MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE X SLOW MURDER

MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE X SLOW MURDER– Cassette – Clydach Electronics – 2006.

https://clydachelectronics.bigcartel.com

https://slowmurder.bandcamp.com

This cassette is a live studio recording of both artists working together with no overdubs. They (Miscarriage of Justice and Slow Murder) both worked together for live performances in the UK earlier in the year. A rehearsal tape as Slow Murder for this tour was also released by Clydach Electronics earlier in the year and that is worth looking for. Both the tape and cover for this release are green.

I will make you feel, like you made her feel – this sample repeats itself and is cut into by blasts of noise with a vocal screaming through it, the backing noise is somewhere between juddering machine repetition and digital assault with sharp feedback with direct screaming blasting out of it. The noise explosions and the sample loop make an impressive contrast as the shouting is supremely focussed with intent – ‘I will find you and fucking kill you.’ The vocal is then buried as if drowning in pulsating static. Buzzing waves of distortion wash further over the sample murder in progress, this begins to drag, friction judders over the sound. These elements again play off each other with the distortion eventually being all that is left over for a time. The noise suddenly morphs into shouting which brings the tape to an end.

I'd love to discover something released this year that tops this.

ZG 2026

Inner Demons 26

Inner Demons 26.

a.drift – a.live transmission – download/3”CDr – 2024 – Inner Demons Records -[IND202]

1. interference / live transmission – (recorded live @ warehouse salon – Boston 03.30.24)

https://innerdemonsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-live-transmission-ind202

https://wyrd-records.bandcamp.com

Humming resonates, someone speaks to an audience, drones begin to overlay each other in different tones. Dialogue plays, it warps through being slowed down. A more aggressive splattering drone comes in, dialogue is looped and distorted. The volume increases, sounds get angrier and I can't tell if I am hearing dialogue, distortion or both. The sound becomes tinged with mania, as if it is screaming at the voices. Someone starts tinkering with drum beats and contact microphones. Sub rant – Beats in noise can be a bit of a shit area for me, the randomness of this beat makes it work. Warped noises screw with the sound, it makes me feel a bit nauseous, the noise is doing the work it needs to do. The beat makes me think of the Swell Maps with rabies going way beyond their limits until they are lost in a chaotic freak out. The drumming is awesome as it is totally improvised and becomes a voice within the noise as all of the elements spark off each other. Cinematic drones start roaring into the void of chaos. The chaos becomes increasingly more chaotic, until hell noise pisses pure darkness into my ears. The lone guitar twanging at the ends leaves me wrapped in plastic in Twin Peaks before it goes all screwy on me again. This is asshole noise for sure – the work does it's work.

This is an excellent live performance, a.drift is unique. I urge you to add this to your collection of delicious Inner Demons 3”CDrs, if not use it as a foundation on which to begin collecting them. BandCamp links are above.

ZG 2026

 

Scum/Edge of Decay - Repugnant Rattle.

Scum/Edge of Decay – Repugnant Rattle – CD – Aussaat – Aussaat 39- 2026

https://edgeofdecay.bandcamp.com

https://scumcumcum.bandcamp.com

https://www.facebook.com/Aussaatundernte

E-Mail: ernten@aol.com

1.     Premature Ejection (Edge of Decay)

2.     No Attempt (Edge of Decay)

3.     Laser Liturgy (Edge of Decay).

4.     Like A Rats (Scum).

5.     Fatigue, Chills (Scum).

6.     Brain Activator (Scum).

7.     Repugnant Rattle (Edge of Decay and Scum)

On this split cd, Aussaat brings together Japan's Scum and Finland's Edge of Decay, both have released on the label before. Edge of Decay started releasing in 2014 and Scum in 2010. Coming together for Repugnant Rattle, there are Three Edge of Decay tracks, three Scum tracks and one combined track. The amazing cover art is by Aaron Aspinwall of The Repos and Death Dedication.

