"Before better known as Panicsville, but now moving into the realms of serious music (this new release got some sponsoring from arts councils) under his own name. The octa-thing deals with the number eight, and the three pieces here on this DVD (no images) can be played on a 7.1 installation, if you have such a thing. I only have a 2.0 installation, called 'stereo', but it sounds great still. Ortmann lists a list of instruments - mainly old analogue synthesizers and where he did his field recordings. Just as on the Schimpfluch disc, I'd say this is the small alley where noise is really interesting. Not because it's super loud, although there are points when things are pretty loud, but because of the fine balance between electronic, noisy sounds and the crackling of highly amplified field recordings which are all put together into an interesting collage of sound. Not like Schimpfluch of short and shorter sounds, but through longer pieces which work quite well. Great stuff, both of these releases and if noise is like this, I'd sign up again." (Vital Weekly).
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BEYOND BLACK VOID - 'Desolate' CD (Marche Funebre Productions)
This is a reissue of debut release from this Belgian act. The creator, Stijn Van Cauter, characterises his musical style as massive nihilistic funeral doom and writes: "Beyond Black Void was founded mid-2002 in an attempt to create oppressive, minimalistic and very desolate music." The desolation is portrayed through long echoing guitars and heavy droning storms. Over an hour of the heaviest and most nihilistic in drone / funeral / ambient doom. The re-release features the same 3 massive tracks but with improved sound quality and completely remastered. Limited edition in a textured slipcase.
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COCK E.S.P. / PANICSVILLE - 'Last Train To Cocksville' CD (Sunship Records / Little Mafia / Nihilist)
This tribute to 60's bubblegum gods The Monkees comes from a tag team blast of harsh electronic noise and Monkees-baiting cutup between Midwestern free-noise freaks Cock E.S.P. and Panicsville. Monkees tapes are slowed down skrew-style and looped, heavy bleats of burnt feedback squeal and electric currents are squeezed into your ear, grating noise sprouts from a wasteland of sonic detritus, obliterating the Monkees tunes into blots of near-unrecognizable splat with warped renditions of the original songs lyrics. The cover features Cock E.S.P.'s E.W. Hagstrom and Panicsville's Andy Ortmann dressed as train engineers hard at work on the tracks.
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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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FISTULA - 'Goat' MCD (Crucial Blast)
Ohio is rotting. Fistula deliver another heavy dose of their septic, filthy, lumbering death-sludge doom in the form of Goat, a five-song EP of low-fi and low-end nihilistic filth and rabies-laced caveman thrash with songs based on the ghoulish discovery and subsequent investigation of the eleven decomposing bodies found in the Cleveland home of Anthony Sowell in the Autumn of 2009. This disc delivers more of the pulverizing, slime-covered sludge and primitive death metal rot that these Buckeye barbarians have been carving out in the back of Medina garages over the past ten years, continuing to follow in the coagulated blood tracks of Frost, Autopsy and Winter, but filtered through Fistula's uniquely mangled and inebriated scum-haze and utterly negative worldview. Digipak.
"The Fire Sermon" is based upon pessimistic views on history, fate of human kind and T.S. Elliot's poetry ("The Waste land"). This release combines the darkest side of traditional symphonic industrial (from SPK "Leichenschrei" to CMI acts such as Memorandum or Heid) with heavy and desperate tensions similar to Aghiatrias and Omnicore. With the addition of some folkish and liturgical elements from Eastern Europe, "The Fire Season" presents a very serious and impressive opus from this Polish act in a completely nihilistic way. Ltd x 500 copies in a beautiful sepia 6-panel fold-out card envelope.
IRON FIST OF THE SUN - 'Behavioural Decline' CD (Cold Spring CSR116CD)
Personal obsessions skewed by drug use, codes of behaviour observed by a misanthropic mind. Bitter and cold. Nihilistic and scornful. Elitist and Pure. Behavioural Decline documents the rise of treachery and the fall of honour. Power electronics that sonically takes inspiration from electro-acoustics and ideology akin to black metal / black noise. A deeply personal recording. For fans of Prurient and Sutcliffe Jugend!
MELEK-THA - 'Perfect World Eradication' CD (Kubernoise)
Utterly disturbing and disconcerting, whipping up a fury of hallucinatory dark noise that can be spoken in the same breath as bands such as Lustmord, Brighter Death Now and Kerovnian. A supreme Apocalyptic Dark Ritual! A perfect mixture of obscure orchestrations mixed together with nihilistic industrialised sonorities... more abrasive than ever! Destructive death musick!
30+ minutes of arcane and nihilistic doom from Nashville! Mourner is a 4 piece group of musicians (the Ghost Crow Collective) bonded by the creation of Doom in its most raw, arcane and nihilistic state... drawing influence from a wide array of musical styles and art, emotions, experiences, the occult and esoteric and an overall bleak and daunting feeling. Ltd x 333 copies in a card sleeve.
UK 7£
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NECRO DEATHMORT - 'Music Of Bleak Origin' CD (Distraction Records)
Second release from this London duo (Matthew Rozeik / AJ Cookson), whose debut "This Beat Is Necrotronic" earned them support slots with Ulver and Shining. "Music Of Bleak Origin" takes things up a notch. An intense soundtrack of crunchy fuzz, chambertronic buzz, walls of guitar wail, crashing chords, acidic bleeps and blips, creeping drone, heavy, nihilistic doom and guttural screams, combining analogue and digital noise to devastating effect. Ltd x 1000 copies in a heavy PVC archive sleeve with an 18-panel poster sleeve with artwork by Dominic Hailstone (Isis, Mogwai).
