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Being (Dayton, OH)
Being – Untitled (Excerpt)
Being is the harsh noise project of Luke Tandy, who also operates the Skeleton Dust Recordings label. Starting in 2006, the project has been a vessel for exploring the depths of a variety of extreme sounds and frequencies. There is no political or sociological message; just pure sonic worship. It is the sound of an amplified existence.
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Breached Hull (Buffalo, New York)
Breached Hull – Magnetic Alignment
Breached Hull is the sci fi power electronics project of Matt Goodrich (Water Torture/Pacing) and Justin Lakes (Pusdrainer) based out of Buffalo,NY and Cincinnati,OH. The project was founded in early 2012. Focused on rhythmic,crushing loops taken from audio from some of our favorite movies with aggressive vocals with lyrics inspired by the film. This will be our second tour and our first time on the east coast. The planned set will feature two songs from our debut “Into the …

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En Nihil (California)
En Nihil – The Tombs of Empire
En Nihil is the dark electronic music project of reclusive artist Adam fritz. Based in Los Angeles California. Formed in 1994 ,three proper albums were released from 1995 -1998. Aswell as over a dozen limited tapes and a few notable split releases, in what’s consider as the fist phase of an almost 20 year existence. A very long hiatus followed until a resurfacing and second phase was realized in 2010 with the release of “The absolute …

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Oneirogen (Brooklyn, New York)
Oneirogen – Numina
NYC based multi-instrumentalist Mario Diaz de Leon creates hallucinatory walls of sound with electric guitar, electronics, and acoustic instruments. His project ONEIROGEN descends into a territory of unsettling synths and distortion, framed by metal, noise, industrial, and modern composition. The project was initiated in 2012 with the release of “Hypnos”, which brought widespread acclaim among fans of experimental and heavy music for its varied and cinematic intensity. The new album, “Kiasma” (released March 2013 on Denovali), maintains a strong …

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Sannhet (Brooklyn, New York)
Sannhet – Absecon Isle
Sannhet is an instrumental experimental metal band featuring members Christopher Todd – drums and samples, John Refano – guitar and loopers, and AJ Annunziata – bass guitar. Straddling the line between clear riffs and static, Sannhet’s songs were highly structured, but drenched in a top layer of noise–much like the garbled images one can almost make out under TV snow.
Expect a barrage of harmonically complex post-everything building to a climax only to pinnacle into further obliteration.

Ehnahre (Boston, MA)
Ehnahre – The …

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Raspberry Bulbs (Brooklyn, NY)
Raspberry Bulbs – What It Is Between Us
After releasing several tapes and an LP as a solo project, He Who Crushes Teeth (Bone Awl) expanded RB to a full band lineup in 2011. The band has recorded the second LP and are now playing their first shows outside New York.

Salvation (Philadelphia, PA)
Salvation – The Tethered Man
A mouthful of bloody broken teeth and flailing debris with a frantic, collapsing sound all their own, SALVATION are an epithet of TRUTH in a world of of ineffectual, …

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Aun (Montréal, Canada)
Aun – Berlin
Aun are a Montreal-based band that melt the boundaries between psychedelic, electronic, ambient, industrial and doomgaze music. Aun have performed at the Mutek, Roadburn, WGT, FIMAV and Swingfest festivals. They have released numerous praised albums with such labels as Alien8 Recordings, Important, Cyclic Law and now with Denovali.

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Thisquietarmy (Montréal, Canada)
Thisquietarmy – As the Creatures Unravel From Within/Vampyr
Thisquietarmy is the experimental guitar-based project of Eric Quach from Montreal, Quebec, Canada – active since 2005. Revolving around improvised drone …

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Machismo (Chicago, IL)
Machismo – You Weren’t Born Innocent
Overly violent, nihilistic power electronics from Chicago, IL. Machismo is a dual vocal trio incorporating harsh noise and a confrontational live presence. Having done prior time in several hardcore bands, Machismo take power violence dynamics and apply it to noise.

Hate Basement (Chicago, IL)
Hate Basement – Pathetic
Anxiety-ridden harsh noise and power electronics. Sweating profusely and pulling out its hair while dreaming about long drives in the mountains. Slaves to …

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Dave Public (Pawtucket, RI)
Suffering Bastard – Oiled Up
**Suffering Bastard canceled, Dave Public (Suffering Bastard solo) will be playing instead. Suffering Bastard is a full-on grindcore unit hailing from Providence Rhode Island. Featuring members of Nurture Abuse, and Dave Public. Expect a full-frontal aural assault of aggressive punk, metal, and noise attacks.