Edge of Decay - Premature Ejection,  I was taken straight away by the farting distortion and how it juxtaposes with sharp, harsh, feedback noise. That heavy bass fart noise is so good, it resonates well and the shifts in a tone and speed that can be felt through the body immediately. The feedback kicks in as the deep sound pulls back, like a push pull reaction made from the two sounds as the entire sound morphs into glitch and a hum. It is simple and impressive. No Attempt is a distortion heavy and harsh, the feedback and the deep hum seem stuck in joint position in a race with both taking turns to take the lead for short, sharp, bursts of time. Both elements accelerate and decelerate rapidly, it is fast moving work. In contrast to the first two tracks, things sharpen to shrill noise on Laser Liturgy. Sharp digital glitch sound pulsates as pulsating tweets jar against this and then bind with it, before repeating the cycle again. Laser Liturgy is an angrier track than the previous ones and as the track progresses, the noise warps and intensifies constantly.  Edge of Decay pulls the noise rapidly into a deeper, heavy bass roar, clashing it with sharp feedback. These three tracks are top tier, present day harsh noise at it’s very best.

Scum – Angry, sharp wailing tones are cut into by thick, crunchy distortion and an insane shifting, warbling noise shifts from left to right and explode together as Like A Rats.  This track gets sharper, choppier and falls into sonic insanity as the seconds progress. It is a bold opening statement by Scum in answer to the damage Edge of Decay just did. The sound seems to get suffocated towards the end, but high pitched digital wailing cuts right through it. Ominous drones and crackling form the opening to Fatigue, Chills. This uses an ambient background and allows crackles, hisses and slurping sounds to interact over the top of it. I feel swamped in murky darkness here. The lack of backing distortion or bass roar gives the noise a lot of space within which to interact. Things get harsher for Brain Activator, This again allows space into the sound with no backing bass, the distortion and wailing feedback dance together as metal is hit in the background. The quick-fire bursts of deep distortion in the background shift things up for brief periods of time. Throughout their tracks, Scum use a minimal palette that can become busy or separate into sparseness, but it is always effective. Intelligent is a word that I would use to describe this work.

Both acts come together for the album's title track Repugnant Rattle, this is also the album’s longest track. This is at once full and minimal, full through the bass drone, minimal as a few distortions and crackle play out on top of it. Each element is allowed to resonate perfectly through the space that is left in the work, interactions are clear and highlighted because of this. The strengths of both artists are in full force here, which makes for a high standard, well planned and perfectly executed piece of work.

This album uses minimalism to full strength on this album. It is very good work, it might even be excellent. Had it been 7 tracks of full on assault, it may not have been as good as this. It demonstrates the high quality of output you expect to be released on Aussaat. I have played this album a lot over the last month and would really recommend that you buy it.

ZG 2026.

Inner Demons 25.

Inner Demons 25

https://innerdemonsrecords.bandcamp.com

https://thirtyfive.bandcamp.com

FAIL – Live at Denver Noise Fest 2026- Download – IND[283] – 2026

https://innerdemonsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-denver-noise-fest-2026-ind283g

1.      FAIL – Live at Denver Noise Fest 2026

Juddering, staccato form a pulse, until roaring, bass heavy distortion with a digital tinge engulfs the entire sound. This shifts through changes in tonality, feedback taking over and wailing over blasts of noise. Wall noise takes the lead, this is made through several distortions conversing with and at each other. Within 4 of the 6 minutes we see many shifts and changes within the sound. Within 5 minutes it is apparent that a top tier performance was delivered here. Things like making the sound drag slowly, smothering it till it sounds like compression muffled to tension building low levels are great to hear. The die off at the end is great. I have reviewed FAIL a bunch of times here and FAIL delivers excellent harsh noise here.

Miko, Friends and Gensai Hasegawa – The City Wears A Folk Hat – Download – [IND282G] – 2026.

https://innerdemonsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-city-wears-a-folk-hat-ind282g

1.      The City Wears a Folk Hat.

2.      The City's Light.

Manic vocals introduce me to The City Wears A Folk Hat, these change from one vocal sound, moans, dialogue, hisses, ding dongs and abstracted bird noises are made. I have seen stuff like this at my local experimental night Rammel Club and it is very good to watch as the artist have zero self consciousness, they go at it. This track is exciting and original, it is like a warped version of LAFMS happenings, going off into imaginary soundtracks with complex narratives between serious thriller and children’s television.

