Filth

In honour of a new Swans album. Here's to it being as good as this.
Filthy motherfucking Swans, bitches.

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.

Prurient - Rose Pillar

Hey folks,

Time for some ear-raping noise:

Prurient is a pretty big guy in noise. I personally haven't heard that much of his works, but judging from the Cocaine Death compilation and this album, his sound resolves around a dark-ambient-like atmosphere, slowly building in to very low or very high tones that WILL make you want to turn things down. He also uses distorted, screamed vocals to create a despairing, terror-filled effect. Unlike harsh noise, which just blasts you away with full-range noise (see Merzbow's Pulse Demon for that, which isn't all that good), this plays more with variation.
Enough of me: go here and listen for yourself.

Info:
last.fm
Hospital Productions
Wikipedia
Thanks to:
Spreading Neurotoxins

Distorted in Eclipse - He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes...

Time for another post.

For this one, we'll dive in to some pretty harsh black metal. The one-man-band Distorted in Eclipse, a side project of the guitarist and vocalist for some other band called Mengele Blue Eyes, released a track or two and an album on a free-to-download site called mikseri. It contains noisy, distorted black metal. Think merzbow doing remixes of Blut Aus Nord, The Axis of Perdition, that sort of thing. Some people use the term 'ambient black metal' for the previous two bands, but this is more noisy.

Anyway, someone collected the tracks (only the album), properly tagged them and stuffed them in to a single rar file for your convenience. If you're the guy that made this (then you rock! But that's not the point here) and you don't want that, just contact me and I'll delete the link. I can't do anything about the file itself, though.

There is one minor recording bug in the third track (around 9:00), but apart from that this album does what it aims to, flawlessly. If noise and black metal are among your favorite genres, you'll LOVE this.

info:
Last.fm
Unknown Metal
official download page

Thanks to:
verenvuoto: the user that posted the band.
Unknown Metal: the forum that helped me find this.