Releases of note (so far) for 2023

[adult human]

Wino Lodge - Pocket Mutations (Chocolate Monk)

Sad that this one seems long gone, digital sounds cool

Reliably informed there’s a lot more good shit in the works for next year. A solo Constance release just came out on monk which rules.

[Mangrum]

I give! Does anyone know how/where on earth to get Seepage- Tertium Quid?

[Vermin Marvin]

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[drinkmaaan]

I give! Does anyone know how/where on earth to get Seepage- Tertium Quid?

Receiving Vault was handling the release but received some flack for very delayed shipments which may have led to them closing the store.

https://receivingvault.bigcartel.com

[xIncorruptibleCorpse777x]

Macronympha – Whorecestra (Dada Drumming) 3xCD
David Gilden – Texas Pillbox (Fusty Cunt) 16xCS

Man, I want to buy those digitally so bad...

Anyhow,

Aux Armes - Radikal (Old Captain)
Boredom Knife - Stalker (Crucial Blast)
Clang Quartet - A Slow Death For The Peacemaker (No Rent)
Jordan Darby (US) - New Hymnals Vol. I (Hissing Objects)
Linekraft - Hunger for Life (Old Captain)
Living Room - failed attempts at blistered earth
Living Room - Intellectual Shit
Living Room/Suffering Brings Wisdom - Live at the Comet split (released by SBW on their bcamp)
Patriots As Slaves - HNW Amendment 1 (Stemms Tapes)
Sissy Spacek - Absorb Wanting Symbols (Petite Soles)
Whore's Breath - the wall he made specifically for me :) (Stemms Tapes)
Zalhietzli - Armure

[murmur]

Agree very much with many of the releases mentioned above. Particularly the Star 2CD, Red Wine and Sugar CDr and Natalia Baylis tape are all standouts.

Some others:
Thomas DeAngelo - Voiceprints & Aircuts: Sound Poetry by Other Means (Adhuman)
pnl(a) - Fashion Skull (Absurd Exposition)
Ezio Piermattei- Rosume (Joy De Vivre)
Spring of Life - Interface (self-release)
Palatial - Perennial Apologia (Fantaslatt)
Umpio - Sin Memoria (Absurd Exposition)
Robert Fuchs - Sunstroke (WCN)
Elisha Morningstar - Marte (Buried in Slag and Debris)
Commando 15 - Vauhkola (Satatuhatta)
Jef Mertens & Bardo Todol - Tape Music for Electric Guitar and Hurdy Gurdy (Buried in Slag and Debris)
Rotmans - 490/504 and Two (Vast Field Magnetism)
Haudat - Energiavampyyri (Satatuhatta)

Edit: a few more
Barrett E. Lediard - Heat’s Immediate Double
Brandon Auger - OS:IS (Tool Use)
Grey Park & Sick Days - Work Gothic (Vacancy)

[xIncorruptibleCorpse777x]

Macronympha – Whorecestra (Dada Drumming) 3xCD

This is estimated to come to me the day after Christmas. Ironic, given that I got it with Christmas money I got early, lol

[xIncorruptibleCorpse777x]

Would like to add this to my list:

Whore's Breath - Wet Slate

Months ago, I had a convo with David about how he liked the "darker" HNW sound of acts like Black Matter Phantasm and The Ebony Tower (neither of which I'd heard before). He said that he was trying to attain that attribute to his sound. Well, he just did!!! As on his page, he describes the album is "Murky, cloudy, misty and somewhat eerie noise wall." I think that's accurate. Btw it came out on the 17th of this month, so it snuck in juuuuuuuuust under the wire...

[WCN]

My top 10:

ANTS IN THE AFTERBIRTH - Self-titled CS
MNEM - Heart Of Complex CS (Satatuhatta)
VIODRE - Drawing Horses CS (Kalifornia Love Addiction)
MO*TE - Kill The Sun CD (Dada Drumming)
GENOCIDE ORGAN + PRURIENT - Carte Blanche CD/LP (Hospital Productions)
SPRING OF LIFE - Interface CS
EURONET - TSMC Is Burning CS (Tordon Ljud)
BODY CARVE - Studies In Advanced Decomposition CD (Chondritic Sound)
CASPAR SONNET - Passacaglia Radio CS (Andromache Records)
STAR - Elephant In The Snow 2CD (Hospital Productions)

Also did a podcast episode about it:

[puritanwaste]

