MUTANT APE / THE RITA - 'Kings Of Violence / Murky By The Sand Bar' 7" (Unrest Productions / Turgid Animal)
Total harsh noise with one side apiece from Mutant Ape (aka prolific UK noise artist George Proctor of Wolfguts, etc) and The Rita (aka Canadian noise artist Sam McKinlay of Black To Comm etc). Mastered by Andy Ortmann (Panicsville). Ltd x 220 hand-numbered copies in a folded card sleeve. A nice collectable piece.
UK 5£
Europe 6£
World 7£
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R.Y.N. - 'Astral Death' CD (Unrest Productions)
RYN is the project of UK drone duo Pete Burn (Marzuraan) and Dean Glaister (Romance). With one previous 7" on Drone Records, this is their first full-length album. "6 long tracks of waving and slowly shifting massive drones, based on guitar, bass, metal and effects. The sounds here are just flooding immensely, there's nothing 'concrete' you can hold onto; the mind and body seem to be washed out slowly by these rustling feedbacking and deeply reverberating overtune-waves. "Astral Death" is a journey into the pulsating, meandering heart of disintegration" (Drone Records).
SHIFT - 'Unable To Abide The Silence Of The World' CD (Unrest Productions)
First full-length release by this Swedish (UK-based) Noise unit. Opening with smothering, churning, rhythmic, Death Industrial soundscapes (not far off our own Deadwood or Goatvargr), "Unable To Abide..." moves ever-threateningly into heavier Industrial sounds and continues into a deafening Power Electronics crescendo. Limited to 300 hand-numbered copies, finished off with a very nice slipcase.
Headed by Kvarforth, Shining's fifth recorded depression is no less than a monument of beauty in blackness and ghostly shades. Displaying a mix of sheer heaviness and sublime atmospheric moments, Shining 'V' is truly one of a kind. “The record plays like the soundtrack to a psychological disintegration. Transcending the Black Metal genre with complex arrangements and sample-ridden layering, Shining drive their bleakest peers into a dark corner to shiver until the record ends” (Unrestrained!). Suicide BM for fans of: Mayhem, Agalloch, Immortal and Carpathian Forest.
