BEREFT / FIRE IN THE HEAD - 'MA/PE/FU' LP (Existence Establishment)
Massachusetts Power Electronics heavyweights go head-to-head in the first volume of the MA/PE/FU series. Fire in the Head is Michael Page, the prolific artist also behind Sky Burial and Irukandji who hails from Cape Cod. On Side A FITH offers a fast paced whirlwind of unrelenting noise complemented by ambient interludes, frantic samples, and rhythmic mayhem. Side B features the forsaken death industrial tinged power electronics of Salem, MA based Bereft. The brothers in arms behind this 2 man operation being Peter Lee of the long-running Force of Nature label, and Andy Grant who solos as The Vomit Arsonist. Bereft present a screeching feedback assault layered over heavy industrial rhythms to form 2 solid tracks of razor-sharp dissent. The line has been drawn. Ltd x 300 individually numbered copies with poster and insert.
FIRE IN THE HEAD - 'As The Nest Burns' CD (Autarkeia)
"As The Nest Burns” is an album about the darkest depths of psychosis, about the delusions and actions over which one has no control when entrenched in a manic state and the nightmares from which some never awaken. It is an album born in the blackest of times, to be listened to in the blackest of times. With this recording F/I/T/H experiments with new arsenal of sounds and techniques adding a heavily psychedelic edge to his mix of noise / power electronics / drone. These are the straight-jacketed screams from the bowels of a mental institution. Ltd x 400 copies.
FIRE IN THE HEAD - 'Come Closer Cut Deeper' CD (Nihilist)
This is a ripping experience, like being chewed in a turbine at 24 RPMS in pitch black! At the same time, it sustains a subliminal level of beauty & grace, unparallelled by any other artists in the genre. Vicious attacks by one Mike Page (USA) the visionary behind F/I/T/H. Hostile extreme electronics slice through organs like sharpened blades through ripened veal. Truly a masterpiece to be reckoned with! Please note this release has *extremely* grizzly artwork! Not for the faint-hearted in any sense!
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FIRE IN THE HEAD - 'Confessions Of A Narcissist' CD (Cold Spring CSR120CD)
"Confessions Of A Narcissist" marks the final full-length release by Fire In The Head ending six years of sonic warfare with an assault of manic, self-indulgent industrial electronics. Drawing as much influence from early punk / hardcore as from industrial / power electronics, F/I/T/H was conceived as a cathartic outlet to explore and ratify the delusions and social perversions resultant of psychosis and the darker side of man's conflicted dual nature, to fan the flames which engulf the borders between obsession, compulsion, lust and need. The tracks on this release were recorded in 2007-2008 and are the last of the "short, sharp, shock" vocal tracks which Michael abandoned in favour of "epic" length industrial / ambient compositions. Features guest appearances from Nick Blinko (Rudimentary Peni) and J. Randall (Agoraphobic Nosebleed), with exclusive artwork from Blinko.
From headlong infusions of psychedelic rock to the limitless furrows of doom, in "Happy Birthday" London's Hey Colossus has constructed an all conquering citadel of experimental/metal disrepair. The album is a rampaging fire-cloud of superstoked riffs and ever mounting walls of feedback, a rough house collection of battering new songs driven at sweltering pace by a band with a fearless momentum. The is the record that the band has always threatened to unleash - a pitch black album for our ever scorched earth. For fans of : Unsane, Neu!, Circle, Corrupted, Eyehategod, Fudge Tunnel, Sludge, Doom etc.
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KEPLERS ODD - 'Strena Seu De Nive Sexangula (A New Year's Gift Of Hexagonal Snow)' CD (Fractured Spaces Records)
From the darkest and coldest heart of Sweden comes the trio known as Keplers Odd (headed by Daniel Jansson of Deadwood). Seven tracks of noisy, yet subtly ambient guitar-driven sonic attacks, eerily redolent of the icy cold mysterious aurora-wrapped landscapes prevalent throughout Northern Europe, inhabited by creatures and monsters spawned from the myths and legends told around campfires over countless generations. Keplers Odd create textures, ambience and noise. But there is also quiet subtlety, sinister atmospherics and dark occult moods. Digipak. Ltd x 1000.
