Raven - No Light At The End Of The Tunnel (Eerie Noise Records, 2018)

Here is another release from Raven and he delivers what we expect from him - dark, aggressive, pessimistic (or better said-realistic) message and sound. He never disappoints when sound is concerned-always loudest possible, always active. One thing you can always be sure when you get Raven's tape-you won't get bored halfway like with many noise records, and you will always get just brutal noise-no shit, no compromise. But why i decided to review this one from a pile of 50 Raven tapes-it is because this one sounds especially depressive and weird. Raven is always dark - but imagine now darker side of that darkness and you will get this record. It is a perfect harsh noise in my opinion - if there is a right way to do it - this is it!

So now go and get it https://hiroyukichiba.bandcamp.com/album/no-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel
or write directly to Raven
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Hadals - The Dog (Nailbat Tapes, 2018)

So this album starts totally different than anything i reviewed before. Starts with some distorted guitar melody with some muffled vocals and rhythm. It kinda sounds like some distorted and sowed down sludge track mixed with noise (which is not necessarily bad-just very hard for me to like since guitars are not my cup of tea). I admit it is pretty noisy-not harsh noise level but I could even recommend this kind of music to anyone who like listening to guitar music and to anyone who listens to noise as well.  Second track is some deep drone that i found more close to my taste. It still has some vocals and rhythm but it's much more noisier and much weirder. To be fully sincere, I could see myself buying an album from a band that sounds like this more than from a band that sounds like the first track. Side B starts with a some pure noise. Throughout the whole side there is some whirling winds sounds and some bangs in distance and it's really brings some really noisy storm to us. I'm very surprised with this band because they made so many different styles on just one album and I am maybe not a great fan of that but i want to wait for another album from them to see with which sound they settled down in the end.

Grab it at 

https://hadals.bandcamp.com/album/the-dog