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O PARADIS / ESCAMA SERRADA - 'La Corte Del Rey Pescador / La Reina Está Mala' 2 x CD Set (Tourette)
Spanish artists Sergio (Escama Serrada) and Demian (Ô Paradis) have a friendship that has culminated in the release of this double work, working together on some tracks. "...Ô Paradis present groovy, Mediterranean Neofolk, with a large assortment of samplers, noises and improvised instruments, and most always caressed by Demian’s voice... The fluidity of the record is astounding, and the music has become riper, settled, like a fruit fills with juice in the spring sunlight... A must for true folk, experimental pop and simply great music lovers... Escama Serrada basically presents a sort of dark ambient, adding some martial spice at times and a lot of dark punk attitude at others. Perhaps the music is similar to a modern day nihilistic version of Einstürzende Neubauten... Promising ambient, with ample possibilities and a distinct personality" (Side-Line). Ltd x 300 hand-numbered copies with banderole.
UK 22£
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PANICSVILLE / FRANKIE & THE S.E.M.M. - 'Brain In The Cat / Stunts' LP & Bonus Disc (Nihilist / Top Quality Rock And Roll)
Quite a heavy bunch of stuff here. "In 1999, in the middle of the night two guys start an argument, which explodes in a lot of 'fuck you' and the word 'stunt' can be picked up. Frankie & The S.E.M.M. add lofi synthesizer or suppressed feedback to the material. I actually enjoyed hearing it as I thought it was hilarious (though I am glad not have been present that night)... The Panicsville side has three pieces that were originally released as a cassette, and an unreleased piece... this material already forecasts his interest in musique concrete and analogue synths and these four pieces are quite nice experimental music pieces" (Vital Weekly). Ltd x 300 copies on blue vinyl with bonus remix disc and inserts.
UK 15.00£
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PRURIENT - 'The Baron's Chamber' CD (Nihilist)
Dominick Fernow commands waves of heavy sick death by way of destructive measures. The one who makes babes ears bleed is here to send a clear message; AIDS. This disc is that message. As far as the presentation, There are no glossy ambiguous photographs waiting to be interpreted. Just hard-core graphic images, simply a glimpse into "The Baron’s Chamber".
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SIEGHETNAR - 'Todessehnsucht' CD (Nordsturm Productions)
Second release from this mysterious German BM act. Raw, misanthropic and unapologetic Black Metal... dark, doomy and nihilistic. Monotone riffs supply a steady basis for the dull crunching guitars. Synthesizers fill every nook and cranny with a sound like sandpaper on glass. Sieghetnar are masters in this genre - and this is definitely a release for those who worship Burzum, Gorgoroth, Blut Aus Nord; and above all Xasthur.
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SIRS - 'Existential Nihilism' CD (Nihil Art)
Debut CD from Polish act SIRS (Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome), featuring 9 tracks of nihilistic deep dark depression / dark ambient. Existential nihilism is the notion that life has no intrinsic meaning or value. This is reflected in the sick, misanthropic atmosphere of the album, exploring concepts of agony, isolation, destruction, hatred, nihilism and death. Ltd x 500 copies.
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STALAGGH - 'Projekt Terrror - A Visualization' DVD (Autumn Wind Productions)
"This DVD Displays the Unease of What Has Been and What Will Be...The Nihilistic Emptiness Raging in Your Mind. Visions of Thought Induced Plagues Lead You Through a Maze of Inner Torment and The Struggle to Grasp It....EXISTENCE IS FUTILE!!' A Misanthropik-Nihilistik projekt with as a prior aim propagating the sonic ideology of human genocide. Stalaggh is bound to awaken emotions of depression, hate, nihilism, misanthropy and drag you deeper down into it's pits and voids.
PAL, Region 0 (will play in all European DVD players).
UK 13£
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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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WHITE DARKNESS - 'Nothing - Black' 2 x LP (Roadburn Records)
The debut album from dutch doom/drone act White Darkness - the sonic creation of Dutch artist Jason Köhnen. A one-man symphony creating his personal interpretations of nihilistic thoughts, melding modern classical composition with traditional funeral doom and dark ambient soundscapes. White Darkness throws open the doors to vast universes of musical possibility, creating darkly tense portraits of things best left undisturbed. Ltd x 300 copies on black vinyl in a magnificent gatefold sleeve - ACT FAST!
WHITE DARKNESS - 'Nothing - Yellow' 2 x LP (Roadburn Records)
The debut album from dutch doom/drone act White Darkness - the sonic creation of Dutch artist Jason Köhnen. A one-man symphony creating his personal interpretations of nihilistic thoughts, melding modern classical composition with traditional funeral doom and dark ambient soundscapes. White Darkness throws open the doors to vast universes of musical possibility, creating darkly tense portraits of things best left undisturbed. Ltd x 100 copies on yellow vinyl in a magnificent gatefold sleeve - ACT FAST!
The debut album from dutch doom/drone act White Darkness - the sonic creation of Dutch artist Jason Köhnen. A one-man symphony creating his personal interpretations of nihilistic thoughts, melding modern classical composition with traditional funeral doom and dark ambient soundscapes. White Darkness throws open the doors to vast universes of musical possibility, creating darkly tense portraits of things best left undisturbed.
Yarn is a Russian ambient / raw black metal formation from The Middle Ural. The concept of project is based on the principals of primitivism in art. With the help of minimalism it's possible to open wishful ideas, starting with the composition and finishing by primitivism of sound, going almost into avant-garde. The ideology of the project focuses on the nihilistic notes of genesis, concentrating on estrangement, inner tragedy of overcoming of imposing truths, cold and senselessness to the herd phenomenon. Seclusion with the bosom of the initial world of inviolate nature, overcoming of spiritual “perfect” ideas of society, relying on the savagery of the universe. This debut album presents a conceptual child in the spirit of industrial dark / psycho ambient. Ltd x 500 copies.
