Long-form interviews with: Moral Order, Post Scriptvm & Total Black & Nordvargr (30+ year/career spanning interview). Detailed report / photos of the Dominion of Flesh: 5 Years of Cloister Recordings festival. Reviews: 50+ detailed reviews (ambient/ industrial/ experimental / power electronics etc.). Artwork: Original cover artwork + review section artwork by Nordvargr. FORMAT
A5 Format
Professional print, colour cover, grey-scale throughout. ‘Perfect bound’ spine, with matt laminate, thick card stock cover. 90 pages in length. Limited to 600 copies.
Limited edition of 300 copies in a glossy full-colour Digipak.
A new album by Merzbow. The name “Hanakisasage” means very rare trees which exist only few in Japan. 2 tracks of noise ambient/rhythm recorded in Tokyo during 2014-2016 and musically follow in the tendency of his recent works like ‘Kakapo’. 55 minutes of pure untamed energy and sonic insight into Masami Akita’s world. A 300-CD edition in a glossy full-colour Digipak
Merzbow – ((VIBRA)) MMVII Label: Gradual Hate Records – GH 141 CD / 2nd Edition Format: CD, Album, Enhanced, Limited Edition Country: Spain Released: Jun 6, 2019 Style: Noise
CD Enhanced / Audio + Video / Edition CD Mailer (Laminated Cardboard)
FULL VIDEO included ONLY in the «physical version»( format CD Enhanced / Audio + Video )
Merzbow Live, 07/03/2007 at the OCCC (October Center for Contemporary Culture, València, Spain) within the series of concerts of Sound Art and Experimental Music ((VIBRA)).
Merzbow (メルツバウ Merutsubau) is a Japanese noise project started in 1979 by Masami Akita (秋田 昌美 Akita Masami).
The name Merzbow comes from the German dada artist Kurt Schwitters’ artwork Merzbau, in which Schwitters transformed the interior of his house using found objects. The name was chosen to reflect Akita’s dada influence and junk art aesthetic. In addition to this, Akita has cited a wide range of musical influences from progressive rock, heavy metal, free jazz, and early electronic music to non-musical influences like dadaism, surrealism, and fetish culture. Since the early 2000s, he has been inspired by animal rights and environmentalism, and began to follow a vegan, straight edge lifestyle.
As well as being a prolific musician, he has been a writer and editor for several books and magazines in Japan, and has written several books of his own. He has written about a variety of subjects, mostly about music, modern art, and underground culture.
The Mighty Sieben – Sex And Wildflowers Label: Dark Vinyl Records – DVLP-10 Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Black Vinyl Country: Germany Released: 27 Oct 2014 Style: Neofolk
Black vinyl, limited edition of 150 copies. Comes in a gatefold sleeve..
The fourth Sieben album, released in 2003. Reissue.
Sex & Wildflowers was an artistic turning point for Howden (once more) and saw the introduction of his trademark looped violin work. It also produced songs that still populate his live performances to this day. Love’s Promise and Virgin In The Green are songs that still prove popular with his live audiences.
Rammstein – Ausländer (Vinyl, 10″) Label: Universal Music Group – 7764268 Format: Vinyl, 10″, 45 RPM, Single Country: Europe Released: 31 Ma y 2019 Style: Industrial, House, Electro
Tracklist:
A Ausländer (Album Version) B1 Radio (Album Version) B2 Radio (Rmx By twocolors) / Remix – twocolors
Shotgun Sawyer – Bury The Hatchet (Vinyl, LP) Label: Ripple Music – RIPLP103 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition Country: USA & Canada Released: 2019 Style: Stoner Rock, Blues Rock
Shotgun Sawyer is a loud, three piece blues-rock band from Auburn CA featuring David Lee on drums, Brett (the Butcher) Sanders on bass, and Dylan Jarman for vocals and lead guitar. Their musical style is best described as a heavy, authentic, modern approach to the raw Delta Blues style.
