Fields Of Shit - (1998) ST 10''

13 song debut / last will and testament of this short-lived Bay Area band. Melodic, angry, punked out grooves with political lyrics from dual gendered vocalists. Occasional off-meter beats and quarky riffage. This disk was originally pressed in 1998 and never got repressed due to my limited budget at the time. Now it's back in print! Musically crossed between all the aforementioned bands with little hints of DAMAD or ANTISCHISM."Hate, Love, Fear and Lust mixed between hypnotic rhythms and thick flows, slow beats and near thrash speeds" - the band. Made up of 2 parts FILTH, 1 part TALK IS POISON, 1 part QUEEN MAB, and 1 part Shoshanna. Recorded by Noah Landis (Christ on Parade / Neurosis). Comes complete with 16 page lyric booklet.

Ethel Merman - (1950) Songs From Call Me Madam 10''

Call Me Madam is a musical with a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin.
A satire on politics and foreign affairs that spoofs America's penchant for lending billions of dollars to needy countries, it centers on Sally Adams, a well-meaning but ill-informed socialite widow who is appointed United States Ambassador to the fictional European country of Lichtenburg. While there, she charms the local gentry, especially Cosmo Constantine, while her press attaché Kenneth Gibson falls in love with Princess Maria.

Aube & RLW - (1997) Organized 10''

RLW is Ralf Wehowsky & Aube was Akifumi Nakajima.

Beequeen - (1997) The Surrough Gate 10''

Beequeen is a collaboration between Dutch musicians Freek Kinkelaar and Frans de Waard, who work primarily in drone and dream pop/ambient music.

Aube & Grunt - (1996) Split 10''

Released in a hand-numbered limited edition of 200 copies. Sleeve is made from wallpaper. Includes inserts with credits.
Side A Composed Mixed Recorded And Designed By Akifumi Nakajima At Studio MECCA May 1996 Using Only 1 Voltage Controlled Oscillator as Source Material.
A Aube Dispersive Granule
B Grunt Global Construction

Aunt Mary & Man Is The Bastard - (2012) Split 10''

Power-Violence Hardcore. This is that famous MAN IS THE BASTARD recording because it has the song "H.S.M.P." which is supposedly the 1st use of the term "power-violence". The 9 songs they recorded for their side are pretty great. AUNT MARY are from Finland and their side is a single song in 5 movements and is noisy and distorted hardcore and grind. The 1st pressing was self-released in 1992 and then on Deep Six Records as a 7" in 1996 & again in 2012 as a 45 RPM 10''.

Andrew Liles - (2014) The Equestrian Vortex 10''

Nurse WIth Wound's Andrew Liles serves a shit-the-bed rework of the score to Berberian Sound Studio's Giallo inception, 'The Equestrian Vortex'. Spinning the tale of "a coven of witches presiding under a riding academy" into his own demented yarn, Liles adapts the score to create a miasmic trip into the unconscious, soundtracked by the petrified screams and unheimlich incantations of Giallo actresses Silvia, Claudia, and Elisa. Quite honestly, it's f**king terrifying stuff. The A-side, 'Our Confessions were merely a formality. The acts that prompted our signatures are what remain here' makes particularly disturbing use of disembodied, blood-curdling shrieks, the sort you do not want to hear IRL, interjected by bone-freezing drone passages. The B-side, 'Lord, we beseech you' bears witness to the coven's conspiratorial dialogue and creeps under the skin more subtly, climaxing with a torture chamber noise inferno. Shocking record.

Sejr - (2014) ST 7''

Rough, crunchy, fuzzed out and raw black metal project from members of Redflesh and Iceage.

Rosen & Spyddet - (2015) Tristan Og Isolde 7''

45 RPM 7" from this Danish synth pop group following the recent "Fortuna" LP on Posh Isolation, and several cassette titles on Janushoved & Posh Isolation.

Croatian Amor & Rose Alliance - (2015) The Gold Of The Good Sister 7''

CA delivers a glorious track of bubblegum industrial.
RA hit hard with some heavy rythmical post industrial.

Lust For Youth & Croatian Amor - (2014) Sister 7''

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Two reworked tracks from the Pomegranate collaboration from last year in brand new club versions. Ambivalent synthetic sex music from the masters of romance.

