fredag den 20. oktober 2017

Subklinik - Korporation



One of the granddaddies when we are talking about classic death industrial, just like mom used to make it!. I wØøanted to do a review of one of his releases on his Bandcamp, so this is the one. More  information about this cult act can, of course, be obtained by reading the interview I did with him for the Brvtalist (Link below).

Korporation (not Corporation!) was originally released in 2015 on Neurologic Tapes, strictly limited to 23 copies!. 7 tracks, about 31 minutes of pure and minimal death industrial at its best!.

Already at the first track called Kadavr, you´ll notice a kind of .. Windy and eerie sound coming through some sort of pipe/tube, made me think of the classic Texas Chainsaw Massacre soundtrack from 74. This gets beautifully mixed up with mournful, deep, straining and haunting voices. Lots of mood before action here, sheer beautiful minimalism here. Next track Veinkut, sounds like a Lovecraftian nightmare being heard over an old radio transmitter. Slowly building ritualistic undercurrents and wall-like noise-ambient elements. This is exactly the kind of dark-ambiance that I enjoy, raw and minimal! Third track Kavatik leave your senses all alone in a deep and dark underground cavern, with strange sounds coming from lower below. Somewhere between heaven and hell perhaps, angelic blackness?. Fourth track (with the charming title) Skullcrusher, feels like being lifted few centimeters off the ground. Weightless, post-apocalyptic but strangely soothing. Konstrukt offers you ritualistic drummings in an abandoned factory, with a basslike atmospheric wall of sound pinning you down. On the sixth track, you almost get the fell of Tibetian monks being in a frightful ritual trance. Still with the strange and windy like sounds engulfing your senses. The final track named Korporation (like the album), sort of continues whatever the first track gave you. The kind of hypnotic, paralyzed sort of lucid dreaming. The end is near, and it is quite certain!. 

What can I say?... Any want to do classic death-industrial with the right mood? ...  Need an intro, take this one and learn!. It´s an absolute beauty. Sounds like early Brighter Death Now (Pain In Progress, Necrose Evangelicum ... my favorite era) and Megaptera together. It just sounds RIGHT and pure in my ears (No, I don´t wanna use the wanker word TRUE!) It´s a bloody must for the upcoming Halloween folks!.



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onsdag den 18. oktober 2017

Haag - Iris


Haag is a new project, behind it we have a married couple named Amanda and Martin Slatten. So far they have done 3 digital Bandcamp releases, and this one called Iris if their debut/first.

1 hour, 8 tracks (Just like a classic album, lengthwise) introduces you to an interesting fusion between sludgy drone/doom-metal, psychedelic vintage synth sounds, and esoteric post-industrial aesthetics. And it´s a bloody treat from the start to the end, they would end up being my favorite married couple!. Whatever they do, they ARE doing it REALLY good. The creative partnership between these two individuals obviously works really well! To understand what I mean, you´ll just have to hear it!.

To further describe it, if Marco Corbelli was around they would have been on Slaughter Productions. If they were older, they would have been on the legendary Necrophile records. Fans of early Coil (And Zos Kia), PTV, TG, Sleep Chamber and Ain Soph would dig it. That also would go for the fans of early Earth and Sunn (o))). It´s a perfect fusion going on here!. Almost works like a time-machine, blending old-sounds with new sounds. I would love to see this act live, sad thing is that I am in Denmark and they are from the British Colombia. I´ll keep my fingers crossed. 


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mandag den 16. oktober 2017

Juan Antonio Nieto & Javier Piñango - 

Two Unfocued Cardinal Points



Last year in November, Spanish cult label Marbre Negre released this interesting album in an edition of 100 copies. By two older veterans in the world of electronic music. 

Mr. Antonio Nieto has been a member of the legendary electro-punk/pop band, Aviador Dro and has also been playing in a Spanish new-wave/post/punk band called Alphaville (Not the Germany based synth-pop band!). It should be noted that this Spanish Alphaville band was 2 years before the German one. 

And then we have Mr. Piñango how have been active since 1990 in an industrial band called Cerdos, and have beside that releasing lots of albums under his own name since 2011 (Chk. Discogs!).



Now, these guys have been melting their creative brains together, and have succeeded in creating this fantastic brain twister of an album.  We are in electro-acoustic avant-garde kind of territory. Glitch, drone, ambient, maybe field-recordings elements. A VERY organic kind of feel to the sounds, an expansive sound-environment which the listener can walk around in and explore! A kind of thing I miss in the world of modern dark-ambient, in other words, this doesn't feel and sound synthetic at all... it sounds bloody real!. An incredible achievement which should be listened to with headphones, from the start to the end!. 

Comparisons are kind hard since it´s a very unique piece. Fans of Rapoon, Maeror Tri, Zoviet France should give it a listen or two.