Fostermother – The Ocean (Vinyl, LP, Color) Label: Ripple Music – RIPLP160 Format: Vinyl, LP, color in color red inside electric blue Country: US Released: Feb 18, 2022 Style: Doom Metal, Stoner Rock
FOSTERMOTHER made an impression within the stoner doom scene with their self-titled debut album, which Everything Is Noise described as, «hitting both soft and hard in all the right places, leaving oddly-comforting destruction in its wake.» Now a three-headed hydra with the addition of drummer Jason Motamedi alongside guitarist/singer Travis Weatherred and bassist Stephen Griffin, the band signed to Californian heavy rock powerhouse Ripple Music for the release of follow-up LP «The Ocean». This massive7-tracker cranks it up on all levels: it’s darker, harsher, slower, fuzzier, more rumbling, and uncompromising in its ability to drag listeners into the darkest alleys of the human soul.
Bethlehem – Mein Weg (2 x Vinyl) Label: Prophecy Productions – PRO 107LP Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: Germany Released: Jul 8, 2022 Style: Doom Metal, Goth Rock
Experimental Black/Doom Metal band from Grevenbroich, Germany, active since 1991. They call their style «Dark metal», which is the term they coined in the debut album title.
Until Dictius Te Necare, Bethlehem faced censorship and was even banned from playing in some German cities. It started when Matton gave one copy of their first demo to a 14-year-old boy. After a while his mother started to call the band, saying that because of their music, her son became aggressive and built a «Satanic altar» in his room. In cooperation with other parents, they started a crusade against Bethlehem and their «satanic» music (ironically, Bethlehem were never satanic).
Antimatter – Leaving Eden (Vinyl, LP) Label: Prophecy Productions – PRO 088 LP-1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition Country: Germany Released: 2022 Style: Alternative Rock
The first album of Antimatter as solo project
Unconstrained and with tremendous force – that’s a good way to characterize Mick Moss’ performance on Antimatter’s fourth album, “Leaving Eden.” The Englishman has undoubtedly found a way to gather his own power after his composing partner of many years, Duncan Patterson, has left the band – and this power has flown into a kind of music that has quite a rocking edge at times. “I wanted to create power and wide spaces in the studio,” Mick says. He was envisioning a “dark and laid-back rock album”, combining the hardest with the most light-hearted songs from ANTIMATTER’s history. It seems fitting, then, that Mick invited a more than competent session musician, Anathema’s guitarist Danny Cavanagh, into the studio for the dynamic recordings. The sensitive riffs and melodies do open vast spaces for Mick’s vocals – sounding self-confident and melancholic at the same time – and his personal lyrics with their introspective focus. “The album stands on its own two feet,” Mick acknowledges the changes in sound, which he however doesn’t think are that huge: “There are so many familiar elements; there’s one song with a violin lead like on ‘Planetary Confinement’, there are atmospheric parts, but now there are also the rockier tracks.” To the listeners, all of the above means that once again they are invited to sit back and join ANTIMATTER on their journey – a lively one at first, then growing ever more pensive to finally end in contemplation. Like in that line in the album’s last song, “Fighting For A Lost Cause”: “Some things never change” – this is also true of ANTIMATTER’s haunting atmospheres… The sensitive riffs and melodies do open vast spaces for Mick’s vocals – sounding self-confident and melancholic at the same time – and his personal lyrics with their introspective focus.
Column One / Idpa / Mz.412 – Live Action / Voodoo Bumble Bee Label: Tourette Records – tourette 012 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: Apr 2010 Style: Noise, Experimental, Industrial
Numbered edition of 412 copies. Sleeve states 2009, but the record was released in 2010. Title is misspelled on the spine. Side B recorded live at Collapse festival, Rostock, Germany 19.08.2000. Reworked in Berlin, 2009. Track B1 is a locked groove; the given track time on the sleeve represents the length of time the track is intended to be played. Share
