BLACK ELK - 'Always A Six, Never A Nine' CD (Crucial Blast)
The 2nd album from Portland, OR aggro wreckers Black Elk, whose psychotic brand of crushing, noise-rock influenced heaviosity is a return to the unhinged underground rock force of bands like Jesus Lizard, Melvins, Black Flag and Hammerhead. This album features ten songs of seething weirdness, with the dissonant, crushing riffage, lunging rhythmic push and awesome freaked out, Yow-esque vocals of singer Tom Glose that made their debut a fave among anyone who remembered the days when Amphetamine Reptile ruled the underground rock scene, but with some interesting new elements (bleak, blackened guitar ambience, a smattering of piano, skyreaching guitar harmonies) that add new shadows to Black Elk's ferocious sound. Hardback gatefold digifile.
BLACK LEATHER JESUS - 'The Defining Love (Top / Bottom Exchange)' CD (Shamanic Trance)
All new material of harsh / junk noise from the line-up of Richard Ramirez, Sean Matzus, Kevin Novak (T.E.F.), Scott Houston (Respirator), Robert Newsome, Vance Osborne and Thomas Mortigan. Also features a collaboration with Ascites. The CD comes housed in a black paper wallet, which is packaged in a pro-printed 7” folded cover. Limited edition of 300 copies. Greek import. ACT FAST!
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BLACK LEATHER JESUS / POLLUTIVE STATIC - 'Black Leather Jesus / Pollutive Static Split' 7" (Phage Tapes / Violent Noise Atrocities)
Split 7" between Richard Ramirez's Texas noise unit Black Leather Jesus and Hal Hutchinson's all out harsh UK project Pollutive Static. Ltd x 300 copies in a screen-printed foldout sleeve with extreme artwork.
Blind Jesus are Stefano Pillia and Andrew Hooker. This is a journey into free improv noise ambient performed by the duo comprised of Stefano Pilia (3/4havebeeneliminated) on guitar, audio collages and effects, and media artist Andrew Hooker on electronics. Ltd x 300 copies with a full-size insert. Italian import.
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BURIAL HEX - 'Book Of Delusions' CD (Cold Spring CSR166CD)
During the period in which Clay Ruby first began working on this piece of art, he had become so completely surrounded by evil and deception that he was forced to begin summoning a particularly extreme and ancient force of protection and vitality just to make it alive through the end of 2008. Aside from spiritually fortifying Ruby's life, the complexities of these new elemental entities brought with them circumstances causing a much more rich and intense recording experience than he could have ever composed on his own. Classic horror electronics and post-industrial apocalyptic soundscapes with unsettling notes, anguished cries and voices of the dead. His most ritualistic album yet. Reissue of the extremely limited LP with bonus tracks taken from the split LPs with ZOLA JESUS and KINIT HER, all available on CD for the first time! All tracks have been carefully remastered.
Fragment. is Thierry Arnal (Methadrone) and Nicolas Dick (Kill The Thrill, Strings Of Consciousness). "Home" juxtaposes heavy guitar sounds and weightless vocals in a mix of drone, shoegaze and dark post-rock styles. Fragment. bring together Godflesh and Low, in what is often referred to as the French answer to Jesu. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
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GOLGATHA AND DAWN & DUSK ENTWINED - 'Sang Graal' CD (Cold Meat Industry)
’Sang Graal’ is an opus magnum, built in symbiotic collaboration during the last two years by the French masters of martial neo-classic Dawn and Dusk Entwined and the German Ritual-folk-band Golgatha. Both bands worked on all tracks together, combining their styles and forces to create a powerful neo-classical-folk-opera with occasional glimpses of soundtrack pathos and dark ambience. Martial tunes like ’The Messiah’ or ’Cross of Lorraine’ and majestic folk hymns like ’Crusade’ and ’A Seeker Divine’ will rule the darkest dance floors worldwide, while introspective ballads invite those interested in a deep listening experience. The title refers to the myth of the Saint Graal, the ’holy grail’, and the ’sang réal’, the bloodline of Jesus Christ. ’Sang Graal’ is true aural mythology! Digipak.
