BEST 2022

Started by FreakAnimalFinland, December 12, 2022, 11:01:21 AM

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narcolepsia


always a pleasure to check these lists, but it is usually a hard exercise to write one, not really sure why. anyway, giving it a try. lots of stuff missing, of course, but here are some personal favorites that I believe deserve to be mentioned and discussed. might try and edit the post / write some notes a bit later.


OCHU "AMOKNAGEN / ABGANGSGENOM" CS (Hatband)
LINEKRAFT "HOWLING" CD (New Approach)
SCATHING "BLIND NECTAR CONSUMPTION" CS (Satatuhatta)
IDLER / HATTIFNATTAR CS (Satatuhatta)
ZALHIETZLI "LE FOUDROYÉ" CS (Satatuhatta)

Reissues:

BLACK LEATHER JESUS "JESUS IS STONED" CD (Industrial Recollections)
CRYPTOFASCISME "LA MORT VISIBLE & LA MORT INVISIBLE" 2xCS (Dogmatics In Outline)
KNURL "OBJECTIVE CONSTRAINT" CS (Absurd Exposition)
AGRESSOR "LLAMAS DE MUERTE - THE COMPLETE ULTRA SESSIONS 1986-1987" 2xLP (F.O.A.D.)
SACRILEGIO "PODREDUMBRE 1986-1988" LP (F.O.A.D.)

HateSermon


prelapsus

Loads to check out from this thread. Thanks everyone who has shared so far. If anyone knows of somewhere that still has the Golden Purifier CS I would love to hear it.

My personal favourites have been the Junta Cadre LP and Himukalt- Sex Worker III both on Total Black. Jumping Tiger 10" on Hospital Productions also excellent.

That Incapacitants As Loud as Possible reissue was also super nice. Great presentation.

pentd

i acquired much fewer items than anyone here so i have no clue about all the hot new releases in less-than-100-editions or fancy vinyls / boxes out there

but my most enjoyed releases this year are easily
- Haudat tape
- Circle Of Shit both albums on aussaat label
- Macronympha "ultimate vibrator" 2xCD reissue

but theres too much goin on for my budget, its crazy ... lots of good stuff that i dont even have (yet)

aivosumu

#34
Yeah... so much interesting stuff coming out and a lot i've yet to check out. Could probably make a better 2022 list in the end of 2023, hah! But here's some favourites:

Masonna / Prurient - Annihilationism (Masonna material almost on par with his best classic stuff, crazy!)
Grunt - Hehku (the most listened one for me this year, amazing dynamic harsh noise and nice handmade packaging always a bonus)
VA - Feedback Solidarity
Rotat - Disfigured Onanist
HO - Fucked To Death By A Horse (first release i've heard from this project and a damn good one, violent harsh noise blasting all the way)
Amek Maj / Moozzhead (speak rally english or die!!!)
Bizarre Uproar - Cunt Animal
Kovana - Club Catharsis

Reissues:
Macronympha - Ultimate Vibrator
Bizarre Uproar - Pakkosyöttö
Merzbow – Noisembryo / Noise Matrix (ofc classic album but the bonus CD also super good)

WCN

Here's my top 10 of 2022:

BLIND DATE - Thank You (Usagi Productions)
T.E.F. - Wrought (Dada Drumming)
SPATE - Dogmono (Sinkhole Entertainment)
JIM HAYNES - Insomnia (Sentimental Productions)
OCHU - Amoknagen / Abgangsgenom (Hatband)
NETWORK GLASS + JASON CRUMER - Prerequisite (Misanthropic Agenda)
DARKSMITH - Imposter (Throne Heap)
MOLD (Satatuhatta)
SLACKING - Cycling Through Bother & Bliss (Prose Nagge)
WORTH - Penumbral Calypso; Early Garden Walls (Hospital Productions)

I did a solo podcast episode about my list and other noise highlights of the year, and I made a 15 minute documentary where people on the streets of Cologne at Christmas time listened to some samples and told me their thoughts. You can see both year-end WCN TV special's at https://www.patreon.com/whitecentipedenoise
Harsh Noise label and EU based distro of American Imports
https://whitecentipedenoise.com/

Baglady

I've already written at length about some of these here or elsewhere, but the rest have comments.
There's piles of stuff I have yet to listen to from the past year which might have been up here with the best, but there's only so much time. And then there are a handful of releases I had a finger or a hand in releasing in one way or another (Usagi, liner notes etc) which I truly truly adore, but lets keep our pants on, ok?