The shift to accelerated harsh noise becomes The City's Light. The roars at full pelt, in fifth gear and feels like it is being supressed to briefly alter the tone of the sound. It wails, roars, drags and screeches at me. A Good piece of fast moving, manic Harsh Noise.

This displays two good tracks, one dragged me to many different mindscapes through talk and abstracted vocal noise and then a piece of Harsh Noise dragged me through hyperspace. Thumbs up here.

ZG 2026

 

Harsh Noise Wales.

Clydach Electronics – Harsh Noise Wales - 2x cassette – 2026

https://clydachelectronics.bigcartel.com

Track listing – Cassette 1.

1.      Ordeal by Roses.

2.      Insatiable Wound.

Track Listing Cassette 3

1.      H's'T.

2.      Cariad.

I met Ordeal for Roses at a recent Very Friendly event, it was intense and they open this compilation with their first new track to be released in a few years. This begins as fast paced, juddering electronics, drones go off in the background and small screeches drag across the entire work briefly. Mournful Organs suddenly play out in the middle of all as the distortion builds around it, becoming windier and increasingly dense. This is all held together for what seems like a long time. Due to this all I can say is the project's brilliance is still there and very intact.

Insatiable Wound come out using small sounds, subtle noises, slight feedbacks and I immediately take to the way the space is used here. The feedbacks begin to wail slightly and crackle spits over this, all is still subtle and delicate at this point. Wailing high pitched noise splutters out a signal to up the ante slightly, tension rises in the work with each tiny display of shrill noise assault. Bigger sounds erupt, louder, deeper wailing feedback, angrier distortion that scrapes massively. The increase in size, pitch and speed is felt immediately. It is as if they decide to let go and let the sound hit the listener. The wail out at the end is dramatic and impacting. This reminds me that the three times I have seen Slow Murder/Insatiable Wound have been amongst my life’s greatest moments.

H’s'T played a solid set in Nottingham recently and this tape's immediate sound reminds me of that. This guy, at first,  uses a dense, heavy sound that is interrupted by samples and clashing noises. The use of a tonally shifting wall out of which things bounce and emerge is impressive, then he strangulates it for periods of time so noises can go off unbacked. Amazing work, in how he allows the language of the track to constantly morph into new areas with an armada of noises, keeping the restrained wall as a constant to back this and even having the skill to mute it for periods of time. I like this artist’s work.

Cariad demonstrates a cut-up method of working, distorted radio and tv samples play out, but are cut up with crackling and bad tuning so they remain indecipherable and become noise in themselves. Some words emerge in the dialogue, but not enough for the sentence to flow. Choir's play ot with brief passages of music, dialogue splatters over this. There is a whole history of radio type noise like this and this work is a prime example of strong technique and excellent results.

This is a good compilation with two now established acts and two up and coming acts, all at their best. A new chapter in the Wales noise scene emerges. I think this might be available at Negative Output festival as it has sold out from the label. Repress?

Zg 2026

 

Various Artists - 386 Noise

Various-386-Noise - Debilia Records - 233- [&] – 15 - ...tius men govoru kvaj pank!? - 3Cd Digipack -  2026.

Review Page.

http://matjaz.jezakon.com/and.htm 

https://www.discogs.com/fr/release/37411146-Various-386-Noise?srsltid=AfmBOop3VU-tNWRNV4twoFjAfG9_ZtG8J7dCYwgmTnBR18RWrV2W-NUN  

  

Tracklist:

1-1	Amper-O-Mat–	The Diving Levels	4:20
1-2	Bol-E-Zen*–	Z Mrtvimi In Umirajočimi (Sem)	3:51
1-3	Brother of Judo–	Matching Genitalia	1:59
1-4	Prokleti Mozak–	Ejakulat Obogaćen Evrima	6:37
1-5	Aluviana–	Pra-KT-7	5:13
1-6	Vskbjørn x Corsini (2) x Pimpon–	Bałwanek.wav	8:00
1-7	robrrr_–	Samo Da Je	4:08
1-8	Mary Boring–	Joprst	6:03
1-9	Borut Savski x Mojca Zupančič–	V Živo @ C2 (Dogodek (Brez)pogojna Aritmija) (Ljubljana 2023)	5:56
1-10	The Stroj–	Tribialis	2:53
1-11	Audiotisti–	Jam 2	6:39
1-12	Gen 26–	Diskriminatorno Ravnanje Na Temelju Dednih Značilnosti	2:37
1-13	Morče–	Live @ Plac Za Vaje Brežice 23-Feb-2025	7:19
1-14	Sonvol–	ZakajSeToVrtiTakoNervozno (Mix & Take #2 Short Version)	5:52
2-1	Zeleni Zvoki–	Echoes Of Resistance	7:06
2-2	s0n667*–	Denar Ali Življenje	7:22
2-3	Posebna Šola–	Live @ Klunove Toplice, 17-Jun-2025	4:49
2-4	Borut Savski x Francisco Tomsich = The Silent Movies–	Summer Songs @ C2 (Ljubljana 2023) (Session 6)	6:38
2-5	Chemomorph–	Polkka Noisse	6:07
2-6	Đabe Lajf–	Zbog Tebe Ja Mrzim Život Svoj	6:50
2-7	Dvosed–	Horizont	6:16
2-8	Jozo Elektronik–	Adenomyosis	7:04
2-9	Boštjan Leskovšek x Stefan Doepner x Borut Savski x Boštjan Čadež x Lina Rica–	Platforma Za Totalno Umetnost (Makarska/HR 2013) (Odlomek 1C)	6:56
2-10	Lord Havoc–	Leaf	4:44
2-11	Sonervol–	I Love Them Bellys Pretape (Porn Norija)	5:07
3-1	PotoK–	Rainmaking	5:20
3-2	Boštjan Leskovšek x Borut Savski x Stefan Doepner x Neven Korda x Monika Glahn x Milan Kristl x Iva Tratnik x Elisa Ulian–	V Živo Na Festivalu Sajeta (Tolmin 2010) (Odlomek 2A)	6:48
3-3	Mura (12)–	Melanholija	4:53
3-4	Hexenbrutal–	Run On	6:38
3-5	Etno Vegetarian Noise Band–	Deutsch Aktiv Für Autoštopen 1B E59	8:01
3-6	Galofak–	Duh Časa	7:05
3-7	Ansambel Nojzeta Slaka–	Nazadnjaška Radikalno Progresivna Narodnozabavna Glasba 2	8:22
3-8	Boštjan Leskovšek–	Spring Rolls (Solo Na Festivalu MFRU_Kiblix) (Maribor 2011)	6:40
3-9	Subburben–	Arabiata	3:21
3-10	Dronišnica–	Extracted	7:46
3-11	Urban x Urban–	Harsh Noise Set @ Kontejner, 15.12.2023 (Edit)	4:10
3-12	Sist En 343–	91-19N	6:19

This is a 3CD compilation of Slovenian noise. It comes in a 3CD digipack with a thick booklet of information about all the artists who participated. The artwork uses a strong white print on black background look that is common look in the Noise and Anarcho Punk scenes, not a bad thing.

Disc One – Amper-O-Mat open the album with Diving levels, which is simmering, atmospheric Industrial work that feels like it is made using contact microphones, effects and field recordings. The area of sound built up here is punctuated by feedback, the whole piece feels like it is recorded in the deep depths that the title points towards. Bol-E-Zen follow this up with a combination of melody and Rural Industrial that makes for a piece of enchantingly beautiful music that is Z Mrtvimi In Umirajocimi ISem). Birds sing with noise on Brother of Judo's Matching Genitalia, the noise may be distorted field recordings or studio sounds made to feel that way but it makes for a fascinating piece of work. Darker atmospheres come from the work of Prokleti Mozak which sounds like a combination of low resonating drones and guitar tinkering, Ejakulat Obogacen Evrima is successful experimentation. The play off between those two elements is effective, menacing and makes me want to hear more.   Pra–KT-7 contrasts shimmering jingling sounds, feedback, drones and churning blips of chattering noise. This shifts into a passage of bleaker sounds, I like Aluviana's work here and definitely want to further investigate.