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HKY - 'HKY' CD (Music Fear Satan)
French act HKY unleash their first effort: four-long-tracks recorded by Julien Lamorille in Bethune (April 2008). The result sounds like dark and cold doom metal with a lots of programming, samples and keyboards which give the record a very particular gloomy atmosphere. All the members are part of other bands and musical projects but the strength of HKY is their massive own universe beyond each track and their musical block between Jesu, Isis, Gnaw and Darkspace. Ltd x 1000 copies in a digisleeve.
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HKY - 'HKY' LP (Music Fear Satan)
French act HKY unleash their first effort: four-long-tracks recorded by Julien Lamorille in Bethune (April 2008). The result sounds like dark and cold doom metal with lots of programming, samples and keyboards which give the record a very particular gloomy atmosphere. All the members are part of other bands and musical projects but the strength of HKY is their massive own universe beyond each track and their musical block between Jesu, Isis, Gnaw and Darkspace. Ltd x 500 copies on black vinyl in a gatefold, die-cut, matt sleeve.
Debut EP from this French duo containing the two title tracks and two remix tracks. 'Psychoide' is a "gorgeous soft cacophony of epic post rock drift", while 'Participation Shift' has "deep soft swells of shimmering warmth and distant bits of industrial clatter, a slow burning ambient drift that is eventually joined by a simple motorik rhythm". The two remix tracks are: 'Psychoide' remixed by SCANNER (Robin Rimbaud) and Participation Mystic remixed by JESU (Justin Broadrick of Final, Techno Animal, Godflesh). The result is a very cinematic, mesmerising warm piece of music, spanning 43 minutes. Limited to 1000 copies in a nice digipak with sticker.
Two titans of doom / guitar drone collaborate together. The result is heartstopping, taking a similar path to Jesu. Massive guitars, mountainous bass, tribal drums, choral vocals. Sublime - essential. Ltd x 750 copies in a black with silver-print sleeve on heavyweight vinyl. One side is good old-fashioned 'acid etched'. ACT FAST!
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NADJA - 'Skin Turns To Glass' CD (The End Records)
CD reissue of the very limited release on NOTHingness Records (2003). Nadja creates music that has been variously described as drone metal, ambient doom, and shoegazer, incorporating influences from such diverse artists as Swans, Godflesh, Jesu, Sunn O))), Earth, OM and My Bloody Valentine. Nadja combines soundscapes, electronics and atmospheric vocals with snail-crawl, epic riffs and dirge-like percussion, tempering the cacophany with a certain ethereal melodicism such that the listener is enveloped in a sublimating wall of amorphous sound.
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NADJA / BLACK BONED ANGEL - 'S/T' CD (20 Buck Spin)
A monumental cross-continental collaboration between Canada's prolific neo-doom duo Nadja and New Zealand's pitch black droners Black Boned Angel. The two 20+ minutes tracks contained on this self-titled collaboration have a less accessible vibe then the Jesu-like track on last year's 'Christ Send Light' EP. There are no vocals to be heard. They are comprised in equal parts of Nadja's fuzzed-out, lurching and hazy dream-doom, and BBA's razor-sharp metallic riff-shards. Extended passages of riff-static noise bleeds one track into the next while deep space eerieness looms ever present in the shadows. Finally the whole thing collapses under the weight of its own self-created black hole. This is the end. Digipak.
Priest In Shit is the harsh noise junk metal project of Sean Matzus, Vance Osborne and Richard Ramirez. The material on "Icon/Effigy" ranges from layered metal abuse to thick harsh noise. Ltd x 200 copies in a screenprinted sleeve with insert and sticker designed by Jovan Hernandez (Anatomy Of A Blackout, Black Leather Jesus).
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RICHARD RAMIREZ / BLACK LEATHER JESUS - 'Scrapyard' CD (Phage Tapes / RONF Records)
Re-issue of this classic Harsh Noise picture disc LP, originally released back in 1995 by German label Praxis Dr. Bearmann. Includes the bonus Richard Ramirez track 'Just Like Me', which wasn't on the original vinyl release, making up 51 minutes of music. A rare gem in the American Harsh Noise scene! Ltd x 500 copies with new artwork by Jovan Hernandez.
