Colin Stetson Goes to the Movies with Loud, Garish ‘Color Out of Space’
Adventurous multi-instrumentalist Colin Stetson scores the new horror film from director Richard Stanley, Color Out of Space, and it's a noisy, deeply enjoyable headphone trip.
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Crowhurst + Gavin Bryars Demonstrate the Powers of Collaboration With “Dead Swans of Dreams” (premiere + interview)
Veteran composer Gavin Bryars and "noise guy" Crowhurst present a new LP recorded in a 17th century hotel and brimming with musical imagination. Says Bryars, "To watch what Jay does was, sometimes, beyond my comprehension and I thought, at times, that Jay may be more intelligent than me. But it didn't last long!"
Groupthink and Other Painful Reflections on Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth
TOPY and Genesis P-Orridge's knowing adoption of cult iconography and organizing principles quickly slid from satiric emulation to full embrace -- and we all went along with it.
Blanck Mass’ ‘Animated Violence Mild’ Critiques Excess with Excess
Blanck Mass' Animated Violence Mild drops unrelenting electro-industrial melodies, practicing excess to explore personal grief and the global devastation of consumerism.
Lingua Ignota’s ‘CALIGULA’ Continues Her Powerful Wailings Against Misogyny
Lingua Ignota's second full-length CALIGULA continues her blend of opera, neoclassical darkwave, and death industrial. She transforms shattering lamentations into empowered declarations against misogyny, while also complicating the dominant narratives of women's trauma.
Walking Bombs and Gridfailure Create Unlikely Alliance, Issue “Supply and Demand of the American Soul” (premiere)
Gridfailure's David Brenner calls the tune "the soundtrack to survival among thieves and backstabbers". A dark, star-studded LP follows in late April.
The Potential of Throbbing Gristle in the Pre-Internet Era of Mail-Order Catalogues and Cassettes Was Massive
Quite literally: when Throbbing Gristle took to the recording studio their 'label', Industrial Records, would give birth to an entire genre of music.
Merzbow Merges Metal and Experimental Music on the Ferocious ‘Venereology’
Japanese icon Merzbow's classic foray into death metal, Venereology, has been remastered for maximum brutality.
Jozef Van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch Continue their Unlikely Collaboration with the Dark, Droning ‘An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil’
It's an odd combination, but Dutch lute player Jozef Van Wissem and celebrated film director Jim Jarmusch make gloomy magic on their new album.
Gnaw Proves That You Needn’t Shout to Be Extreme Via “Prowled Mary” (premiere)
Gnaw's new video from new LP, Cutting Pieces, solidifies the group's reputation as one of the more inventive acts in extreme music.
Gridfailure and Megalophobe Explore the Frayed Ends of Sanity on “Tasukete” (premiere)
"Tasukete" is the new song with noise 'n' metal leanings from two of New York's darkest minds -- Gridfailure and Megalophobe -- arriving ahead of second LP, also titled Tasukete.
Experimental Electronic Producer Automatisme Produces a Work of Sonic Cubism with ‘ Transit’
On Transit producer William Jourdain a.k.a. Automatisme takes his avant-garde notions to the next level.