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søndag den 15. oktober 2017



Blade Runner



Since everybody´s got their tatas in a twist over the Blade Runner 2049, I´ve decided to revisit the original which I haven´t watched in years.
Originally a book by Philip K. Dick, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (which became one of my favorite writers as I grew up), Blade Runner is a visual masterpiece. It has an incredible soundtrack and deals with the "machines feel like humans" thing which always fascinated me. I love cyborgs.  
It doesn´t look like a 1982 movie, seriously. The photography is gorgeous, the editing, everything. And Rutger Hauer. 
It´s one of my favorite movies and along with Terminator and Robocop, it turned me to cyberpunk from an early age.
Not sure if BR 2049 will be up to it but it's interesting to find out. Truly a masterpiece.
Review by Eli Catastrofica
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torsdag den 12. oktober 2017

New Risen Throne - 

Loneliness Of Hidden Structures



New Risen Throne has been in existence since 2003 and has since then released 8 albums plus a 4-CD compilation, compiling compilation tracks and various rarities. This is the lastest album from 2011, released on Canadian dark-ambient label Cyclic Law.

Post Cold Meat Industry/Raison d´être/Desiderii Marginis´ish style greets you in the beginning; highly polished melancholic dark ambiance. Sorrow filled and slow driven synth-viola driven soundscapes, reversed voices chants and talks in the background, occasional martial drummings, and various sound samples gives it all a picturesque atmospheric background. Sort of post-war/post-atomic landscapes devoid of life kind of. This album also gives you remixes done by Northaunt and Nordvagr (Mz.412).

I don´t know if there is a concept or idea behind New Risen Throne, wasn´t much info (or interview) to find about this illusive old act. Melancholic, apocalyptic (or post) dark ambient act from Italy is all you need to know. 

If you are into later Raison d´être/Desiderii Marginis, labels like Cyclic Law and Cryo Chamber then this will fulfill your desires 100%. It´s well done, the sound quality is superb and professionally done, beautiful cover-art aswell. Not my cup of ambient tea, since I like it more unpolished and raw. But as I said, if you are into the newer post-cmi dark-ambient acts then this is perfect by definition. 


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tirsdag den 10. oktober 2017

Avtstk Jakk-Ö-Lanturn - 

Four Spooky Stories From the Dungeon




I mentioned earlier on my FB account, that there is a new breed of tacky synth music being breed (as we speak!). As you have probably have noticed, in 21 days it´s going to be Halloween. Pumpkin synth anyone?...  This new synth based act is from Poland, and this is the first only-digital release from it. 




About 8 minutes or so, dealing in literature tributes to Lovecraft, Poe, King, and Stoker. Halloween/horror-synth which you have heard from some tacky trashy B-horror-flick from the 80s, or computer soundtracks like the classic PC-game 7th Guest. Scary, eerie and tacky with elements of dungeon synth and retro gaming soundtracks. Perfect for when you are reading comics like Tales From the Crypt (or something similar). Later on, I will review another pumpkin synth release which I have just ordered on cassette. So stay tuned!


I hope that maybe in the future we´ll hear more from this act, maybe a longer release? I´ll keep my fingers crossed!

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søndag den 8. oktober 2017

Anuru + Rising Storm



Interesting new act from Lithuania, describes themselves as cyberpunk, experimental, dark-electro, noise, dark ambient (Takes a deep breath) project. Out with a new album on Chilean based Cian Orbe Netlabel, and on their official Bandcamp site.

Interesting to use the imagery + sound inspired by the cyberpunk theme. A theme/genre in the literature which was kickstarted by Phillip K. Dick´s "Do Androids Dream Of Electronic Sheep" (Bladerunner), which was then carried further with writers like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It also had a significant impact on the big screen, with of course Bladerunner, Escape From New York but also via Manga culture in Japan. We should mention Akira, Ghost In The Shell and of course Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Not a toon, a black and white cyberpunk nightmare version of Eraserhead if you please!). The whole idea of living in a society controlled by high-tech technology, information and giant cyber tech corporations (not governments). The scary thing about this is that we are almost living in it!. We just don´t have Robocop roaming the streets yet, or hackers plugging USB-cords into their heads to hack the system... But we´re getting there for sure.


Ok, then how about the music/noise? What kind of stuff is it?... I can describe it as being some sort of fusion industrial, balanced between high-tech sounds and grimy digital slaps of noise, spaced out virtual reality samples with occasional industrial-rhythmic parts to lift it all up. It´s a lovely achievement, a perfect high-tech cyberpunk nightmare. And if you are a cyberpunk fetishes, you would agree with me that they have achieved on getting right with the cyberpunk sound-aesthetics. Fans of Nordvagr, Controlled Bleeding, and Nocturnal Emissions should check it up. Quite unique!



