Apopthelema Entry 8 Part 2 by Kyle Nonneman

Apopthelema Entry 8 Part 2 

by Kyle Nonneman

[Note: this was composed in prison where proof-reading facilities are notoriously bad. Please don't hold that against the author. You can contact Kyle through the address listed at the end of this entry.]

DEATHHAMMER-EVIL POWER

This Norwegian horde is pure bang your head for satan , true old school satanic metal . Fucking total Show No Mercy /Seven Churches/Endless Pain/Welcome To Hell brand of evil played at a 'Death Side' tempo. This carries on the torch of true metal and uses that torch to set fire to churches and false metal. They don't try to combine it with death or black metal . This is an unholy atavistic revival of the dark ages before all those genre labels existed .There's nothing modern about this. They just shred out some true metal for satan. The speed and energy of this , despite being old school as fucking Venom, shreds most grind bands. A lot of people have forgotten how brutal this type of shit was.This sounds just like it was recorded in 1985 . This is a honorable remembrance of where this abject heresy all started and it shreds and slays in true service to our master Satan.The modern trendy underground try-hards that scorn traditional metal and scoff at old school stuff like Kreator and Destruction, taking everything too serious, needs to have this record shoved up their fucking ass!

Deathhammer is also the name of the lp Asphyx put out a few years ago. That album is also essential

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SUICIDAL ANGELS-ETERNAL DOMINATION

Generic sounding genre album. This sounds like a Kreator cover band branching out into original material. Satanic thrash anthems with titles like 'Slaughtering Christianity:","Quench your thirst with christian souls" and "Vomit on The Cross". It's obviously not as good as Deathhammer's similar work in this vein, but it still slays. And they write unapologetically blunt campy lyrics as bluntly evil as Deicide and NunSlaughter. This would be more impressive if Deathhammer's Evil Power didn't exist. But its still a good genre album thats faithful to the spirit of its obvious influences.

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RWAKE-VOICES OF OMENS

This full length doom ritual is equal parts apocalyptic stoner crust and misanthropic black sludge. Like Electric Wizard experimenting with black metal. Blackened ringing arpeggios transitioning into traditional metal hooks and solos layered on top of crushing down-tuned sludge riffs. Harsh screaming vocals phrasing into rough tormented hardcore vocals. Basically this is what you would get if you got baked and put some old warped Shrapnel records vinyl in a blender with Weekend Nachos, EyeHateGod and early Forgotten Tomb. The guitar work is layered and complex without coming off as extraneous technical jerkoff nonsense.Creating a powerful atmosphere of suicidal despair and hatred for the species. There's a lot of straight false bands out there trying to make records like this, like Twilight and all the christian sympathizer bands on 1859 .

            To the point that i tend to avoid anything with the words crust, post or stoner in the description. But this is actually good work. I saw it referenced in a zine alongside Graves At Sea and it was a good purchase. Rwake transgresses the wretched shitheap of boring postmetal progsludge 1859 Records worship. This shit rules and in a lot of ways it goes beyond genre by incorporating a lot of different styles in a meaningful and cohesive way alot of lesser acts cant pull off. Their other album Hell is A Door To the SUn , has the anthem Stoner Tree on it. Get that record also. Stoner Tree is Sweet Leaf for the New Dark Age!

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COMBAT WOUNDED VETERAN-DUCK DOWN FOR THE TORSO

No Wave Grind/Power Violence with a lot of jazz timings and weird fucked up shit going on. Bizarre insanity that sounds like: a fast Toadliquor with blastbeats doing Zeni Gava /Gasp mash-ups, Crossed Out' breaking edge, Spazz on acid, and Pre-sellout Locust/Melt Banana without the need for electronics to make it sound crazy.The type of fucked up fringe insanity Slap-A-Ham used to put out. This band kills it with this sound. A lot of bands try this type of experiment and end up sounding like another boring Discordance Axis clone or Neurosis worshiping technical hardcore hackwork, and when that album gets bad reviews, they try again and usually endup putting out some NomeansNo with growling mcgrind mathcore shit. But Combat Wounded Veteran kill it with avant grind violence insanity. They also incorporate a couple weird spoken word cutup sound collages that work well with the chaos like how Gasp's Drome Tiller lp was laid out. It works with the music not simply pasted on as a filler intro/interlude. Mapping Unexploded Ordinance is a surrealist nightmare soundscape using minimalist elements to achieve its effect. 