JIM HAYNES – Turbulence LP (Verlautbarung)
Oh yes. Album of the year...

JIM HAYNES – Insomnia CD (Sentimental)
...but this one aint far behind. If Turbulence seeks a way out of our known dimensions, Insomnia goes the other way. Here Haynes uses his warm hammering electric pulses, drills and mechanics to tunnel his way to earth's core, only to find it hollow and empty. And vast, very vast. Industrial/noise that takes you places.

T.D. - Nothing New Under The Sun CS (The Gift Of Music)

MOT &VIOLENT SHOGUN – Mangle CS (Absurd Exposition)

OCHU – Lähmung Des Wartens 12" (Verlautbarung)

ARTBREAKHOTEL – Karas LP (Buried In Slag And Debris)

SPATE – Dogmono CD (Sinkhole Entertainment)
Well, fuck me. Cyborgs having clumsy 4AM drunken sex using power tools. Kneepads and helmets on in case you have to watch. High risk noise. Dean's best so far!

PRIMITIVE ISOLATION TACTICS
Jackals Howling Across The Deserts Of Time CS (Lead Lozenges)
Compiling Beliefs CS (Buried In Slag And Debris)

Reissues and whatnot:

CRYPTOFASCISME - La Mort Visible & La Mort Invisible DCS (Dogmatics In Outline)

KYOSHI MIZUTANI – Inferior's Betrayal DLP (Ferns)
Pressing a DLP of some old Mizutani recording in this day and age must be a financial disaster, but at least I'm glad. Kudos! Great great set.

MONDE BRUITS – Tapes 1991 – 1994 5CD (Industrial Recollections & Audio Dissection)

Zeno Marx

Quote from: Baglady on January 04, 2023, 12:45:30 AM
JIM HAYNES – Turbulence LP (Verlautbarung)
Oh yes. Album of the year...

JIM HAYNES – Insomnia CD (Sentimental)
...but this one aint far behind. If Turbulence seeks a way out of our known dimensions, Insomnia goes the other way. Here Haynes uses his warm hammering electric pulses, drills and mechanics to tunnel his way to earth's core, only to find it hollow and empty. And vast, very vast. Industrial/noise that takes you places.
Right on.  This guy is IT.
"the overindulgent machines were their children"
I only buy vinyl, d00ds.

33033

Shiver/Sa Bruxa split
Wastoid - Alien Asshole
Hikikomori - Awake You Sleeping Giant
Echthros - God Is Love
Maranata - Tarmac
Pain Appendix - Toward Infinity
Tantric Death - Hatemonger
MattxIbarra - Absolute Misery
Edge of Decay - Vein of Metal

host body

Linekraft, all releases
Jumping Tiger - The Temple of Sadism
Corral Shut - Ramshackle
Organ of Corti - Auris
Blind Date - Thank you
JFK - Tape Archives 86-88
Heat Signature - Brain On War
Hands To - Bio Electric

pidgeons

Am Not - Cold+Disloyal (Unrest)
Excellent return, hits just as hard as older material

FFH - A step ahead (No Rent)
Four strong tracks, "Indefinite Violence" PE hymn of 2022

Bøltorn - Dødsverk (Tesco)
very polished sound, tried and tested norvargesque

Scum FC - Proper Dogging (Narcolepsia)
keep coming back to this one for it's sheer nastiness

Human Larvæ - Pure Sex (Freak Animal)
Probably the projects best work so far, coherent and sonically challenging

VA - Poison Vol.IV (New Approach)
Now that is a compilation. No fillers, pristine presentation.

Reissues:
Macronympha - Ultimate Vibrator (Usagi)
Essential reissue, with ripping bonus material

Wertham - Lombroso (BeTon)
Great to have on one CD, especially since my dub was very quiet

Militia - The black flag hoised (Infinite Fog)
Glad I picked this one up, had never heard this material before

analogue.masters

#41
Essential releases 2022:
All releases of Jim Haynes, ochu, scum.

