Himukalt "Come October" tape (Found Remains) - similar to the Malignant LP but not quite as harsh. The first half of s1 & second half of s2 are the most intense. If I were to recommend a place to start based solely on the two most recent releases, I'd say go with the LP but this tape is no slouch. Plus you get a naked woman in the artwork, if that's your 'thing'. Anyone have the tape on No Rent they would trade? Or any of the previous releases? Shoot me a msg.
Enjoyed this twice on a long hike on the AT today. I might vote this over the LP honestly! Though I have no standing argument, probably just the locale I heard it in ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I really enjoyed the tape on Helen Scarsdale Agency,
"Conditions Of Acrimony".
Maeror Tri "Ambiguitas" (Teta-Morphosis): Maybe my memory of this group is just too old now, but I was expecting something soft and meandering. I know them mostly from comps over albums.
Troum has gotten lots of attention from me, but not even so much their earlier releases, I guess.
Opening track
"Death Surrounds You" is pretty fucking aptly titled. Utterly blown out (as is much of the album), 15-minute track that at times has an
early Genocide Organ vibe. Pulsing, throbbing,
cocking... Once, after a particularly long weekend, I was playing
"Sexregler" at peak volume through big mountain roads, I was probably just coming down from the medley of things, but the song kind of mutated into some absolute rotten industrial song in my mind like I'd never heard it before or since. There's brief moments interspersed, but frequent, in this track that take my head back to that moment. MSNP industrial. Some tracks play with rhythm in ways I just outright don't enjoy, and these are the tracks that just feel more
improvised as a whole.
"Furtive Menace" is probably the closest thing to what I expected; more synth/ambient. But, in a really good way, everything on this album is washed out and louder. Across the whole album there is so much territory covered that is just as similar as dissimilar. Slow mutations of forms with occasional leaps. The greater majority of the second half is more droned based and less "industrial". I like this more than some of the more digital sounds I associate this all with - there's some great loops and decay through lots of the songs. The backbone of several. There's a track ultra-akin to
Methadrone... that one caught me off guard.
On the whole, this could use two songs cut, maybe three and I'd come back often. Will probably just do that on my phone haha. At least if the jam band-soundin shit wasn't immediately after that mad opening track! Still a really great album and now I want to hear more of this era of them.
