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.