Best reissues:
THE RITA - Magazine 2CD.

moozz

Yet another excellent noise year. We were really spoiled with re-releases and boxed sets like:
Macronympha - Ultimate Vibrator
Government Alpha - Xerxes
Dead Body Love - Tumors
The New Boyfriends - 3
David Gilden - Texas Chainsaw Dopefiend
Monde Bruits - Tapes 1991-1994
Secret Apex - Secret Apex
Merzbow - Noisembryo / Noise Matrix
The Rita - Magazine
Black Leather Jesus - Jesus Is Stoned
Mangled Clit - Erotakill
Heat Signature - Brain On War
Hands To - Bio Electric

That's easily a full year of wonderful listening right there! But no, it was not only old stuff but also brand new goodies like:
Altar Of Flies - Återblick
Masonna/Prurient - Annihilationism
T.E.F. - Wrought
A Fail Association - Down South
Kuttekop - Transverse Toxospumosis
Sissy Spacek - Threshold
Sissy Spacek - Electric Field In Parallel
Black Leather Jesus - Super 9½
White Gold - 3
Vincent Dallas - Doktersbezoek
Corral Shut - Ramshackle
Knurl - Sensory Eradication

....and so much more! Great stuff from Barstool Mountain, Scathing, Kazumoto Endo, Dressing, Rotat, Mold and many many others. And even more from Sissy Spacek than the ones listed above. 2022 really was the year of the Sissy.

A special mention goes to Merzbow - Animal Liberation. An artist I have always liked/loved (pretty much my first harsh noise acquaintance). He went down in quality since the glory days of the '90s but this one is the best since a long long time.

Fistfuck Masonanie

#43
I'm going to be selfish and completely indulgent by posting an egregiously large list of releases from this year. I usually try to focus on a top ten or so to really give a more focused overview but I honestly didn't want to widdle my list down and there were so many good releases in 2022.

Best of 2022
Astro - Unbalanced Flag LP (*One of my favorites of the year, everyone is sleeping on this LP)
T.E.F. – Wrought (*Holy hell this is good, genius cut-up work and good dynamics across the disc)
Kazumoto Endo and Scum - Psychoacoustic Studies + Noise Snippets (*scum one of the best right now, takes skill to keep up with Endo)
scum / Unsustainable Social Condition - Necessary Downfall (*Excellent split, scum tracks were some of the best in 2022)
Systemic Sewage | Unsustainable Social Condition - All Available Weaponry (*Both Mumma and USC had a very solid year)
Systemic Sewage - Hyper-Mechanization Of The Hairless Ape (*Really unique listen, out there while kind of crusty DIY noise)

Dressing - 3 (*Dressing one of the top artist's in 2022 with multiple top-tier releases)
Dressing - From The Body To The Door (*One of the best and imaginative album's in 2022)
Cyess Afxzs - Ernst (*Every Cyess Afxzs release is excellent, if I had choose, this might be the best)
Cyess Afxzs – Kubin (*This one also sits high among his new releases)
Cyess Afxzs – T​à​pies
Cyess Afxzs - Americhasm
Blind Date - Thank You
Blind Date - Answer Print (Really good small edition tape, more tape sound/musique concrète)
Vasculae - Broken Lust

Spate - Dogmono
Moth Drakula - S/T
Network Glass And Jason Crumer - Prerequisite
Slacking - Cycling Through Bother & Bliss
Skin Graft - Final Judgment
A Fail Association - Down South
Worth – Penumbral Calypso; Early Garden Walls
Macrosonic - Lords Of Sex (New collab material from Mhlest and Joe of Macro. Everyone should check this out.)

Sissy Spacek had an MVP year with 4 crushing and essential CDs
Sissy Spacek - Reslayer
Sissy Spacek - Electric Field In Parallel
Sissy Spacek - Threshold (*Maybe the best if I had to choose just one)
Sissy Spacek - Mechanical Abstraction

Wasteland Jazz Unit - S/T 2xLP (*Perfect jazz noise freak-out, love this so much)
Bren't Lewiis Ensemble - Hand Signals (Absolutely stunning weirdo collage/tape work by a collective of artists)
Jeph Jerman - Flapndr
Jim Strong – 36fibulae
The Sun - The Loss of One (*I spun this A LOT, a really beautiful and personal-sounding tape.