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Apopthelema Entry 8 Part 1 by Kyle Nonneman

Apopthelema Entry 8 Part 1 

by Kyle Nonneman

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PRURIENT - FROZEN NIAGRA FALLS
Brain damaged worthlessness. The muttering sounds of a sell out victim of child molestation who now yearns to press his lips to the groins of still innocent children, so he can taste what he used to taste like, before he sold his flesh out in service to the greater depravities of his master and became a burnt out husk. A traitor pretending to be something of value, providing the inspiration and instruction for others to follow in the wretched path he has taken towards perpetual aesthetic whoredom.. You listen for moments to the leaking grey dust and cliches .The silent explosions of powerless emo-violence electronics beating a sampled drum ring modulated through a rectum noise gate to the sound of mother's urine. Acoustic qualities that don't reach out to anything but a maudlin void of pedantic failure , the sounds of a subculture so dead inside and without purpose it has chosen this false profit as its messiah. 

(it should also be noted that Prurient has become a born again christian and all the lyrics on this lp are pro christian jesus freak shit..)
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PLEASURE LEFTISTS-SELF TITLED DEBUT LP
paint by numbers Disintegration of Unknown Pleasures through the hands of a dull uninspired hack guitarist provides the backing track for some wretched skank that sounds like Diamanda Galas with Down Syndrome on pain pills. Or a toothless harelipped crack whore after a stroke doing Cocteau Twins Karoke... The drooling mumblings of a deaf girl choking on her tongue. This is like an all girl goth version of The Kids Of WIdney High. Layla Gibbons loves this band so i should have known better. Layla Gibbons tricked me once before by comparing Angie's Turning lp to early Chrome.
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COUGH-STILL THEY PRAY

This band is basically Burning Witch with their balls cut off! It sounds like some shitty bedroom DSBM project trying to go legit by crossing over into indie garage rock. Overly discernible riffage that's blatantly derivative Primitive&Deadly/Glider worship. The whiny bitch vocalist for this band sounds like his last gig was playing in a middle school Linkin Park cover band and the guitarist sounds like hes just doing emo pastiches of Earth/Jesu/ riffs with the occasional shitty digital preset factory default effects at the end of the jam because he cant solo very well. The guitars never build into anything fully crushing, they just noodle around and hint at it.

Like the careful hesitation marks on a teenage cutter trying to freak out his parents never actually carving through anything vital. This is the type of shit posers that can't handle true doom spend time seeking out because they can't understand the lyrics or it's loud or too distorted , and all that prattle., Those arent valid criticisms.It's like listening to an immature pedophile complain about sex with an adult woman. Your immature and fucked up in the head and you have a little dick, so you manifest your pathetic insecurities by fucking children because healthy developed adult women scare you and intimidate you . Just like the people who listen to false metal a.k.a radio rock. Real metal is too extreme and you can't understand the words so you stick with the kiddy shit.

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NASH THE SLASH-DREAMS&NIGHTMARES

Nash was a cult surrealist composer most active in the late 70s/early 80s. An antecedent to the current work of Christopher Young and Brian Reitzell. He just died recently. His work was a deranged cross between the psychedelic prog you hear on Italian horror soundtracks & the sound of Conrad Schnitzler outtakes being tortured by Coil. Plus there's  a lot of bizarre violin work in the tradition of Erich Zann.

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PASYSAGE D'HIVER-KRISTALL&ISA

Lofi Tascam necromancy summoning drowning waves of cryptic distortion accented by cold winds of static. Haunted by obscure paralocrian melodies buried like a still fuckable corpse in an avalanche carved out by tormented indecipherable swedish vocals. Exsanguinating into primitive dark ambiance. Than rising again from the cold wastes to scream in anguish against the world of the living as a mournful acoustic guitar is played in a futile effort to silence the screams from the grave. Only to be overtaken by darkness.

