"There's in your face, and then there's Merzbow. Masami Akita's umpteenth pummelling album shrieks straight down to business, squalls upon shards mashed up against sheets and droves of fingernail-scraping NOISE, four screaming yowls of pain and rage shot through from ear to ear and back again with lurching, clattery drums abused and battered over and over in demented rhythms, the whole shuddering with vibrant, agonising sonic torture, eventually becoming breathlessly overpowering, ripping up all external sensory input on a tide of aural debasement and kicking down the doors of any other sort of perception until there is only the sound of one electrified claw smacking, Merzbow's avenging boot of animal oppression stamping on the ears forever, twisting and wrenching with a dynamic which is also content to offer distended, almost caressingly brutal passages where the fervour of the acoustic punishment is allowed to subside before returning tenfold" (Plan B). Packaged in a hardback 6-panel digisleeve.
UK 13£
Europe 14£
World 15£
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PAIN NAIL - 'Hengellisiä Lauluja' 7" (Freak Animal)
The long-awaited vinyl outing from Pain Nail! Finnish Power-Electronics-Industrial from Mikko Aspa (Grunt) and Marko Kokkonen (Fleshpress). "Hard vocals and dark, scourging industrial comprised of factory din and looping distortion. Even with limited output, Pain Nail remains one of my favorites" (Malignant). Ltd x 250 copies. ACT FAST!
