(Sorry For those who hate the power electronic/noise/industrial genre, maybe there will be more punk review on the next batch…)
(Legion Sudan; CDR; 15 tracks; 21 minutes 56
seconds)
(File Under : First it was punk, now it’s… mmm…
something noisy…)
Legion Sudan/NxFxTxEx www.legionsudan.cjb.net
Broken Hallux https://www.angelfire.com/theforce/brokenhallux/
(Cipher production; Business Card CDR(limited
to 100); 2 tracks; 4 minutes 58 seconds)
(File Under : Short noise chaos guerrilla)
Where does this world been when people got to
release split release on a business card CDR (for those who don’t know, a
business card CDR are CDR shaped like a business card and got only around 5 minutes
of audio space). But as I heard Australia’s Chrysalis is so perfectionist that
it took him months to record that song. But that’s a pretty crushing song that
opens with some loud songs before going to the deeply harsh high tone
alternance of high parts and drones. The song is really well recorded and
sounds really silly. Pedestrian Deposit from California play similar slitting
razor harsh noise with an unhealthy dose of hard high parts nauseous silence
and some very deranged wall of noise. In a sense I must admit that when you’re
doing a split Business Card CDR the time is so limited that you have to give
the best of yourself and these project I guess (since it’s my first exposure to
them) may have done that. At least if you’re searching for a very violent noise
records that you really don’t want to get bored of, check this shit out since
that’s the most shit I’ve heard this side of the PCRV/40 Watt Wombs split
Cipher Prod./Chrysalis http://www.cipherproduction.cjb.net
Pedestrian Deposit http://www.monorailtrespassing.com
(Axis Mundi; CDR; 7 tracks; 54 minutes 34
seconds)
(File Under : Unbelievable noise vortex)
Holy fucking shit, this is a hard meeting that
I’m waiting for a while for! First, Richard Ramirez fan (if he got fans) can be
a little disappointed by the fact that there’s no real material by mr. Ramirez,
but the recording consist as a remodelling of Ramirez tracks by Concrete
Violin. First what interested me in the release is the title, since I really
like both authors, I was really interested in this records. The album begins
with a very solid wall of noise in the way both artist can scare you about. I
never really listen to some of mister Ramirez stuff, but I may assume that most
of his shit are all pretty voracious like that. The kind of noise played here
is a kind of very thick wall of noise with some very phasing modulations here
and there that makes me really comfortable, that really what I like in some
artists like Concrete Violin and his Eyegouge CD sounds like that too, is that
kind of fact that the sounds is so think that it drains every other ambient
sounds that are around. There is few time I wanted more noise assault than
here, I raised the volume of the stereo. The album is so well mastered that I
didn’t noticed the track change. For example, between track 2 and 3, the way
the sounds change is less evident that at 36 second of the third track the
sound is so drastic that you think the song changed, but it haven’t. In a very
high looking point, most of all tracks sound the same, but that’s a good same.
That’s what I call monotonous noise and I guess few noise project achieve doing
that kind of very brutal assault and maintaining a good level of interest in the
noise, trust me, that’s a compliment. But it’s not that monotonous, for
example, track number 3, The Western Lands, got a lot of screechings and
sonic assault that will make you run for Tylenol for the earache you’ll suffer.
The cover art is a black pixellised drawing on a big glossy colour cover that
looks like a restaurant menu. Inside there’s a picture of Burroughs and one of
Mishima which is a too pixellised picture, same for the Burroughs’ picture on
the disk. In some ways this is a very interesting release that every fan of
harsh noise should check and more points too for the literature reference,
that’s something I really appreciate in some project and Concrete Violin are
good at it… I figure too on the readings I did of the reactions about this CDR
that people liked it too on the Texas front. Nice shit.
(Interscope; DVD; 10 tracks; around 40 minutes)
(File Under : A collection of undermined boobsy
videos)
I can not believe my eyes when I received that
shit, a DVD full of uncensored videos. One thing that is good is that for the
exception of a classic crap on this, I never heard any of these song or see these
videos. The first video is a Monster Magnet, the only impression I got is that
they are the Cradle Of Filth of stoner, showing breasts everywhere and that
song I guess is not the best I’ve heard from them. Queen Of The Stone Age
perform a really subversive video of song enumerating kind of drugs with a very
stunning end with a baby fucking a woman, among the best of the DVD. Next is
the cock-rock legends Mötley Crüe performing their macho cock rock anthem Girls
Girls Girls while riding their Harley-Davidson from a stripper club to another.
