413 - Path to Hocma

413 - Path to Hocma (2010)

0)  The Town
1) The Desert of the Real
2) The Rising of the Real Man
3) The Bindu Sea: Cloudy
4) The Brigit Mountains
5) The White Mountains
6) The Swamp
7) The Hocma Point
8) The Ophoist
9) The Virus Ophoist/The Yethunter

December 11 - 20 (#346 - 355)

#346) Winters in Osaka - Mutual Collapse (2010) harsh noise. sick. 

#347) Crowhurst - Nihil (2011) 1st record. ambient/noise

#348) Von Goat - Septic Illumination (2010) harsh lo-fi black metal.

#349) Slogun - Sacrifice Unto Me (1996) "True Crime Electronics"

#350) Love Sex Machine (2012) doom/sludge from France.

#351) Boss-de-Nage - II (2011) 

#352) Birds in a Row - Collected (2011)  hardcore.

#353) Hypomanie - A City in Mono (2011) "blackgaze" 

#354) Nadja - Dagdrøm + Spectrum Sessions (2012) 

#355) Hilkka - Escalation/Objective (2000) meh...mostly instrumental "indie rock"

December 1 - 10 (#336 - 345)

#336) Sigh - In Somniphobia (2012) proggy avant-black metal

#337) Johnny Aloha - Lavapalooza (2010) Richard Cheese side project

#338) The Casket Girls - Sleepwalking (2012) 

 #339) Locrian & Christopher Heemann (2012)

#340) Nachtmystium - Silencing Machine (2012) psychedelic black metal from Chicago

#341)Vampillia - Rule the World (2011) this is some odd shit. very cool stuff.

#342) Vampillia + Nadja - Primitive World (2012) this collab is how i heard of Vampillia. this is probably my favorite of all the Nadja collabs i've listened to. a great blend of both band's styles.

#343) Sigur Ros - Valtari (2012)

#344) Soft Kill - An Open Door (2011) goth/post-punk from the dude from Blessure Grave

#345) Old Man Gloom - No (2012)  noisy post-doom/sludge

November 21 - 30 (#326 - 335)

#326) Locrian - The Clearing (2011)

#327) The Catalyst - Marianas Trench (2008) 

#328) Horseback & Locrian - New Dominions (2012) 

#329) Vektor - Outer Isolation (2011) 

#330) Circle - Panic (2007) 

#331) Anodyne - Salo (2003) chaotic, noisy hardcore

#332) Nadja/Ovo - The Life and Death of a Wasp  (2010) 

#333) Pygmy Lush -Mount Hope (2008) 

#334) White Wizzard - Over the Top (2009) 80s metal

 #335) Furze - Trident Autocrat (2000) weird experimental black metal

November 11 - 20 (#316 - 325)

#316) Book of Sand - How Beautiful to Walk Free (2010) 

#317) Wolf Eyes - Black Wing Over the Sand (2007) sick stuff

#318) Fister - Bronsonic: Lethal Overdose Edition (2011) doom.


#319) Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire - Harmonies From Bleeding Mouths (2006)

#320) Psychofagist - Il Secondo Tragico (2009) 


#321) Atavist/Nadja - II: Points at Infinity (2008) drone doom

#322) Author & Punisher - The Painted Army (2005)  

#323) Author & Punisher - Warcry (2007) 

#324) Author & Punisher - Ursus Americanus (2012) 

#325) Bell Witch - Longing (2012)

November 1 - 10 (#306- 315)

#306) Pygmy Lush - Bitter River (2007) 

#307) Red Harvest - Cold Dark Matter (2000) 

#308) Book of Sand - Mourning Star (2012) 

#309) Lifelover - Sjukdom (2011) "narcotic metal"

#310) Wolf Eyes with John Wiese - Collection (2006) collection of out of print eps

#311)  Author & Punisher - Drone Machines (2010) 

 #312) Korperschwache - A Fistful of Nihilism (1996) 

#313) Openwound/Antigama - Blastasfuck split (2004)

#314) Kowloon Walled City - Gambling On the Richter Scale (2009) 

#315) Drudkh - Handful of Stars (2010) 

October 21 - 31 (#295 - 305)

#295) At the Graves - II (2010) 

#296) Clinging to the Trees Of a Forest Fire - Omega Drunk on the Blood Of Alpha (2008) 

#297) Celeste - Nihiliste(s) (2008) 

#298) Book of Sand - Destruction, Not Reformation (2010) 

#299) Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (2011) 

#300) Elizabeth - Where Vultures Land (2012) hardcore from Switzerland.