Sharpwaist (MA/PE/FU)
Sharpwaist – Baltimore Single Mother
Personal and peripheral tragedy and degradation. Burnt-out sound spaces, stale ambiance and frustrated harsh noise blasts, all swarming with the scraped-raw vocalizations informed as much …

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GRKZGL (Montreal, Canada)
GRKZGL – Ainsi tout fout-il le camp
Hailing from Montreal, GRKZGL (also known by some as Alexandre Scarfone) has been genre-dodging since 2003, progressing from his digital gurgles and cosmic drones to his current excursions in noise. He also plays alongside sax player Cabral Jacobs and drummer John Brennan in the trio Chansons d’amour (and with Brennan as Totems), with Martin Sasseville (Wapstan) in the tape warble-based Incapables and in a duo with synth wizard Emilie Mouchous as Gmackrrkzgl. Lately, GRKZGL has been focusing on dynamic …

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Cut Hands (London, United Kingdom)
Cut Hands – Backlash
Cut Hands is William Bennett who founded Whitehouse in 1980, with a mind to creating “the most extreme music ever recorded”. They succeeded. The group remained at the forefront of the experimental and noise scenes over the next 27 years, invariably creating controversy and stimulating debate with their choice of violent and sexual subject matter, before eventually disbanding in 2007. A specialist in linguistics and unconscious communication, Bennett now helms the mass hypnosis experimental project, Extralinguistic …

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Kid Bastard (Boston, MA)
*Child Abuse canceled, Kid Bastard took their place.
Kid Bastard is a side project of a few bands in the Brighton/Allston area of Massachusetts. It’s tempting to call it a super group, but you’ve probably never heard of any of our other bands either.

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Controlled Bleeding (Massapequa, NY)
Controlled Bleeding – Controlled Bleeding
Controlled Bleeding is a prolific experimental music group based in Massapequa, New York. The group was founded by Paul Lemos, the group’s only consistent member. Most of Controlled Bleeding’s released recordings …

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Heavy Breathing (Richmond, Virginia)
Heavy Breathing – Grey Tape
Frigid and oppressive industrial electronics from Richmond, Virginia. Hissing synth scrape, straining frequencies and vitriol for both the willing and unwilling.
A Heavy Breathing performance falls loosely on the power electronics end of the noise spectrum and is vocal and synth heavy. The set usually consists of between one and three constructed “pieces” that are largely contingent upon my perceptions of the general atmosphere of the show. I am not interested in pursuing the tropes of power electronics (confrontation, …

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Nyodene D (Painesville, Ohio)
Nyodene D – There Will Come Soft Rains
Nyodene D is an extreme industrial / dark ambient project that utilizes analogue and digital synthesizers, tape loops, scrap metal percussion and vocals to create dark industrial atmospheres. The project has existed since 2008 and has several releases on various formats from labels such as Phage Tapes, Assembly Of Hatred, Danvers State Recordings – and in 2012 – Malignant Records’ Black Plague sublabel. Lyrics and themes range from anti-humanism, observation of human political nature, human cruelty, …

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Fossils (Ontario, Canada)
Fossils – Live @ Silent Barn 2010
On this November 2011 U.S. tour Fossils consists of David Payne (tapes, mics, electronics) & Rob Michalchuk (alto sax, trumpet, clarinet). David Payne began building his Fossils empire back in 2004. Since that time Fossils has colonized the underground circuit with a steady flow of ultra-limited tapes/cdrs, many of them through David’s own Middle James Co imprint. The Fossils sound is always one of formless despair. Churning low-grade electronics, primitive tape manipulations, and an aura of stoned reverie are …

10/4 | Starlab | 8PM

Arizmenda
Volahn
Haunting Presence
Shataan
Sharpwaist
Gash

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Sudden Infant (Berlin, Germany)
Sudden Infant – Tandoori Chicken Scooter III
Born 1965 in Switzerland and currently operating out of Berlin, Joke Lanz (aka Sudden Infant) is one of the most prolific and profound artists working in the border zones where performance and body art meet Improvisation and Noise. In his Sudden Infant guise, Lanz creates a unique blend of physical sound poetry and epileptic noise bursts, using contact microphones, loops, tapes etc. The result is an extreme form of musique concrète that juxtaposes spasmodic …

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Controlled Bleeding (Massapequa, NY)
Controlled Bleeding – Controlled Bleeding
Controlled Bleeding is a prolific experimental music group based in Massapequa, New York. The group was founded by Paul Lemos, the group’s only consistent member. Most of Controlled Bleeding’s released recordings feature two main collaborators, Chris Moriarty and vocalist Joe Papa, who both died in the late 2000s.
Since their first full-length release in 1983, Controlled Bleeding have released over 30 albums spanning several different genres, many of which were released on notable …

Friday Sept. 2nd | 8PM | Starlab | $5
Shame Michael Broderick
C.Lavender
Epaulettes
FRKSE
Lungwash

