Grey Daturahs/Monarch - Dawn of the Catalyst

Rapture

#154) Grey Daturahs/Monarch - Dawn of the Catalyst (2007)

 1. Grey Daturahs - Golden Tusk the Endearing
 2. Monarch - Rapture


i'd never heard Grey Daturahs before but i'm definitely gonna check out more of their stuff now. their track is instrumental and is some crushing, droning doom. very cool stuff.
i already covered a couple Monarch albums, which you can read about here. nothing's really changed. the track is heavy, slow and rad as hell. it sounds like there are some vocals or maybe it's just the singer making noises, not sure since there are no lyrics in the cd or anything. either way, it sounds awesome. i'm really loving these guys.

Un Festin Sagital - Epitafio A La Permanencia

#153) Un Festin Sagital - Epitafio A La Permanencia (2007)

 1. Epitafio A La Permanencia Part 1
 2. Epitafio A La Permanencia Part 2
 3. L'Age Delicieux (La Revolución Perenne)
 4. ¡No Hay Coristas!
 5. La Dignidad Del Espíritu Bestia
 6. Destierro

these guys are from Chile and play...experimental/avant-garde rock. they combine elements of ambient/noise, drone, progressive rock, traditional Latin sounds and folk, which makes for a bizarre but rad sound. i don't really know what else to say about this album but i'd definitely recommend checking it out. i know i'll be on the lookout for more from them.

Pyramids with Nadja

Into the Silent Waves

#152) Pyramids with Nadja (2009)
 1. Into the Silent Waves
 2. Another War
 3. Sound of Ice and Grass
 4. An Angel Was Heard to Cry Over the City of Rome

for May's End of Month Theme i'm going with "Collaborations"

i loved Pyramids' self titled debut so i don't know why it's taken me this long to get to this record. i've known about it since it came out, it's actually the first time i heard of Nadja, but for some reason i put off listening to it. it does not disappoint.

while there is definitely more of the Pyramids sound than Nadja's on the album there's also a lot that's unlike anything i've heard from either band. the sticker on the album (yeah, i'm still being lazy and using other people's quotes) says it's "Energized ambient, infused with an intelligent ear for avant-garde metal and an almost indiscernible adherence to a sort of pop sensibility" and sure. it's a very mellow, at times beautiful experimental metal album. definitely recommended.

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.