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Balor/SS1535

I just started listening to some Military Position tracks this morning, and am liking it quite a bit.  Any recommendation on albums that are particularly good?

NaturalOrthodoxy

Quote from: Balor/SS1535 on December 11, 2019, 06:32:56 PM
I just started listening to some Military Position tracks this morning, and am liking it quite a bit.  Any recommendation on albums that are particularly good?

Recent full length on No Rent is ace! She has a strong back catalogue overall

Balor/SS1535

Quote from: NaturalOrthodoxy on December 11, 2019, 11:50:52 PM
Quote from: Balor/SS1535 on December 11, 2019, 06:32:56 PM
I just started listening to some Military Position tracks this morning, and am liking it quite a bit.  Any recommendation on albums that are particularly good?

Recent full length on No Rent is ace! She has a strong back catalogue overall

Thanks, I will check it out!

Peterson

Quote from: NaturalOrthodoxy on December 11, 2019, 11:50:52 PM
Quote from: Balor/SS1535 on December 11, 2019, 06:32:56 PM
I just started listening to some Military Position tracks this morning, and am liking it quite a bit.  Any recommendation on albums that are particularly good?

Recent full length on No Rent is ace! She has a strong back catalogue overall

Very much agree, one of the best tapes on No Rent (so far). "Black Noise" is another great release, despite crappy title. People can say all they want about her, but she's got style and talent, for sure.

Balor/SS1535

Quote from: Force Neurotic on December 12, 2019, 09:18:03 PM
Quote from: NaturalOrthodoxy on December 11, 2019, 11:50:52 PM
Quote from: Balor/SS1535 on December 11, 2019, 06:32:56 PM
I just started listening to some Military Position tracks this morning, and am liking it quite a bit.  Any recommendation on albums that are particularly good?

Recent full length on No Rent is ace! She has a strong back catalogue overall

Very much agree, one of the best tapes on No Rent (so far). "Black Noise" is another great release, despite crappy title. People can say all they want about her, but she's got style and talent, for sure.

Thanks, I will look into that one also.

I just remembered that Military Position was going to release an lp/dvd through Viva Angel Press this year, but it looks like it never happened.  Anyone know why?

DSOL

lately it's been

Bacillus - Serial Infector

Bacillus - Out Of Control 

Regurgitation - Tales of Necrophilia 

Lurid Panacea - The Insidious Poisons
"I do not get bored of nude ladies nor good Japanese noise"

l.b.

Quote from: Balor/SS1535 on December 12, 2019, 09:40:42 PM
I just remembered that Military Position was going to release an lp/dvd through Viva Angel Press this year, but it looks like it never happened.  Anyone know why?

lots of MP in the works, including the DVD, reissues and new material

andy vomit

Quote from: DSOL on December 12, 2019, 11:00:35 PM

Lurid Panacea - The Insidious Poisons

this album is fucking mind blowing.
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DSOL

Quote from: andy vomit on December 12, 2019, 11:56:00 PM
Quote from: DSOL on December 12, 2019, 11:00:35 PM

Lurid Panacea - The Insidious Poisons

this album is fucking mind blowing.

I was late to the party with them - but holy fuck this album destroys
"I do not get bored of nude ladies nor good Japanese noise"

Eigen Bast

Eternal Champion - Terminus Est (Sword Worship 2019)
Brief dungeon synth EP by the guitarist of Texas heavy/power metal band Eternal Champion. This is the first release on their new Sword Worship label, and 50 copies were available at Hospital Fest, 50 to be sold online. Side A reminds me of Depressive Silence; that kind of thudding percussion moving things along as evocative synth work twists over the background. The B side goes a bit spacier, riding an arpeggio and bringing to mind Tangerine Dream and the like. The combination of the two is certainly evocative of The Book of the New Sun, of which this release is "based" on.

Skin Crime - Lot No. 249 (Self Abuse)
Lot No. 249 is a brilliant story from Arthur Conan Doyle. A macabre and occult story of a murderous mummy found in a lot of Egyptian artifacts, this tape is one of those things where the inspiration is perfectly mirrored in the sound. this record follows the patterns of the last few Skin Crime tapes; pulsating dark ambient gradually building to scrap sheared cacophany. The A-side hums with what sounds like distant cicadas, dreadful shuffling and geiger counter clicks building into swarming anxiety. The B-side keeps the "I am covered in ants" thing going, while bringing in some heavy steel on steel scrapings, stone on stone, very earthy textural sounds. Never a dull moment over it's lengthy run time. Really enjoyed the almost rhythmic sensibility of the pulsing bass throb. Frightening and exciting stuff.

