T.E.F. - Consequences In Conversation

Dada Drumming, 2010

Heavy dynamic noise work, professionally done mechanized power sonics from the long-time underground Texas act and Black Leather Jesus member. Balances the hi-tech cyberpunk-city melting electronics of classic "dynamic" style acts (Merzbow, John Wiese, Kazumoto Endo) with the balls-to-the-wall intensity of the HNW of The Rita, Richard Ramirez, etc. (but without the expected monotony). One of the strongest works I've found in a long time that's so steeped in this style.

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Well Fuck.

Mediafire suspended my account. I throw innumerable insults in ancient tongues and immemorial curses in their direction. I am royally pissed beyond compare at the whole filesharing situation; mediafire seemed to be a last bastion of freedom, but it may look like the only place safe left is p2p networks like Soulseek and even their days may be numbered.

I am not quitting however but am instead creating a new account minus any major label connected files, with filenames abbreviated, scrambled, etc. Please be patient while I re-upload from this month backwards. If this happens again there may be an even longer break when I switch file services (unfortunately all the other ones are shit in other ways).

COIL - Remote Viewer (Remastered)

Threshold House, 2006

"Coordinate Remote Viewing: a process in which viewers would view a location given nothing but its geographical coordinates"

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Troum - Eald-Ge-Stréon/ Abhijñâ

Beta-Lactam Ring, 2009

Melodic constellations of transcendental ecstasies in a collection that reads like an album by the drone masters. Spine-tingling power abounds from the epic chord progressions, as monumental as the stars. Glorious.

Eald-Ge-Stréon
Abhijñâ

AUN - Black Pyramid

Cyclic Law, 2010

AUN is the experimental drone/ambient project of one Montreal-based Martin Dumais. The project has covered a lot of territory in the associated genres since its initiation in 2007, eventually catching the notice of big-deal labels like Montreal experimental/noise mainstay Alien8 and American mega-label Important. Here Dumais deletes the ambling doom-aping drums which marred the previous Important release VII, and augments his familiar guitar drones (inspired by all the right sources) with a gloriously resonant, dynamic, and downright numinous synthetic drone that feels just in place, but also a wonderful advancement, for the traditional dark ambient label Cyclic Law. Through a black sky laden with emerald stars stream echoing acoustic sigils of electronic crackle and full-range dissonance; melodic form at its center but the tendrils of vast abstraction reverberating out beyond into the stereo space. The album tracks may strike some as samey, but after my initial qualms I realized this was just a byproduct of its succinct focus; AUN has proven to lose the listener by moving too far sideways in previous recordings. A gloriously transcendent album of astral drone.

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Tukaaria/ Odz Manouk - Split CS

Rhinocervs, 2011

Powerful split of black native war metal between two Crepúsculo Negro-associated acts, out in totally kvlt underground limited quantities on Yagian's (Odz Manouk, var. Untitled) 100% solid Rhinocervs sister label. Material on both sides exceeds the quality of other releases under these names, with the Tukaaria (Yacqui/Yoeme language "the night") side's production improved well above that seen on Raw To The Rapine, with the usual orthodox war metal riffs tearing out into new levels of chaos, grounded by a chthonic undercurrent of cavernous atmosphere bringing the honor of the ancient's calling to the ceremony. Odz Manouk's side particularly exceeds the self-titled on Crepúsculo Negro, breaking free of LLN-cloned raw orthodoxy off into higher realms of the black metal hierarchy adding bottom-heavy drum, almost death metal-ish, production to the ancestral frostbitten tape quality. This side, alongside Yagian's work with the diverse slew of Untitled releases on Rhinocervs, are cementing his role as one of contemporary black metal's most creative underground shapers. The best of the whole Black Twilight Cult outside of Arizmenda and Glossolalia's soon to be classic sides.

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Himmelfahrtstag

Dolorian - Voidwards

Wounded Love Records, 2006

An oneiric transformation of the familiar tropes of doom metal, from the Finnish Helixes Collective (Halo Manash, Arktau Eos, etc.) associated act. Also not coincidentally harkening from the land that brought some of the most significant reformations of the genre in acts like Thergothon & Skepticism. Ostensibly the first project of the collective, although I.Corax may have a small claim to that. Voidwards sees them in a particularly near approach to the collective's usual improvised ritual ambient work, with particularly Helix-ish song titles (i.e. "In The Locus Of Bone," "Raja Naga - Rising"), mystical lyrical content chanted in the same whisper-croak style seen in Arktau Eos' rare vocal pieces, and a shared amorphous, ululating, nigh-improvised aural haze, albeit amplified by resonant, nay even psychedelic, metallic guitars that remind of the midrange sound of the classic doom-death band dISEMBOWELMENT on entheogens. I have been hunting for some dark metal that matches emotional intensity with creativity of composition, and outside of Corrupted and unearthing the late drone metal group The Angelic Process' Weighing Souls With Sand, this album has hit spot on for me.

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