Three projects including Vskbjorn, Corsini and Pimpon make Balwanek.wav, which starts with impressive oscillating drones, shifting to distorted hiss, guttural noise, glitchy treble heavy noise, backed with feedback tones. It all melts into a warbly psychedelic noise assault. Samo Da Je resonates a physical atmosphere immediately, little crackles, coughs, slight pitches of feedback, buzzing flies use the space of the silence effectively.  Subtle build ups of tension can be felt as a small sound pulsates away and swirling low distortion crackles away. Robrrr does good work here. I’m immediately taken by the darkness of Mary Boring’s work, it takes me to places Stabat Mors once occupied to make a piece of outstanding infected work.

Borut Savski and Mojca Zupancic present a live track, that is quirky, chatty and spacious. This experimentation flows nicely, shifting and flirting with melody in a playful manner.  The experimental work continues with The Stroj track Tribialis. Overall it is dramatic, theatrical, funny and slightly sinister. Audiotisti has a chaotic Jam (2) session that goes into many interesting swampy areas and it's pretty good actually. A powerful, familiar blast hits the speakers and it is Gen 26, who has been reviewed here before. An echoing, creaking wall of harsh distortion plays out. It warbles, roars and lets you feel the subtle shifts in tone. Great to hear you again old friend. Another live track comes from Morce, this is haunted and dense with echoes of tweets and growls. I like this spooky, slightly playful noise, it is very good. Sonvol follows on with another live performance builds with oscillating noises, punctuated by distant echoes, it is haunted like Morce, but is like Morce's mean, threatening cousin. I am liking Slovenia’s noise scene so far.

Disc Two – The flickering noise of Zeleni Zvoki cuts itself out until quieter, low sounds hum and beep away. Strong, concentrated electronics eventually dominate the work. This is then cut into with cut-up jagged sounds that build into deeper sounds and distortion – this makes for a good piece of work.  S0n667 brings haunted work back to the table, Denar ali zivljenje is rattling strings and drones that make for mournful, ghostly sounds. Things rattle at the forefront of this to give it  voice, providing terror and a weird sense of comfort as the sound expands. Warped voices join the work at the end. Posebna Sola makes interesting water like  work on their live track. Odd string like sounds happen at the start and end of their track.

Borut Savski and Francisco Tomsich deliver the warped, experimental The Silent Movies – Summer Songs, this is very mutant, playful and good noise work. Chemomorph’s Polkka Noisse continues on from the last track perfectly, it is even more playful, but with sinister keyboard undertones. Dabe Lajf, delivers a bass heavy, thick wall of distortion. I seem to be able to roll into wall noise and enjoy it, thank you for that!  I reviewed Dvosed second album years ago and loved it. Horizont is beautiful work that is a combination of gorgeous instrumental music and farty noise and it appears on neither of their albums. Both albums are well worth looking up on Bandcamp. Harsh Electronics wail and warble from Jozo Elektronik. Adenomyosis is strong work that is a rich mixture Harsh Noise and psychedelic sounds and works very well.

Bostjan Leskovsek, Lina Rica, Stefan Doepner, Borut Savski and Bostjan Cadez combine to deliver a unique, quirky piece of experimental quirky noise. This is a good, successful live performance which by the looks of it dates back to 2013. Dark, mournful ambient comes from Lord Havoc's excellent Leaf. Good Dark Ambient work. Sonervol ends the disc on a high with the grim, explosive, I Love Them Belly's Pretape (Porn Norija) #2.

Disc 3: Distant drones come from PotoK with Rainmaking. This builds into an epic, ambient soundscape and is good work. A live performance follows from Bostjan Leskovsek, Borut Savski, Stefn Doepner, Neven Korda, Monika Glahn, Milan Kristl, Iva Tratnik and Elisa Ulian. This is from 2010 and uses what I call sound poetry using slight and subtle noises to combine with each other to make work. It's good, kinda like Small Cruel Party or Spoils and Relics, possibly brilliant. Some music plays in the distance for Mura's Melanholija, news excerpt's cut in and then vocal noise goes off. The work flits between these methods, it reminds me of something off the Perpetual State of Ornacular Dream compilation, in a good way. Melanholija is a strong, immersive work. Guitar like drones and feedback make Hexenbrutal's Run On. Drums and vocals go off around the guitar noises. I like this, it is like a form of damaged, warped heavy metal.

