extreme distorted evil. Digipak.
