Yasuyuki Uesugi – Mental Exhaustion Is A Sign That My Brain Is Afraid Of Something

[bandcamp width=400 height=406 album=3772037856 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] The album Mental Exhaustion Is A Sign That My Brain Is Afraid Of Something by Yasuyuki Uesugi starts with the track “My Dreams Symbolize My Distorted Spiritual World”. The track begins with a harshly distorted ambience with a resonant filte…

Transmit – Temporal Season

[bandcamp width=400 height=307 album=494331636 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] Transmit’s Temporal Season begins with the track “Slow Poke”, where a pulsing, bass-y semi-wall of noise starts, and soon is accompanied by very high pitched, but quieter sounds. Then, the pulsing is altered and made more intense briefly, …

Bastian Void & Errant Space – Bastian Void & Errant Space

[bandcamp width=400 height=208 album=3573417829 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] In-scale sequences of synth tones play, and make way for a pulse-wave-containing patch which plays a melancholic melody. The sequenced notes play more chaotically, and guitar plays a chain of melodies which are obscured by the sequences of note…

Cult Of White Noise – Utopia Deferred

[bandcamp width=400 height=274 album=2579135968 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] A loud, low, distorted synth starts out Utopia Deferred in “Chthonic Attack”, which is soon accompanied by low rumblings. Then a subtle flanger is put on the synthesizer. A tone comes in and plays a drone accompanied by the synth, and is so…

Axebreaker – Brutality in Stone

[bandcamp width=400 height=406 album=2294478999 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] Axebreaker’s Brutality in Stone starts with the track “Disorder (for Alan Berg)”, which begins with echoing sweeps of high-resonance-filtered noise, which gives way to an ever approaching wall of noise which mixes with it and becomes stro…

Lavatone – The Blue Boar

[bandcamp width=400 height=274 album=4099134723 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] The album starts with "Monolith", which begins with a very distorted bass note that thunders in with a low two note choir melody, and this is repeated four times until a metallic sounding drone comes in over the top. After four more repetitions…

Vanity Productions – Memories of Kazan

[bandcamp width=400 height=208 album=3898325654 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] “Polaroids (Feat. Tonje Terese)” begins with a fractured melody in a rhythm with an aesthetic of error, and then moves into what would seem to be a more pedestrian melody upon cursory listening, but is actually quite complex, using fracture…

MASSS / Wasted Cathedral

[bandcamp width=400 height=241 album=1703887521 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] This is a split tape. One side and one song is done by MASSS, and the other side and two songs are by Wasted Cathedral. In “5 Chambers” by MASSS, a synth string drone starts and is sustained with a slight bit of filter modification provi…

Un Bosque Noruego – Gwahir

[bandcamp width=400 height=274 album=2588141255 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] The sound of synthetic wind blows as a voice and string-like synth fades in and gently provides melody, and then fades into a droning pad which slowly develops intertwined with the melody, which eventually stops, leaving a secondary melody which is…

Sacred Oak – DRONEDEMO

[bandcamp width=400 height=307 album=1712085722 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] In “Frozen Rest” a percussive sound happens, and then a distorted bass tone appears, and then a guitar comes in, unflinchingly playing the same note. Static appears, then disappears as this occurs. The sound of a guitar pick can be heard, occas…