Etno Vegetarian Noise Band deliver the most warped, shifting, abstract, experimental noise track so far. Deutsch Aktiv fur Autostopen is crazed and anarchic. Galofak delivers a complex experimental piece that combines loops, drones and melodies to give us Duh Casa, the results are gorgeous. Things get darker on Ansambel Nojzeta Slaka's track, Nazadnjaska Radikaino Progresivna Narodnozabavna Glasba 2 is dark Industrial that moves into a faster Harsh soundscape before dying off. This is strong work. Bostjan Leskovsek takes a more classical, minimalist approach to their work which morphs to a slightly more agressive shift of oscillating drones, Spring Rolls is excellent, seductive work.

Arabiata by Subburben is free form drumming that explores the limitations of percussion, Bill Brufford would be proud. Once the noise starts, drones and glitches, the music expands into something deeper and richer in depth. Dronisnica make splattering drones on Extracted, this pans out to create, threatening, ominous, dark work. As he breaks the sound up by choking it, abusing the frequencies and pouring distortion over it, it is saved from becoming monotonous. Good Work. Urban x Urban does good, broken up, shifting Harsh Noise, I like the quick changes in approach used throughout the track. The end is here, Sist En 343 delivers a harsh end with 91-19N, this is very high end distorted wall that delivers a bold, raw finale. Excellent.

386 Noise immediately does its' work in introducing me to some amazing new work that I want to find out more about, that is the job of a good noise compilation. It highlights work that may have been much harder to discover without this release. There are a variety of styles on display with experimentation a plenty, shifting things well away from a theme sound. I'd argue the booklet could have had a lot more visuals in. However the work is strong and will merit further investigation naturally. I had a few wow moments with different artists and you listener will have yours.  Due to all of this I'd advise that listeners buy this compilation as here is a good place to get into the habit of getting noise compilations to discover great, new work like that on these discs.

ZG 2026

Petrichor presents - Saturday 13th June.

Mist Rolling Inn- Nottingham- 7.30 doors.

Unmarked VHS is four different projects all masked up and looking intimidating, stood still before the show had even started. The vibe was right before any sound was made.  A mass of abrasive noise went off whilst and a strobe light was going off the whole time. You couldn't see what was happening, just bits of movement.  The strobe  added visual intensity to the pulverising, screaming sound being made. This shifted from screeching to roaring as it thickened up.  This was one of several gradual shifts in noise throughout the set, it didn't stay samey at all. This perform was a visual and sonic success for sure.

H'st used lots of chain on contact mic amplified steel sheet through a lot of pedals  used to manipulate the high pitched sounds. I liked how he used  distortion to compress the sharp noise. Sharp feedback was left to scream through the sound. Some good bass crunch and feedback combined together to form a physically tangible tension that could be felt in the air of the venue. Very rich textures achieved too. A lot of chatty feedback was woven into the sound. A sample from the film Devil Foetus is played out and the noise returns with deep, thick, bass crunch that coated the room. As he stripped the sound back the remaining elements resonated massively. H'st is an immense performer who delivered an excellent, outstanding set that mastered texture brilliantly

Fuck Radio. This set had an F64 video playing on a screen, some rap music played which shifted to another film with harsh distortion that was crackle heavy playing over the film. The world fuck radio stayed in the centre of the screen at all times. The noise was distortion, crackle and a lot of scrape dragging across the sound.  No performance could be seen as the performer lay on the floor controlling the  noise, which seemed to shift and morph with each film section on the big screen which was all from SBTV's F64 programme. I'd describe the noise as strident moving between shrill and crispy to deep and rumbling. A huge contrast to his set as Cariad the week before. Great work again.

