Serene Ailment and Mutations – Serene / Mutations

[bandcamp width=400 height=241 album=560609869 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] This album is a split between Mutations and Serene Ailment. Mutations’s side starts with the track “False Sense of Security”, which begins with a wall of noise, higher in the mid-frequencies without much low-end. It fades in, and is soo…

Shit Creek & Territorial Gobbing – Bastard Radio

[bandcamp width=400 height=208 album=2761328937 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] The first track of Bastard Radio is “Proper Bastards”, which starts with multilayered periodic noise overlayed with what sounds like some kind of sphincter letting out air with a bit of distortion with what sounds like the rattle of tin can…

Tongues of Mount Meru – The Hex of Light

[bandcamp width=400 height=208 album=305155938 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] “Foliage” begins, and a loud, distorted saw-tooth-wave drone plays, and is soon accompanied by a synth pad which ebbs in and out of the sound for a bit, then establishes itself as a secondary drone. It drops out for a second, then comes back…

Prophétie Froide – Prophétie Froide

[bandcamp width=400 height=307 album=716241330 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] Prophétie Froide begins with the track “Saut de mémoire”, which starts with a drone of harsh full-spectrum noise, interrupted a couple times by a split-second of silence, and then machine-like sounds start in the background, soon accompani…

Wonderful Beasts – The Art Of Whisper

[bandcamp width=400 height=472 album=2722906220 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] A foghorn-like synth with quite a bit of reverb plays while water-like static fades in, and then over this a brass-like short synth starts playing arpeggios in a chord progression, then stops, and quickly a pad takes over most of the mix. Then,…

Other Matter – MON ROYAUME DE CHAINES – V – DES ENTRAILLES

[bandcamp width=400 height=439 album=994160902 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] “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 …

Enearth – Daze

[bandcamp width=400 height=340 album=3410180263 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] Enearth’s Daze begins with “Intro: Time Zero”, which starts with quickly delayed beats which have a secondary delay effect on them for rhythmic effect. Over this, murky synth pads start accompanied by a repeating minor-key synth string an…

Ceylan – Le long murmure des siècles

[bandcamp width=400 height=307 album=2423897325 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] The first track of this EP, “L'existence est un songe”, starts out with a noisy drone that has a low-pass filter that progressively opens up more of the sound-spectrum as time goes on. The next track, “Le jeu des faux-semblant” begin…

Ardor – Wildflower of Nunavut

[bandcamp width=400 height=208 album=2013249217 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] Wildflower of Nunavut is a two track EP which starts out with “Saxifragga Oppositifolia I”, which begins with a mid-tempo two note repeating sequence that has a synth pad playing a slow melody under it. Then it is joined by a higher-pitched…

Sosi – Gone But Not Forgotten

[bandcamp width=400 height=274 album=2406278919 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] 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…