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Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Kill The Client – Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Kill The Client (7″ split, 2007)

https://www.discogs.com/Agoraphobic-Nosebleed-Kill-The-Client-Agoraphobic-Nosebleed-Kill-The-Client/release/1579649

SIDE A: AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED
ASSAULT RIFLE: This is my favourite ANb track ever!!! Annihilate fucking everyone!! Annihilate everything! The toms in the intro drumroll… All about this track rules fucking hard! 10/10.

MOCK EXECUTION: Again a quick and dirty ditty from Hull and Co. Not an outstanding song, but wild and crazy vocals keep it interesting.

ANTI-CHRISTIAN: Love this song forever! Double bass drums and groovy shit all over makes this a total winner. And with a song title that is emotional comfort food for a christianity hating pig as me, it doesn’t get any better….

SIDE B: KILL THE CLIENT
SPARTACUS: “Things will continue to get worse…” Massive and noisy and tight as my ass used to be! All is descriptive of KTC on this split. Spartacus is a great song. Love the vox and the blasts!

99% TURNOVER RATE: Another steady banger. The muffled mix/production rules. Groovy bridge too.

RETALIATE: Retaliate takes off where 99% Turnover Rate left, almost as a second part of the same song – dunno if it’s intentional, but op i røven med det. Det virker!!

 

Energumeno/Hades Mining Co. _ Freshly Dead (7″ split, 2017)

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Energumeno/Hades Mining Co. – Freshly Dead (7″ 2017)

https://www.discogs.com/Energumeno-Hades-Mining-Co–Freshly-Dead-/release/10044038

Side A: Energumeno – Rememorando Mierdas Del Pasado.

Energumeno is a band where two of my oldest friends in the wonderful world of noise play, Javi and Manolo are the guys who run R.O.N.F. Records which was the first label to release Kusari Gama Kill many years ago. Still if they weren’t my friends, I’d love their side of the split. Tight noisy noisecore as I like it!

Side B: Hades Mining Co. – Mass Dysentery Insurgency / Anarchy In Your Anal Hole + Sting Like A Butterfly, Fly Like A Bee.

HMC plays a more sloppy noisecore than Energumeno, but not less enjoyable. Loads of references here (or so I think) to all sorts of music. Style wise we’re more in Seven Minutes of Nausea-country. Good fun!

All in all a great 7″ that’s worth buying.

Mike Oldfield – Discovery (1984)

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https://www.discogs.com/Mike-Oldfield-Discovery/release/96973

Mike Oldfield – Discovery (1984)
This was as far as I recall one of the first records by Mike Oldfield I heard, the first song I listened to by him was Moonlight Shadow. And thus Crisis would be the first lp by him I laid ears on.

Discovery (or as a local DJ used to pronounce it: Disco Very (sic)), is not my favourite lp by Oldfield, but not the worst either. Personally I guess my eternal # 1 is Ommadawn. What I think about the songs here are as follows:

SIDE A:
To France: Obviously an attempt to make Moonlight Shadow 2, and not a bad attempt either. I love the way the lyrics weave around the melody, and Maggie Reilly’s voice is sweet as ever. The guitar solos (both acoustic and electric) also works well for me.

Poison Arrows: This has been ruined for me by the Zombies re-make made a few years back. Still an ok song, I imagine it’s a return to the mood Oldfield had when he made Shadow on the Wall. There is some of the same gloomy-ness. The delay/phaser effect on the drums are supercool. Even the faux werewolf howl in the end comes out not too tacky.

Crystal Gazing: Here we are in Family Man territory, again a return to earlier moods and recipies from Gordon Mikefield. This is not the most exciting song. A bit gumpetung, and too repetitive without being hypnotizing (and me likes monotony when done properly).

Tricks of the Light: Is a song I don’t really like.

