Geotic - Bless the Self

#160) Geotic - Bless the Self (2011)

 1. Isolated Speech
 2. Isolated Mind
 3. Illusory Body
 4. Clear Light
 5. Union

for this Crossover i decided to check out some Geotic.

/as adam noted in his post on this album, Geotic is a side project of Will Wiesenfeld, the man behind Baths. all the Geotic albums are available for free download here.
/the music is very minimal and chill and all the tracks here flow together seamlessly. this is definitely an album that is stronger if you listen to it as a whole and follow Will's recommendation (from the site linked above) of having no gaps between tracks..
i wish this was a full length instead of an ep but other than that minor business it was a very enjoyable album. i'll definitely be looking into more of this project.

Gnaw Their Tongues - All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity

Gazing At Me Through Tears Of Urine

#159) Gnaw Their Tongues - All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity (2009)

 1. My Orifices Await Ravaging
 2. Verbrannt Und Verflucht (Burned and Cursed)*
 3. Broken Fingers Point Upwards In Vain
 4. The Stench Of Dead Horses On My Breath And The Vile Of Existence In My Hands
 5. L’Ange Qui Annonce La Fin Du Temps (The Angel Who Announces the End of Time)*
 6. Gazing At Me Through Tears Of Urine
 7. Rife With Deep Teeth Marks
 8. All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity
 9. The Gnostic Ritual Consumption Of Semen As Embodiment Of Wounds Teared In The Soul 

i've been listening to Gnaw their Tongues for a few years now and i still don't really know how to classify them. i guess "him" would be more appropriate since this is a 1 man project from the Netherlands. maybe experimental orchestral blackened noise doom? whatever you want to call it, the fact remains that  the music is DARK,  massive yet suffocating and it has an almost cinematic flair to it. occasionally quite beautiful in it's darkness, it's also incredibly atmospheric and i'm always amazed that just one dude is composing these huge sounding tracks.
unfortunately there isn't a lyric sheet but looking at the song titles and album artwork (which is also done by Mories) i'd guess they're pretty fucked up. 
highly recommended.

*i did the translations using google translate so if they're off, ooops i guess

Oikos - Econto

#158) Oikos - Econto (2011)

 1. Pulsar
 2. Econto
 3. Boreas
 4. Deriva
 5. Red Forest
 6. Threshold
 7. Jatavena


guitar drones, electronic drones and shimmery, echoey post-rock-like guitar parts rule the day here. alternately serene and heavy, but never overbearingly so, dark and light. a very cool, mellow album

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.

Hair Police - Drawn Dead

I Woke Up This Morning To Find Myself Drawn Dead

#156) Hair Police - Drawn Dead (2005)

 1. Untitled
 2. Untitled
 3. Untitled
 4. Untitled

this was a totally random purchase. i'd never heard of these guys before but i liked the band name and album artwork so i went for it. it turned out to be a pretty rad noise album. i don't really know what to say about noise albums. it's fucking noisy. there's some noises and some other noises, some static, some screaming, you get the idea. if you like noise check it out, if you don't like noise check it out anyway, it's rad.

Nadja - Corrasion

My Bones Are Like Knives

#155) Nadja - Corrasion (2007)

 1. Base Fluid
 2. You Are As Dust
 3. Corrasion
 4. Amniotic
 5. I Am As Earth
 6. Ash
 7. White Lies


Corrasion was originally released as a limited cd-r in 2003. i think it was their 3rd full length. for this 2007 cd version, Nadja re-recorded the original 4 tracks and added 3 bonus tracks. tracks 1 - 4 are the re-recorded tracks. 5 is taken off a split they did with Moss (who will be featured here at some point), 6 is off the Chariots Arrive Again 2 comp and 7 is off the Forsee the Shadows 1 comp. other than some minor time differences i'm not really sure how the re-recorded tracks compare to the originals but they're definitely Nadja tracks. slow and droning but never boring. 

and for those interested, the album was also re-released as a double vinyl and an mp3 download. the vinyl contains the 4 re-recorded tracks and the bonus track "Numb" which was originally released as the b-side to the Base Fluid net single and can also be found on Nadja's Numbness comp. the mp3 download also contains the 4 re-recorded tracks but the bonus track here is an extended version of "Corrasion"..