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Minimum Sentence – A Beginner’s Guide To Modern Bioethics (2025)

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.

Links: Minimum Sentence, Tesco

Osmium – s/t (2025)

Thank you Spotify. I seldom play the playlists that are made ‘especially for me’, but yesterday I did. I got a bit of an ill-fitting track which was great nonetheless: “Osmium 0”. Some sort of ritual industrial track.

I looked up the rest of the album and learned that after a few separate tracks, the debut full length was released only a few days ago of a four piece project with an interesting line-up.

First we have Hildur Guðnadóttir, an Icelandic cellist who has worked with projects such as Throbbing Gristle and Sun O))). Then we have James Ginzburg who has more projects, one of them being Emptyset. Rully Shabara Herman is a to me unknown Indian vocalist and musician. Then we have the also unknown to me English composer Sam Slater who appears to work in experimental (classical) music more often.

The debut is (as things go nowadays) of 12″ length (38 minutes). The tracks are somewhat alike. There is a bass guitar type rhythm (is that the cello?), vocals that remind both Wardruna and Meta Meat and a background hum. Some of the tracks sound somewhat ritual industrial like, while others are more ambient. Here and there is drumming. The result is a nicely dark, somewhat surreal experimental music. Interesting!

Links: Osmium, Invada

Spur On To XS – Sacrifice As The Cornerstone Of Society (2025)

The second release of this Dutch noise project is again released by Dunkelheit. A 35 minute album that is available as Bandcamp release and on cd.

The opening track is an old school noise track with a throbbing rhythm and distorted vocals. Then follows a bit more of a ‘noisescape’. This roughly describes the direction of the entrie album, from ‘ambient noise’ to a more aggressive approach to noise. Some material has too many high frequencies for my ears, but in short, I think I can recommend this album to people who enjoy the ‘Whitehouse type of noise’ (just to come up with a description).

Links: Spur On To XS, Dunkelheit Productionen

Ausströmen – Transient (2025)

Shortly after a mini album follows a full length on a Portuguese label that is new to me.

“Transient” opens with the recognisable sound of Ausströmen. Pounding noise with the typical vocals. There is less variety in sound between the different tracks this time, only in the pre-last track there is another vocoder and there is one more ambient track. No worries though, because Ausströmen has a great style of not too extreme noise and “Transient” is another great album.

There are 200 copies of a cd version for those who want a physical release.

Links: Ausströmen, NGH Productions

Genocide Organ – Operations With Contempt (2025)

When I hear about a ‘new’ GO, it is so often a “De/Tainment” rerelease, that I forget to check if they actually release new music. That they do! In 2023 there was a split release with Prurient called “Carte Blanche”. In the same year there was a double lp called “Death Zones” and here is the follow up which also comes on vinyl (and then there was “All Is Suffering” collecting previously released 7″s). Yep, I have to pay more attention.

All new material is in the new GO style. A more (death) industrial approach to noise, heavy, throbbing, with the typical GO vocals and a lot of samples. Here and there a track has a high frequency, but nowhere does GO use the chaotic approach of some of their early material. Did they keep their aggression.

This actually is my kind of noise. I really have to be more attentive when it comes to GO it seems. Their material is available in digital form or luxury vinyl releases for collectors, but also on cd.

Link: Genocide Organ, Tesco

Dødsmaskin – Isolat (2025)

A new album of Dødsmaskin popped up in my Spotify feed. It is so new, that it is not yet listed on Discogs. Also I cannot find any information about the label “Death Machine Industries”. it seems that this is a self-released Bandcamp release of the band. There are plans for a limited physical release.

As you probably know by now Dødsmaskin has a varied sound. “Isolat” opens with a few ambient tones, but soon goes over in a more pomp and atmospheric sound. The duo did not do away with their industrial sound though and there are also some noisy parts to the album. Perhaps new are obviously guitar based elements (both in atmospheric and in more industrial parts). The most notable element this time are perhaps the atmosphere parts that give way to more drum-type industrial. Also there are two excellent noise tracks.

Perhaps too much a mix of different approaches for my liking, but certainly not your average industrial album.

LInk: Dødsmaskin

Spur On To XS – Indulge In Primal Ecstasy (2024)

One of the Radar Men From The Moon members started a new and noisy solo project.

“Indulge In Primal Ecstasy” opens with a wall of noise track and continues with an excellent piece of ‘throbbing’ noise with vocals (perhaps think Anenzephalia). Then follow more minimalist tracks that I would call “ambient noise”, some are more ´noisescape´ in approach, other more industrial.

A descent album of 28 minutes, available on cd and as a Bandcamp digital release.

I think I heard of the label Dunkelheit Produktionen, but most of the projects on their roster are unfamiliar to me. I should perhaps try some other material to see what it all is.

Links: Spur On To XS, Dunkelheit Produktionen

Uncodified – Erased People (2024)

Seven years ago I was looking at Unrest Productions and ran into “Maybe All Is Not Completed“, a pretty good noise album of a project I was unfamiliar with. Already then, I mentioned that Uncodified was an active project.

This time I was looking at the Dunkelheit Produktionen roster and noted a recent Uncodified release. Many releases have been made available between these two. Obviously I failed to follow the project.

Just as with the other album “Erased People” opens with a somewhat noisy ambient track and continues with a chaotic piece of noise. Then comes a more industrial track, an excellent death industrial track and some more noise, chaotic noise and death industrial. So again a varied album from which I prefer the death industrial side.

Not bad and currently the only Uncodified release available on Spotify.

Links: Uncodified, Dunkelheit Produktionen

Consumer Electronics – Surge (2024)

Just as with “Airless Space” (2019), the new Consumer Electronics leaves aside the extreme power electronics of old and instead focuses on minimalist industrial sounds and spoken word. That still does not exactly make this easy listening though. The opening track, for example, first has Philip Best in a very calm voice describe the workings of a serial killer, while in the second half he -in the same tone- instructs “Michael” how to make a snow angel. Indeed, CE remains an extreme project even when the sound became less so.

The following tracks are usually odd noisy or industrial soundscapes with Best sounding like he is reading from a children’s book. Most tracks are quite ‘enjoyable’, ‘ambient noise’ perhaps. Towards the end comes a somewhat more extreme “contaminent” and a more noise title track, but nothing compared to a track such as “Come Clean”.

All in a descent album.

Links: Consumer Electronics, Dirter Promotions

Post Scriptvm – Eisstoß (2024)

Both the discography and the time that I know this Russian/American outfit go back 25+ years. But, the first release that I got of him was from 2002. Post Scriptvm is back on Tesco for the fifth (if I am correct) collaboration.

“Eisstroß” comes as a luxury vinyl and -of course- as a digital release. It opens with a somewhat noisy ambient piece with highly distorted ‘power electronics’ vocals. What follows are mostly the weird industrial ambient soundscapes that we know Post Scriptvm for, but often quite noisy again (fortunately!). The third track is a superb death industrial track, some of the best noise I heard in a while.

Overall the album contains perhaps a bit too much soundscapish material with too many high frequencies for my liking. The often used vocals give a bit of a ‘Gnawed feeling’ which is a plus.

Weird as I know him, dark as I like him and one sublime outburst. Overall a descent album.

Links: Post Scriptvm, Tesco