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“Fable de Force” starts with low noise, what sounds like a ring modulated violin, atonal guitar playing, which is joined by a trumpet which plays over a fomenting cacophony of guitar, non-tonal synthesizer, and noise. An effect-laden guitar …
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Sosi – Gone But Not Forgotten
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Sosi’s Gone But Not Forgotten begins with the brief track “Anxiety”, where distorted bell-tones play atonal melodies in dissonant harmonies which almost seem to be without time-signature.
The next track, “Soaked in the Tears of Nothi…
Yasuyuki Uesugi – Mental Exhaustion Is A Sign That My Brain Is Afraid Of Something
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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
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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, …
Axebreaker – Brutality in Stone
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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
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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…
Merzbow – StereoAkuma
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Reverb laden, simple, metallic percussive rhythms are quickly overwhelmed by a wall of static, which is nonetheless not very harsh. The wall shimmers and morphs, and higher-pitched noises start to come out of it. After a while, brief noises lik…
Ian Watson – The Pile
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Sparse loops of glitchy sound appear and are soon subsumed by more lush ambience, with a noisiness that is nonetheless not edgy. However the glitchy loops are present and make themselves more prominent, creating a contrast between softly percu…