With One More Pass, Golgotha Communications Limited’s “Gatha Yasna” Could have Been Exceptional

I don’t know about you, but for me, one thing that acts like a real clear warning sign as to the likely merits of an album are glaring typos on the album artwork.  I know it’s very judgmental of me, but I can’t help but think that typos on the album artwork suggest sloppiness, a […]

Destruktionsanstalt’s “Swedenborg”: A Symphony of Grief

I reviewed Destruktionsanstalt’s Corpus Invocationem several months back, so when the artist contacted me about writing up his latest release, I prepared myself for another wicked slab of death industrial. As it turns out, all that preparation was in vain, as this new record is quite a different beast. “Cold, paranormal death ambience… the sounds […]

“Rapida E Indolore” is Daniele Brusaschetto’s Existential Crises in a Sea of Distortion

The first thing to mention, perhaps, is that there’s an actual corpse glued to the otherwise minimalist cover art of this CD.  It’s a simple affair, with a plain white (though nicely textured and quite firm) paper CD cover, with the name of the artist and album title scrawled in unpretentious hand-written capitals—and, smack bang […]

Exclusive- Premiering ‘I’m Not’ the New Video from Iugula Thor

Iugula-Thor has never been what you’d call a household name, even within industrial circles, and yet Andrea Chiaravalli has been spinning a web of intriguing sound since the early nineties, when he turned heads with two astonishingly original releases on Minus Habens Records. Iugula-Thor has remained a near-mythical figure in the experimental/ noise/ industrial community and this […]

First Look: Jason Walton (Ex-Agalloch) Finds New Life With His Latest Project, Snares of Sixes

Even only at four tracks, it is not surprising that it took Jason Walton five years to make this first Snares of Sixes album. It’s not even because of his more pressing obligations with Self Spiller and the recently defunct Agalloch, although that busy schedule probably played a part. No, it’s that the sort of […]

Screenslaver’s “The Common Signs”: A Ten-Minute Jackson Pollock

Challenge: Write three hundred words describing ten minutes of experimental sound stretched across four tracks. Congratulations, that’s fifteen words right there, but what to say next? Fortunately, even at just ten minutes, Screenslaver’s latest release still has more than enough meat to work with. Just a single listen to this EP will reveal that Edward […]

Todd Anderson-Kunert’s “When There Is Nothing Left to Say” Finds Consciousness in the Unsilent

Until this album, I was of the firm opinion that I hate those experimental albums where they use super-high-frequency tones.  I am a huge fan of Otomo Yoshihide, for instance; yet, despite this deep and abiding love, I can barely listen to those albums of his that utilise the frequent application of super-high sine waves. […]

Rapoon – Wanderlust

During the cold and eerie autumn season, the best thing that could happen is a record which could easily transform bad weather and dark emotions into something dreamy and wonderful. Rapoon is a fine example of this dreamy atmosphere, and its new record, Wanderlust, is the biggest gift for anyone who wants to participate in […]

“Epicurean Escapism III” Is a Meticulously Curated Compilation that Is Sprawling in Industrial Scope

Stefan Hanser is not afraid of hard work. The Anemone Tube front-man has made that abundantly clear with the series of audio-visual compilations co-released by Silken Tofu and Hanser’s label, the Epicurean, to celebrate the Epicurean Escapism festivals. This, the third and final of the series, is characteristically bullish and expansive in scope. A huge […]

Arvo Zylo’s “Hello Walls” Was Constructed with Independent Taste

Freed from gatekeepers by the Internet and abetted by the century-long shockwave of Dadaism, musicians in this period of history can truly do whatever they want. The result of this is quantitatively overwhelming and qualitatively awe-inspiring. But then dig down into the details and you’ll find things like Arvo Zylo‘s personal label, No Part of […]