Garrote – Valley of Knives

[bandcamp width=400 height=208 album=246284139 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] “Valley of Knives” is the name of both this EP and the first track. As it begins, a few drum hits play in repetition, which leads to manic female vocal samples with reverb and delay on them accompanied by an instrument being played backwards…

Torturing Nurse – Validity

[bandcamp width=400 height=208 album=2417480938 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] The first side of this release is “Validity”. A full-spectrum, sustained blast of noise is played, with contortions of filtered, distorted resonance creeping up from behind it, which resolve in a bassy blast of noise, then return to their c…

Hermann Holsgr – Virtuell Weltanschauung

[bandcamp width=400 height=472 album=2558495021 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] “Wissenfiniti” begins Virtuell Weltanschauung, and periodic noise is made resonant, with the resonance being moved across the frequency spectrum, first fast, and then moved out of the range of human hearing. A low-end of noise is brought in…

Karnivulgar – Terjebak

[bandcamp width=400 height=439 album=879335001 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] Terjebak starts out with “Kamu Bohong”, which begins with some resonant periodic noise with slightly ring-modulated tones played in the background. There is also a wall of white noise that can be heard. After a bit, another wall of noise com…

Accidental Tones – Disordered

[bandcamp width=400 height=274 album=1658874607 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] This release by Accidental Tones starts with “Untitled A”, and the sound of water dripping and flowing with reverb on it fades in, with a deep rumble present as well. There is the sound of something being tapped occasionally with a large am…

Ryota Horii. – Bitte Vergib Mir / Lost City

[bandcamp width=400 height=208 album=3177420047 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] “Bitte Vergib Mir -贖罪-” opens this EP, beginning with a droning bass tone, which is soon accompanied by a droning low voice patch, then what sound like restless whispering voices with lots of reverb on them. A synth string then plays a …

Yasuyuki Uesugi – Accepting Excessive Information Is Violence To My Brain

[bandcamp width=400 height=406 album=1928711169 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] Accepting Excessive Information Is Violence To My Brain begins with the track “No Matter What I Achieve, I Will Not Be Satisfied”. It is a droning track, but is quite active in its stasis, with bursts of resonance popping out of the noise, …

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…

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…