Worth - Hidden in Christ (Self Abuse)
New (pretty sure?) tape on Self Abuse. Side A opens with blown out bashed metal gurgling into a piercing wall of white noise. Chaotic loops layer and involute. Chains in a blender. Lava in a cement mixer. Evocative noise. Thick, sputtering textures allowed to develop and ride out. The B-side brought to mind an almost orchestral sensibility, organlike drones, rusted timpani junk drumming. Just a huge sound throughout. Thick textures explode again and again. Hell vacuum. I appreciate that this tape avoids the "build to a climax" mentality and just goes balls out, sputters to a near halt, then starts again.

Zeno Marx

Howard Stelzer - Anathematization of the World is Not an Adequate Response to the World 2019 - IMPRESSIVE.  102+ minutes.   So many layers while remaining a simple-feeling, leisurely listen.  The organic sounds had me thinking of everything from Grzinich, Kojo, Nehil, Dauby, and Northam to Hum of the Druid, Niellerade Fallibilisthorstar, Tarab, and Nebris.  I should pay more attention to him than I do.  He's been busy the past few years.  I still have a couple tracks to go, but this will make my "best of" list of the year.
"the overindulgent machines were their children"
I only buy vinyl, d00ds.

Yrjö-Koskinen

#7721
BODY CARGO - Echoes, Tape
A Lithuanian death industrial/mumbling noise tape that has been sitting on my shelves through several relocations. The oversized cardboard cover and the band moniker must have felt somehow uninspiring, I guess. Turns out this lack of inspiration was pretty much unfounded, as far as the sound goes. Deep, rumbling destruction, and oppressive, subterranean bass/distortion manipulations. Here, there are things being taken apart. Not exactly violent, but there are few or no really melodic and ambient qualities either. May lack cult appeal, but does its job really well. Multiple copies in mint condition still available from discogs for next to nothing; perhaps the unassuming extra-sonic appendages have confused more people than me.

JAAKKO VANHALA  - Cuts of Grace, 3" CD
Vanhala's stuff continues to combine harsh inaccessibility with Haloo Helsinki smash hit qualities in a way I find difficult to fathom. This is not something you would ever consider recommending to an "outsider" showing some interest in industrial music; it is relentless, violent, cut to pieces. If you're already in the game, however, it can't really get much better than this. You have the incoherent, aggressive energy of japanoise, yet somehow made more European by a a kind of punkish maltreatment of electronics and metal scraps. Almost-but-not-quite digital noise pulses mesh with shitty delay, only to be broken up by feedback and whatever else herra Vanhala deigns to dream up. The production is extremely clear and well mastered, yet the atmosphere retains a clear touch of rural Finnish rape basement. The absence of faux analog fetishism and the high production value coexists uncomfortably but effectively with rough and tumble, improvised noise cacaphony. Absolutely spectacular. I have absolutely no idea why this is still available from the label (Freak Animal).

V/A - The Night and the Fog II, Tape
An old classic. The ambiguity surrounding much politically suspect black metal these days is nowhere to be found - the tape is subtitled "The Hammer of National Socialism" and is unlikely to see much play in the upcoming Democratic primaries. If you disregard the pure crap, which does exist in the scene and on this tape, NSBM can be roughly divided into two camps. The first is made up of of the "subtle" stuff, music that combines the qualities of black metal with an extremist political touch (often conveyed through occult/spiritual symbolism, with the politics forming but an edgy backdrop) and so keeps the flame of the genre alive. This approach creates a strange and appealing juxtaposition of supposed traditionalism and "avant garde", pubescent revolt (even a shitty nazi band is 10 times more controversial and provocative than literally any other form of western "subversive" art, and hence even the slightest tendency towards intellectualism WILL produce maximum aesthetic Orgasmatron). The second camp is more about Eastern Europeans/South Americans aggressively mispronouncing English and German alike over ill tuned guitars and once-cheap drum machines. All reasonable persons can agree that this latter form of black metal is as great as it is hilarious. Both BM incarnations are represented a-plenty on this tape. Also, there may be a track or three that falls into the very first type delineated above - that of pure crap - and to complicate matters some of these lieder ambulate between all three categories. Nevertheless, this is a snapshot of early 2000's extremism that has rarely if ever been surpassed. Staples like ABSURD, BILSKIRNIR and TEMNOZOR rub shoulders with less cherished (but equally long lasting) acts like COMMAND, EISENWINTER and WOTANORDEN.  I assume this is banned for sale everwhere these days, but there are probably obscure but efficient Greek distros still carrying copies.
"Alkoholi ei ratkaise ongelmia, mutta eipä kyllä vittu maitokaan"