Fuck! Who told them they are cool and who told them that they are example of
virility? Bloodhound Gang perform a really cool song but I really don’t know
what to think of videos that the filming crew is naked woman. But I really appreciate
this since I always liked the Bloodhound Gang’s attitude. Next are Fig Dish, a
buch of bad Weezer/Foo Fighter wannabes that spent a day in the shooting of a
porno movie, there boobs everywhere and the less intelligent part of the DVD
including two member of the band saying Hou houu’s while fucking two women with
their legs up… Nasty and stupid. Next is the Long Beach Dub All-Stars that
plays a gentle videos playing under the sun on trucks while the singer is
watching him playing with a porn star (that one of my friend named but I can’t
remember), but the song is really nice as I love ex-member’s Sublime. Next is
punk-attitude 3 guitars boring nu-metal Dragpipe playing in a set full of
yuppies and bitch and they smash a corvette and the bring breast-naked bitch
out of the set (while one punch the singer in the face) and kick yuppies ass
before leaving. If they were a good band this video should have been really
nice, but the music sucks hard. The Dwarves performs here at their best. This
song is from their more techno album and really rips, The video is like the
singer in a closed room who digs hole and watch scenes from there where other
members are with naked chicks, not offensive and with a really amazing song
that stayed in my head for weeks after. Molotov suck hard on this one playing
the second video of the DVD with chicks naked as the filming crew. And the
worst thing is that they play in a kind of cube with tits on the wall that
throw milk after. And the music is really dumb, I mean stupid and boring. The
final video is my fave and is from Sweden’s dirty punker Backyard Babies that
play a really awesome song called Look At You and performs in a stripper
bar, where you just see one women stripping shortly in the middle of the video
and you see the bands acting dumbly in everyday life. My punk heart liked it.
But the best part of the DVD is the trailer for the hip-hop DVD of this
collection, now you realised that this DVD wasn’t too much disrespectful for
women… But I guess I’ll never pays for that kind of DVD, maybe more violent
less sexist videos should have been much more appreciated and more thrash metal…
Not recommended…
Hardware
(Victory; 14 tracks; 43 minutes 34 seconds)
(File Under : zenny nordic Rock’n’roll-core)
Since I’m a Sigur Ros fan I wanted to look at
these compatriots band of them that looked like they are in the same way.
Anyway you can slap in me in the face for this dumb association of two band, a
country and the result of the same genre, cause it isn’t. Minus sounds more
like a mix of At The Drive-In and Refused (I hear you running to the record
store) with the Zen attitude their country give them. I dunno, but the Iceland
people looks like a bunch of too peaceful people, just take a look at Sigur Ros
and the fact that I guess I never heard of a dirty hatefull pagan total war
Black Metal band coming out of the volcanoes of Iceland… Weird thing for a
Scandinavian country… Well back to Minus. The thing with Minus is that before
writing this review I listened to the album for about a month a few listens
every week and I got the strange intuition that it’s not the same album at
every listens… The sounds is very strange, for example the singer looks like
the bastard child of Denis Lyxzén and Cedric Bixler in a valium mood. But the
album still rock the house in. I like that sounds the band got like the guitars
are really dirty and the drum sounds really tight yet played both aggressively and
moody. I always got the impression that while headbanging I can start to fly.
The most strange song of this album I guess is the song My Name Is Cocaine that
got funny lyrics (I’ll make a schoolteacher not want to teach/I’ll make a
priest not want to preach) and feature something that sounds like a keyboard.
Last song reminds me a lot of the mighty Portishead with that gentle women
vocals and these very noisy sounds behind, you finish this album with a really
good impression. Their sound is so great that it should be really awesome to do
remix, I hope they should release something with remix on it since their sound
is appropriate for that. But trust me, I really don’t know why but this band
don’t give me the same impression at every listening. But I guess it’s that
kind of band that can get higher public and that you feel really confortable
with that like the afore compared Refused and At The Drive In, as long as this shouldn’t
be post-mortem fame like these. Get your ass moody for this one.
Minus www.minus.tv
(PAC Rec; business card CDR (already sold out);
4 tracks; 5 minutes 08 seconds)
(File Under : Noise loop and minimalism fest)
PAC Recs http://www.troniks.com/
(Anima Mal Nata; CDR; 10 tracks; 57 minutes 52
seconds)
(File Under : Noise loop and minimalism fest)
Anima Mal Nata marcelherms@knoware.nl
(Voltagestress*r; CDR(limited to 30); 4 tracks;
50 minutes 36 seconds)
(File Under : Well constructed Viking power
electronics meet blower monolith dirty assed British jet engine noise)
Voltagestress*r http://members.tripod.com/~sore_throat/stress/index.htm
Sewer Election http://drink.to/sewerrecords