The lastest batch of Galakthorrö releases came with a Haus Arafna 7″ that is available on green and black vinyl (and probably sold out by the time you read this).
The title track is a slow and melancholic track in the vein of the most recent Arafna releases. On the other side there is the much rougher “Auserwählt”. A wall of noise, a pounding rhythm, mr. Arafna’s distorted vocals; the more dramatic approach to their sound. A great track.
Galakthorrö picked up a new project. This time from France. If Discogs is correct, this is Distoromance’s second release. The project consists of a duo that share other projects that are equally unknown to me, Abîme and Kalte Lust, the latter going back over a decade.
The 7″ can be placed in the more ‘minimal wave’ side of the Galakthorrö spectrum. The music is alright to good, but somewhat typical.
The lastest full length of mr. and mrs. Arafna is a recognisable NN release. The sound perhaps became even more melancholic though. Here and there NN became a bit more ‘minimal wave’ in sound and there are perhaps some ‘synthpoppy’ tones.
“Electrical” remains in the slower pace whereas previously the speed would go up a bit every so often. Imagine the melancholic side of NN, but then a full album.
With Te/DIS you know what to expect. Except a few experiments here and there, mostly in collaboration, the sound of Frank Ursus does not really evolve.
“Impending Divulgence” is no exception. When you know the previous albums, you pretty much much know what to expect. Simple rhythms, Frank’s recognisable vocals and only here and there a new sound or tone.
Not bad, not groundbreaking. Tempted Dissident as we know him.
Even more luxury as Michael Idehall’s “Apokryphos” 7″ with book. This time you again get a book with black and white photos, but TxRxP got a hardcover, plus -smartly- the 7″ sleeve is glued to the cover.
The 7″ has a very ambient opening and closing track, nothing too exciting. Then there is the excellent title track, which is fairly uptempo in TxRxP’s discography. Also the first track of side B is a good Trepaneringsritualen track.
Instead of a vinyl with book, you can also get “Diadem of Fire” as a 3″ cd. If you are quick of course.
Thorofon’s latest release is a tape in Ant-Zen’s series of luxury packages. One version comes in an acrylic glass container for the tape.
The album opens with a death industrial track and also the second track is quite industrial. Other tracks are more of the “Krankpop” type, but not as energetic as Thorofon can get. Fortunately there are also another few industrial tracks.
13 Tracks in total. Not bad, but not their best material in my opinion.
Cold Spring announced the release of the soundtrack of a film the title of which did not ring a bell. Still, this 1984 movie has a soundtrack with Genesis P-Orridge (with and without Dave Ball), The The, Soft Cell, FM Einheit and Einstürzende Neubauten. Did I really miss that?
According to the label, this is the first “complete edition” of the soundtrack. Discogs lists several earlier releases from other labels, but it seems that these versions miss the Soft Cell track.
The film is about a man who finds out that when he plays “”noise” music”, people start to riot. There is not any noise on the soundtrack though. The music is rather soundscapish, sometimes a bit jazzy and a bit industrial here and there. Not too bad, but I think this will suit people who like the Psychic TV approach to music better. The soundtrack of the film itself is more experimental industrial. I did not recognise much music from the soundtrack.
The cd is out on 5 september, but is ready for preorders. Thank you Cold Spring for bringing the film to my attention.
Tesco presents another new (to me at least) project that also had a De/Tainment Tape before. DN.Aideath is from Indonesia.
“Snake Pit” contains alright, but not too exiting death industrial. A noisy background, distorted vocals and of course some rhythm. All tracks are descent, none really great.
It seems that this new, British project has rapidly found its way to Tesco. Discogs lists no less than seven self-released digital singles in 2024. I could have been introduced to the project by the De/Tainment release in the same year.
The album opens with a nice ‘ambient noise’ soundscape type track. Also the second track can be described that way, but it is harsher. After another ‘noisescape’ we go to more of a death industrial approach and later more ‘noise proper’. It never gets really extreme or chaotic.
Certainly an interesting album. I think I better listen to earlier material too.
A while ago I was compiling a Spotify playlist with “Noise(y) grind“. Searching for fitting music, I ran into a track by Phyllomedusa which fitted the bill exactly. Idiotically fast grindcore with a lot of feedback. I decided to see if this project had more material available and found dozens upon dozens of albums released in 2024 alone. It is not all rapidly made goregrind tracls of a few seconds either. Some of the releases are album length, some are minis or ‘singles’. The music varies from goregrind to extratone to a more funeral doom sound, both usually mixed with electronics (samples, drumming), some albums have (not too interesting) soundscapes too and some more rock oriented tracks.
Needless to say that ever since that time, every time I start Spotify, I get a notification for yet another Phyllomedusa release. 58 In 2025 so far. I guess our “Big Frog” is using the royalties system to make a point (or an income). What is even more, Discogs has him listed as playing in 15 different projects and bands. Most appear to be no longer active though.
Anyway, as other releases, “Leap Into Euphoric Violence”, goes from completely chaotic, lightning fast goregrind to weird electronica. There is no doom or rock on the present album, but there is plenty of that on other releases. Phyllomedusa requires a brutal sense of humour I guess, but if you are not afraid of noise or extreme grindcore, it could be fun to try this project some time. Some of the music is quite fun in my opinion, but it is hard to keep up to filter out the most interesting tracks.
