Arabian Blade – The Pressure Mantra C20
Self Released
Arabian Blade is Christopher Donofrio of Reviver and Donovan Fazzino a name I’m unfamiliar with. This is an older release having been recorded in 2008, who knew it would take me this long to review it! With this quick cassette the duo presents 2 fuzzed out dead noise tracks, both untitled.
Side A features bubbling overdriven synth attacks employing a heavily squashed sound. There is literally no room left in the recording for anything else because the frequencies are spread so wide. It’s quite …
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!!!
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Deluxe Bundle (1 tshirt, 3 CD/rs, 1 tape) $40
Collector’s Complete Bundle (3 CD/rs, 1 tape) $32
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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 …