Spring Of Life - Brown Bed
Vincent Dallas - Fantoom Klank
Vincent Dallas – Manische Hyperaktiviteit (*First of many excellent releases in 2022)
Vincent Dallas – Doktersbezoek (*Maybe my favorite out of them all)
Vincent Dallas & Moozzhead – Controlled Chaos & Sound (*Straight headbanging harsh collab)
Hymenal Opening - Fucked To Death By A Horse

Best of Richard Ramirez/Black Leather Jesus/Deadline/Room 2A
*I'm admittedly a huge fanboy of everything RR & BLJ and there is always a lot so they get its own section

Richard Ramirez - latex catalog, leather catalog
Richard Ramirez, Slacking - From The Wreckage

Black Leather Jesus - Super 9½ (*Highly unnoticed and excellent new album)
Black Leather Jesus - S​é​rie Torso 1
Black Leather Jesus - S​é​rie Torso 2
Black Leather Jesus – Make Them Cum Slowly (*DENSE c120 of new material)
Black Leather Jesus, The Rita - Adding And Subtracting Limbs

Cruel Map of Women's Bodies – Cruel Map of Women's Bodies (I)
Cruel Map of Women's Bodies – Cruel Map of Women's Bodies (II)
Cruel Map of Women's Bodies – Cruel Map of Women's Bodies (III)

Best Reissues
Mangled Clit – Erotakill
Government Alpha - Xerxes
Monde Bruits - Tapes 1991-1994
非常階段 + Incapacitants - Δ8000 / Prelude To Pallo
Dead Body Love - Tumors
Bizarre Uproar - Pakkosyöttö
Bizarre Uproar - Likainen Ehtoollinen
David Gilden – Texas Chainsaw Dopefiend
David Gilden - Noise Attacks The Suburbs
David Gilden - Depress / Regress Vol. 2
Macronympha - Ultimate Vibrator
Spate - Neuter

Bloated Slutbag

copy-paste from the other board circa Dec 11 plus two additions tacked to the end (spot em!). was evidently a good year.

Cyess Afxzs
Obsession of the week. Know nothing about this project save that the bc samples are pure fire and will hopefully be ingesting the shit proper in short order.

This was my tentative list, jerked out whilst partially shitfaced-

HÖH - HÖH
HÖH – Lukuisia Ulkopuolisia Käsivarsia
Mold - Mold
HÖH / Violent Shogun
Violent Shogun - Brittle
Mot & Violent Shogun – Mangle
Mot - Fretted (note to self, need to check other Mot)
Barstool Mountain - III
Barstool Mountain - II (Memory Eraser)
Barstool Mountain - Birth Canal
Altar Of Flies - Återblick
* prolly some other AoF-adjacent shiz need to top up
Aprapat - Reef Crasher
Corral Shut - Ramshackle
Jeph Jerman - Flapndr
Lettera 22 - Surface Ego
Kjostad - Captive (plus all the other Kjostad I didn't grab)
Heat Signature - Brain On War (this year?)
Blind Date - You're Welcome
Organ Of Corti - Organ Of Corti plus the 7"
The Flea Circus – A Touch Of Grey
Am Not - Cold + Disloyal
Umpio - Marisko
TEF! - Wrought
TEFAFA...FATAFE...TEAFFA...TFFAAE...AFATEF...one of those


JH – APEIROZOAN
The Keraunograph Organisation - Anatomic Stars/Recessional      
The Keraunograph Ensemble - The Omnipresent Volume III: The Great Diagonal (abso-fucking-lutely amazing)

These I think technically for me 2022 (and KILL) -
Aprapat - Hot Lava Shampoo
K.M. Toepfer- Retrace No Steps
The New Boyfriends - The Fourth Season

!Worth - Sacred Violence (special bonus mention for damn near taking my sacred foutreing fingers off)

Plus, buncha stuff that KILLS but haven't properly indulged plus all the other shit I forgot (plus, I'm an idiot)
Plus stuff that I need but do not wish to name. Sure to KILL.

Gonna come back to this a...fair...few times. Maybe just delete everyone and leave HÖH but for now this ll do.

Most slept on (by me)
Toanche Dwelling - Hyleidos (just, so incredibly good, says bandcamp, need to cop release proper if such a thing is to transpire, at some point)
T.D. - Nothing New Under The Sun (no, it isn't, but it is. was. slept on. and, defeats all purpose, including the idear of posting word to the effect. which btw is a god thing.*)

Worst of 2022:
I don't know man, why you gotta be like that?


Someone weaker than you should beat you and brag
And take you for a drag