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https://anaru.bandcamp.com/releases

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https://soundcloud.com/suweln

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torsdag den 5. oktober 2017

Begotten



Anywho, yes, I think this was the first movie I watched with the "I´m so intellectual, uhhhhh" in mind. I was 17 so you have to excuse me.
The truth is I watched it but I didn´t understand what the fuck I was watching. I only understood it years after. And yes, this one is filled with what the fuckery...
First, the initial scene where God is killing himself, it´s still very unsettling. After all these years it still makes me twitch a bit. And the following is no better. Shame on you, Mother Earth.
Visually, it´s stunning. I love the grainy look of it and the shadowy and all. And the almost absence of soundtrack (it has one but it´s very incidental) makes it even more unsettling and disturbing.
I never forgot one of the scenes, when the "convulsing all of the time" Son of Earth crawls on what appears to be a desert or open field or something. For a few seconds, he looked like paper. It was beautiful and disturbing at the same time as if it symbolized the fragility of the human spirit, and the crawling the pain we dwell in ( see? intellectual :p )
Alas, it has some downs. It is visually beautiful and some scenes are quite disturbing but after a while it gets boring. Maybe I´m not so easily impressed as when I was 17...
Overall, a classic.
P.S.: Shadow of the Vampire is awesome. I have it on VHS and the first time I saw it I thought it was brilliant. Gotta revisit that soon too!


Written by Eli Teixeira

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Whistle and I´ll Come To You


Whistle and I'll Come to You is a short movie about an old tale by M.R. James originally named "Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad".



It´s basically about an introverted academic who happens upon a strange whistle while exploring a cemetery on the East Anglian coast. When blown, the whistle unleashes a supernatural force that terrorizes its discoverer.

I´m not crazy about ghost stories and I have to say the movie is pretty meh. Though the atmosphere is pretty awesome. The black and white shoot and the absence of soundtrack make it quite eery, and I like how the specter appears on the beach. They made it using a rag!

And the sounds it made were pretty cool.
Overall, it´s a nice little movie though it´s not really my thing. It wins my respect and interest because of the methods used and the ambient.


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Zoloft Evra - Hypoxyphilia



The lead singer from INXS Michael Hutchence, the legendary master of movie kung-fu David Carradine (Kill Bill, Bruce Lee movies etc) and this latest cassette release from black-industrial creators Zoloft Evra have in common? Well... Michael and David died from Hypoxyphilia, and this release has been called hypoxyphilia. But what is Hypoxyphilia, let´s go and ask an expect/doctor on the matter... So here goes : 

´Accidental strangulation by ligature that occurs in an attempt to induce mild cerebral hypoxia during sexual activity for the purpose of enhancing orgasmic pleasure´

A nasty theme to work on for sure, bound to give you pleasure but with a dangerous risk attached to it. Same goes for the release and sound itself. Angelic but harsh multilayered ambiance trapped inside a huge cathedral. Harsh reverbed drones, rich post-rock/black-metal-ish sound aesthetic guitar textures, flesh-scraping moods, ritualistic and escapist undercurrents. A true gem for any isolationist addict. Any old-school CMI fan should check it out, think MZ.412, Archon Satani and early Ordo Equilibrio.

As I mentioned earlier, we are dealing with a cassette release. Released on the always excellent Spanish label Marbre Negre. Hand-numbered to 100 copies. It works as a compilation of sorts, compiling unreleased material and tracks from promo compilations.  





Guess that I am a minor sexual pervert, I 100% enjoyed this release from the beginning to the end. Feeling very good in my entire body, relaxed and soothed. What do you think, give it a try... I´ll recommend this Hypoxphilia treat anytime ;)

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onsdag den 4. oktober 2017

Griskalen - S/T




A new and fresh act from Germany is up and running with its first 
self-titled debut release (24th of September 2017). I was even the second Facebook-user who gave this act a like, so it´s quite new and fresh. I also 2day in doubt what kind of stuff I wanted to review... something electronica based with lots of clicks and hissing, and then I found it. Being tagged as electronica, rhythmic noise, ambient and industrial. And (as being Danish) I loved the name Griskalen; gris being a pig in Danish and kalen as calories. And it also sounds great when you say it! Sofar it is also a digital release, that needs a physical release (If you should ask me).

The album kicks off with the track Hunting Lodge; chippering clicks, distorted electronic bass hums, cold waves of icy synths, thumbing machinelike drums and eerie human voices in the background. A pretty awesome start, perfectly balanced between electronica/idm-based techno and industrial-ambient. You don´t have to worry, we are NOT talking about a cyber goth dance-friendly-power-noise treat! Second track called Boxroomgarden sounds like early Delirium (Classic FLA-side-project), just with that extra edge to it. Firmly, tight and calculated doom industrial-electronica. Next track Morning moves into rhythmic tribal industrialism, P.A.L and Ancient Methods fans would drool here. Metal hacking percussive rhythms and post-apocalyptic soundscape elements. Fourth track Harsh Language works in a punishing and corrosive drum-and-bass kind of way, still sounding fresh in my ears. Rematerialisation is probably one of the darkest tracks on the album, soundtrack for a futuristic horror flick for sure. Bomb like bass thumbings, tribal percussion, and corrosive synths again works like a bloody charm. It all ends up with the last and mysterious track What´s Happening To This Place. An eerie and (and again corrosive) otherworldly piece with ends up the album quite nicely. 

My conclusion; FUCKING AWESOME! ... A PHYSICAL RELEASE PLEASE!


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