Darkthrone - (1992) A Blaze In The Northern Sky LP

So here I find myself dealing with the album that was hailed as THE masterpiece of the early second wave of Black Metal.
So how to describe this album? A person associated with Black Metal once reminded not to mistake lack of talent with genius in that style of music. And to be quite honest, that walk along this extremely narrow grid seems to be a quite befitting issue with Darkthrone:
The value of musical skill? Naught. The song-writing? A catastrophe to any Primary/Elementary school music teacher. The sound quality? A bit like a faulty electric razor. The music itself? A monotonous cacophony that could not be worse – all in all the album sounds a little like a few kids who figured out how to mess with the gain pedal and the guitar, and the vocals have the reminiscence of a chain smoker after 45 years, awaiting cancer surgery…and having read this, can anyone really wonder why Peaceville heavily reconsidered having ever signed them?
So what is it then that deserves this release the 95% rating that I am donating? Well, besides its status as one of the most influential releases and the untouchability somewhat arise thereof, there are quite a few points that rehabilitate for the first disappointment that anyone used to less raw music will meet.
Notable is the intelligent riffing, i.e. the utter rape of the guitar by both Zephyrous and Nocturno Culto that create a superior atmosphere that only Darkthrone is able to create, and the minimalistic setting described above only happens to highlight this feeling so dark, cold and grim that it has Satan himself hide behind a sofa. At this time, provided you have sufficient imagination, you’re likely off sacrificing sheep in a wood in Norway.
Nocturno Culto’s voice is genius – raspy as it is: Grimmer than any horror movie and frostier than the deepest reach of Siberia, it again contributes to establish an atmosphere beyond description. In fact, many have attempted to mimic his style of singing, but very few have succeeded…hard to describe indeed, except that his vocal contribution to this release is probably some of the best that the entire genre of Black Metal has seen thus far.
The whole sound is rounded off by the raw and trollish battery delivered by Fenriz: Some-times blast-beats that build up the atmosphere, another time more mid-tempo, even slightly punky drumming – whatever it is, he uses it in good strategy even though, again, minimal in style.
Finally, notable mention has to go to the lyrics. OK, so they might be the most outright anti-religion, Satanic, dark-side-of-nature revolved shit that you’ll ever encounter; but then again, Darkthrone were pioneers at doing this, so it is actually highly original. Lyrics are often left out of the equation when reviewing an album, but in this case, more than ever, they are the essence of the message of the album, in fact they fit the music 1000 percent.
"A Blaze in the Northern Sky” is an album that I can certainly recommend acquiring – definitely worth the € you pay for it. The old quote of “Black Metal ist Krieg” could not be more fitting when you talk about this album, and if you’re a fan of the likes of Bathory of Burzum, then you’ve not lived until you’ve heard this album. It is probably amongst the best BM albums ever recorded, and should not be missing from any CD collection, at least not in the collections of those that boast themselves “true Black Metallers”. Congratulations to Darkthrone for creating a masterpiece for all eternity!"

Emperor - (1994) In The Nightside Eclipse LP

A landmark Scandinavian Black Metal album essential to any good Satanist's collection. The forward impetus of this album is incredible, as the majestic keyboards, rasping cries, and pummeling drums all sweep together like a freezing, evil wave carrying pagan Viking longboats across the North seas to attack and pillage Christian lands. Like opera music for howling wolves. A Nordic church-burning classic.

Darkthrone - (1993) Under A Funeral Moon LP

This is where Darkthrone completed their metamorphosis from their Death Metal origins to one of the most quintessential and uncompromising Black Metal bands. Where "A Blaze In The Northern Skies" still showed sparse riffs and structures reminescent of the band's past, "Under A Funeral Moon" sports a totally cold, haunting and unfriendly musical attitude. This is not saying that the work presented here is anti-musical or performed by untalented players, it doesn't get more false than that. Simply put, Darkthrone got hold of the identity they were striving for, and such identity was never meant to please a large number of listeners.
The differences between this album and the previous are quite apparent. First, the departure of Dag Nilsen, bassist extraordinaire whose highly unappreciated skills were a fundamental component of early Darkthrone, who had agreed to perform bass on "A Blaze In The Northern Sky" before quitting the band due to his lack of interest for the new direction. His style would clash with the band's music anyway at this point, and despite that, this album has some inventive bass parts anyway (handled by Nocturno Culto).
Next, the production, or better the lack of. "A Blaze In The Northern Sky" had a very harsh sound, with the drums and echoy vocals often overpowering the trebly, fuzzy guitars and the barely audible bass. Here, it just gets worse. Everything on this album sounds incredibly thin. The guitars are a kind of buzz which seems destined to be drowned by static anytime, the drums are very flat and lifeless, the bass is heavily and unpleasantly distorted (although it stands out pretty well because of its thick low frequencies) and Nocturno Culto's vocals are a very raspy croak, very different from his usual style, and loaded with echo. This barbaric demo-like soundscape would be enough to put anyone off, yet I have to underline how well it actually works. No elements overpower others anymore, and the volumes are very well balanced.
Finally, the song structures themselves, no longer as epic as in the old days but way more minimalistic, although some technical solutions still stand out. This si something you cannot bang your head to, you cannot air guitar to... this is ugliness at its best.

Darkthrone - (1994) Transilvanian Hunger LP

What Fenriz, Zephyrous and Nocturno Culto did on this record is simply amazing. They took all the normal trademarks of black metal—necro production, raspy screams, tremolo-picked riffs, inaudible bass lines, lack of palm muting (unheard of in most other metal genres)—and made black metal that was far from normal. On the surface, it may not seem all that different from Under a Funeral Moon. The songs are minimalist in technique as well as composition, the production is trademark necro and the vocals are still a mix of throaty growls and raspy screams. However, the entire atmosphere of the record is vastly different than its predecessors. While A Blaze In the Northern Sky and Under A Funeral Moon were a mixed bag of evil and grim atmosphere, the third part of the Darkthrone “Black Metal Trilogy” has a haunting, hypnotic and beautiful aura. Yes, that’s right folks, a black metal album that has all of the beauty of a thick pine forest glistening with newly fallen snow. I’d say this album’s beauty is definitely more atmospherically striking than the beauty in Emperor’s In the Nightside Eclipse.