Discovery: Again a bit of a Shadow on the Wall feel here. I remember liking this song a lot back when the lp came out, but I was a sucker for powerballads then. Not as much now

SIDE B:
Talk About Your Life: I love this song, easily the best song on the record, the vocals are majestic and all comes together in a higher synthesis. It still speaks to me as powerfully as it did in 1984.

Saved by a Bell: A bit of a Disney-banger here. A universe-themed grandiose epic 70’s style rock-ballad. That works!! Much better than the title track. Love it!

The Lake: The final song and the only instrumental on the lp. Starts off with faux pan flutes in delay loop. Urgh, It sucks. Sorry to say, but if I was randomly shuffling through this lp I would never listen to the entire song. And then the progressive stuff comes in. Not good, I really don’t like this. Gumpetungt and uninspired. Western guitar??

My final verdict is that this isn’t Oldfield’s finest hour, but still an ok record to put on once in a while.

 

Sodom – Demonized (2017)

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I ❤️ Sodom! And the Witching Metal demo from 1982 is an old favorite of mine. I was very happy, when I got the news that Floga Records was about to release an lp with the Witching Metal demo and also the Victims Of Death demo from 1984.

This is a great release, and a must have for the connoisseur of early thrash. Enough said, go get it!!

https://www.discogs.com/Sodom-Demonized/release/10996861

Autopsy – Mental Funeral

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I quite vividly remember when this lp was released. I already knew Autopsy’s first lp Severed Survival, and liked it. So it was with great enthusiasm I put this lp on my record player. I think it was my friend Morten Lose who bought it and brought it to my tiny flat in Hundegade in Ribe. So there we were, in a house built in 1588, listening to what seemed like a brand new form of death metal. I wasn’t prepared for a sound so filthy and uncompromising. The song Dead is still among my eternal favorites. The song structures are strange and twisted compared to the death metal that preceded it. This is for me still the ultimate soundtrack for a trip to the deepest pits of Hell. Dirty!! DIRTY!!!!

I have lost count of (never had it, really) how many times I’ve listened to this. But it wasn’t until 2003 I got around to buy it, so I could lay my dubbed cassette to rest. At that point I bought it on cd, but hooray! Today I finally got it on lp. And it’s an absolute pleasure to listen to.

The lp: https://www.discogs.com/Autopsy-Mental-Funeral/release/9845487

The cd: https://www.discogs.com/Autopsy-Mental-Funeral/release/739946

Sedem Minút Strachu ‎– General Fucking (2017)

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This is a record you want, if you are at all into noisy stuff. Sedem Minút Strachu – or Seven Minutes of Fear – is the shit for me these days.

This 12″ will no doubt be a classic of the genre.

Listen here: https://sedemminutstrachu.bandcamp.com/album/general-fucking-12lp

And buy it here: http://www.atwarwithfalsenoise.com

https://www.discogs.com/Sedem-Minút-Strachu-General-Fucking/release/9679652

 

What I enjoyed in 2016

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I have made a spotify playlist of the stuff I’ve listened to the most during the last year. Enjoy: https://open.spotify.com/user/113192134/playlist/09JjIEXbZP9b9C9TvSx4pi

If you aren’t a spotify user, here is the list:

  1. Napalm Death: Prison Without Walls
  2. Sissy Spacek: Flipside Drifter
  3. Noisear: Breaking Bad At The Mulberry
  4. Wormrot: Exit Fear
  5. Nails: Made To Make You Fail
  6. Mortician:: Brutalized
  7. General Surgery: Viva! Blunt Force Trauma
  8. ACXDC: Milk Was A Bad Choice
  9. Regurgitate: Upheaval Of Human Entrails
  10. Insect Warfare: Mind Ripper
  11. Wadge: Programmed Deviation
  12. Extreme Noise Terror: Conned Through Life
  13. Cloud Rat: Rusting Belt
  14. Messiah: Future Aggressor
  15. Slayer: The Final Command
  16. Carcass: Fermenting Innards
  17. Mulatu Astatke: Shagu
  18. Cows: Contamination
  19. Amon Amarth: One Against All
  20. Avulsed: Restitire (Baron Rojo)
  21. Abbath: Ashes Of The Damned
  22. Mercyful Fate: Welcome Princes Of Hell
  23. Destruction: Bestial Invasion
  24. Bathory: For All Those Who Died
  25. Tribulation: The Motherhood Of God
  26. Lana Del Rey: Honeymoon
  27. Sodom: My Atonement
  28. Anaal Nathrakh: Powerslave (Iron Maiden)
  29. Agoraphobic Nosebleed: Not A Daughter
  30. Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard: Y Proffwyd Dwyll

Have fun!

