Black, heavy and noisy from Japan

Oh, I just saw a request from Jed, who also wrote that I speak like Angelica Houston in my primitive dj-ing on Core of Destruction Radio!
At this point, before starting getting worried, I have to get hold of a movie with Angelica Houston and without any dubbing in Italian ...

The request, I guess, was about these nasty Japanese ladies and their new album, out on a big label during late April 2011.
I'll lazily recycle the link and part of what I wrote about these ladies on my old post on Vonfrost's blog.

Previously a trio, now the band is run by Vivian Slaughter, on bass, vocals, and saxophone, and Risa Reaper on drums and vocals.
Their genre may be described as depressive doom black metal mixed with crust punk accelerations.
A toxic mixture of black, noise (with some crazy sax parts), punk and doom à-la-Celtic Frost/Darkthrone adorned or disrupted by the (double) vocal parts which vary from monstruous sludgy growls to hideous luring acute verses and aberrant childish chants.
I like it a lot.
It can be found on many blogs, but, as requested, here it is.

Band here or here
Get the album here or at various resellers
Try the gloom

Messy.

New album. More releases on this label here.

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Blue.

En Form For Dumhet.

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Black “freakazoid” experiments

I posted this on Sludgeswamp, so this is a double post, but I guess there may be interest here as well for what Crucial Blast is offering ...

Thanks to Adam Wright from US Crucial Blast Records for the heads-up about the newest releases of his super-cool and super-underground label.

During these days (since the first of February) the label has released two slabs of punishing noise-drone-dark ambient “demented” black metal to make your winter days even more gloomy or, for those living in the southern hemisphere, to make an implacable sun dry out your veins and blind your eyes and … uh, nasty!
You know that at Crucial Blast Records people have no pity. And they are faithful to this line …

The bands involved in the newest releases are Korperschwache and Demonologists. here I'm dealing with Korperschwache.

If you don’t know US band/project Korperschwache (from Austin, Texas), you may appreciate the telegraphic description given from RKF on Myspace: “Korperschwache is psychedelic black metal drone noise or something like that. Nine of ten mothers agree that it's real evil-like and stuff, plus probably harmful if swallowed.” And here I stop as RKF gets a bit naughty …
RKF is the “jackass” in charge of the band together with his long-standing partner-in-crime, Doktor Omega, who is “is still around to swing her golden hammer at those glacial tempos”. So RKF is in charge of “guitars, vox and ugliness”, whereas Doktor Omega is in charge of “beats, time and emptiness”.
Korperschwache began as a solo noise side-project in 1995 beside Unholydeathmachine and Autodidact, that RKF left in 2003. The meaning of the band’s name is rather creepy: “organic decay” …
Korperschwache has a long history and a wide musical production, as you can see while browsing in the band’s website.
Korperschwache shares a fat website with the UK noise band Skullflower. Beside the web-managing aspects of the relationship between RKF and Skullflower, there is an actual or at least inspirational link between the two bands.
RKF said in an interview: “Skullflower is definitely one of the influences on Korperschwache, although the earlier, noisier albums were influenced considerably more by the likes of Whitehouse, Merzbow, and Hijokaidan. At this point the band's biggest influences are probably Skullflower, Hijokaidan, Abruptum, Burzum, and Khanate.”

The brand new Crucial Blast release is Evil Walks, available both as a way smart digipack CD and digital download. As it is usual for this label, you can get a taste of the punishment by getting hold of the mp3 samples of all the tracks of the album. And you can also read a rich description of the release by Adam.
As pointed out by Adam, Evil Walks is actually the first widely available cd release for Crucial Blast from Korperschwache after almost a decade of smaller, limited-run discs released through the label's Crucial Bliss sub-imprint. It's also the most focused work yet according to the style, the “weird, lumbering black-dirge” into which the band gradually evolved from its noisy start.

“ … the music forms into this stoned blackened hypno-rock thing, the buzzing guitars and acid-scorched melodies looping over the skittery industrial beats and weird dubbed-out snares and concussive Godflesh-esque rhythms, turning into something that sounds remarkably like a mutant cross between late-80s British psych/drone rockers Loop and those notorious improv-black metal freakazoids Abruptum.”

“It's not black metal, but Korperschwache's Evil Walks is definitely recommended to fans of the demented fringes of underground blackness inhabited by like-minded bands like Utarm, Wrnlrd, Charnel House, Diapsiquir, Brobdingnagian, Mamaleek, Wormsblood and Lonesummer.”
Take note …

A companion release to the Crucial Blast release is called Evil Crawls and features original mixes, remixes, and outtakes recorded by the duo during late 2009 - early 2010. The release can be found on Bandcamp and is shared as free download by the band.
And here you can find more of Korperschwache’s Bandcamp releases.
More free tracks from this productive weird duo can be found on Korperschwache’s webpage.

News about the band: here and here

For the latest digital and über-cool physical output by this gloomy duo you can’t go wrong by visiting Crucial Blast and the dedicated page: Korperschwache – Evil Walks (2011)

Bandcamp companion release Korperschwache - Evil Crawls (2010)

(Thanks to Adam from Crucial Blast for the heads-up and to the band for sharing)

Halo discography

In the spirit of finding a Degree Zero Point of Implosion 12" and this band being fucking awesome... Here's my Halo discography from the lucid days

Subliminal Transmissions 1998
Massive Corporate Disease 1999
Degree Zero Point of Implosion 2000
Guattari (From The West Flows Grey Ash And Pestilence)2001
Body of Light 2003

Missing: the official live album and the split with Agoraphobic Nosebleed(which only features 1 track from the live album)

Encompassing.

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Verb.

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The Psychic Paramount - Gamelan Into the Mink Supernatural

Best band name ever, and they took their This Heat lessons. Noisey, psychedelic, sometimes monotonous, blown-out tape manipulation and all around fucking awesome band to see live.

link fixed. thanks, black adam
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Repetative.

Second solo release by the Norwegian raw guitar electronics maniac from the group in the previous post + 200 others.

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Debut from the Norwegian 'melancholic' piano-based jazz trio that syncs perfectly with the album above.

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Abrasive.

Abrasive third release from three Norwegian maniacs on one of the best labels around.

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Textural.

Weigh the most hyped follow-up of the year to the most consistent label of the year, add some vehement skepticism, and top off with Colin Marston's persistence.

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Conflicting Ingredients.

This bands' history is extensive. This bands' history is sordid. They have released at least 16 albums to date, ranging in style, record label, moniker, and line-up [ one of the albums was released as a "double trio" ]. One of the members went on to play with Rival Schools, while the front-man now also plays in Ascend and Eagle Twin. Not for the faint of ear.

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