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Anenerbe Music Club – The Night Porter
Label: Collapsar Publishing – mpec-01-2014
Format: CDr, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered
Country: Russia
Released: Apr 28, 2014
Style: Synth-pop, Post-Punk, Industrial, Shoegaze, Drone
This is the first release of Collapsar Publishing (Moscow, Russian Federation), dedicated to anniversary of Anenerbe Music Club. Pro CDr, jewelcase, 100 handnumbered copies.
Deathstench – Massed In Black Shadow
Label: Black Plagve – INFECT 11
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 21 Dec 2012
Style: Noise, Power Electronics
Debut full length from the Los Angeles based duo of Darea Plantin and John-Paul Whetzel, also known for their work in the misanthropic black-doom trio, Welter in Thy Blood.
Within their short discography, DEATHSTENCH has proven particularly adept incorporating elements of death industrial, dark ambient, doom, and black metal, and hideously transforming and molding them into a writhing mass of absolute filth and abject darkness. Built upon field recordings, scrap metal percussion, harrowing electronics, down tuned guitar & bass, and demonic vocalizations, the sound is both nihilistic and vile, rife with occult incantations, buzzing, distorted horror, and saturated walls of droning depravity that dissolve into roiling murk and hellish, blackened smear.
Their latest installment, Massed in Black Shadow, is an impious communion summoning and invoking the soundtrack for all death to come. 6 tracks, totaling just over 45 minutes, guaranteed to deliver some of the most terrifying and purely misanthropic sounds you’re likely to find anywhere. “Bastards of the Black Flame” features additional sounds and effects by Cory Rowell of Demonologists, and all tracks are mastered by Billy Anderson (Neurosis, Sleep, Eyehategod, Crisis).
For fans of Steel Hook Prostheses, MZ.412, Brighter Death Now, Abruptum.
Attrition – The Truth In Dark Corners…
Label: Other Voices Records – VOX8CD
Format: CD, Album
Country: Russia
Released: May 2011
Style: New Wave, Industrial, Minimal
Recorded live on the april 1985 tour of The Netherlands the set comprised many embryonic versions of tracks that were later recorded for the «Smiling, at the hypogonder club» album…with 2 unreleased songs!
Originally released on Other Voices records.
The truth in dark corners – Chain DLK review
«The Truth In Dark Corners» is a recording of live tracks coming from the band’s 1985 Holland tour plus a closing track coming from a London gig.
Back then Attrition were releasing their second album «Smiling, At The Hypogonder Club» on Third Mind and this release contains many tracks coming from that one plus «Shrinkwrap» (which was a single) and two unreleased tracks «In The Attic» and «The Aftermath».
Formed on those days by Martin Bowes, Marianne Teunissen and Alex Novak, the band was creating their distinctive darkwave electronic sound which was capable to mix danceable rhythms and electronic experimental attitude.
«The Truth In Dark Corners» contains good recordings of classic Attrition’s tracks (or at least they are what I consider their classics) like «Mind Drop» or «Pendulum Turns» and here you can listen them sounding direct and powerful.
These recordings represent quite well the essence of the band on those days so I don’t consider this album only a release for hard core fans. And sleeve notes you’ll find by Justin Mitchell back then. I’m quite sure that if you a long time reader of our magazine you know this guy, because when he knew Attrition he was an electronic music enthusiast who became their friend but soon after he founded Cold Spring Records.
