Harsh Noise London #23 - The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist (Harsh Noise London, 2020)

This Harsh Noise London release brings two new names to me on table. First one is Fuck Your Dogma and the other one is Tab In/Tab Out. Both sides are equally split 22 minutes of one project then 22 minutes of other project on side A, and same goes for side B as well. So we start off with Fuck Your Dogma. Track is called Verge of Insanity I, and it sounds like noise that is stuck in a moment-same as if you had some noise track  from an external drive, play it in winamp and suddenly plug out your drive. Residue sound that repeats in infinity or in this case 22 minutes... Next 22 minutes belongs to Tab In/Tab Out and their muddy/gurgling sound. It is a bit more dynamic than first track but still has a sort of static quality. You feel trapped and choked by the massive sound-almost like underwater swimming feeling when all sounds you hear distorted through water and you gasp for air every now and then. I really like the style of this project and will surely search for more from them! And thats it for a battery in my walkman-i have to go to supermarket so i can continue.
So side B i leave as surprise for you ..
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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
raven.raven.raven.raven.raven@gmail.com

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

Luxury Mollusc - Osseous Labyrinth Vestibule (Cursed Monk Records,2018)

After one very old and mysterious tape from LORDxGONZO we are back in present, here is the CD i received just a few days ago, and discogs says it is from 2018 so it is hot off the press. I already saw Luxury Mollusc few years ago at ZNFI festival so i know i can expect some fine harsh noise. Six track ahead of us, a little bit under 40 minutes total, While i am writing this we are few minutes into first track, very nice atmospheric and a bit rhythmic harsh noise filling the air around me. Some beats, like banging metal pipes are coming from all around me, making me feel like i am in some sort of submarine where every bolt and part scream under pressure. Also some high pitched screams and squeals are coming closer and closer while all rhythm already disappeared leaving us with just harsh noise covering the screams more and more until everything die out with just one silent scream is heard fading away. Second track leads us deeper into this horror underwater story. Sorry if i am missing the point here, i don't know if it was the idea, but i still cannot shake off the thoughts of some catastrophe under water. So here we have some deeper harsh sounds and a feeling like everything is crushing down, no more metal, no more intense screams, just here and there you think you heard the voice but quickly it is drowned in noise. Suddenly everything slows down, almost all noise disappear, and just some machine hum is left with loud blasts here and there. Everything stops. We are left in silence with some distant drone far far away. Third track welcome us with some noise that comes out of the silence, run past us and is lost again somewhere in the distance. Like dozen of trains just coming and going. We are in silence again for a moment, and some ritual begins, tons of bells all around us and a whispering voice speaking in tongues, choking, screaming... It made me lost a track of time, just to realize new track already is starting... but like always second half of album i will leave a secret, so head to a bandcamp at least to check rest of it...
I must say this is one serious piece of harsh noise, it is obvious that a lot of work is put into this, and as much as i am a fan of shit sound, it is really great to hear something with a high quality also. I would dare to say this album can be played side by side with any of big harsh noise names and you wouldn't be able to say it is inferior in any aspect, in many it even surpasses them. Also i have to mention lovely digipack cover, simply every part of this is a masterpiece. Surely one album that you shouldn't miss, it is made in 50 copies so act fast! And now i have to track as many of old albums that is possible!
You can preview and buy on Cursed Monk Records website

LORDxGONZO - fuck you generation Y, fuck you (BRUITxMERDE,?)

I dont know much about this tape since there are just titles on small piece of paper, no label, no year, but i know enough-it is a LORDxGONZO! And that should be enough for any harsh noise fan..  I love this minimal approach since it puts more focus on sound, and noise from Lord Gonzo always deserve our full attention. Here he like always goes straight to the point - high pitched squeel opens the tape just to be followed by very dynamic harsh noise. It is very fast and loud start, here and there interrupted with short pauses after which noise blasts back stronger! Best thing in this one is that Lord Gonzo doesn't repeat himself, he use some effect or sound, blast the shit out of it and move forward to next one. In the stretch of few minutes he takes you through various styles of harsh noise, and in some brief moments he even introduces to us his slower side. Please dont expect some fancy artsy drone here, it is still everything very harsh just on slower pace. But thats just for a moment, he is pushing pedal to the metal again, everything is speeding up, wave after wave of noise is hitting us just to stop all of a sudden. End already? I will give it another spin right away, and you should do it too. Check online-if you are lucky, someone is maybe selling his copy(by the way, while i am writing this, there is one on discogs. . .).