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SCORPION VIOLENTE-THE RAPIST

Michael Gira said that electronic music post Kraftwerk was like sex with 10 condoms.This is more forced&unlubricated. Rythmic proto power electronics like Intrinsic Action with a subtle early Sheffield groove. Minimalist beatbox/analog synth setup. Cold sadistic vocals. This is that rare 'Seconds too late' /Konduktor sound few can pull off correctly. Following in the honored tradition of Lille Roger,Cloister Crime and November Novelet. essential.

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!(THIS HOLIDAY SEASON WE NEED TO REFLECT UPON THE MEMORY! !OF THE GREAT LASZLO TOTH) !
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OH TANNENBAUM!:

'TO THE GUESTS IT WAS QUITE ENOUGH THAT THEY WERE GERMANS. THEY WILLINGLY WOULD HAVE SHOT THEM DEAD,BUT A CLUB PROVIDED A LOT MORE EMOTIONAL SATISFACTION AND THE BOYS AND GIRLS BRANDISHED SOME AS THEY MARCHED ON THE DARK BROWN BARRACKS. AT AUSCHWITZ THE SS HAD BEEN FORBIDDEN TO HURT A JEW FOR EMOTIONAL SATISFACTION,AND SS MEN WHO DID THIS, COULD, SOMETIMES WOULD BE IMPRISONED, BUT THE GUESTS DIDN'T FEAR THAT THE OFFICE WOULD PUNISH THEM. UNLIKE THE SS, THE GUESTS HAD GENUINE GRIEVANCES...

"TALL!" SHLOMO CRIED TO A TALL BLOND MAN "LIE DOWN RIGHT HERE! TALL" TO ANOTHER TALL MAN. "LIE DOWN BESIDE HIM! TALL!" TO ANOTHER ONE. "LIE BESIDE HIM!" AS SOON AS THE THREE WERE LINED UP, SHLOMO CRIED, "YOU! LIE ON TOP OF THEM CROSSWISE! NO HE SAID CLUBBING THE MAN. "I SAID CROSSWISE!

YOU!" HE CONTINUED, AND HE KEPT PILING UP GERMANS,THREE THIS WAY,THREE THAT,TILL HE HAD A HUMAN CUBE AS HIGH AS A HAND COULD REACH.

"ALL RIGHT!" SHLOMO SAID, AND HIS GUESTS STARTED SWINGING THE CLUBS, WHACKING AWAY AT THE CUBE AS IF THEY WERE HUNTERS AND IT WERE A POD OF CANADIAN SEALS. THE AIR WAS THICK WITH THE GRUNT OF THE GUESTS AND THE THUD! OF THE WOOD UPON BONES. IN THE HIGH TIERS THE GERMANS CRIED, "BITTE! PLEASE!" THE GERMANS IN THE CENTER TIERS MOANED BUT THE GERMANS IN THE LOW TIERS WERE MUTE FOR THE WEIGHT OF THE TWO DOZEN PEOPLE ONTOP HAD PUSHED THEIR VISCERA OUT AND THE GERMANS WERE DYING.

"PIGS!" CRIED THE PARTY GUESTS,POUNDING AWAY, BUT SHLOMO JUST LEANED ON A BED,WATCHING LAUGHING LIKE MESHUGGANER-A NUT, HIS CODE NAME IN THE JEWISH PARTISANS'" -EYE FOR AN EYE BY JOHN SACK

(NEWSWEEK;60 MINUTES AND THE NEW YORK TIMES INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED AND CORROBORATED JOHN SACK'S RESEARCH,JOHN SACK IS ALSO JEWISH, SCHLOMO MOREL WAS INDICTED FOR WAR CRIMES AND FLED TO ISRAEL WHO REFUSED TO EXTRADITE)
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GRIEBEN: ON KILLING AND GUILT: 

YOU KILLED THE GREEKS. YOU KILLED THE ARMENIANS. YOU KILLED THE HUGUENOTS. YOU KILLED THE PROTESTANTS. YOU KILLED THE CATHOLICS. YOU KILLED THE GYPSIES. YOU KILLED THE POLES. YOU KILLED THE UKRAINIANS. YOU KILLED THE INDIANS AND THE MALAYSIANS AND THE CEYLONESE. YOU KILLED THE BANTU AND THE RIFF AND THE EGYPTIANS AND ARABIANS AND WHAT HAVE WE DONE? WE HAVE KILLED A HANDFUL OF JEWS-FOR CHRIST'S SAKE AND A HANDFUL THE WORLD WANTED TO GET RID OF IN ANY EVENT.