Wadge – The End of Ethnology (cd 2016)

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My relationship with Wadge goes back about 10-12 years, I was (and am) very much into drum-machine-driven grindcore, and as you might be aware, Wadge is exactly that.

At one point, I contacted Wadge via their MySpace, and was very excited to actually get an answer from Paul Wadge. We agreed to make a split between Wadge and my band Kusari Gama Kill, and Jay Randall of Agoraphobic Nosebleed fame agreed to release it on a new label he was planning, namely Grindcore Karaoke. The split was never made, but Paul and I kept in touch. He is a very nice man, and I still hope to shake hands with him one day.

Wadge has had a Tiki-theme going on for quite some time now, and it has been good fun, and great grind. But on this new album called The End of Ethnology, and is 100% Tiki-Free. As the liner notes go:

“This album is for those who value the ability to freely speak your mind over the modern worry of tiptoeing through the misguided muck of feelings. The anti-fascists have become the fascists. Modern day witch hunters trampling through life with stakes in their eyes. Redefining language and soothsaying thought. No one is immune from their delusional social arson, but only you can decide whether or not you burn. Stop, drop and roll, motherfuckers.

This album is for our comrades around the world. Oceans and miles separate us, but the affinity for this wretched filth keeps us close.”

Important words.

Musically this is Wadge in top-shape. The songs are lean and hungry snippets of grind. I love the production too, the best sounding Wadge record I know of.

I urge you to acquire this slap of plastic before it is sold out. Mortville has released it, and you can get it at the link below.

All there’s left to say, is: Take it sleazy, all the breast.

https://mortvillenoise.bandcamp.com/album/the-end-of-ethnology

Blue Holocaust / Embryonic Cryptopathia ‎– Blue Holocaust / Embryonic Cryptopathia (7″ split 2008)

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I learned about this ep on facebook, where one of my contacts hyped it. I got it in the mail today, and I must say that this is a fine slab of wax. Gory noisy heavy grind very much in the vein of my tastes.

Go get this fucker!!

https://www.discogs.com/Blue-Holocaust-Embryonic-Cryptopathia-Blue-Holocaust-Embryonic-Cryptopathia/release/2255742

Lärm – Straight On View (LP 1986)

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Fuck… Where do I even begin… I think I heard about Lärm back in 1987, and bought the lp by mail order from Rock Uglen that same year. Unfortunately the record had suffered in the mail and had cracked from the center to the edge, so I had to record it to cassette before it was totally destroyed. So for many years I lived with a cassette with a noticable crack every time the lp had revolved. I had the iconic cover pinned to my wall.

I think it was through Napalm Death interviews that I learned about Lärm. Their speedy hardcore was hyped by many a band at that time, and since I was heavily into fast bands like Wehrmacht and Cryptic Slaughter I was rather stoked to hear Lärm. And I wasn’t disappointed!

Their fast punk music has followed me throughout the years, first on that shitty cassette, then on the discographic cd Extreme Noise which unfortunately omitted the live tracks from side B of the Straight On View lp.

And now. Finally. 30 years after the release, and 29 years after I received my broken lp in the mail, I have gotten my hands on another copy.

My old band Sardonic Death wrote a song called Terror Lärm in homage to Lärm, and my current band Kusari Gama Kill has released an EP with the same title.

https://www.discogs.com/L%C3%A4rm-Straight-On-View/release/1832030

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