Grinder Bueno - Demo #2 (Underground Pollution Records, 2017)

Just got this tape in mail and immediately I put it in walkman - anything noisy from France always promise some nice ears destruction especially if it is released by Underground Pollution Records, so no time to lose - let's get straight to business! Tracks are untitled 69-91, so we have 22 of them in front of us, around 10 minutes of pure filth!  Grinder Bueno doesn't disappoint anywhere during those 22 - right from the start blasts and walls of noise started to pour all over me! Its a noisecore at its finest -yes there are instruments and band but it is all so well integrated in one uniform noise shit - just here and there you hear voice or drums or guitar winning its fight over the others but it never goes into music fields - its just pure raw and filthy noise from beginning to the end! But what I like most is the fact that listening to this tape gives you a feeling of attending their gig - it is something that shows they are firmly standing behind their sound - they don't need stage or crowd in front of them to bring their best shit out! (Also every UPR tape is recycled one so you will be able to listen some of the finest french pop or random shit after the noise ends - so you get more than you bought)
I believe you wont find this in digital form, so just head to Underground Pollution Records  and get your tape!

Anonymous Masturbaudioum - Exquisit Nylon (Craneal Fracture Records, 2016)

New day, new review. I just picked up a tape from a pile of tapes ready for review and drop it in my backpack without checking what I took. And here I am, nylon fetish cover in front of me, so I guess HNW is waiting inside. To be honest I am really rarely in mood for HNW nowadays. I think that this subgenre became too sterile and hermetic, they made up more rules than people do in music. This release does it all by the book, cover is in line with what HNW listener wants to see, and sound is pure HNW... It started with brighter sounding crackles for a few minutes, just to drop into low, deep, muddy sounding static noise. Sound is in fact pretty good because it is very minimal and not pushing the loudness in red. This is a good soundtrack for a rainy day or a cold cellar room where I work and listen to this. Freezed to the bone with wet air coming into lungs and hnw in ears - sounds like a great combo! So since we will stay in these wet, deep sounds until the end of side A, I'll stop writing and continue drowning myself into both sound and surroundings. Just to conclude, even if I was sceptical before i started review, it turned out to be pretty pleasant experience even for me as a non-fan of static noise...
Get your tape at Craneal Fracture Records page

886VG / Animal Machine (No Brain Prod., 2012)

Here we have two projects that i am very familiar with. We shared some gigs, appeared on few splits together. and i always love their output. I will surely be highly subjective so i will just try to give some general feeling that this split is offering. Side A - we have Animal Machine - like i expected, starting with some uncompromising noise loud from start. Only difference is that we have some porn samples in the background. I know some will say "oh i have seen it before, nothing original blah blah " but I don't care-i love it! Its loud, its fun, its straight to the point. If you look for pretentious art noise with long descriptions of albums and done on pro tapes then you are in a wrong place. This is total opposite:tape is recycled, just simple info inside the cover and sound is brutal-what else to ask.. Only thing better than Animal Machine tape is AM live so if you ever have a chance-go check it and thank me later.
So let's check out Chilean friend 886VG on a side B. Starting with some drone synth but i am pretty sure it won't drone for a long time. And yes! Screaming noise starting some half minute later. And stopping into silence just to start again a second later, now more deep sounding but very dynamic and brutal. We had very loud and harsh first side but this side is showing some real aggression! It is active non stop-few cuts here and there but you barely can catch a breath and new noise barrage is starting. By the way 886VG is coming to Europe this June, starting from Italy, through Slovenia (he will play ZNFI festival), and heading to Serbia and who knows where after. Be sure to check if he is coming nearby. And since i think he and Animal Machine are friends i wouldn't be surprised if they share some gigs together. So if you need some noise holiday this summer check 886VG tour schedule and head out there!
(I know this album is from 2012 and since it is made in 26 copies it is surely long gone, but quality of noise on it simply deserve review, even 6 years after)

