Scream & Writhe Forum

I think one of the best things I’ve read this year, which I believe came out last year, was B.R. Yeager’s “Negative Space” Weird, psychedelic horror, multiple perspective narrative, creepy and intriguing. It’s hard for me to put into words why it’s so good but I’m sure there’s much better written r...

On a John Langan kick recently. Very much enjoyed The Fisherman . A unique read that starts off about a man struggling with loss of his wife, which then takes a turn with influences from Stephen King's Pet Sematary and Lovecraft's cosmic horror. Langan's writing style is so well done that even some ...

JOE COLLEY - Acting As If 10" (Drone Records, 2022) Wide open, chilly nocturnal atmosphere. Nocturnal both as in lack of any living presence and as in when things are quiet, you'll realize after a while it really aint that quiet. The smallest sounds all become magnified, come into focus. I com...

Which brings me to my probably favorite person in the world, he is not noise artist or not in a noise scene or even a musician in any of those senses, but he is a performance artist whose performances often deal with sound or produce interesting sounds even when that is not the main purpose of it, ...

Kiran Arora – Wilderness Years CD (Fantasy Knife) Brand new and exciting album from Kiran! This kind of came out of nowhere. Wormwood Scrubs is one of my favorite albums in 2020 and Formication is one of the best albums on Prose Nagge which sits alongside some heavy hitters. Really well-developed d...

Tape added to Bandcamp for anyone interested:

https://bbblood.bandcamp.com/album/deaf-and-capital

D345 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 6:24 am Tyhjä Pää - Prolonged Troubles In Concentration and Memory

about Tyhjä Pää, it's already a classic! fucking excellent

I checked this out on your recommendation. This one is a scorcher! Blown away. Need to place another order with SATATUHATTA and grab some things I've been sleeping on.

Glad someone else is enjoying these tapes as well. Time to give the label a little bump with some links: https://atticshrines.bandcamp.com/music https://atticshrines.bigcartel.com/ I missed out on the original editions with the incredible packaging, but that's one of the things that first caught my ...

Sub-label of Attic Shrines focusing on astral death ambiance and haunted harsh noise. All releases are from an unlisted and unknown artist. All focus on different phantasmagoric hauntings or related events. Lo-Fi, other-worldly soundscapes. Like listening to beings who've transcended beyond, or perh...

Jute - Contempt c30-ish (Detachment Programs) Bought this after the WCN interview and very happy to have found the artist. I was intrigued by his knowledge and education with audio engineering. He applies it in a different way than you would expect though. Tape saturation, feedback-ridden, old-scho...

side note: the recent pic of Mikawa with Dilloway for Aaron's Japan show(s) is hilarious. Not sure if anyone else saw that on social media. No. Post them here. Dilloway Mikawa.png To me that's what happened on the Zouvneree album on Alchemy a few years ago. If you've only heard their classic works ...

Just got through my first spin. I'm REALLY liking this one. Definitely out there for Incaps, and if I was sat down for an invisible jukebox session and this was put on, I would probably never guess it was them. Love that they are still experimenting with their sound. Even the last track which is the...

Golden Purifier – Walpurgisopfer Golden Purifier – II Excited to get these after seeing them appear on so many year-end lists. Also, love the postcards that came with it. Very cool folksy and dark art that matches the noise well. Both tapes were available from the label up until earlier this week I ...

K.M. Toepfer I remember reading something about Canadian music in general being good because the winter forces you to learn how to work your gear. That Toepfer CD on WCN is very very good and didn't get enough hype. Well paced and thought out album. Completely the underdog of that great batch and n...

Didn't realize he had a Bandcamp, thanks for linking! I'll work through some of the other material as well, appreciate it. And yes, Seepage is fantastic. I think it might have been Kiran Arora putting out those tapes on Fantasy Knife. Also, looks like new Kiran Arora and Seepage material was just re...

Recently got Reslayer, Electric Field In Parallel, Threshold and Mechanical Abstraction and they are all great harsh noise/noisecore. 2022 was a fantastic year for Sissy Spacek. All 4 are extremely good. I finally listened to Threshold last night and was particularly blown away. Not sure why, but g...

A little late but here it is: Kazumoto Endo and scum — Psychoacoustic Studies + Noise Snippets scum / Unsustainable Social Condition — Necessary Downfall Skin Graft — Final Judgment I still haven't posted my favorites but I was extremely surprised not to see any of these appear on any other lists. ...

Very surreal sounding editing throughout both sides of this tape. Faster cuts between different sounds and fidelities at the beginning and towards the ending, although they aren’t hard cuts. Sounds seem to move independently of one another, slithering over one another, they know exactly where it is...

Been playing the "new" Moth Drakula and the Network Glass & Jason Crumer discs on Misanthropic Agenda constantly. Both stunners and easily end up on best-of the year lists.

HSL Covers - 500x.jpg So I've listened to both versions of Human Skin Lanterns back to back and can confirm they are completely different releases. I don't think any of the tracks repeat from one to the other whatsoever, and there are only a few moments here and there that use some of the same samp...

A few really good re-issues of early Deadline releases in the latest batch: Controlled Filter - Sniper : https://richardramirez.bandcamp.com/album/sn-per Helmut Yard - The Platform Shift : https://richardramirez.bandcamp.com/album/the-platform-shift I'm also very fond of the newer Cruel Map of Women...

I had the second version/mix, and it didn't do much for me, to be honest. Not bad, but I guess I expected more from it. I didn't know it was an alternative mix until later though. Still haven't heard the original, which bothers me. I ended up ordering the second version from Rodger and should have ...

Of the modern stuff, those Jazz Hijokaidan CDs with Akira Sakata are fantastic Totally with you here - Hijokaidan “with drums” is just about the best shit ever. It’s incredible to hear the fidelity of the “Live In Studio” tracks. Sound 100% different than the typically grimy typically Hijo tracks, ...

It was great when Jojo was still selling all of the Alchemy CDs on Ebay, you could bid on every Hijo or Incaps CD every week. It felt like they were going to be available forever. Those remastered +1 track versions are excellent and I grabbed quite a few. This was about the 2010s and they would usua...

Spate - Dogmono (Sinkole Entertainment) Excited to sit more with this one. Really enjoying it on the first spin. Some creative sounds and approaches. Even though I like the couple of Robert Fuch's tapes I've heard, I think this easily tops those. Excited to get the Neuter reissue from Total Black a...