Ahvenanmaalla Puhutaan Suomea

FreakAnimalFinland

Quote from: Yrjö-Koskinen on December 20, 2019, 11:17:31 PM
JAAKKO VANHALA  - Cuts of Grace, 3" CD
Vanhala's stuff continues to combine harsh inaccessibility with Haloo Helsinki smash hit qualities in a way I find difficult to fathom. This is not something you would ever consider recommending to an "outsider" showing some interest in industrial music; it is relentless, violent, cut to pieces. If you're already in the game, however, it can't really get much better than this. You have the incoherent, aggressive energy of japanoise, yet somehow made more European by a somehow punkish maltreatment of electronics and metal scraps. Almost-but-not-quite digital noise pulses mesh with shitty delay, only to be broken up by feedback and whatever else herra Vanhala deigns to dream up. The production is extremely clear and well mastered, yet the atmosphere retains a clear touch of rural Finnish rape basement. The absence of faux analog fetishism and the high production value coexists uncomfortably but effectively with rough and tumble, improvised noise cacaphony. Absolutely spectacular. I have absolutely no idea why this is still available from the label (Freak Animal).

Maybe foreign people don't get the Haloo Helsinki reference, haha. One could say it's harsh noise with Lana Del Rey production values? Reason why it is still available, like the rest of the 3"s that came same time, was that I pressed all half more copies than I did for first batch of 3"s (Sick Seed, Umpio, Mania). Material of each project felt strong and I know none of projects is releasing material frequently so... Grunt, Vanhala, Worth and Selected Killing might be available a bit longer.

DETRIMENTIAL EFFECT "Your Truth" CD
Tesco
Good heavy electronics from the contemporary scene. It has it's advantage and disadvantages. Basically it does everything else well, except having its own voice. So getting well done heavy electronics album and liking what I hear. Yet one can't really say that there would be any songs that stood out in a way that it could be concluded to be his own style of doing things.

CONTROL "The Abattoir" CD
Old Captain
As opposite of this. CD is collection of old rare works. Pretty much instantly, when Control started, he had his own voice. You put this CD on your player, hit the play, and if you know Control, you will recognize the sound, the atmosphere, the way he composes material. The way he layers things and processes vocals and so on. This has not been imitated by anyone. Nobody else really does it like Control does. While ago listened handful of his Ant-Zen CD's. It is clear man has had vision and skills to put that into reality since very early on.

STRAIGHT ARM SALUTE "Teachings of Traditionalism" CD
Europa Erwache
Right wing extremist industrial, that has this element that it could easily been WarCom label related. Instead it has been published by label mostly known for putting out RAC titles. There is the same clumsiness and oddity that many WarCom label bands had. Martial beats on drum machines. Awkward electronic sounds. Movie samples from famous movies and actors you recognize. In times when all the martial industrial is so well done, they remind of movie soundtracks, SAM seems like fresh blow from deepest corners of underground. From artistic or technical point of view very very clumsy. Certainly not for people who dislike clear politics in music.

BIZARRE UPROAR "Lily the flesh" LP
Asrar
Literally ages ago, IOPS was planning for VHS themed compilation tape. It was meant for guys who actually took part of the VHS trading circles and collected stuff. Bizarre Uproar was also invited and he started recordings based on this particular VHS, using it as part of source for sounds. Not only recording became way more than requested 5 minutes, it became so good, that BU decided to put out material as it's own tape. Set was also performed live in Lahti years ago. There is plenty of variation in BU's output. This is one release that stands out with it's eerie droning quality. It's really killer release, and could have been rated as "album" if you ask me.
Bizarre Uproar later recorded track again for VHS themed compilation for IOPS. More than half decade later, it still waits for completion. It includes also track from MANIA. Surely will get finished at some point!

