We Make Nihilists Smile Again
(Phage - PT152) CD $12.00
Starting off, Barrikad's dark ambient collaboration with Kriminaaliset Metsanhaltijat clocks in at a modest nineteen minutes. Ominous soundscapes, sparse vocals, the clang of metal objects. With Fear Konstruktor, they produce synth warble with strange vocals. The final track is a straight-up harsh noise blast collaboration with Government Alpha. With eight-page book. Edition of 500.
Felt, If Not Seen
(Phage - PT175) CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. A single fifty-seven-minute track of tension-building electronics and percussion, hovering in between apocalypse and rapture. For fans of ambient room-filling organic sounds. Recorded live in 2009, the music features drums, metal objects, slack-stringed de-tuned guitar, winds, and electronics. Edition of 500.
Industrial Murder / Menstrual Bleeding
(Phage - PT157) CD $12.00
An early work of Maurizio Bianchi recorded at Mectpyo Studio in 1981. Originally released by Banned Productions in 1992 on LP. CD packaged in five-color screen-printed arigato packs. Two tracks, fifty minutes. Edition of 300.
BLACK LEATHER JESUS / RICHARD RAMIREZ
Scrapyard
(Phage - PT136) CD $12.00
CD reissue of an LP (Praxis Dr. Bearmann 1995) plus a ten-minute bonus track. Lots of metal noises, violent distortion, porno samples and an overall assault on the senses.
Pharmakon / Deterge
(Phage - PT162) split 7-inch $10.00
Solo power electronics project by Margaret Chardiet on one side, thick harsh noise, synth and processed vocals by Jim Haras on the other, with a focus on degenerate fetishism of strange objects or ideas. Two-color screen-printed jacket, insert.
Switches and Knobs
(Phage - PT133) CD $10.00
One live and one studio track of similar theme: lots of starts and stops, blasts of sound and silence by the former Killer Bug and the younger harsh noise composer also known as Bloody Letters and Cracked Mirror. Edition of 500.
Faux Pas / Grain Belt
(Phage - PT150) 7-inch $10.00
Lasse Marhaug and Sten Ove Toft deliver a brutal, five-minute assault of harsh noise on the Faux Pas side, with feedback and textural changes making their way to the surface now and again. Grain Belt (Wince, Willful and Baculum) layers composed metal abuse, utilizing scraping and sputtering sounds. Edition of 300.
Destination: Toujinbou
(Phage - PT141) CD $12.00
Sascha Mandler (Mazakon Tactics and Namazu Dantai) under the influence of Japanese noise. Composed but quickly changing harshness with the occasional vocal outburst and ambient synth transition. Edition of 250.
G.X. JUPITTER-LARSEN / FRANCISCO LOPEZ
Francisco Lopez with GX Jupitter-Larsen
(Phage) 10-inch $20.00
Collaboration by two masters, each side by one working with source material provided by the other. Edition of 500.
Abdominal Electricity
(Phage - PT140) CD $10.00
Another cut up masterpiece by this influential harsh noise artist. Sixty minutes, four tracks of quickly moving screech, sure to please any fan of 90s style Japanese noise. Edition of 500.
Thiocarbamide
(Phage - PT91) CD $10.00
The fifty minutes on this release were composed using constructed metal objects and violin. All four tracks are pure, unrelenting harsh noise with plenty of movement, low bass rumbling, high-frequency feedback and the sound of metal being abused. One of Canada's most reliable mad dogs. Edition of 200.
Caged Dog / Common Criminal
(Phage - PT180) 7-inch $15.00
Self-described in a Purestench interview as "harsh industrial project that ... falls in line with the dark ambient / death industrial / power electronics style." Inspired by the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland headed by Bobby Sands. Edition of 300.
Icon / Effigy
(Phage - PT134) 7-inch $9.00
Layered metal abuse and thick harsh noise by Sean Matzus, Vance Osborne and Richard Ramirez, a strong follow-up to their recent Smell & Quim collaboration (Rough Skin 2010) and their appearance on the Filth compilation with Bizarre Uproar and Nicole 12 (Urashima 2010). Screenprinted covers, sticker, double-sided insert. Edition of 200.
Threnody for Collapsing Suns
(Phage - PT151) CD $11.50
Mike Page of Fire In The Head doing the dark ambient. This 50-minute, thoughtfully composed triptych incorporates deep drones, shimmering synth work, lamenting melodic lines and layers that form a surprisingly organic, well-crafted narrative. A journey into the nebulous dusk of Kosmische Musik. Edition of 500.
Mixed Metaphor b/w Into a Bad Way
(Phage - PT110) 7-inch $9.00
Brutal, fast-moving, cut-up harsh noise, recorded and mixed in 2007, using Wiese and Merzbow material as source.