Finally, after 36 years, a legitimate reissue of G.I.S.M. - Military Affairs Neurotic. Physical copy coming January 27, 2023 via Relapse. Adds NWOBHM melody and Die Kreuzen dissonance to the punked up metallic (or metallized punk) foundation set by the legendary Detestation.
Something else that had a 40th year anniversary in 2022. John Carpenter’s The Thing gets a celebratory nod in Sulphur Nurse’s The Thing EP. 4 synth noise arrangements, though, honestly, it feels as if it is a single composition that has been quartered for easier consumption. The first three tracks are heavier on the ambient creep factor while the 4th pushes the 80s vibe with more melodic synth rhythms that almost makes me think of Belgium’s Klinik moreso than John Carpenter or Ennio Morricone’s score and the similarly themed An Impulse of Fear by Negru Voda (Peter Nystrom) off the split with Third Eye. While getting wrapped up in this ep you may even want to read the Peter Watts short story “the things,” which is written from the perspective of the Thing.
I am late to the scene on Coffin Nail, but now sights set early on the next year’s album, The Hanged Man. This year they unleashed a ferocious bestial black grinding assault with Years of Lead. If “Excors Sect” is any indication it sounds as if The Hanged Man will continue on this twisting left hand path with more undertow to the recording. I think Sakevi would approve of these vocal stylings.
Another grind morsel offered over the weekend with the legendary Rotten Sound. A maniacal virtual reality asylum inmate set loose on the internet. And just what one would expect from these titans of HM-2 grind: Hoarse screams, 38 seconds of blast beats and a massive sludge breakdown for the remaining minute and change.
As it is Monday, and keeping with the grind… a new track from Imbroglio has dropped. Should have a new album out in 2023, or, who knows, maybe before the new year? This one is apocalyptic noise that’ll appeal to mathcore mavens everywhere. Heavy as hell CarBomb gone Frontierer.
ikiuni comes churning from Macclesfield, UK, a being carved from a cavernous death sound. Vocals have a bit of the Curator to them where there is a guttural voice doubled and fortified with whispers and gibbering insanity. A pretty straight forward attack in terms of riffing and arrangements, produced with a deliberately murky touch. Pump up the volume and embrace the Incantation meets Antediluvian mayhem. Eternal sleep this is not.
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Italian noise rock mongers norse. announced a split with KCMO’s abandoncy. Two songs each of holy fucking hell. norse. bring post punk Killing Joke/Paul Ferguson tribal stomp meets Distorted Pony abrasion and swaths of ambient noise. The abandoncy tracks are more shrill and twitchy with a different style of spectacular drum attack and it all comes across as the more noisy jazzy cousin of hometown heroes Season to Risk and Molly McGuire.
A new track from Portugal’s post metal behemoth crosta entitled “the scab of days.” Pensive, slow building burner in the mold of Dirge (Paris) where it is not quite the hardcore lean of most Cult of NeurIsis ilk, but, obviously, resides within that realm. I always feel crosta’s strength lies in the entirety of an album rather than single songs. Some material draws upon more elements while others, such as “the scab of days,” being a more meditative drone adorned with atmospheric textures, function as bridges between bigger moments.
Stewart Copeland trolling. The Police Deranged!
a nice smorgasbord. klinik and the thing. sign me up. you MUST have seen the footage of copeland fucking up a drum fill and calling sting a cunt, yes?