YANNICK DAUBY & HITOSHI KOJO "La vie dans...." 10"

Substantia Innominata
Very good material. Somewhere between drone and perhaps even sounds one often associates with ritual music. Hard to decide if the physical sounds have odd percussive quality, or if they are just something one could file under "electro-acoustic composition", hah.. Listened this many many times.

MICHAEL NORTHAN "Suhina" 10"
Substantia Innominata
Minimalistic and subtle drone release. Also several times spinning on turntable, but less memorable than title above.

CONTROLLED DEATH "Ritualistic Mutilation in the Bloody Darkness" 2LP
Urashima
First time Urashima doing regular full color gatefold cover. Photos of skulls and skeletons all over. At the same time I appreciated that it's not just series of black & silver stuff, but then in other hand it was nearly as if this wasn't even Urashima title, haha..  Nevertheless, I do hope he will use this type of covers for bands who have their own design ideas. Less black & silver and tamplate designs.
Controlled Death - I guess I have said pretty much everything what there is to say. It recycles the same idea since beginning and there is seemingly no progress or change. When you got short clips of improvised synth death industrial and buried vocal patterns, and every "track" is like sketch, with no beginning, no end. Just starts in middle and ends as abruptly as started, like from click of pause button... Well, I could say I have enough of Controlled Death now. Next time probably will skip. Not because it would be shitty, but I can easily re-listen previous works unless he will come up with new ideas.

MO*TE "anti is anti is anti" tape
New Forces
Technological changes are what has changed MO*TE sound, but not that much. In it's core, we got the same spirit now that there was. Japanese home recording harsh noise. Some more audible rhythm here occasionally. Mostly harsh noise without gimmicks. Just doing good "harsh noise for limited tape" type of stuff!

MERZBOW "De-Soundtrack" CD
Slowdown Records
1986-87 recordings mastered from cassette tape in 2018. Noisy experimental collages. Really good stuff. Hit instantly and listened this several times.

MERZBOW "Merzbeat" CD
MERZBOW "Dead Zone" CD

as opposed to these two. Merzbeat was lame. Was almost pushing stop in middle, but decided to give it a chance. Well, not going to keep that disc. Pretty useless. Dead Zone is 2011 works focusing on nuclear power. Released by Quasi Pop from Ukraine, recorded while Fukushima incident was happening. Chernobyl / Fukushima connection is there, as well as noise is vastly better than Merzbeat. But is it good by Merzbow standards? If you compare to De-Soundtrack, this ain't too good. It is different. It is software era and despite it is quite good on that, it is like shadow of the best days. It is good enough to keep as reminder of this era of Merzbow. Reminder that I don't need more of that really. Even when approaching material with intent to want to like it, specific qualities of material just reminds it is unlikely to happen. Still looking for bunch of older titles I never had, so there is work to be done in collecting Merz..




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#7723
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on December 21, 2019, 10:13:23 AM

YANNICK DAUBY & HITOSHI KOJO "La vie dans...." 10"

Substantia Innominata
Very good material. Somewhere between drone and perhaps even sounds one often associates with ritual music. Hard to decide if the physical sounds have odd percussive quality, or if they are just something one could file under "electro-acoustic composition", hah.. Listened this many many times.

I've also given this plenty of eartime and have more than once threatened to subject it to a proper(ly) retarded commentary. On first percussive insistence, through to the more protracted metal-on-metal drawling, I'm hearing strains of earlier, Organum flavored, Kojo. Hangin out in swampier end of the forest with druid and frog, Jackman scraping the bong of ritual, can I hear you shout gloria sanctus omega.


edit for requisite cliche-

The brevity makes the experience that much more precious

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

moozz

Kazumoto Endo - Keiyo

Some people included this one in their "Best of 2019" lists but I could include it in my list of biggest disappointments. The whole record is pretty quiet with a thin sound. There are "bursts" of noise with plenty of (almost?) total silence in between. The bursts are not violent or harsh in any way (that would have been how I prefer my noise) but they just kind of fade in and out. More like a noisy experimental release. Varied but it never gets going for me.