Melinoe - Hand And Hand Into Extinction (Machine Tribe Recordings, 2016)

Melinoe… I am not familiar with this project so let's see what it has to offer! Album name has a depressing vibe to it so i guessed sound will follow that direction. And yes-it starts with some droney, echoing distorted humming noise. Sounds like static at a first glance, but in fact its everchanging. I love the atmosphere and i could listen to it for a long time, unfortunately its pretty short track for what it offers. Next track is called “empty and frantic” and its more on a buzzing side of sound with again tons of distortion over. It started again very slow and unchanging but after some time you realize you are in totally different place of sound spectrum with static blasts over some distorted synth drone. Again it could be longer, it was just starting to suck me fully in when it ended. Again side B will stay a secret until you get a tape or download it from bandcamp.

It's very good atmospheric album, with very simple and direct delivery, no artsy shit here, just good sound!

Take it from melinoe.bandcamp.com

Averauschen - Symbiote (Machine Tribe Recordings, 2016)

So here we have first of three Machine Tribe Recordings tapes i got in last package. Its tape from Averauschen (sleeve says that it is one off between Bonechurch and Princess Coldheart. Bandcamp and Discogs informed me that this is released originally in 2010 and that this is 2016 version(now you see how much of an effort i put in every review here).  Oh but this is a tape review and not a review of a reviewers hard work, so let's get back to work.
Tracks are titled only by their length so we start with 3:54. It is a dark ambientish track with spoken word over sounds. Speech is slowed down so i will have to use this nice speed control button on my walkman next time to see what is all about. From there on it goes in tracks that are all very dark industrial ambient sounding. Most of sounds appear slowed down and stretched with cracklings and sometimes some bell-type sounds can be heard in the distance. Very good tape for walking through empty streets but only if you are in no rush and can fully dive into these sounds. My favorite is 3rd track of side A. Side B i will let as secret that you will discover when you grab this tape (there are only six of them and since its a collab and i also own one-only three of them are up to grab!)
But luckily technology is our ally this time so go to: bonechurch bandcamp page for this album

Idee Collective ‎– Grand Gastrite (Craneal Fracture Records,2016)

This is the first time i heard of Idee Collective but in pile of tapes cover art caught my eye. It is a old school collage art - very tiny (its not covering whole cover) so its not fully visible but seemed like it will be more experimental dadaist stuff instead of pure harsh noise that i always pop in player first. Anyway i was baking cake so experimental stuff maybe will help my cake to be softer and more tasty... And yes i was right - first track is pretty minimal - it sounds like recording of a hiss - with sound of a stopping and starting the record button every few seconds, during the track various sounds appear so it becomes nice layered noise in the end. Second track is a lot of high pitched noise, not too loud - very controlled and balanced which mixes into some looped sequences (maybe its track three - i am not sure how big pauses they make between tracks) after few minutes loops of some improvised music start and fading away in echoes - very nice atmosphere here. I felt like i was approaching some post-apocalyptic concert in abandoned building with sounds coming through big abandoned hallways. Post-apocalyptic feeling was even more activated by space sounds that started to mix with music in the background. Hisses, beeps and bleeps coming and going, sounds of wind going through holes in the walls. And then suddenly we are alone with that peaceful repeating music. And then cake started to smell like burning so i will continue to listen to this in kitchen and leave the rest of album as a surprise for a listeners that decide to buy it. All in all - even if its not harsh - it brings some very good movie-like atmosphere. Certainly it is a good idea to take this tape if you need to spice up your noise collection with something different...
Get it here cranealfracturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/grand-gastrite

Délinquance Juvénile ‎– Avant-propos (Craneal Fracture Records,2016)

As soon as i got package with a lot of tapes inside i saw Délinquance Juvénile tape and just immediately dropped it in tape player. Guy behind this project is familiar to me through his great collage zines. You should really check out his tumblr page blame201.tumblr.com/
Quality of noise on this tape i never doubted - from first second we just get big pile of noise with no compromises, no fancy effects. Just as i like it - feeling like you are in some factory room with all machines plugged in in same time - just kicking the air out of you. There are some pattern audible in distance of this noise - like some synth line that repeats itself - but buried under so many layers that i don't even know if it even exists or i just imagine it... Side B is more rhythmic (not like real rhythm but some background metal beat) at least in beginning but very soon rhythm is lost in hiss and waves of noise hitting over and over and over until whole sound is flooded with insane amount of sounds.
In my opinion stuff like this should be called harsh noise wall because you have really a feeling of wall of noise coming at you. But who cares about genres and subgenres anyway - this is a must have tape for everyone who wants their noise harsh and loud!
grab it at cranealfracturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/avant-propos

