3 bangers on offer here on this date folks. Some intense listens to be sure and ones you may want in your collection. Get on it. Cheers. Symptoms.
Sewer Election “Sex/Death” / Troniks
Well this one takes all of 2
seconds to go from zero to peel your face off.
This 3-track slab of pure sonic burial is exactly what one would
expect. There is an overriding current
of blast that seems to rule the proceedings until you start detecting the dog
whistles that lie beneath. This first
track definitely sets a violent tone with its dry, wrecked, and filthy
currents.
Track 2 is a slow burner at the
start with its ominous hum which signals bad omens all around. The build is slow and deliberate, with layers
coming in and out of phase. This is the
sound of waking up after a drug induced abduction, morning sun peering through
venetian blinds, dust and nicotine molecules floating in the stagnant air. Dead heaving patterns and gloomy melodic
strains slide in and then disappear suddenly, almost dream like. This is an amazing piece as it builds tension
and anticipation without revealing too much, a true study in control and
texture.
The final track does not deal in
subtleness as it gets right into the crumble and harsh thuggery. Much like the first track, this composition
is brutal, dark and forbidding. However,
there is detectable stirrings underneath the alcohol fueled jet blast. This final piece is lengthy, spiteful and
violent and will most assuredly fuck you up.
This is a very solid release and
should be in your collection if you are a fan of the more brutal side of
noise. Sewer Election is laying down the
heaviness on “Sex/Death” even in its more subdued moments. This album is equal parts vicious and
unsettling. Highly recommended.
The Cherry Point “Night of the Bloody Tapes” / Troniks
I may
or may not have reviewed this way back when in an old issue of Witch Kunt I
cannot be entirely certain of that though.
However, rather than try and track that down I will simply revisit this
piece of gut spilling gloom. With the
return of Troniks label comes a slew of reissued classics and “Night of the
Bloody Tapes” is one of them. Presented
in a digipak format for the collector studs out there. This album is a 4-track collection of works
recorded from 2002 to 2005, mixed by John Wiese.
While this
disc lacks courtesies, it makes up for in pure unadulterated and unfiltered
brute force. There is no space in
between the tracks which works well in what should be viewed as a non-stop
throttling. Every slasher film rolled
into one violent package, no finesse, no hero to save the day. Why reinvent the wheel when you can just
slash the tires and then the throats of your victims just to listen to the
sound of their dying. Then, just as you
are about to get ripped open from asshole to appetite, your assailant forgets
about killing you and leaves. Another
Troniks classic that is available now, get it and get dead.
The Cherry Point “Misery Guts” / Phage Tapes
Holy
fucking shit brothers and sisters it is another banger from The Cherry Point
which means another bad time for you and your hi-fi set up. Unlike the
catatonic rave up “Night of the Bloody Tapes” this 2 track attack takes the electronic
crunch to new heights by allowing those sizzling and bubbling undercurrents to
take center stage and rip your goddamned balls off.
Track 1 is all over the map with scraping, crumbling, thrusting, decaying walls interspersed with cord glitches and feedback screams. Track 2 starts off gentle but then takes you on a meth fueled ride through the not-so promised land. Each composition is a snarling, busted up mess of filth. As I have stated many times in the past, I love the when an artist can take you to that HNW zone but do just a pinch more with it. Not sure what you call that other than carving out a few holes in it so you can stare through to see other atrocities. By its conclusion, you have died on the vine, as you should.
While there are only 2 tracks on here, these are 2 seriously damaged yet girthy rammings that will warrant repeat listening sessions. This is one highly recommended disc that you know you probably need. You want it ugly and all over the map, this is the one. This motherfucker ranks high for me, sick.
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