Sword of Democles. Immediately glitches cut-ups of sound that made rapid shifts from eerrie dungeon ambient music to abrasive harsh noise. Played with his back to the audience. The movement of his noise seemed to strongly emphasise the high and low ends of his sound. His use of sharp noise had a real physical kick to it too. When he used choked glitches of noise over the ambient passages, it was a bold contrast.  The layering of noises within the harsh blasts was strong, he would use blasts of distrotion and chatty clingy wailing over it. This was a super rich, layered set from a unique, one off of an artist.

All four sets were very good and it was too hard to pick a favourite.  This was an excellent night. 

ZG 2026.

Knifedoutofexistece - Dead Man's Eyes.

KNIFEDOUTOFEXISTENCE – Dead Man's Eyes – Cassette/Digital – Outsider Art – 2026.

https://outsiderart.bandcamp.com

https://outsiderart.bigcartel.com

https://knifedoutofexistence.bandcamp.com

 

          1.     Imagined Peace.

          2.     Fills My Lungs Like Liquid.

I have a fond relationship with the work of  knifedoutofexistence, I have seen the project play live many times since it started and reviewed many recordings on here. His other project Playworker is worth investigating too.

Imagined Peace starts with slow rumbling which sounds like a contact microphone shuffling and scraping. Feedback and hissing cut into the sound, once this is all established, everything gradually intensifies. Voice like noises wail in the background making the work feel very haunted, which occurs in a lot of recent knifedoutofexistence recordings, particularly, releases like Gone Is the Shell Garden or Tracing Roots Now Severed. As the tension of the work reaches its' peak and the vocal goes off in the background, the signature style of the project is very evident at the end.

Acoustic guitar notes are plucked, humming sounds exist in the background, it feels like a field recording backing the guitar sounds. The background noise increases to roaring distortion, drones and feedback as the guitar shifts to the background. Unintelligible voice booms over everything and the sound descends into something that is simultaneously heavenly and dark. As this breaks down to abstract sound once the voice and guitar fade, the shift into a kind of resonating lonely space is impressive.

Everything I hear by knifed is great, the project continues to fall further into ghostly new territory while still clearly retaining the core elements of  knifedoutofexistence. The wobbly tightrope of progression always risks a steep, unforgiving fall, yet Dean Lloyd Robinson continues to maintain his balance perfectly.

Nothing and Nobody 2026.

Mourn - It Was Good While It Lasted.

Mourn – It Was Good While it Lasted – CD/Download – Bent Window Records – 2025

           1 . The Boy From Bassenden.

           2. Eyes In Rings.

           3. Forged In the Crucible of Want.

           4. (I Just) Died.

           5. It's Alright With Me Francis.

           6. American Dad.

           7. Just One Cocktail.

           8. Aggravated and Indecent.

           9. R.Kelly Goes To WacArnolds (I believe I can fries).

          10. A Good Friend to Trust.

‘Disgusting and Profane, this album highlights obsessive celebrity worship, true crime and those who benefit.’                        Bandcamp, label quote.

https://bentwindowrecords.bandcamp.com/album/it-was-good-while-it-lasted

https://kadaver.bandcamp.com

https://idealfather.bandcamp.com

https://destruktionsanstalt.bandcamp.com/music

https://www.999cuts.com

 

 

Mourn is collaborative project between Kadaver, Destruktionsanstalt and Ideal Father. They previously released the album Mastema in 2022.

The album's opener The Boy From Bassendean slowly moves It Was Good While It Lasted into life. This is a reference to disgraced artist/singer Rolf Harris who as prosecuted as part of Operation Yewtree was sentenced to 5years and 9 months in 2014. It is about his friendship with Jimmy Savile. Eyes in Rings is immediately more aggressive, using pulsating electronics and distortion. Vague samples are woven into the work. The title is further reference to Jimmy Savile, (the man who groomed a nation). The title references possible necrophiliac tendencies in how he boasted that some of his rings were made of dead people's glass eyes. The sound utilises psychedelic nausea in the sound, I am sure I heard his voice in the closing samples. Forged In the Crucible of Want plays on further Jimmy Saville references, how he got away with his crimes for an entire lifetime is real life horror and one that is still raw in the UK. The noise uses repetitive beats, drones and Saville voice samples.

