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Radar Men From The Moon – Vomitorium (2024)

Four years ago, a concert announcement for my hometown (that never took place due to the Covid pandemic) made me circle to a local band that I heard of, but did not really know. The previous album of Radar Men From The Moon had just been released and I decided to review it.

I had heard of the new album “Vomitorium” and I think I even listened to it, but them holidays came and I forgot about it until one of the members let me know that he has a new project.

“Vomitorium” is again a noise rock album that in sound goes from Swans-like heavy industrial rock to more a Ministry-type approach, to a direction that I would rather describe as ‘noisecore’, a noisy version of hardcore rock. Actually, the description about the label Fuzz Club Records is quite fitting for “Vomitorium” as well: “raw, experimental rock ‘n’ roll, influenced by psychedelia, shoegaze, noise, garage, blues, folk and experimentation”.

A nice album.

Links: Radar Men From The Moon, Fuzz Club Records

Radar Men From The Moon – The Bestial Light (2020)

It is strange how things go sometimes. Last week Facebook notified me that Aufnahme + Wiedergabe (from Berlin) has an event in my hometown in October. There are never concerts of interest in my hometown, so I clicked to see which bands (Spit Mask and Gnaw Their Tongues, the first has released material through A+W, the latter is a Dutch noisy doom metal band). Then I noticed that another organiser from the concert is a name new to me: Metakamer, “a independent clothing brand based in Eindhoven” (sic). Well, well.

On the Facebook page of Metakamer a radio show was announced which opened with… Haus Arafna. This took place on an Eindhoven radio-station I had never heard of: Rararadio. There prove to be some (locally) famous musicians active there. Then there is also a link between Metakamer and a local band that I already knew, but not too well: Radar Men From The Moon.

RMFTM is an experimental rock band. They tend to change styles with every album and frequently also change members. They very recently released an album (May 8th). A good reason to listen what is what.

“The Bestial Light” contains noisy rock. Sometimes the sound is slightly stoner, sometimes the psychedelic rock background shines through, but most tracks are more like Swans (their noisy style), Zeni Geva or Pop. 1280. The band itself seems to call their style “acid metal” and “strange wave”.

Not bad at all!

Links: Radar Man From The Moon, Fuzz Club