Bereft/Fire In The Head – MA/PE/FU Vol. 1 LP
From Heathen Harvest webzine:
Concrete. A perfect metaphor for the hardcore spirit that infects both the past and the present state of the Massachusetts underground. It is the brutal, severed face of American power electronics. It greets flesh with all the subtlety of a nuclear blast wave, and its only voice is the crushing crumble under the rumble of an Earthquake or the gut-wrenching clash of jagged metal against itself, the white noise of the heavy rain that washes away …
Really excited to be adding a ton of new Xiphoid Dementia merch to the shop this month, as well as special deal bundles and a heaping hand full of new distro items!!!
Xiphoid Dementia Secular Hymns Tshirt
Xiphoid Dementia – Secular Hymns CD [Malignant Records]
Xiphoid Dementia – Meditation Convulsions C40 [Apicult Recordings]
Special Xiphoid Dementia deal bundles!!!
Mega Deluxe Bundle (2 tshirts, 3 CD/rs, 1 tape) $43
Deluxe Bundle (1 tshirt, 3 CD/rs, 1 tape) $40
Collector’s Complete Bundle (3 CD/rs, 1 tape) $32
Complete Bundle (1 tshirt, 2 CDs, 1 tape) $32
New School Bundle (1 tshirt, …
Knurl – Thiocarbamide CD
Phage Tapes
Harsh noise is the name of the game and with Thiocarbamide Knurl makes himself a key player. The artwork depicts corrosion – lots of it – with rusty metal, gritty textures and old machinery.
Taking no time to get into the thick of things Knurl explodes the album with the opener Morphocrylate a blistering barrage of distorted sounds, junk metal, crunchy starts/stops, screeching feedback and everything that makes a harsh noise album great. Neuromyositis follows suit with yet another obliteration of sound.
Even following into the second half …
Plastic Boner Band – Cherubinic Wanderer C60
Anabolic Dimensions
Employing possibly the worst name in all of noise Plastic Boner Band are back this time expanding their sound with a cassette release packed to the brim with seething, droning noise.
Side A is broken down into 5 tracks though I’ll be damned if I can tell where I am in the lineup at any given time. That’s fine because the sound ebbs and flows with effectiveness always lashing aggressively straight to the face! PBB manages to get a nice crunchy sound out …
Skin Area – Rothko Field CD
Malignant Records
Here is an impressive release from Martin Bladh and Magnus Lindh the former of which is also in IRM as well as recording material under his own name. Skin Area takes the aesthetic and electronic soundscapes of IRM and transforms them into an experimental post-rock journey that skirts on the edges of genres where adventurous listeners will find just as much in common with Sonic Youth as they will with Sutcliffe Jugend.
It’s a very odd pairing, but one that seems to make perfect sense …