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MIKE PAGE - 'Page' CD (At War With False Noise)
The first solo release from Fire In The Head's Mike Page is finally issued on Scottish label At War With False Noise. This is one long and untitled U.S. Noise / Power Electronics piece, clocking it at almost 44 minutes and is fucking brutal! Ltd x 500 copies only!
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SKY BURIAL - 'Threnody For Collapsing Suns' CD (Small Doses / Phage Tapes)
Sky Burial (aka Michael Page of Fire in the Head) has been exploring the dark ambient side of industrial music since 2006, evolving into a unique and steadfast in the genre. "Threnody For Collapsing Suns" is a triptych clocking in at over 50 minutes - thoughtfully composed; incorporating deep drones, shimmering synth work, and lamenting melodic lines. The disparate layers come together to form a surprisingly organic, well-crafted narrative. Threnody continues Sky Burial’s journey into the nebulous dusk of “Kosmische Musik”, and forms part of a loose trilogy with the preceding Kiehtan and forthcoming Aegri Somnia. Ltd x 500 copies.
TenHornedBeast's third album for Cold Spring was recorded from 2006-2009. This album introduces subtle changes to the established THB sound with delicate interludes separating longer tracks that rage with heavy distortion and doom-drone barbarism. "Hunts & Wars" progresses the established THB sound using leaden, sub-tuned bass guitar to create rhythms and riffs that dominate a battlefield of vast ritual percussion and droning walls of electric dissonance, creating epic and expansive textures that by turns burn with frost and freeze with fire. Influenced by the oneiric visions of Robert E Howard and Lord Dunsany. "Hunts & Wars" seeks to evoke the elemental, anti-modern fantasias of these writers and is presented in a 6-panel digipak (with spot-metallic finish) designed by graphic designer Kevin Yuen (Sunn O))), Wolves In The Throne Room) to its full grotesque glory. The days have come when the steel will rule. Titans arise, monuments fall. Ballads of victory and defeat are sung aloud as from the highest steps we are swept on to the eternal Hunts and Wars.
THE HERMAPHRODITIC CHAORDER OF THE SILVER DUSK - '156=Musick=Babalon=Kaos' CD (Zoharum)
An experiment of Process: Magickal Musick recorded by members of The HermAphroditic ChAOrder of the SILVER DUSK - usually in ritual context or with invocational intent - then posted on CD to other member/s in another country for them to add more layers to. This continued progressively until completion. The style of music ranges from neoclassical ambient orchestral multi-instrumental corroborations and layered electronic experimentations to simple primal ritual corroborators with sticks and bells and harmonious voices around a fire by the Hekate Tree. 156 is the number of Babalon, the fiery Thelemic Goddess and also of Kaos, the 7-headed beast on which she rides. Dedicated to and inspired by Coil. Stunning 6-panel digipak with 6 x card inserts.
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TORTURECIDE - 'The Gospel Of Force!' CD (Hydra)
A side-project of the artist known as Subklinik (Profane Grace). Torturecide are a controversial artistic Noise project that combine challenging sounds with a barrage of aural hate and confrontation. Brutal Power Electronics in the style of Slogun, Fire In The Head, Grunt, Steel Hook Prostheses etc. Extreme Noise frequencies with screaming vocals. Not for the faint-hearted! Hydra is a division of the Salvation Group.
UK 5£
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VA - 'Lagrimas De Miedo Nº14 - Charbons Ardents / Coal Fire' CD & Magazine (Fear Drop)
This edition is entirely dedicated to The Cure's "P*rnography", with a study of the album itself (in French and English), and presents 8 bands covering the original tracklisting: Nadja 'One Hundred Years", Dirge "A Short Term Effect", Savage Republic "The Hanging Garden", Wild Shores "Siamese Twins", Year Of No Light "The Figurehead", Kill The Thrill "A Strange Day", Troum "Cold", Contagious Orgasm "P*rnography". Comes with the 14th issue of the Fear Drop magazine.