Inbreeder - Errorland (Porcelain Editions, 2013)

One of my favorite projects out there in a noise part of the world, one of those i was really proud to collaborate with is Inbreeder. It's a project of a Joel Walter, a guy who not only make fine noise but great collage art as well (hopefully one day i will fulfill my dream of making a collage zine with his art). Inbreeder is a strange project - very minimal in sound - no powerful loud sound, just a lot of buzzes, hisses and synth type sounds but delivered in such a fine way that it is both noisy and musical. First side here is exactly that - lots of hiss and buzz and various sounds going all around you - while all that is followed with repeating bass synth tone in a very slow rhythm. Very dark track - in a way it reminds me of some dark church ritual, probably because of synth that repeats in a way as church bell when announcing a mass. Side B also continue this dark mass with same "bell" just now slightly more distorted and more sucked into background. Just now its not a call anymore - ritual has started - under all noises we have repetitive snare drum beating. All of that creates great suspense and leave you tense and sort of paranoid about what will happen next.
Only downside to this album is that its fairly short - total is 10 minutes, and i could listen this for hours probably (and this comes from a guy whose attention is crazy short - and get bored with anything longer than few minutes - so now you can imagine how good this one is...).
Its a pretty old release from 2013 on now defunct Porcelain Editions label , but thanks to this digital world we live in you can get your digital copy on bandcamp.
Go there and buy one INBREEDER - Errorland

Raven - Violence Begins With a Fork (Craneal Fracture Records,2016)

Here is our old friend Djordje with another brutal sound massacre. Like we are already used to, albums from this anarcho vegan harsh noise project always stand up against consumerism, capitalism, animal rights. This time titla and cover photo tells us all - very depressing photo of a pig ready for slaughter, in blood red color and sides are titled  a:Violence Begins With a Fork and b:Unleash the Cages. Raven is 99% of time loudest project out there (probably many will have different opinions, but i am not joking here guys, just take any project you think its loud and put it side by side with any Raven album and you will see what i am talking about...), and like always he stays firm in his loud aggressive position but with a twist. This album is loud and aggressive  but also depressive as hell. You have brutal layers of noise but also some deep muddy sounds in background. I can even recognize what it is - it could be screaming voices or animals suffering or anything, but you have really big feel of unease while listening to this one. Don't need much to describe here, Raven's noise is always on very high level, always real, no artsy shit... Only thing that bothers me is that Djordje slowed down his output a bit, after first few years with 100+ releases in total (and crazy long split series with almost every name from the scene on Shit Noise Records), now we have last few years with a bit less releases probably due to the fact that many noise labels started going more for aforementioned artsy noise stuff. So if any of you label owners read this - call Djordje and make some new albums (i will have to empty one more shelf to fit new wave of Raven's albums but who needs that much clothing anyway...)
So check Raven's stuff at http://www.ravennoise.co.nr/
This album at Raven - Violence Begins With a Fork
And this fine label you surely have to check - plenty of nice things there! Craneal Fracture Records

Gods Wil - De Ene Nachtmerrie Na De Andere (self-released ?, 2016)

Guy begind this project i knew and also met in person much before i heard his sounds-he is a host of very good noise radio show on Radio Patapoe. Every Tuesday i try to be home so i can tune in and find out about some new noise-you should stay home too - fuck social life! Also show before this one is by Peter Zincken from Stront label-so Tuesday evening can be very pleasant for a noishead or person with no friends... Oh wait - it is the same person!