GOD IN HEAVEN IS IT ALL GUILT? EVERYWHERE? WE KNOW THERE IS GUILT IN HELL. WE KNOW THAT DAY IN AND OUT WE SWEAT BENEATH THE BURDEN OF OUR INTOLERABLE GUILT ON EARTH. IS IT POSSIBLE THEN, THAT THERE IS NO GUILT IN HEAVEN ALSO AH YES OF COURSE . THEIR IS GUILT EVERYWHERE AND THERE IS REPENTANCE EVERYWHERE. BUT WHERE IS THE FORGIVENESS? I THINK THEIR MUST HAVE BEEN A MOMENT IN TIME. WHILE I, PALE AS A GRUB AND INSATIABLE GREEDY FOR THE ROTTING RED FLESH OF MY MOTHER'S WOMB,CAUGHT MY FIRST WISH OF GUILT WITHOUT SIN, OF SIN WITHOUT REPENTANCE, AND OF REPENTANCE WITHOUT FORGIVENESS AND IN THAT MOMENT OF LARVAL CANNIBALISM I REACHED WITHOUT KNOWING IT, THE CONCLUSION WHICH INEVITABLY WAS TO GOVERN MY LIFE.

FUCK IT.
FUCK IT ALL.
IF I AM NOT TO BE FORGIVEN THEN I SHALL NOT REPENT"

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"HE OBEYED THE CALL OF THE BLOOD,THE WILL OF THE GERMAN FOLK-SOUL, AND THE CRY OF OLD GODS,TREACHEROUSLY SLAUGHTERED EONS AGO,YET STILL HOWLING FROM THE SWAMPS FOR VENGEANCE. ALMOST SUFFOCATED WITH THE MELANCHOLY OF SELF PITY, WITH NOSTALGIA FOR THE GLORY AND PAIN OF ALL THAT HAS GONE FROM THE WORLD,HE EMBARKS AN OLD MAN-LOST ALONE, THE LAST BEARER OF A FAITH BETRAYED-ON A PILGRIMAGE TO AUSCHWITZ"


AND FOR THE BEST OF: 

DEDICATED TO LASZLO TOTH): HERES NOTHINGISTTRUE'S YEAR END TOP 20 LIST, NOT JUST CURRENT/NEW RELEASES, BUT ALSO STUFF IV HAD IN HEAVY ROTATION,I BOUGHT ALL THESE. I SPENT CLOSE TO 3GRAND ON MUSIC THIS YEAR ALONE.BUT YOU CAN JUST STEAL EM OFF SLSK, YOU COULD GET EM OFF DISCOGS BUT A LOT OF THESE MAY HAVE BEEN BLACK LISTED BY THE SCENE POLICE BY NOW, DISEMBOWELMENT'S TRANSCENDENCE INTO THE PERIPHERY IS AT THE TOP. BECAUSE THAT RECORD FUCKS GOD AND THERE'S A LOT OF STUPID FUCKING POSERS THAT NEED TO FUCKING KILL THEMSELVES THAT DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE ALMIGHTY DISEMBOWELMENT! AND AS A RESULT IGNORANTLY LABEL BANDS LIKE SYMPTOM AS INCANTATION CLONES. FUCK OFF AND DIE DISEMBOWELMENT. KILLS IT . :

* THE BEST DOOM RITVALS : *
1. DERKETA-IN DEATH WE MEET *
2. WARHORSE-WHEN HEAVEN TURNS TO ASH *
3. WITH THE DEAD-WITH THE DEAD *
4. GRAVES AT SEA -THE CURSE THAT IS MY FAVORITE SONGS OF THE YEAR: COMBAT WOUNDED VETERAN-FOLDED SPACE:MAPPING UNEXPLODED ORDINANCE & RAMLEH-NEVER RETURNER (AWESOME FUCKING SONGS YOU NEED TO HEAR!) *

