Concrete Mascara – History Of Ruin CS
Trapdoor Tapes
This tape is a thick caloric slab of cranky power electronics. Very hard to consume, but worth your time.
Concrete Mascara has made the work of reviewing this tape difficult by offering a harrowing 45 minutes of nail biting power electronics. There is a certain vastness to this tape that is a little overwhelming. I haven’t heard anything else by this guy, but this release seems like a pretty good cross-section of sounds that offers nice variations in sounds but also …
Pent Up Release presents
SEATTLE, Thursday 4.14
PORTLAND, Saturday 4.16
Seattle, WA
Thursday April 14th, 2016
REBAR 21+
CONTROL
SCARD
GRIEFER
RUSALKA
XIPHOID DEMENTIA
PRISONFOOD+MASAAKI MASAO
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Portland, OR
Saturday April 16th, 2016
HIGH WATER MARK 21+
CONTROL
SCARD
BLOOD BOX
JONATHAN CANADY
Pent Up Release and Gallery 1412 present
Acoustic Mess featuring Live Performances By
Headstone Brigade
Eric Ostrowski
Mike XVX
Adam Levitt
Josh Medina
Saturday March 5th, 2016 6pm-9pm
Gallery 1412
All Ages Event
1412 18th Avenue
Seattle WA 98122
Headstone Brigade
Accordion based neo-folk and melodramatic pop.
Egan Budd is a electronic music artist as well as composer recently re-located to the Seattle area perhaps more known for his noise/industrial project Xiphoid Dementia or label/webzine Existence Establishment previously based out of Boston, MA.
https://www.facebook.com/headstonebrigade/
Eric Ostrowski
Eric Ostrowski is a freely-improvising musician and experimental filmmaker based in Seattle, WA.
He played guitar and violin as one half of …
Reptile Womb – Thee Fyrste Deathe: Serpent Wrything Beneathe Thee Graeve CD
Bestial Burst records
The lacerations which Reptile Womb has foisted upon the listener might be more effectively appreciated if one approaches Thee Fyrste Deathe from a power-electronics perspective. The tools used here are primitive and unpolished. Its true bedroom wizardry lies in the composition making for a remarkably ugly but catchy set of songs.
The closest comparison I can think of to Reptile Womb might be Gnaw Their Tongues. The latter opts for grand entrances, inundation of samples, …
Coberord – S/T
Coberord bandcamp
The pairing of ritual music and the slower register of metal produces some very interesting and imaginative songwriting. The previously mentioned Atarah and groups like Phurpa often recreate heaviness by drafting empty space in between barren landscapes of strings, organic instruments, and other acoustics.
Featuring members of Habsyll and Stille Volk, Coberord sulks in the creepy robe void where ritual and sludge/doom metal fumes converge. This album is a very slow starter. The opening 17 minute track is gratuitously sparse with plinks, croaks, ghoulish screams, …