#301) Macho Distorto - To My Dead & Beloved (2011)

#302) Gay Witch Abortion - Maverick (2009) 

#303) Happy Days - Cause of Death: Life (2012) 

#304) Wraiths - Plaguebearer (2007) dark drone/ritual/ambient/noise

#305) Necrophiliacs - The Collected Works (2012) 

October 11 - 20 (#285 - 294)

#285) Botanist - II: A Rose From the Dead (2011)

#286) Botanist - III: Doom in Bloom (2012)

#287) V/A - III:Allies (2012) 

#288) Tomb - Total Occultic Mechanical Blasphemy II (2010) harsh black industrial

#289) Korperschwache - Ritual of the Ouroboros (2007)  

#290) Bongripper - Satan Worshipping Doom (2010) instrumental doom from Chicago

#291) Mz.412 - In Nomine Dei Nostri Satanas Luciferi Excelsi (1995) 

#292) Aderlating/Crown of Bone split (2012) 

293) Hallowed Butchery - Funeral Rites For the Living (2009) 

#294) Lair of the Minotaur - Carnage/Cannibal Massacre (2004/2005) 

October 1 - 10 (#275 - 284)

#275) Mz.412 - Burning the Temple of God (1996) 

#276) Akercocke - Antichrist (2007) 

#277) Mummifier - Advanced Mummification Procedure (2010) deathgrind about mummies, satan, and satan mummies

#278) Caïna - Mourner (2007)

#279) Dead Raven Choir - Cask Strength Black Metal (2005) collection of out of print EPs

#280) Nekrasov - Into the No-Mans-Sphere of the Ancient Days (2007) 

#281) Ghast - May the Curse Bind (2008) 

#282) Sun Devoured Earth - I Wish I Would Never Wake Up (2011) 

#283) Circle of Ouroborus - Cast to the Pits (2010) 

#284) Botanist - I: The Suicide Tree (2011) 

September 11 - 20 (#255 - 264)

#255) Tenhi - Kauan (1999) 

#256) Billy Crystal Meth - Meth Metal (2008) 

#257 - 259) Text of Light - Metal Box (2006) 

#260) rRope - We Are You There (2012) 

#261) Science Heroes - Transmission Zero Hour (2010) 

#262) P.H.O.B.O.S. - Tectonics (2005) industrial doom

#263) Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire - Songs of Ill Hope and Desperation (2010)

#264) Moss - Sub Templum (2008) occult doom

August 21 - 31 (#234 - 244)

#234) Pinkish Black - Pinkish Black (2012) 

#235) The Blind Shake - Carmel (2007) 

#236) Death in June - The World That Summer (1986) 

#237) Keuhkot - Toimintatapoja Olioille (2005) 

#238) Captain Ahab - The Great Disappointment (2006) 

#239) 16 Volt - Demography: The Basement Tapes (2000) collection of old tracks and demos

#240) Portugal. The Man - Censored Colors (2008) 

#241) Captain Ahab - The Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (2010) live tracks

#242) Captain Ahab - The Sex Is Next (2004) 

#243) The Phantom Carriage - Late Comers (2005) 

#244) Ramona Falls - Intuit (2009)  

August 11 - 20 (#224 - 233)

#224) Brutal Truth - End Time (2011) 

#225) Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Angles (2008) 

#226) Nesseria - Nesseria (2010) blackened hardcore

#227) Nadja - When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV (2009) 

#228) Assault Squad Safety Scissors - The Children Are Our Future and So Are Flying Cars (2007)  

#229) Captain Ahab - After the Rain My Heart Still Dreams (2006) 

#230 - 232) Merzbow - Another Merzbow Records (2010) collects various tracks off splits and comps released between 1991 and 2001

#233) Great Falls - Fontanelle (2010) 

Kvelertak

#198) Kvelertak (2010)