YEAR END TOP 20 BEST FULL LENGTHS: *
1.DISEMBOWELMENT - TRANSCENDENCE INTO THE PERIPHERARY (old as fuck record but still a fucking essential canonical classic!!!) *
2. RAMLEH - CIRCULAR TIME *
 3. OBLITERATION - BLACK DEATH HORIZON *
4. LANTERN -BELOW *
7. MITOCHONDRION-ARCHAEON *
8. DEATHHAMMER-EVIL POWER *
9. PORTAL- VEXOVOID/OUTRE *
10. GHOULGOTHA - TO STARVE THE CROSS *
11. KRIEG-BLUE MIASMA *
12. TAAKE -HELNORSK SVARTMETTAL *
13. SHINING- 8 1/2 FEBERDROMMER I VAKKET TILSAND *
14. ASPHYX - LIVE DEATH DOOM/ALL ASPHYX RELEASES *
15. BEHEXEN- MY SOUL FOR HIS GLORY *
16. SARGEIST-THE REBIRTH OF A CURSED EXISTENCE *
17. EXECRATION-MORBID DIMENSIONS *
18. ANTICHILDLEAGUE-HOLY GHOST *
19. VASTUM -PATRICIDAL LUST *
20. HEADHUNTER D.C. -GOD'S SPREADING CANCER * BEST SPLIT: SATANIC WARMASTER/BEHEXEN *

BEST DEMOS: SEMPITERNAL DUSK-SELF TITLED * BELLICOSE MINDS -BUZZ HOWL SESSIONS * DOCTORSHOPPER-PAX PHARMA *

BEST EPS: BLOOD INCANTATION- INTERDIMENSONAL EXTINCTION & INVERLOCH -DUSK/SUBSIDE

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DOCTOR WHO:HORNS OF THE NIMON

Pbs replays Bbc stuff late night on Saturdays. This is a vintage movie i think? The Nimon monsters are pretty fucked up which is why i stopped at this channel. Really bizarre looking creatures.Black spandexed slugbait minotaurs , like some sketchy bad acid trip nightmare creature. I haven't seen this monster before their not as family friendly as Daleks and Cybermen and somewhat scary,that might have something to do with it. These underrated monsters are almost a prototype of the weird shit you'd see in later cult horror films like Basket Case and Night Breed..I could see someone getting dosed and watching this in the seventies and having a bad time... They should have saved these evil demonic things for a Barbarella knockoff. A rare instance when campy scifi fun inadvertently crosses over into the realm of nightmares. Like the Bomar Monks and Fukasaku's Green Slime.

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EYE FOR AN EYE -JOHN SACK (WWW.JOHNSACK.COM)

The great information archaeologist Russ Kick turned me onto this.

This is a very controversial and inflammatory book that exposes an ugly aspect of human history that most people cannot swallow. Most people were afraid to even review this book. The few reviews that were published of this book were hatchet jobs meant to slander it and discredit the author. A Harvard journal went so far as to cite quotes from the book the reviewer made up himself. Resorting to outright lies to suppress this. Unpleasant truths are better than pleasant falsehoods and its only when we know and understand the worst about ourselves and our fellow man that we can compartmentalize and comprehend the nature of existence. This is a harsh work of uncompromisingly brutal truths that remind us of the fact that no one is innocent and that we cant simply look at things in terms of black and white ,good vs evil,. The author approaches this extreme subject matter with good taste and restraint. He refrains from resorting to morbid exploitation.

This book needs to read by anyone interested in reality.

Its a very well sourced and heavily annotated expose on the jews who setup over 1200 concentration camps at the end of world war 2 and beat, whipped, tortured and executed mass numbers of German civilians in revenge for the holocaust. Centering around Lola , the jJwish Ilsa. Despite the subject matter there's nothing tabloid about this... (I wonder if Celine knew about this?......)

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PINKISH BLACK-RAZED TO THE GROUND

After hearing the second album by this band i was very excited to finally get ahold of their debut album Razed to the Ground.

