Loud goodies.

Why hello there. This is a sort-of-tribute to all the awesomeness at the cosmic hearse blog. I haven't had time in a while, so I figured I'd post here some of the goodies I've saved up until now. Thank you, Aesop!

Check out this crust black metal goodness over at the cosmic hearse: Axeman - Arrive. I know it is probably intended, but it's a real shame this is on cassette and not on MP3 or CD. The production is pretty much non-existent. While it adds to the atmosphere, I'd like to hear this with decent production.

Liked that and need to be fed more punk and less black metal for a change? Grab some Japanese punk: 集団自殺 (syudan jisatsu) - Demon Priest. I think this one's a little slow-paced and maybe a bit too silly in terms of vocals, but it's still enjoyable. If you're digging the transition, you ought to go for GAI - Total Control, another fucking awesome japanese hardcore EP. Also, here is MOAR.



Speaking of Japan, while I was searching for something I stumbled on this Hanatarash EP:

Hanatarash is one of those bands that were on my mental check-these-guys-out list for quite a while and I'm glad I finally got to it. It isn't quite on par with Eye's work with Boredoms, but unlike my initial expectations, it isn't a wall of fucking noise everywhere. It has some really funny moments and some of the sound generation methods remind me of Tangent Precipitate (even though the influence probably goes the other way around). It also applies some breakcore-esque ideas in the background.

You want more gritty hardcore fucking punk, you say? I totally agree! Check out this wicked cover:

The album is as badass as the cover looks. DO WANT.

Industrial hardcore/power noise

Subwoofer time!
Here's some stuff I've been listening to on this fine evening:

Liquid Blasted - Kremlincore:


Full stream on last.fm.
discogs page & you can buy it right here (2x12"). Hard, fast, good 4/5.

Terrorfakt - Cold Steel World:


After freshly ripping this from CD (I bought it together with Skinny Puppy's The Greater Wrong of the Right), I was kind of disappointed yet again. This album just looses it's punch if you get up with it every morning for a while. Anyway, you can find it on Amazon and iTunes or from the label. Discogs entry. 3/5.

After Terrorfakt, I grabbed something a little more gentle, in the form of Pneumatic Detach - [re·vis·cer·a]:

I'm pretty sure this is a remix album of the guy's previous album, 2005's [vis·cer·a]. Remixes are by Terrorfakt and thirteen other artists I've never heard of. I actually downloaded this a long time ago, after hearing some of Pneumatic Detach's own stuff on the last.fm radio. At the first listen, I remember being suprised by the more EBM sound, but right now it was simply quite enjoyable, though it could use a little more punch. Notably, the track Embers (remix by Censor) was a drum'n'bass track, which was a pleasant suprise. 3.5/5.

And after this, it is time for one of my first 'connections' to the power noise genre, xotox - (Die) Unruhe:


This shit is really hard. REALLY hard. Not in the sense of a difficult listen, just an incredibly hard bass. The biggest 'flaw' of this album is that it consists of two core tracks: Mechanische Unruhe (Mechanical Unrest) and Nasse Wände (according to google translate, Damp Walls) and remixes of them. Scattered inbetween these remixes, another 6 original tracks are around, which brings the album to a total of 15 tracks. Remixes are by a bunch of artists I've never heard of, though Jesus Complex sounds vaguely familiar. At just over an hour of hard, loud music, it's pretty hard to hold an album together. If one takes this into account, this is one damn fine album. But of course, I don't do that, but judge the album on it's experience. There's still an okay amount of variety here: the MH20 remix of Mechanische Unruhe (by Heimataerde) is probably one of the most EBM-like tracks, but there is also borderline noise stuff here like Pumpe/Düse and Paderborn, which paint a bleak picture of a late-night party in an industrial facility of inhumane proportions. Overall, 4/5.

Anyway, enough for today. I'll probably make a post somewhere tomorrow on my most recent purchase, Wodensthrone's awesome atmospheric black metal debut Loss. If you can't wait, metal-achives has some reviews for your reading pleasure. Also, I finally got around to fetching Swans' debut, Filth, which is one of those albums which I'm probably going to regret not checking out earlier.

< RAGE > On an unrelated note, /mu/ is being really godawfully slow recently. I suspect /b/ is to blame, since the 4chan status blog and our good friend downforeveryoneorjustme both say that img, dat and static.4chan.org are down. < /RAGE >