So first track here is labeled intro and it is more in HNW style that slowly turns itself, through little bleeps and crashes, into something that i am much more into-harsh noise.. Probably first Nachtmerrie started (all tracks are labeled Nachtmerrie except Intro and Uittro). Probably nachtmerrie means nightmare - if not please dutch guys correct me... And its really deep sounding noise with piercing sounds. Not only nightmare feeling but ears have their nightmare too now. Since we move into very aggressive sound now-probably we are into next nightmare already (you see i use this nightmare word like i am 100% sure its a correct translation...) Since i am a great fan of Gods Wil sound i would just wrute superlatives - which would bore you to death so i will stop writing and listen to these in peace. Some nice contact mic banging is happening while i write this. Fucking perfect! 

his website: GODS WIL

Maläd / Dekonstruktor split (Freak Friendly DIY, 2016)

We have split here between Maläd from Ukraine and Dekonstruktor from Russia - full east Europe noisecore attack! Side A - starts with some slow rhythm and very distorted guitar - very depressing and fucked up sound. I saw Maläd few times live and they always had some crazy aggressive stuff - this showed me that they can do slow stuff with same skill. But toward end we get glimpse of Maläd style chaos - beat start to be faster and slower and chaotic, and guitar goes from feedback to buzz and back - total massacre!  If i can order a song for i next live - i would like this one please!
And on side B we have - baby chicken? That is what is pictured on Dekonstruktor side of tape. Some mean chicken are those - following the style of side A - slow beat and depressed overdistorted guitar. I have never been a guitar fan myself - but this kind of guitar i could listen any time of day (maybe night also - but neighbors wouldn't share my enthusiasm i think...).  Dekonstruktor also push the pedal to the metal toward the end of song - and we have some more screeching guitar before we drift into some riffs that sound like its from some "normal" guitar music (that part i didn't like much - it remind me too much that i don't like guitar - but its good as a contrast i think).
All in all very satisfying split. You can buy that for 5 eur or whole Freak Friendly DIY discography for only 8.70 eur here
So don't be cheap - add those 3.70 eur and get them all!

Zyrtax - Reflex Ultra (Stront, 2011)

Another old one from Stront label - but since its still available - why not to review.
First time i heard of Zyrtax project, and since cover is very minimal - just split in half with two concrete-like textures on both sides i expected some minimal/ambient/experimental sound.
But it started with loud space like pulsing and many high pitched sounds, and soon after start howling voice started. Some nice effects on voice so its totally integrated in these space sounds...
For a moment everything stops and we just here some frog-like pulsating sound, which lead us into second part of this track, with some constant high pitched sound and some interference in the background. Everything sounds very sci-fi but don't worry its very noisy, but is not usual typical harsh noise sound, since its more electronic and futuristic)
All of a sudden some distorted voice,like from some radio transmission, gave us some message and lead us into some noisy sounds with very disturbing screaming that also sound like coming from outer space. I believe whoever made this tape had whole sci-fi script in his head before making this because all sounds like there is some logic and flow to it.
i will now stop writing and and rewind so i can listen to a full tape - its a shame that this detailed piece of work just play in background of my writing process...
So all recommendations to this one - if you like more subtle noise and more artificial/spaceship sounds in compare to usual pedal noise set...
Ask Stront for copies...

Vulvax / Odal "No-Norit / Back to the Basics" (Stront, 2004)

Found this on a shelf, and since i traded tons of tapes with Peter from Stront label (Odal project also) i don't have a clue is this new or old release (later discogs search revealed its 2004...) But who cares it comes from Stront label, cover art is full of shit and frontal nudity, so what can go wrong. Print is perfect for a noise release also, very low resolution, muddy colors, all coming from cheap color home printer. Oh how i miss the days before my cartridges dried out and became impossible to refill... But let put nostalgia aside, Vulvax already started with slowed down chanting over buzzes and bleeps. After some time i start to have a feeling i am in the middle of some Ortodox christian liturgy gone wrong. Too bad it was so short, but we have second track here, high pitched beep (in first few seconds i thought its my alarm clock - obsession that i have to wake up early for job obviously left a mark on this review too...) But this beeping is not like an alarm clock, its never ending with just slight variations. It seems i was lucky i put this tape on a speakers instead through headphones (neighbors wouldn't call this luck probably). So third track is here, mumbling voice preaching something, it seems our priest is here again... Where can i baptize for this church? Since i was checking discogs while i write and listen to this i found out this:

https://www.discogs.com/Vulvax-Odal-No-norit-Back-To-The-Basics/release/5017907

Yes 25 short tracks on this side, and yes i love the sound, but no i cant write about 25 tracks, i am too lazy for it, so i will just let you be surprised with 22 more... 

