FINNISH NOISE

[XTORSOX]

I found one copy of first xxxx-tape and one Half mile down split.
Trade is ok.
New project FOERI is now. One tape out but sold out at the moment.

Edit: first xxxx: sold.

[Scat-O-Logy]

New project FOERI is now. One tape out but sold out at the moment.

Nice! Gotta get this in case you end up making more copies.

[cr]

New höh tape is great! The best yet!

New HÖH tape is indeed great (I love the B side), as well as all the other releases.

Absolutely agreed, it's excellent!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

FA is working on putting H.Ö.H. CD which includes the short tapes as well as little unreleased stuff...

One new Finnish noise I got from young guy who I didn't know before, DEATTÁN. "Metallipurkaus" CDR is just semi-handmade effort. You can't seem to find anything about it online. This was recorded in september and made perhaps dozen copies. Bunch of junk metal on front cover, 5 tracks of highly distorted harsh noise. Some of material borders to grainy and one-dimensional HNW. Nothing utterly original or amazing, but when you get early recordings of someone barely 18, I'm curious what will follow. Some good track titles such as "Äänite Siitä Kun Nussin Transistoriradiota". Not sure if this guy is familiar with noise scene in general, so we'll see what will emerge.

[Euro Trash Bazooka]

FA is working on putting H.Ö.H. CD which includes the short tapes as well as little unreleased stuff...

I believe I have all of them but I was wondering when something like that would happen. That's great news, and I'm always down for some new H.Ö.H.

[Marko-V]

Tyhjiø
https://soundcloud.com/tyhjioe
https://www.discogs.com/artist/4267152-Tyhji%C3%B8

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Tyhjiø is good. He played in Lahti once. I think no physical releases yet. Solid harsh noise.

It keeps me quite amazed, that small country as Finland, keeps spawning new projects! Latest one I got, was called YANA. Not very nice name, but this obscure split tape with Suruni (known from Bestial Burst label) is really nice. Suruni is here what it usually does, utmost weird "black metal". I wouldn't say it is really metal, nor it hardly is black, but in nowadays scene, as soon as certain elements are present, odd outsider music is labeled as BM. Nevertheless, material is good. Yana, is very different. Would I dare to say once in a while it makes me think I'm listening something from Sweden?! Contact mics, loops, some usage of guitar. Not that much of instrument than source of sound. No idea at this point if he has done more material, but I'd hope this tape gets properly released and Yana certainly deserves his own releases as well!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

CIRCLE OF SHIT is something what has been forgotten to be mentioned. Recent tape "For the third time" is really nice one. It goes well into atmosphere of Finnish noise. Junk metal. Electronics. Raw sound. Buried screams. Obscene, but also somewhat "humorous" at times. One could lump it sonically somewhere along with SSRI and Rotat, and perhaps also easthetically. Tape opens with tasty long monologue by disappointed and depressed 22 old virgin male plotting for massmurder of all the good looking blonde cunts. In general just random females, who as gender has rejected gentle alpha male like him. Definitely worth to pick up for fans of obscure Finnish noise projects.

[MT]

Circle of Shit also played quite strong debut gig in Joensuu this summer!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

I changed the topic title, as it's more about Finnish noise in general than "S.I.C.K.".

Another good find, if you can call it that, is when I was handed tape:

AHOLA, SILANDER & RAUTAVUORI "12/14" tape
Could this be among absolute best newcomers(?) in Finnish noise?!? I have no idea whether tape is available properly, but it is roughly 40 minutes of material, packaged in grainy black&white J-card giving no other information than name & title and picture of leafless tree.

I would hope the persons of the group will come up with actual band name, as material certainly isn't kind of artsy side of noise, but something what would require good band name. I guess they have done one tape titles "Ei Ulospääsyä" as Ahola & Silander and now simply joined by third person? Strength of group seems to be that it has very much live feel to it. All the time things are happening, and seemingly also reacts on eachother. I noticed there is track posted online as well, but sound of tape is VASTLY different from the digital material. It's probably dubbed with some quite lame tape deck to regular ferric tape. As result, all the crispy and hard high frequency has been turned much muddier and much warmer noise blur. It's hard to really underline how different the track sounds, despite you can of course instantly recognize that sample online is first track of b-side.
That said, its not even the best track to present material. Entire a-side of the tape is less obvious. Not such a intense noise blast, but combination of many of the typical Finnish elements. Feedback, metal junk, synth, document dialogue fragments... It has plenty of diversity. You could find elements of so many things, that name dropping isn't necessary. It has harshness, psychedelic droning, industrial noise feel, even bordering ritual industrial feel at some points!

