Dermacentor - Dermo 2012

Sludge drone from Moscow, Russia. No compromises. Female vocals.


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Skullflower - Taste the Blood of the Deciever

More Skullflower, a really great album.

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Horseback - The Invisible Moutain

A very decent release. I'm tired to write an overview... so
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ВИРЬ / Vir' - Хорна

Vir's latest full-length, from 2008. As mentioned in the previous post, Хорна demonstrates a shift towards noisy-droney soundscapism. The rasp vocals are still present, though they are quite rare and mostly just bland with the pulsating drones. It could have been better but nevertheless a great album!
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Skullflower - Form Destroyer

A classic album by a classic band. Tons of feedback and noise but somehow it organizes itself into a sonic entity that really just swallows you whole and doesn't let go. Whirling and swirling around, it's awesome!! Opening track "Elephant's Graveyard" give me shivers each time I hear it.
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Burning Star Core - Operator Dead...Post Abandoned

Description to come.
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Burning Star Core - The Very Heart of the World

As promised, some more Burning Star Core. This release is different. The frist two tracks are more eclectic, with occassional drumming, more varied violin-effects, sometimes in a dark ambient vein, but mostly just very psychedelic, trance-inducing. Third track "Benjamin" in more along the lines of "Amelia" and "Nyarlathotep" (mm, Lovecraft) is just a bunch of weird noises and modulated human voice.
More to come? Possibly. He has some more good stuff, from the eclectic style.

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Burning Star Core - Amelia

A guy with the name C. Spencer Yeh can't do wrong. Especially if he's working in the field of (mostly) improvised noise and is holding a violin in his hand. His musical output is impossible to keep track of. Too much releases on too much underground labels. Whatever. Let's just stick to nice and cosy tip of the iceberg here. This is a CDr/10" release, featuring three tracks, displaying mostly the minimalistic drone-electronics sound of his project (there are other sides as well, to be featured in following posts). "Supersonic Woman" is spacey ambient, "Homing Pigeon" (Worms is all I think of...) is a mish-mash of weird sounds, always reminds me of being inside a ship, by the way, all that crackling and waving and cockroaches chewing their way through the wood. Then there's the lengthy "Point of Departure etc", which is almost like a Reich composition.

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La Monte Young

One of the most important minimalist composers. La Monte Young experienced with extended length. Proto-drone. Whatever. Drone is getting pretty popular nowadays, so don't forget where it all came from. Three compositions, two laid-back, one harsh and noisy.
Expect more La Monte Young to come in teh near future.
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KHLYST - Chaos is my Name

Guitar drone/ambient (James Plotkin, ex-Khanate) with female death growls (Runhild Gammelsaeter, ex-Thorr's Hammer). Wow. This is truly disturbing stuff. Thorr's Hammer is one of the groups I simply can't listen to... The vocals are too much for me. Strange, in this format (without doom metal), it's more interesting and, uhm, pleasent? No that's not the right word. Whatever. KHLYST's Chaos is my Name is good. Especially tracks "I", "III" and "VII". Sadly, this is the only release.
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