45 minutes filled to the max - and quality didn't drop much (there was few parts here and there that were not so impressive like first tracks, but 45 mins is long for noise anyway - i don't think anyone can pull that out...)

Second side brings us Odal, behind that moniker is Peter Zincken also known as Dr. Bibber and former member of FCKN BSTRDS. Very big name in noise scene for last few decades, so not surprising we have impressive track in front of us: arrhythmic drums, harsh noise with chanting tribal-like vocals over it. If first side was Ortodox christian, this side is some Amazon tribe that was exposed to harsh noise that totally fucked up their brains never to return to normal... This track can easily put you in a trance state if you blast it loud on your speakers - you lose sense of time and 30 minutes passed like second - and since it sounds like gig recording, i can only imagine how good it would be to be present in that space that day...

Well you can try to track down some copies maybe directly from Stront - even if its not original tape, i am sure you can get some kind of cdr reissue.

https://www.facebook.com/Stront-215326391865287/

Agathocles / Raven (Centipede Farm,2016)

Hmmm it seems i review only Centipede Farm releases... Somehow they all ended up on my "to listen shelf"... I wanted to change label for this one, but then i saw Agathocles / Raven split!
Great projects, so fuck it, i'll do another Centipede!
Side A is Agathocles, inside tape is written that it is a recording from 1986 - so lets try this blast from past. Some crackling sounds and spoken word in background - very raw, very lo-fi, from there it fades into drone guitar sounds with very dirty drum sound and deep barking vocals. Occasional screams break a sound that almost pushed me in some kind of trance state of mind. Really love this one - very aggressive, very enjoyable...
Speaking of aggression... Side B brings us Raven, like always straight-to-point approach, loud, uncompromising sound. Crazy mash of hiss, feedback, pitch changes, buzzing of DIY synths, and white noise in the background. Be sure that if you play on speakers you wont hear anything in your house or surroundings. Total auditory deprivation! And try to use at least headphones that go over ear - if you put this on earphones - be ready for tinnitus for the rest of the day. Tinnitus - best recommendation for noise release!  I'm already half deaf so i dont care - lets play this once more!
This fine release can be found at https://centipedefarm.bandcamp.com/album/agathocles-raven-split

Contraktor / Kolaps systému (Centipede Farm, 2016)

Another one from Centipede Farm. Kolaps systému i heard years ago on a split with Raven, and theme of album were animal rights. Fast discogs check lead me to  realization that  Kolaps systému had made another animal right album with Contraktor in 2015. That made me very happy - i think it is of a great importance to always put those topics in spotlight. So i came very relaxed into listening to this one, because that attitude is enough for me to be happy. And cover also promised same direction...
So side A brings us Contraktor with track called Self Worthless. It starts with some bubbling noisy sound which goes into more noisy crackling sounds with some vocal sample repeated in loop. Very fine, very dynamic and fun to listen, length of all those parts where sample is looped is just right to keep listeners attention - not too short not too long, also it brings me some industrial vibe to this (which in my case is good thing - remind me on my pre-noise days when industrial was my main focus). From there we go to more chaotic parts, very good executed noise, not too harsh but very intense and old school. I was never fan of big powerful noise sounds, always was more on this lo-fi side - so this fits me very well.
On side B we have aforementioned Kolaps systému - "Breaking the Locks" noise style is pretty much similar to Contraktor but we here have some various samples of animals screaming and suffering. From there we get into some metallic repeating sound, kinda like a rail, which is replaced by some far away machine-like sound. A lot of samples, lot of field recording sound (at least i think its raw field recording in some places) and again lo-fi - just as i like noise to be. Everything is covered in radio like noise, glass shattering, dogs barking. Everything is really well done, there wasn't a second of these both sides where my attention roamed away from sound.
So all in all - perfect release, both sound-wise and theme-wise...
Check it out at https://centipedefarm.bandcamp.com/album/animal-liberation-split