There are only handful of places where they seem to lose the grip on what's going on, that could have been cut away, but other than that, I think band should rip the tape instead of uploading the digital material online!

I believe at least some members are from Kouvola.

https://asnoise.bandcamp.com/album/12-14-with-rautavuori

[DBL]

Tyhjiø is good. He played in Lahti once. I think no physical releases yet. Solid harsh noise.

He has one track on Finsanity : I tape compilation published by Supreme Analog Torture Records. The tape features tracks from SatanoiD, Fecal Fetal, Edge Of Decay, Joulupukki, Lörsson and Tyhjiø. Compact set with a nice amount of variance.

The tape fits really well into this topic actually. Some of the projects have already been discussed/mentioned here, but as of the other ones:

Joulupukki has one earlier tape out on the same label. Rough and lo-fi noise blur, kind of static and droney but especially the A-side is pretty enjoyable. Damp and distorted. Label described it as "harsh noise & shit noise" which is pretty spot on heh! Lörsson is much closer to avantgarde and other forms of anti-music oddities than noise. Some of his stuff is pretty good, like the Tipuuraa flexi and split with Atom Mouth Gimlies. Some SatanoiD releases have heavy influences from electronic music and techno genres I know nothing about, but some stuff is plain experimental noise. The same label published a collaborative tape between SatanoiD and Atrophist (a project I know nothing about) that I can recommend, high-quality stuff.

CIRCLE OF SHIT is something what has been forgotten to be mentioned. Recent tape "For the third time" is really nice one. It goes well into atmosphere of Finnish noise. Junk metal. Electronics. Raw sound. Buried screams. Obscene, but also somewhat "humorous" at times. One could lump it sonically somewhere along with SSRI and Rotat, and perhaps also easthetically. Tape opens with tasty long monologue by disappointed and depressed 22 old virgin male plotting for massmurder of all the good looking blonde cunts. In general just random females, who as gender has rejected gentle alpha male like him. Definitely worth to pick up for fans of obscure Finnish noise projects.

I've yet to hear this one, but his earlier tape Sooloseksihistoriikki is good stuff as well. First time I heard the project and it made a great impression. Perhaps nothing particularly unique in the field of Finnish noise, but so what. Stylishly crude & naughty cover artwork as well.

[DBL]

Tyhjiø is good. He played in Lahti once. I think no physical releases yet. Solid harsh noise.

He has one track on Finsanity : I tape compilation published by Supreme Analog Torture Records.

The project has a solo cassette out now. I put an order for it yesterday, didn't check the samples (as sometimes it's good to trust your instincts and be surprised) so I can't comment on it, but you can hear the whole thing at the label's bandcamp site.

Has Sermet been mentioned? Not noise or power electronics, but "Horror movie influenced industrial & ambient since 2014" as the artist himself puts it. Two or three limited run tapes out so far, you can hear all of 'em on the project's youtube channel. I like Sermet better now that on Terapia (the most recent release) there's way less electro-beats present. Then again, the I-tape was pretty good despite the beats.

Supreme Analog Torture Records published a split tape between Fecal Fetal & Whiteswan just recently. There's a sample of it on youtube (here). Crude noise.

[cr]

Listened several times to the latest(?) H.Ö.H. tape
https://www.discogs.com/H%C3%96H-H%C3%96H-/release/11160305

I simply worship this project and I think it would be great if FA could do a second H.Ö.H. - compilation CD.

What's a bit strange for me, is, that several releases are blocked on Discogs. I don't understand Finnish, but what's so dangerous about them? Maybe the dead Nazi soldier on one of the covers? Show a swastika on a tape cover and barely reach 50 people with your release, but be sure you hurt somebody's feelings, so you gonna get blocked?

[Hakaristi]

Somehow doubt it's racial slurs hidden in Finnish but rather exactly as you mention, swastika and genocide in pics/titles being enough to trigger uptight Discogs flaggers... the submitter's username being Klansman88 at the time may've also contributed, heh. Not sure why Palava Kuljettaja's banned but there's multiple cases like this on their database, where you have to wrack your brain on how this could possibly offend anyone.

[impulse manslaughter]

Blocked on Discogs and sold out at FA. Anyone knows where i can still order a copy?