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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

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

Kadaver Fauna – I (2024)

So Michael Idehall has a couple of new projects going on. Kadaver Fauna is a collaboration with an artist unknown to me. “I” was first released on a new label called Reality Gap Records and as digital release through an also new label called Nü-Sejd.

Now when you go through the Nü-Sejd catalogue currently five releases, you also encounter Idehall under the name Yxan with a soundscape mini album. Äsping (Idehall, Asa Nordgren and vaying contributors) also with a soundscape album. He is not listed as a member of Moral Excerpt (on Discogs), but Idehall can be heard of the first and fourth track of the interesting minialbum “Incan Marshland” which goes more into the industrial approach that Idehall also uses sometimes.

Also Kadaver Fauna has that more industrial and sometimes noisy sound in which you can hear the hand of Idehall. There are also the typical vocals of Idehall with ‘abstract lyrics’ and here and there a little bit of noise. As the album continues, the sound becomes more soundscape, sometimes ambient, and somewhat ritualistic. I like the more industrial tracks best, but this is a nice album overall.

Link: Nü-Sejd

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

Maschinenkrieger KR52 – Stroke Unit (2024)

Maschinenkrieger was the absolute highlight of the 2024 Wave Gotik Treffen. Half past four in the afternoon, first act of the Täubschental of that day, sunny outside, yet a well filled room with a varried audience as is usual with this type of music.

There is a lot of so-called “rhythmic noise”, especially on the Hands label that also released “Stroke Unit”, but seldom does the style get as noisy as Maschinenkrieger.

So I found myself in a dark room full of wildly dancing people to an energetic piece of ‘indancetrial’ as I used to call it.

Discogs makes it sound as if “Stoke Unit” is the first album under this name, while all previous seven album were made under the monicker “Maschinenkrieger KR52 vs. Disraptor”. Perhaps that means that the project went from being a duo, to a solo project. There was -indeed- but one guy on stage that sunny day.

Music-wise nothing much changed. Maschinenkrieger makes -I said it- a noisy form of “rhythmic noise”. As before, quite a few tracks are ‘mid tempo’, while only a few are more energetic. It is probably hard to tell this album apart from earlier releases, but, it is a descent album and more interesting than most “rhythmic noise” to my ears.

Links: Maschinenkrieger KR52, Hands

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