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Sharpwaist & Marabou Stork (Boston/New York)
Sharpwaist & Marabou Stork – Untitled
Currently celebrating their collaborative release tape entitled “Cold Shots” on Existence Establishment, Sharpwaist and Marabou Stork will perform a rare collaborative performance to comemorate the evening. Their release is based on the feeling of autumn in New England and is sure to offer a nice contrast to the early spring atmosphere.
Sharpwaist was started in Boston by Carl Haas in 2006 and has released on such labels as Razors and Medicine, Nil By Mouth, …
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Shredded Nerve (Cincinnati, OH)
Shredded Nerve – Mind Begins to Crumble as Dots Are Connected
Shredded Nerve is a project created by Justin Lakes in late 2013 after the dissolution of the Pusdrainer project. Shredded Nerve utilizes tape loops,synthesizer,and found objects to create stressful layered harsh noise compositions. Touring in support of the “Failure to Maintain” double tape on Chondritic Sound.
Deceiver (Buffalo, NY)
Deceiver – Soon I Will be Dead and Nothing Will Matter Anymore III
Deceiver is a slow moving minimal HNW project featuring Matt Goodrich of Water Torture, Breached …
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Blue Sabbath Black Cheer (Seattle, WA)
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer – The Sense of Violence
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer (BSBC) formed in winter 2005, by wm.Rage and Stan Reed, rehearsing after-hours in the Electric Heavyland (R.I.P.) record store in Seattle, Washington, before moving into an all concrete garage in the alley behind the record store, where they rehearsed incessantly for the next 2 years, much to the dismay of the nearby neighbors. In 2007, leaving “The Bog”, rehearsals and recordings then took place for a short time in an …
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Spettro Family (Salerno, Italy)
Spettro Family – Brasov Black Biserica (TutRur 2012)
In 2010, the sole man behind the music, Stefan Iannone, took a trip into the Carpathian heart of Romania — a place that exists seemingly cut off from the rest of Europe in nearly every sense; so cut off, in fact, that it contains a large percentage of Europe’s last intact wilderness, and no doubt is a place whose people live within a culture that is at least moderately removed from most of the West in meticulous …
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Hollow Seed (Belchertown, MA)
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Hollow Seed is the new project from Jesse Allen the man involved in several landmark noise units including The Cathode Terror Secretion, Cowards, and Migrations In Rust. Having newly relocated to Western Mass he debut’s his new project in a whirlwind of aggressive distorted rhythmic elements and grindcore paranoia.
Ultra Negative (Portsmouth, NH)
Ultra Negative – From Nothing To Nothing
Ultra//Negative, everyone’s favourite Namshaw Powerviolence band lives up to their name lyrically and musically, and it’s only right, seeing as they have Jan of …
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Author & Punisher (San Diego, CA)
Author & Punisher – Terrorbird
Tristan Shone is a mechanical engineer, sculptor, musician and creator of the Drone Machines and now Dub Machines industrial sound controllers. Alongside fabricating machines and composing sound for performance, Shone works at the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research as a mechanical engineer and the Center for Research and Computing in the Arts at UCSD as a researcher in media arts.
Drone/Dub Machines are custom made machines fabricated from raw materials and utilizing open source circuitry. The devices …
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Peter J Woods (Milwaukee, WI)
Peter J Woods – A Story
Peter J Woods is a musician, playwright and performance artist from Milwaukee, WI. Up until a few years ago, these three areas were kept isolated, performing music under a number of different monikers and with a handful of different bands (Phoned Nil Trio, xALLxFORxTHISx, Raperies (Like Draperies), Coelacanth, Peter J Woods Free Jazz Ensemble, just to name a few), writing short absurdists pieces for a number of different theatre companies (Insurgent Theatre, Pink Banana, Alamo Basement), and doing …
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Gnawed (Minneapolis, MN)
Gnawed – Savage Judgement
Gnawed is Grant Richardson of Minneapolis. Under the moniker he creates a crushing blend of death industrial, power electronics and noise which shakes the foundations of the genre. Being one of the top industrial acts in the U.S. currently Richardson has embarked on a U.S. tour and is playing Boston for the first time. Be prepared for chugging synths, bowel-inducing frequiencies and industrial material attacks.
Yosh Ohara (Brooklyn, NY)
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Yoshiko Ohara, a member of creepy art-metal outfit Bloody Panda, who …
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Summer Scum is the second annual Buffalo, NY noise fest focused on Harsh Noise and Power Electronics. This years fest will take place at The Flesh Tunnel (1245 Niagra st) on July 18th,19th, and 20th. The lineup features over 50 acts from all over the country such as: Ferveur Noire, John Mannion, Ahlzagailzehguh, Deterge, Skin Graft, Envenomist, Gnawed, Xiphoid Dementia, Hostage Pageant, and many many more.
Summer Scum was conceptualized in early 2012 when curators Justin Lakes and Matt Goodrich decided to start doing a fest shortly after Lakes …