 1. Ulvetid
2. Mjød
3. Fossegrim
4. Blodtørst
5. Offernatt
6. Sjøhyenar (Havets Herrer)
7. Sultans of Satan
8. Nekroskop
9. Liktorn
10. Ordsmedar Av Rang
11. Utrydd Dei Svake
12. Fossegrim
13. Sjøhyenar (Havets Herrer)
14. Blodtørst
15. Mjød
16. Ordsmedar Av Rang
17. Utrydd Dei Svake

combining elements of black metal, hardcore and classic rock they create a sound that's been labeled black 'n roll, blackened hardcore and all sorts of other nonsense. i personally don't give a fuck what ridiculous sub-sub-genre you want to call it, it's fucking rad. 

the album was originally released in 2010 and then re-released in 2011 with bonus tracks and a dvd. the bonus tracks consist of  4 songs from a BBC Session (12 - 15) and 2 demo tracks (16 & 17). i wish they would've included their first demo instead of the BBC tracks but oh well. the dvd has a making of the album, music videos for "Mjød" (with a making of and commentary), "Blodtørst" and "Ordsmedar Av Rang" and live footage from Samfundet 2010.
definitely worth checking out.

Nadja/Troum - Dominium Visurgis

#181) Nadja/Troum - Dominium Visurgis (2010)

 1. Part 1
 2. Part 2
 3. Part 3

this is a collaboration between Nadja and the German experimental/drone outfit Troum. i'm not super familiar with Troum but i've heard a couple tracks and dug what i've heard. anyway, the back of the record states that the album is the "result of a spontaneous improvisation" in a studio in Germany and that there were no overdubs or processing or anything made after. Parts 1 & 2 are drone-y experimental pieces while Part 2 is more of a Nadja track. overall it's a cool record, it's a shame there's no video of them in the studio though.

The Sword - Warp Riders

You're In The Place They Call The Night-side

#179) The Sword - Warp Riders (2010)

 1. Acheron/Unearthing the Orb
 2. Tres Brujas
 3. Arrows in the Dark
 4. The Chronomancer I: Hubris
 5. Lawless Lands
 6. Astraea's Dream
 7. The Warp Riders
 8. Night City
 9. The Chronomancer II: Nemesis
 10. (The Night Sky Cried) Tears of Fire

ever since hearing their track in Guitar Hero i've been a fan of these guys. why has it taken me 2 years to listen to this album? i dunno, that's just a thing i do.
anyway, i gotta say, 1st listen and i was a little disappointed. the first track is an instrumental that sounds very Sword like but after that the songs have more of a 70s rock feel with a Sword-y twist. Night City might as well be a Thin Lizzy cover (which is not a bad thing at all, just unexpected). it's not until track 9 that i got a song that sounds like what i expected from these guys. after a couple listens though the album really started to grow on me. the songs all have a definite groove and there are some rad riffs. the previously mentioned Night City is a jam.
i ended up really digging this album but i still can't help wishing they would've done more tracks like Chronomancer II.

Nekrasov - Extinction

Void Into Nonvoid

#157) Nekrasov - Extinction (2010)

 1. We Are Just an Indifferent Interpretation of the Black Plague
 2. Disillusion
 3. Matter is the Bastard
 4. Void Into Nonvoid
 5. Pre-Fetal Non-Mantra
 6. Chant the Name of God In a Thousand Languages Until All is Blood and Feces
 7. No Room For Liberation Found 'Here' or 'Now'
 8. Extinction


tracks alternate between noisy, raw black metal and dark ambient/noise soundscapes. if you like old school black metal and/or noise i would definitely recommend checking this out.

Necrite - Sic Transit Gloria Mvndi

A Mass For the Harvest of Death

#151) Necrite - Sic Transit Gloria Mvndi (2010)

 1. A Mass For the Harvest of Death
 2. Bereft of Hope
 3. Bathing Open Wounds With Shards of Glass
 4. Sic Transit Gloria Mvndi
 5. Worship the Sunn ((O))

this is Necrite's debut full length. the album title translates to something like "Thus passes the glory of the world". i'm still really far behind on posts so i'm gonna be lazy and just reprint the band's statement from the inside of the cd case, it'll give you a pretty good idea of what's going on:

"FUCK OFF BLACK METAL HIPPIE CRYBABIES.
FUCK OFF BLACK METAL ELITIST SCENESTERS.
FUCK YOUR POLITICS AND FUCK YOUR FASHION STATEMENT BULLSHIT.