I (Just Died) falls into very murky sonics, it sounds like a nightmare as it slowly drifts along. It feels like I am in an early industrial time warp. It references necrophile and murderer David Fuller who was an unofficial photographer for the band Cutting Crew, the title part references their hit song (I Just) Died In Your Arms tonight. It's Alright With Me Francis sounds like the Glitter Band with the beats that it uses, it takes me inside a seedy mind-set (Gary Glitter) that I don’t want to be inside, it is like being locked in hell for 3:42 minutes. Not so Fun fact – My first girlfriend was a huge fan (pre-prosecution) and we went to his autobiography signing in 1991. American Dad is further swampy, ambient darkness, conversation samples play out, primitive noises back it. Kettle Whistles go off, as Bill Cosby in samples boasts about a drug called Spanish Fly a drug which makes females horny, this carries on into the bleak fog of Just One Cocktail all reference to his habit of drugging and sexually assaulting women. Samples of Cosby are overlaid into another dark soundtrack, slowed down siren noises raise the alarm to the predator as he talks and brags. A brief passage of humour plays out with samples from the Cosby Show on Aggravated and Indecent, disco beats back samples of chatter. R Kelly is referenced in R Kelly Goes to Whackarnolds ( believe I can Fries), slows the sound down as samples of Kelly’s voice play moving into samples of he disastrous Prince Andrew TV interview play out on the finale A Good Friend to Trust.

I like this album, it does the good work Power Electronics and Death Industrial should do, although it leans more into Death Industrial. It does this through presenting the real -life monsters of society without any explanation. Just my talking about the themes amplifies how grim that it is. Beyond that, the sounds are good Death Industrial murkiness, with dialogue from each tracks subject working over some impressive ambient landscapes. The three projects from the members of Mourn are impressive, but Mourn is equally as good as each project. I'd argue I’d want more obvious vocals in some tracks (not all), but I think this is still a good album and it is very worthy of being in your collection.

 

Nothing and Nobody 2025.

 

Lucifer Sky - PrinCess Pit.

Lucifer Sky - PrinCess Pit - Download - Self Released - 2025.

https://lucifersky.bandcamp.com/album/princess-pit 

On a day of a week when life broke me, I choose to check this out. No title listings, only honesty. Psychosis is my reality right now. 

"I would like to begin by telling you how much I have come to hate you", is recorded dialogue that starts the album as PrinCess, until relentless, pulsing beats and noise take over. Vocal noises stab at this continually, no words just gasps of desperation. The beat doubles up and the sound wobbles, simple adjustment that makes massive reverberation to the noise. As the feedback kills everything it is like someone elses hatred killing the violence piercing my head.

Roaring distortion and sampled female dialogue narrates actions of mundane life , drinking, biting Fingertips, remembering that time you had an affair, going to the gym, missing you, distortion blasts through this. This is When I am H****y. As the noise becomes a pile up that reduces, builds up, straps down, it speaks volumes from the dialogue.

Saint Valentine, beats and noises back it - this speeds through me, screaming and tears into me, I think I am feeling euphoric, either way I am so grateful this is happening to me right now. I dare you to still be good after this...

Dialogue and blasting, ripping distortion follow a brief sample of dialogue, it claws through itself, dialogue briefly reappears, the noise is Harsh Noise that shifts in metamorphosis all the time. Fun In The Jaws of Death is David Gilden level good. The silence that lasts over a minute before one last passage of dialogue works perfectly.

Hellish noise forms You and I Are Not the Same, I have given up now, I am being dragged along in this for the ride, I am surfing my own psychosis through this hell and enjoying every minute of it. Physical noises of pouring and coughing jar against feedback, humming and hissing. Agrivated, tortured noise poetry rules. The Dying self of Narcissus is fully shown here, I feel I am seeing a loved friend who I don't know again.

Psychedelic, warbling shakes the death out of me on Pink Moon, I can't remember what I was broken about. I think I just died and was reborn as this release put its arms around me and took me somewhere else that I needed to be. There's a mass of othet context rocking up in PrinCess and you'll easily get it. Thank you Lucifer Sky.