Amphibian - Lowlife (Beyond The Ruins)
Anal Drill - Shared Vibrator (Mechanical Presence Records)
Ants In The Afterbirth - Ants In The Afterbirth (Head Meat)
Arkhe - Taurokhton (Narcolepsia)
Barstool Mountain - Tightrope Walker (Absurd Exposition)
Joe Colley - Pleasure Pressure (New Forces)
Ex-Jesus - Too Drunk To Talk (Inbred Vigor)
Euronet - TSMC Is Burning (Tordon Ljud)
The Flea Circus – S/t (The Gift Of Music)
Heat Signature - Wired For Intrusion (Head Meat)
Hideously Disfigured - Vol. 1 (S.A.P.)
Mallard Theory - Mallard Theory (Tribe Tapes)
Moth Drakula - Bloated Subhumans (Inbred Vigor)
No Artist - Leprose Wick (Robert Fuchs)
Presage - Venerated (Narcolepsia)
Primitive Wings - Morphosis (Satatuhatta)
Kate Rissiek - Wave Expanse (Buried In Slag And Debris)
Robert Fuchs - Sunstroke (White Centipede Noise)
Sewer Election - Debris Assemblage (IDEAL Recordings)
Slacking - Roundhouse A Bootlicker (Tribe Tapes)
Star - Elephant In The Snow (Hospital Prod)
Stewart Skinner - For The Happiness Of The World (Usagi)
Spring Of Life - Interface (Not on label)
Viodre - Drawing Horses (Kalifornia Love Addiction)
Worth - Hamper (Aussat)

[Zalhietzli]

Zalhietzli - Armure

Woah, thanks !

[Kenny]

More "Noisy music" than Noise,
but here is my top shit for this year.

EMPTYSET - “Ash”
HULUBALANG - “Bunyi Bunyi Tumbal”
RICHIE CULVER - “Scream If You Don`t Exist”
DEMDIKE STARE - “Drum Machines”
RECOGNIZE ALI - “Back To Mecca II”
GOD IS WAR & ANDREW NOLAN - “The Hunt”
SOW DISCORD - “Scale II”
JK FLESH - “No Exits”
MIKA VAINIO - “Outoja Enkeleitä”
SUBMECHANICAL - “Abrasion”
KAIRAI BUNCH - “Industrealism”
YUKO ARAKI - “IV”
MICK HARRIS - “Culvert Dubs”
ICEMAN JUNGLIST KRU - “You`re Like a Scalpel…”
WOUND MAN - ”Human Outline”
UAN003 - “Uan003”
KARKOSSYN - “Troubled Youth”
GORGONN - “Six Paths”

[Magnetic_Irritation]

So much of my listening is older releases. I feel like there’s really no way I can do a top ten. Top six will have to do. Also excluding any reissues otherwise the list would be much longer.

H.Ö.H – Tukkeutunut Uniperäinen Mania
HEAT SIGNATURE - Wired For Intrusion
ANTS IN THE AFTERBIRTH - S/T
MNEM - Heart Of Complex
GOLDEN PURIFIER - Ganz Andere
PSYCHWARD - Institutionalized (Extended)

Aside from ANTS IN THE AFTERBIRTH, all are projects that I have been enamored with in some way or another for a while now. The ANTS... tape really just hits all of the perfect notes for long form 90's style harsh noise. I hate to reduce it to that, as it is just a great release despite any drawing back from bygone eras. Hope to hear more from GOLDEN PURIFIER as well. Compared to last year's release, Walpurgisopfer, Ganz Andere is quite short. But great nonetheless. Hopefully there is some kind of full length in the works. Captivating foggy industrial done like few others do.

[xIncorruptibleCorpse777x]

Zalhietzli - Armure

Woah, thanks !

No, thank YOU for making such a good release!

[xIncorruptibleCorpse777x]

Got the Macronympha in the mail! They threw in a buncha goodies, too!!!

[Brian O'Blivion]

Noise and related genres:
- Apologist - Everything Feels Brighter (No Rent)
- Barstool Mountain - Tightrope Walker (Absurd Exposition)
- Body Carve - Studies in Advanced Decomposition (Chondritic Sound)
- Commuter - No Longer Penitent (New Forces)
- Cryptofascisme - Cinq Collines (Satatuhatta)
- Cyess Afxzs - No Bull One Left Behind (Krim Kram) 
- Death Kneel - Dawn Simulation (Chondritic Sound)
- Green Tea - Snowblower (New Forces)
- Hack Conduit - Amp Choked Residue (Self-released)
- Incipientium - Limbo (Harmful)
- Jackson-Pratt & Shredded Nerve - Jackson-Pratt & Shredded Nerve (Total Black)
- Joseph Hammer/Joe Potts/John Wiese - The Elusive Flexure (Helicopter)
- Matriarch - Visible Paint (Absurd Exposition)
- Met Glas - Moody Brooding (Absurd Exposition)
- Mot / Murmur - Mot / Murmur (White Centipede Noise)
- Murmur / Fowl - Balcony (Buried in slag and debris.)
- Shredded Nerve - Third Sign (New Forces)
- Star - Elephant in the Snow (Hospital Productions)
- Tim Gick - Body Without Organs (No Rent)
- Violent Shogun - New Dark Age (Buried in slag and debris.)
- Wold - Job’s Daughters (Owe CD)
- Worth - Hamper (Aussaat)