NECRITE PLAYS OPPRESSIVE BLACK METAL FROM THE ABYSS AND DELIVERS THE ANNIHILATION OF ALL  LIFE.
DIE."

can't argue with that. Flenser Records says the album fuses "elements of droning doom, funeral ambience and thrashing black metal" and that their "debut oozes tarry black hatred from every pore", can't argue with that either. 

Masturbatory Dysfunction - Getting Caught + My Diary

#150) Masturbatory Dysfunction - Getting Caught (2010)

 1. Think It Through
 2. Getting Caught
 3. It Was a Mistake
 4. Remnants of Rape
 5. Me Encountering Myself
 6. Late Night Filth
 7. You Blew It
 8. Bye Mom

Masturbatory Dysfunction - My Diary (2011)

 1. Week 1: My Diary
 2. Week 2: Birth Control
 3. Week 3: Sex Box
 4. Week 4: Death Basket

Masturbatory Dysfunction is a harsh noise act out of Seattle. according to Bloodlust!, the label that released Getting Caught, the girl behind the band recorded this album by going into a music equipment store with a recording device and then "trying out" the test synths at full volume until she got kicked out. she then transferred everything to a computer where she edited it and mastered it. overall, it's a pretty brutal record, i can't believe she captured this stuff in a store.

My Diary is a 3" cd that is limited to 28 copies and each copy is packaged in a hand made cover that's made from porn mags, sex toy catalogs and things of that nature. the pic above is from Bloodlust's site and represents some of the different covers. no 2 are alike. my copy came in a page advertising a "bling" series of vibrators. it seems to be a little less harsh than Getting Caught but it's still some rad noise. very cool stuff, i hope to hear more soon.

Nadja - Thaumogenesis + 2009.02.06

 

#149) Nadja - Thaumogenesis (2007)
 1. Thaumogenesis

Nadja - 2009.02.06 (2010)

 1. Untitled
 2. Untitled

Thaumogenesis has been reissued 4 times since its original release. in 2007 it was released as a limited edition of 600 cds. then in 2008 it was re-released in a limited edition of 500 cds. both editions were released on aRCHIVE. the only differences between the 2 were slightly different color in the artwork. also in 2008 Daymare Recordings released a 2 disc set that contained Thaumogenesis on the first disc and disc 2 was the Thaumoradiance album, which was a live album also released by aRCHIVE. as a bonus they also included a remix of Thaumogenesis done by James Plotkin called Thaumoremix. in 2010 the album was released on double vinyl by Important Records in an edition of 1000. this release includes the Plotkin remix as the D side of the set and it also came with a bonus live cd.  just recently Thaumogenesis was released on cd by Aidan Baker's own Broken Spine in the original single track format.

anyway, Thaumogenesis is a single, instrumental  track that clocks in around 62 minutes. the first 6 minutes are calm and almost serene before kicking into the hazy, glacier of Nadja riffing. and it pretty much stays that way for the whole track. towards the end some more serene moments sneak in but they're soon once again overpowered by some crushing riffs. by the end of the track there are so many layers of sounds and riffs that it basically becomes noise before going out on a bass drone. this was a really rad album. no real surprises but if you dig Nadja you won't care. i know i didn't.

the live album contains 2 tracks that are untitled. it sounds like they might be chunks of Thaumogenesis that they chopped into tracks so they could play them live but i'm not sure. i probably should've listened to them back to back to see but i didn't. wherever they're from they're both rad tracks and the sound quality is pretty good.

Scott Hull - Audiofilm I & II

#146a) Scott Hull - Audiofilm I (2008)

 1. Audiofilm I

#146b) Scott Hull - Audiofilm II (2010)

 1. Audiofilm II

the Audiofilm series finds Scott Hull venturing off into experimental electronics territory.
each installment is a single 12 and a half-ish minute track on a 3" cd and both installments were limited to 1000 copies apiece.

the 1st disc is a track of creepy ambient/soundscape work. weird voices float in and out of strange  noises and drones. very unsettling stuff that creates an atmosphere of tension and claustrophobia. it's a really rad track.

the 2nd disc is a bit more on the noise side. not quite as harsh as his work with Japanese Torture Comedy Hour but a lot nosier than the 1st Audiofilm. it was a cool track but i don't think it was as good as the 1st album.  still very cool though.

overall i think this is a really cool series and i hope Hull does more in the future.