UK 12£
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VA - 'United States Bestial Forces' 3 x CD (L-White Records)
A massive 50 pearls of US Power Electronics bands! Featuring a great mix of older and newer US PE acts: Bereft, Bitchneck, Blessed Sacrifist, Blood Rhythms, Churner, Constrictions, Corephallism, Corpuscle, Cunting Daughters, Custodian, Deeper Wells, Deterge, False Flag, Fire In The Head, Frailty Of Angels, Genocide Lolita, Gnawed, Goatlab, Grammal Seizure, Heavy Breathing, Hierchiss, His Throne, James Balster, Josh Hydeman, Klit, Koufar, Machismo, Magia Nuda, Mania, Miscreant, Murderous Vision, Nyarlathotep, Nyodene D., Pharmakon, Rape-X, Richard Ramirez, R.S.P., RU-486, Secret Guilt, Sharpwaist, Slogun, Steel Hook Prostheses, Streetmeat, Striations, The Thin White Puke, The Vomit Arsonist, Violent Pink, Wolverine Carcass, Xiphoid Dementia and Zulanwar. Ltd x 500 copies in a 6-panel digisleeve. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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VARGHKOGHARGASMAL - 'Drowned In Lakes' CD (Tumult)
This one-man German act creates a difficult sound to describe... The vocals are minimal, a hushed whisper here and there, a Viking style chant during one song, but it's mostly left to the music, which is incredibly evocative, it's like some sort of acoustic black metal, mixed with slowed down surf rock, dark languorous krautrock, and a distinct Morricone vibe too. Most of the songs creep and crawl, sometimes behind a curtain of rainfall, the sound of the forest spirits, flickering firelight, fireflies lighting up the canopy overhead. Pianos pick out mournful melodies, the drums, lurching along, a perfectly imperfect accompaniment, organs wheeze, synths whir, steel strings twang, the whole thing so impossibly transcendent, effortlessly evoking ancient atmospheres and deep emotions. Hauntingly beautiful. Ltd x 1000 copies.
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VOIDWORK - 'Horror/Forsaken' CD (Black Drone)
A beautiful release by VoidWork featuring vocals from Ann-Mari Thim (Arcana, Seventh Harmonic). "Horror/Forsaken" is a double-headed album based loosely on the concepts of fear, abandonment and mankind's meaningless place in an impersonal Universe. "Horror", the first half of the release, is relatively song oriented and was inspired musically by 90s darkwave, as well as traditional melodies of both Eastern and Western culture. "Forsaken" mainly carries traditional dark ambient influences and focuses on atmosphere rather than on conventional song structure or sound. Both dark halves come together to make a black whole that is organic in its origin and purpose. From waking to sleep, birth to death. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak. Australian import.
WINTERBLOOD - 'Le Fredde Ali Del Inverno' CD (Frozen Landscapes Records)
Debut album from this Italian act, formed in Firenze in 1996, but on ice until now. 3 tracks (47 minutes) of pure sombre Dark Ambient, inspired by astral projections, initiations, untouched places, arcane geometries, solitude and frozen landscapes. "...their debut album meanders on its dark journey through crystalline streams and misty mountains utilising its dark ambient confines to noble and magisterial effect. The mood created is often one of immense loss and tragedy; time stands still while silent mourners stand, heads bowed in dark flowing cloaks, hands clasped in a futile bid to deny the cold. The synths never sound overworked, employed with the idea of giving each composition a life of arboreal quality - slow, noble, and wise. Obvious comparisons could be drawn with Vinterriket but Winterblood have their own quality and I feel hugely optimistic about their future" (Asgard Root). Ltd x 500 copies.