“Shame Michael Broderick is an experimental sound artist from Boston, MA. He will be performing with an array of analog synthesizers and will most likely ruin your night…”

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Black Bloc (Fredonia, NY)
Black Bloc – On The Brink of a New World
Black Bloc has progressed from its original anarcho-crust leanings through forays into anarcho-primitivism and finally this: a raw, emotive style that would make watchers of Fuse TV curl up in a fetal position and wish they were never born. Black Bloc wants to show you his scars–all of them, be they physical (his whole body is tiger-striped with cut marks), mental, or emotional. His sound is like the misery of humanity itself pouring like smog out of …

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Pusdrainer (Cincinnati, OH)
Pusdrainer – Portal
Harsh Noise/Power Electronics project of Justin Lakes (also of Friends With Corpses and Orbiting Formats). Began early 2008 as a strictly harsh noise project, Pusdrainer continues to shift between HN, Power Electronics, and Beat driven industrial heaviness. Featured in Decibel magazine and various online/print noise publications.
Pusdrainer’s set will consist of a crunbling harsh wall with heavy feedback and pitch shifted vocals crying for help on top. Accompanied by a video backdrop that loops and churns depravity and degradation until the set dies.

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Black Leather Jesus (Austin, Texas)
Black Leather Jesus – Ty
BLACK LEATHER JESUS was formed in 1989 by Richard Ramirez in Houston, Texas. The harsh noise group has had a revolving door of band members with Ramirez, Sean E. Matzus, Kevin Novak, Vance Osborne at the helm. The band has worked with many international acts including Merzbow, Taint, MSBR, The Haters, Deathpile, Eugenics Council, Smell & Quim, etc.

RU-486 (Hattiesburg, Mississippi)
RU-486 – Filth Fantasies
RU-486 was born out of the undying influence …

5/30/11 @ Gay Gardens $DONATIONS$, ALL AGES, 8PM

Pregnant Spore
Yellow Crystal Star
Vehement Caress
Xiphoid Dementia
Bong Marley
Ageism

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Das Butcher
Chronox
Nutchild
Table Radios
Retribution Body

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@ STARLAB
$10, 8PM ALL AGES
Author & Punisher
Theologian vs. The Vomit Arsonist
Hunted Creatures
Master of Pussy
Batillus
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Author & Punisher (San Diego, CA)
I am 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, I work 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 …

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Holzkopf (Montreal, Quebec)
Since 2001, Holzkopf has been developing a style of hypnotic and frenetic dance music made from a mishmash of homemade tape collages, blown out drum machine beats, dumpstered Chinese pop cassettes, raw data noise, barely controled feedback and smashed and grabbed found sounds. The sound is remenicent of proto-industrial, disco, hip-hop, global psychedelia, gospel and breakcore synthesized into a complete unique whole unlike any one component part. This is futurist and anarchist music made on cheap gear, recorded live to tape or dusty old …

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Illusion of Safety (Chicago, Illinois)
Since 1983 Illusion Of Safety has been the ongoing project of Daniel Burke, working alone and with various collaborators. They have released over 20 CDs on labels such as Complacency, Die Stadt, Experimedia, Odd Size, Silent, Soleilmoon, Staalplaat, Tesco, and Waystyx, and played over three hundred concerts in Europe and North America. IOS’ work has been called ambient, post-industrial, electro-acoustic, noise, sound collage, improvisation, and power electronics, but they are unwilling to limit their work to any given style or method. …

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Justice Yeldham (Darlinghurst, Australia)
What’s been described as “a trumpet player trapped in a two dimensional universe” is in fact the unique work of Justice Yeldham, a maverick musician with an unhealthy obsession with sheets of broken glass. In his infamous show that has astonished and bemused countless people in over 40 countries, yeldham ecstatically purses his lips against sheets of amplified glass whilst deftly employing various vocal techniques ranging from throat singing to raspberries, turning discarded shards into crude musical instruments. The results are a wild …

Wapstan (Montreal, Canada)
Wapstan (misspelling of the the word “Wapistan” means “xxx”) is the project of xxx xxx, also the head of DIY label Brise-Cul Records and member of bands Selfish Implosions and Incapables based out of Montréal in Québec. Conceived between the aluminum factories and the wooden fjords of Saguenay in the North of Quebec in 2002 with the intention of purveying one of the coldest forms of sound. Wapstan gets most of his influence in …

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Derek Holzer (Berlin, DE)
Derek Holzer (1972) is an American sound artist living in Berlin, whose current interests include DIY analog electronics, sound art, field recording and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and extreme music. He has played live experimental sound, as well as taught workshops in Pure Data and electronics, across Europe, North America, Brazil and New Zealand.
TONEWHEELS is an experiment in converting graphical imagery to sound, inspired by some of the pioneering 20th Century electronic music inventions. Transparent …