Another pulverizing display of power from Thomas Garrison's Control. 7 tracks, thematically centered around the 7 deadly sins (with each track clocking in at 7 minutes), originally issued an extremely limited release (just 50 copies!) for the Elektroanschlag 11 Festival earlier this year. There is no atonement here, nor redemption offered. Just cold, jarring currents of massively built power electronics and horror filled death industrial, full of clamoring factory debris, razor sharp sheets of sonic violence, and grisly metallic grind, rounded out with Garrison's trademark vocal devastation. Digipak with design by John Balistreri (Slogun).
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
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FLUTWACHT - '30 Monkeys' CD (The Tourette Tapes)
Reissue of the extremely limited (30 copies) Apocalyptic Radio release from 2006, with bonus, previously unreleased, tracks. "30 Monkeys" is the soundtrack for a world controlled by apes, crushing machines and noisescapes. "The music is a degenerate mass of harsh electronic waves and patterns as savage as the primate of the title. Even when Flutwacht lower the decibel levels down a fraction the violent restraint is never far from the surface. A brooding seething mass of noise waiting to erupt once more. The production on this release is crisp and clean... and this gives the recording a greater sense of depth and bite allowing the hugely powerful electronics full reign to take centre stage... Take the best aspects of Propergol, minus the samples, and multiply the effect by ten" [Heathen Harvest]. Ltd x 300 copies in an A5 card envelope with insert.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
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LASIK SURGERY - 'Cyclo' CD & DVD (Silentes Minimal Editions)
Tense electronic plots, calm ambiental stasis, inserts of sharp and harsh metallic sonorities, distortions, filaments of subliminal melodies, masses of dark and penetrating low frequency drones. The journey of Lasik Surgery starts with a whirlwind of atmospheres and perpetually prismatic sonorities that have a big impact on the listener. This project was born from the minds of Pierpaolo Zoppo (Mauthausen Orchestra), the memorable noise-power electronic author, and Gianluca Favaron, a skilled master controller and sound assembler with a long experience, already active under other aliases (Ab'she, Under the Snow, Metal Music Machine). The first exciting chapter of Lasik Surgery comes with a free DVD that includes two video clips created by Enrico Bressan. Digifile.
PAL, Region 0 (will play in all European DVD players).
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
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SCHWESTER SEZIERT - 'Annexe' CD (Mass Control)
"Between nothingness and coolness... An extra-sensory which passes in transit between rythmic manufacturer and gravity of decadent futurism". Based on the concept of the "Cold War" between USSR and USA, French artist Schwester Seziert (member of Arsch Dolls) offers up 12 tracks of power noise / rhythmic industrial. File next to dancefloor fillers such as Greyhound, Mono No Aware, Hypnoskull, Winterkalte etc. Highly recommended! Digipak.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
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TREES - 'Freed Of This Flesh' CD (Crucial Blast)
The mysterious Portland ensemble Trees return with their second offering - two new fetid death rituals scraped from the crypt. Black glacial riffs suspended in space, tectonic percussive rumbles, anguished shrieks of torment, deep guttural demon throat singing, and endless sheets of glistening metallic feedback that spill and drift to the far edges of their time-stretched ambient doom, a crumbling, blighted majesty, noxious ambient blackdoom adrift on putrescent tides. Austere slabs of crushing heaviness arranged into ghoulish constructs of atmospheric dread, moving so slow that the music seems to lose all sense of propulsion at times... the guitars stretched into massive decomposing drones, the spaces between infested with controlled bursts of incredibly slow and ponderous drums. "Freed Of This Flesh" inhabits the same depths as Burning Witch, Monarch, Khanate, and Bunkur. Digipak.
TROUM - 'Eald-Ge-Stréon' CD (Beta-Lactam Ring Records)
Welcome to the Thunderdome. Troum’s bone-cracking reverberations respirate with such ferocity that all non-Troum molecules are blown away. "Eald-Ge-Stréon" is a massive, rising beauty. It is a great becoming, and we are nothing but an ant in the afterbirth. Troum has set its controls beyond the heart of the Sunn. The pulsating inferno of these 7 drone concertos may require an insurance adjuster, but what a lovely way to burn. It is in your nature to do one thing correctly. Before Troum, you rightly tremble. But fear is not what you owe Troum. You owe Troum awe! Comes in mini-gatefold cover with strange metallic silver-blue layout by Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), Thorr's Hammer, Gravetemple, Æthenor etc) and photography by Seldon Hunt.
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.