Psychedelic doom&sludgy post-Krautrock lurching beneath layers of analog synth and theremin work like a reanimated corpse clawing its way through layers of dirt to the surface, summoned from the beyond by a chanting priest in league with cthulhu. The vocals sound like the reanimated corpse of Syd Barret possessed by the ghost of Ian Curtis.This as always invokes obvious comparisons to Goblin, Fabbio Frizzi and Nash the Slash.This has more of a heavier doom element to it, less abstract then the second album. Like a satanic perversion of early Alien Soundtracks/Half Machine Lip Moves Chrome. As always, this is a unique cult act that defies classification . It's all over the fucking place, theirs a lot of weird shit going on with this record but it all ties together into one of the best records iv heard in a long fucking time. absolutely essential cult material

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ASPHYX-Live Death Doom

One of the best and most canonical live doom metal records since Sabbath Live at Asbury Park New Jersey.This is a retrospective of their best material recorded live . This is fucking brutal and harsh. This is mastered as loud as Merzbow>> The guitar work is like someone slowly sawing the head off a body with a rusty hacksaw, straining to cut through the tendons and then struggling to get through the spinal cord. Imagine a Motorhead 45 of raw live bootlegs played at 33 through a blown out amp. No quick deaths, slowly savoring the pain,drinking the blood,dismembering the corpse piece by piece while still alive.The abrasive raw trebly buzzing high end guitar tone Asphyx uses in between crushing doom sections, is fucking harsh. In combination with the Lemmy on pcp gargling broken glass vocalist you have some unrelentingly extreme shit. Asphyx fucking kills it. 

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MERZBOW/KEIJI HAINO/BALAZS PANDI

-AN UNTROUBLESOME DEFENSELESSNESS

This one of the best Merzbow collabs since his work with Boris.

Merzbow has remained for decades an abrasive fuck you to ignorant cattle that justify their lack of creativity & laziness by saying its all been done before/no ones original/everyones copying someone. fuck off. listen to this and then go fucking kill yourself.

I'm an uncompromisingly militant fucking elitist when it comes to certain shit. I have no patience let alone interest in pedestrian shit that panders to the status quo. In a depraved echo of the Lovecraftian occult researchers quest for forbiden esoteric grimoires to summon fourth the ancient ones to destroy the earth, I've always been driven towards the obscure fringes of aesthetic expression.

This collaboration combines Merzbow's experimental analog synth noisescapes with experimental guitar work. Dragging the conventional standards of improv free jazz into a hellish landscape of discordant madness almost on the level of the acid freakouts of Les Rallizes Denudes. This is uncompromisingly extreme work that makes John Zorn and Anthony Braxton sound like fucking Kenny G in comparison.Making freeform improv jazz psychedelia a threat again.

At this point, Jazz has become the go to genre of choice for neophyte faux intellectuals, freshly born again as dilettantes from decades of listening to pedestrian pop music. Still reaching for something so accessible it's just about as bubblegum. Because Jazz and Blues isn't a threat, it's not challenging. It's status quo and assimilated into popular culture. So now whenever you see a former sheep trying to crawl out of his cage and sever his mass media feeder tube, they crawl towards major label jazz . Jazz decades ago used to be innovative and original, now it's as exciting as elevator music and a convenient way for people to pose and pretend to have sophisticated knowledge of fringe music.

Don't you just fucking hate those simple minded centroclines who claim they appreciate all forms of music and listen to everything with an open mind. The fucking brutal truth of the matter is they say that largely because they're unable to form an opinion about anything let alone express themselves independently outside of what's deemed acceptable by the herd. Second of all, the wankers that say that shit aren't obsessive completists whose sanity can justifiably called into question.... I'm obviously on the spectrum. so what.

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NOOTHGRUSH-FALLING EARLY,FALLING OFTEN,

When you melt Early Swans records on top of Flipper and Saint Vitus lps and play it at half speed, you get Noothgrush. I just manged to obtain this album. Noothgrush is to Grief what Return Of the Living Dead is to Dawn Of the Dead. Both bands work also shambles fourth like a stumbling reanimated corpse. I had a copy of this about 12 years ago i got it right before Slap a Ham went out of business.

