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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

Colossloth – The Harmony Knife (2025)

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Even though I reviewed an album of Colossloth before, the name of the project (and perhaps the logo) always makes me think of some experimental doom metal band, probably from Tartarus Records. That is not the case though. Colossloth is a full out noise project with mostly releases on Cold Spring.

Well, the “noise” description is perhaps more fitting for the previous album, this time only in the first track. Other tracks are more ‘soundscapish’ and there is even a weird technoish track. After a while all tracks develop into something noisy though.

Let us say that the upcoming album (28 February) is more experimental. Sometimes soundscape, sometimes ‘rocky’, sometimes techno, but it always ends in a pile of noise.

Links: Colossloth, Cold Spring

Satøri – Pillars of Salt (2025)

For the upcoming release (28 February) Satøri went for a more rhythmical approach. Heavy industrial noise with darker vocals than before. There are also more quiet technoish experiments sometimes, but only to give your ears a little rest up until the next outburst of noise.

Every now and then you still get the wall of sound type of noise, but overall the more industrial approach of the new album is ‘easier’ to listen than the usual material of this project.

Not bad at all.

Links: Satøri / Cold Spring

All Are To Return – AATR III (2024)

The Dutch label Tartarus Records has a varied roster. I found them when I was looking for experimental doom metal. At some point I also started to look for noisy doom metal and I again came to Tartarus because of the second album of AATR (2021). And now there is AATR III.

“The two-man formation” makes a heavy wall of noise, but it seems to be (mostly?) guitar based, with heavy blasts and screamed vocals. Not exactly easy listening, but that can be said about noise music in general.

An interesting project in you enjoy a somewhat industrial approach to noise and do not mind it being metal in basis.

Links: All Are To Return, Tartarus Records

Ausströmen – Still Stehen (2025)

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While waiting for the cd-version of “Intersection“, Ausströmen releases a four track digital mini album.

“Still Stehen” opens with a fairly chaotic, but great noise track in the recognisable Ausströmen style, a bit of a ‘noisescape’. The second track “Void” has a similar style, but this track has a bit more rhythm and samples.

The speed goes further down in the third track “Reptile” and the fourth track “Cocoon” contains so many samples, that I have to think of the ‘filmographic noise’ approach of some work of Propergol.

Another good release from this British project.

Link: Ausströmen / Faktion

Kommando – Wage Of Wrath (2024)

It appears that nowadays Kommando is Dan Courtman’s solo project.

“Wage of Wrath” contains the familiar industrial approach to noise, but also more typical noise material like in the early days. I especially like the death industrial tracks “Death On Demand” and “Drifting In Echoes”, an industrial rhythm, highly distorted vocals, that is the side of Kommando that I like best.

The noise tracks are not bad, but I like the more industrial approach better. All in all 11 tracks, 39 minutes and -if you are fast- available on vinyl.

Link: Ant-Zen

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

Satøri – The Woods (2023)

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In 1987 Dave Kirby started Satori after having been active in the noise duo Psychopath for a few years. In 1994 Justin Mitchel of the Cold Spring label joined and after a pause in 2007 Satori became a three piece project. By 2012 Satori was a solo project again, but the new album is announced to be released on Cold Spring within a month.

“The Woods” is another massive wall of noise with highly distorted vocals. The sound reminds quite a bit of Control at times. Some tracks start a bit ambient to give the listener some rest, but pretty soon the dentist drill sound and other noises that make a wall of noise set in. As before the tracks also have a bit of an industrial side with heavy blasts, but it are the chainsaws and the screeching that are mostly noticeable. Somehow the sonic mayhem works quite well for me, but even on my scale “The Woods” makes a pretty tough listen, so it will probably not be an album that I will play a lot.

Links: Satori, Cold Spring