Friday, April 27, 2018

Diseased Oblivion - Portals of Past and Present

Finally another Diseased Oblivion post. I've had this tape for close to three years, so it feels good to be able to share it now (I say, overlooking the fact this could have been up four months ago if I was more on top of my shit).
I guess I'm not much of a black metal person because my favorite artists are consistently the ones that mix in influences from other genres. What I'm trying to say is, Diseased Oblivion's doomy, noisy black metal really does it for me. The music always puts images in my head of eldritch organisms traveling aimlessly across the most distant reaches of space, which I presume is more or less what they're going for based on the cover art and titles. 
I think at this point, Discogs is the only place you can find a copy of this tape, but Contaminated Tones just recently put out the final Diseased Oblivion release, a full length (I think?) titled A Blackened Harvest of Decomposure. I haven't gotten it yet, but I'm sure it's good.


P.S. While I'm talking about good black metal, the other day I checked out Utzalu's LP from last year and goddamn. I'm not going to post it here because it can be found elsewhere easily enough, but go listen to that shit and buy the tape or record.

Saturday, April 21, 2018

Humanextermination Project - Mindcrusher

Description from the label: "From the bowels of California comes Humanextermination Project, offering up over 90 minutes of discordant, brain scrambling noise with occasional synthy interludes that sound like they've been lifted straight from a psychedelic slasher flick. If the MK Ultra project had its own soundtrack this would be it."
I got this tape out of curiosity knowing essentially nothing about Humanextermination Project (turns out it's a project by Katz Seki that predates Gorgonized Dorks by a good decade) and let me tell you, it's an experience. I don't what I was expecting exactly, I guess some sort of odd harsh noise, but I wouldn't really describe it as harsh in the usual sense. Instead, these songs use a lot random noises that dig into your brain as they repeat a ridiculous number of times. I guess I'm basically just rehashing what Syrup Head said at this point, so I'll leave it at that.
I have a few more tapes from this label that I'll be posting sooner or later. Syrup Head has only been releasing things for about a year and a half, but they've already put quite a bit of interesting gore, noise, and grind stuff, and I can't recommend checking it out and placing an order enough. Here