Pure bleak suffocating low end domination from this cult crawling horde . Noothgrush came out of the Slap A Ham fringes of the hardcore/power violence underground with slow as fuck hypnotic riffs&push-pull rhythms. Downtuned stomach churning low end guitars with all the high end notched out and saturated with distortion. The only thing cutting through the bass is the drums,the crazed pained vocalist and the feedback that bleeds through to the surface like an open wound. The lyrics deal with stuff like misanthropy, animal rights, primitivism and Star Wars,.There are a few well- chosen and placed samples throughout this record that make you think-- very thought provoking brief intermissions from the sludge. Like a drowning victim poking his head above water and briefly seeing the light..

This also includes a neat cover of the Imperial March from Star Wars. This is discordant disharmonic violent sludge, not the melodic doom of the Cathedral school.

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 PARADISE LOST-DROWN IN DARKNESS:THE EARLY DEMOS

Burzum cited the Paradise Lost demos as a main influence in his autobiography. And if you listen to Frozen Illusion from Paradise Lost and then Snu Mikrokosms Tegn off Burzum's Det Som Lp the influence is obvious. Slow shambling down tempo combination of campy late 80s death metal histrionics and more atmospheric 'Early Bathory in slow motion' evilness, Like a blackened Autopsy .

The noisy production of this and the epic evil nature of this and the attitude of this render this an absolute cult classic. There's a lot of distinctive pinch harmonics and saturated distortion on the guitars, that attempts to emulate the slow menacing melodies of Hammer films horror soundtracks, matching perfectly with the demonic vocals fighting for clarity on the warped cassette this was sourced from. After these late 1980s demo tapes Paradise Lost sadly went the way of the various beloved Proto-industrial groups that sold their soul to synthpop. These demos fucking rule. In addition to their noted influence on Burzum.,These demos tapes helped start Death Doom, moving death away from its speed-obsessed thrash roots towards more transgressive sonic explorations of evil.

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BEREFT - LEICHENHAUS

This appears to be recorded in one straight session, no editiing. Mentality of The Inanimate is the best track on this record.  Very bleak funeral sludge, the suffocating dissonant doom is combined with harmonic droning walls of piercing feedback and rusty accoustic interludes, Like a low-budget Evoken crossed with a less core Dementia Senex. After Mentality, it briefly gets too melodic in certain sections but the brutality of the vocals save it. They try to layer fx pedals to add texture. Electric Wizard and Skullflower can pull that off, but when Bereft tries , you get the maudlin aftertaste of beardo Isis worship.

There appears to be two vocalists trading off: low/high. One of the vocalist sounds like he has alot of experience doing death metal and the other vocalist sounds like he comes from more of a dark hardcore background, in the vein of His Hero Is Gone. This changes up quite a bit and bleeds into itself like one long harrowing composition. It's a unique full length. This band should move away from the 'Cult Of Luna' aspects of their sound and move towards a noisier death direction. It sounds like most of this band is made up of reformed hardcore musicians trying to cross over into a darker more extreme direction. This is a fucking epic harsh brutal and monolithic effort for the most part aside from the unfortunate dabblings in hipster/core shit.
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CHTHE'ILIST -LE DERNIER CREPUSCLE

A gurgling gothic sewer of Death Doom. . Like Demillich crossed with Undergang . Subtle horror soundtrack keyboards and dark ambient effects fleshing out the sewage and alongside the absurdly low vocals Demillich is infamous for you also get Incantation-esque raspy shrieks and occult chanting. Shredding solos and satanic Funkadelic basslines occassionally float to the surface of the sewage, like bloated corpses.The vocals change up depending on the atmosphere.

Very well-layered work that builds like a nightmarish soundscape. Some sounds become buried and then rise from the grave. Unsettling fluctuations in sound..Very powerful metal record with intelligent themes and interesting riffs and atmosphere .
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Apopthelema Entry 7 Part 4 by Kyle Nonneman

Apopthelema Entry 7 Part 4 by Kyle Nonneman

Apopthelema Entry 7 Part 3 by Kyle Nonneman
by Kyle Nonneman


[Note: this was composed in prison where proof-reading facilities are notoriously bad. Please don't hold that against the author. You can contact Kyle through the address listed at the end of this entry.]