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SION ORGON - 'The Zsigmondy Experience' CD (Lumberton Trading Company)
The second album by Thighpaulsandra and Coil affiliate, once more gushing splendidly with so many universe-mulching ideas that it's difficult not to wonder what's floating around the air in his native Wales these days. From menacing near-ambience and the massive, punk 'n' Prog-bloated 'I'm in Blackout' to vocoded passages over the very same electronic insanity that's spewed out Stockhausen and Xenakis, there's much to wrestle with your mind's deepest and darkest corners here. Collaborators include Coil's Sleazy, Mike Edwards (Jesus Jones' singer), Frank Naughton (Rocketgoldstar and ex-Uziq) Gaz Williams (Rocketgoldstar), The Grangetown String Ensemble, The Chung Chinese Ensemble and others.
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TENHORNEDBEAST / MARZURAAN - 'The Law Of The Needle / Into Countless Battles' CD (Aurora Borealis)
TenHornedBeast is the dark vision of Christopher Walton, part of the much feted Endvra, masters of 90s dark and occult ambient. 'Law Of The Needle', clocking in at over 28 minutes, is an oppressive opus of doomed drone, both monolithic and multifaceted. Marzuraan contribute 13 minutes of narcotic guitar haze. Their previous gruff metal grunts have been replaced by a subdued, almost crushed vocal. This is epic, like a bassier, looser, Mogadon dosed JESU with a man past caring roped in to give his thoughts on where its all gone wrong. Printed on heavy textured card and with 2 die cut runes. Comes in a PVC archive bag with a transparent sticker.
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VA - 'Nihilist Assaultcore' CD (Industrial Recollections / Freak Animal)
Originally released in 1994 by Zero Cabal, this infamous international Power Electronics / Noise / Industrial compilation features: with Black Leather Jesus, Control Resistance, Daniel Menche, Fuck The World / Cunnyplug, Incapacitants, Macronympha, Nimoy, Streicher, The Grey Wolves and W-Project. Features the original artwork, sound taken from original master tapes, but with volume levels balanced better than original tape, though with no additional cleaning or boosting! Don't buy if you're easily offended. Seriously. Don't.
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VA - 'Tension State Of Collapsing Vol. I & II' 2 x CD (Industrial Recollections / Freak Animal)
1995-1996 could be described as the golden years of Texas noise. These 2 compilations curated by Richard Ramirez, originally released on tape, proves it. Known for harshness and simple ear assaulting qualities, this compilation also shows the nightmarish industrial-noise edge of clanging metals, tape manipulations, fierce feedback and brutal samples. 28 tracks from: Alfa Jerk, Black Leather Jesus, Carbomb Side Show & Controlled Filter, Electro Anal Kink, Fetus Furs, Kaibutsu, Infant Erection, Limacon, Manplug, Mass Murder Media, Operant Eye, Powdered Beatles, Richard Ramirez, Rotten Piece, Scrotal Termites, Slave Labor, Stab Range, Test Edit Franchise, Three Know, Threshold Of Sleep, Trifle, White Wall and Zahava. Features re-prints of the original artwork.
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VALLEY OF FEAR - 'Valley Of Fear' CD (Turgid Animal / Legion Blotan)
Debut release from the new collaborative project of Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Sunroof!, Total, Hototogisu), Justin Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu, Final) and Samantha Davis (Voltigeurs, Skullflower). Four tracks of off kilter and noisy black metal influenced experimental rock, with trademark sounds from each member thrown into a melting pot. Harsh and glorious! Ltd x 500 copies.
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VANESSA VAN BASTEN - 'La Stanza Di Swedenborg' CD (Eibon Records / Radiotarab / Noise Cult / Cold Current Productions)
Vanessa Van Basten is a strongly emotional sonic magma that absorbs and metabolises different sonic influences, from the introspective metalcore / heavy Postrock of Jesu and Neurosis to the experimental metal drones of Sunn O))), from Lycia and Slowdive melancholy-driven soundscapes to the cinematic melodies of Morricone and Badalamenti. Astonishment, meditation, psychotropic medias, cynism and human misery. Welcome to the Swedenborg Room. Outsized digisleeve with printed inner sleeve.
The second full-length album from this Russian act. "Horna" was inspired by the Finnish-Karelian folk-epos “The Kalevala”. Part dirge ambient-drone atmospherics, part noisy black-doom horror, the album's five epic compositions sucked inspiration from Lustmord, Skullflower, Earth, SunnO))), Khanate, Nadja, Jesu, and belched them out into breathtakingly emotional, bass generated audio nightmares, with signs of melodic and rhythmic organisation. An avalanche of dark apocalyptic images hovering over countless layers of sound and distorted sporadic vocals.