WHEN WE HAVE EACH OTHER, WE HAVE EVERYTHING
(A TRIBUTE TO DEATH IN JUNE)-VARIOUS ARTISTS

If readers are in interested in hearing a good tribute to Death In June, seek out DoctorShopper. DoctorShopper is a a powerful fucked up black metal sludge noise/grind act that puts out intelligent atrocity exhibitions of nihilistic and unrelentingly misanthropic sonic chaos.They did an excellent cover of the old Death In June song first from the Crisis days "All Alone In Her Nirvana" . DoctorShopper has a sincere understanding and respect for what Death In June stands for. Which is rare.

This Tribute comp is obviously a publicity stunt. Like dressing up as a Sharp so you can get mistaken for a nazi skinhead and then lecture someone on your shoe strings being the wrong color for you to be a nazi. They choose Death in June as the subject of this tribute because Death In June is a convenient target. ( Its funny on old Crisis live tapes fascists in the crowd call them "Fucking Communists" and now wannabe communists call them fucking fascists.)

To punks the "Fuck Censorship" party line only applies to people saying things they agree with. Black Vase is on this compilation. I suspect Black Vase to be Dominick Fernow. Nice joke , "I PLAYED IN BLACK VASE ON A DEATH IN JUNE TRIBUTE ALBUM"

There isn't shit about Black Vase on Discogs.com. All they appear to have done is a couple comps. But Black Vase is also the name of of an old marginally decent classic Prurient album. On the tracklisting I have, Black Vase censors the title from Fields of Rape to Fields. The only well known and established band on this compilation is Digital Leather's cover of She Said Destroy. DIgital Leather takes a cue from Earth Crisis.... by changing the word Gas to Glass. "Bodies Collapse swollen with Glass" Instead of Gas as it was in the original.

Earth Crisis covered "Holiday In Cambodia" and changed the lyrics to "reckon that you know how the brothers feel so cold". That's just fucking cowardice. Spazz snuck on a Fat Wreck comp with a power violence jam called something like "Prayer for the Utter Annihilation of Pop Punk" that's righteous. But censoring words to a song your allegedly paying tribute to so you can passive aggressively talk shit on a band is pathetic. I'm sure the unknown bands on this comp will love it when Digital Leather and Prurient completists pick it up and then they can explain themselves in interviews and prattle about the Situationist Methods of Detournment they used in their Death In June parody track to drum up some record sales.

Same with the label that put this shit out. They got the last laugh by turning the P.c. Scene police drama club into a business opportunity. Digital Leather was a quality synth punk band that respected and tastefully drew upon the work of Suicide, Metal Urbain, Hardcore era Devo and Screamers. I think they did a Screamers cover also and they rarely crossed over into Casio core/sleazy cheesy 101/Faint/Electroclash bullshit.. The harsher work the keyboardist does as Destruction Unit is also great work. The Bassist for Digital Leather used to play in The Lost Sounds, another great synth punk act that ended in self destructive trauma, death. Lost Sounds tried to play a upbeat 60s garage psych/late 70s/80s synth punk fusion . But all the drama and bad blood between band members turned this band rabid. All the hate between members turned their live shows violent. People started labeling em Black Wave, claiming it was like a combination of New Wave and Black Metal. ALicija trout won't record anything but pop music now because of the bad ptsd issues she developed from being in Lost Sounds and her ex Jay Reatard did the solo album Blood Visions i think on a tascam, to show he didnt' need the band and Jay Reatard was a talented enough musician to cross over into the mainstream if he wasn't so fucked up in the head.

Blood Visions intelligently vented all his homicidal ideations towards his former bandmates, Including a catchy song about stalking his ex. Blood Visions sounds like Devo if they sold all their all their synths for meth and got spun out and suicidal. Before his death , Jay Reatard recorded Terror Visions World of Shit .One of my favorite Synth punk records ever. Jay Reatard died in his mid twenties but he went out on a high note with Blood Visions &Terror Visions World of Shit. His death was epic revenge because his former bandmates and everyone in that scene will forever be in his shadow. He made a powerful impact. Like a fucking car crash.

GO GET LOST SOUNDS TWO BEST ALBUMS BLAC STATIC & LOST LOST DEMOS OFF SLSK AND BLOOD VISIONS & TERROR VISIONS. CRUCIAL SHIT YOU NEED. AND GET SOME MOTHERFUCKING DOCTORSHOPPER!

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Kyle Nonneman
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Ontario OR 97914-8335