Non-noise:
- Ak’chamel - A Mournful Kingdom of Sand (Akuphone)
- Ardor - Our Place in the Cosmos (Nouvelle Gaze)
- Barn Sour - Soap & Glue (Penultimate Press)
- Beatriz Ferreyra - Senderos De Luz Y Sombras (Recollection GRM)
- Blod - Där Ska Barnet Vara (Discreet Music)
- Catherine Christer Hennix - Solo For Tamburium (Blank Forms Editions)
- CIA Debutante - Down, Willow (Siltbreeze)
- Dan Sour - Drinkers Mass (Spoor LLC)
- De Leon - De Leon (Mana)
- Éliane Radigue & Quatuor Bozzini - Occam Delta XV (qb)
- Ellen Arkbro - Sounds While Waiting (W.25th)
- Evan Parker - NYC 1978 (Relative Pitch)
- FACS - Still Life In Decay (Trouble In Mind)
- Franciska - Tryghed (Discreet Music)
- Graham Lambkin - Aphorisms (Blank Forms Editions)
- Kali Malone - Does Spring Hide Its Joy (Ideologic Organ)
- Kevin Drumm - Battering Rams (A Sunken Mall)
- Laurel Halo - Atlas (Awe)
- Loscil // Lawrence English - Colours of Air (Kranky)
- Lucy Railton - Corner Dancer (Modern Love)
- Madison Greenstone - Resonance Studies In Ecstatic Consciousness (Relative Pitch)
- Necks, The - Travel (Northern Spy)
- Philip Jeck & Chris Watson - Oxmardyke (Touch)
- Sarah Davachi & Quatuor Bozzini - Long Gradus (Late Music)
- William Basinski - The Clocktower At The Beach (1979) (Line)
- Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World (Matador)

[Schznthrpd]

More like a half-year top 10 since I haven't checked out much stuff released after summertime. Once again limiting this list to CD format and no re-issues.

Commuter — No Longer Penitent [New Forces]
Cyess Afxzs — Richter [White Centipede Noise]
Hattifnattar — Watcher Of The Skies [Satatuhatta]
Jackson-Pratt & Shredded Nerve — Split [Total Black]
Kiran Arora — Wilderness Years [Fantasy Knife]
Seepage — Tertium Quid [Fantasy Knife]
Shredded Nerve — Third Sign [New Forces]
Tyhjä Pää — Prolonged Troubles In Concentration And Memory [Satatuhatta]
VA — Capturing The Wind, A Japanese Noise Compilation [Dada Drumming]
Worth — Hamper [Aussaat]

[dust]

pentecostal nightstick - realistic juan 12" 45RPM (trip tape)
rexall pain calculator - forest memory c32 (fragment emulsion)
ontological confusion - shamrock juice need (free squeeze)
skull name - s/t (puppet fantasy)
dusty plum sweater - wash cold like colors (he's your friend too records)

[xIncorruptibleCorpse777x]

pentecostal nightstick - realistic juan 12" 45RPM (trip tape)

That's one helluva project name, no pun intended (seriously).

[lovelife]

pentecostal nightstick - realistic juan 12" 45RPM (trip tape)

That's one helluva project name, no pun intended (seriously).

I think you mean that's Juan helluva project name.... Lol

[Tribe Tapes]

dusty plum sweater - wash cold like colors (he's your friend too records)

This was actually intended for Squelch Lens before that label shuttered.

[xIncorruptibleCorpse777x]

pentecostal nightstick - realistic juan 12" 45RPM (trip tape)

That's one helluva project name, no pun intended (seriously).

I think you mean that's Juan helluva project name.... Lol

smdh

[Scream & Writhe]

2023 Top Ten (in no order, although the MNEM tape was the most played)

BARSTOOL MOUNTAIN - Tightrope Walker LP (Absurd Exposition)
JOE COLLEY - Pleasure Pressure LP (New Forces)
GREEN TEA - Snowblower CD (New Forces)
LIVSKRAFT LP (Förlag För Fri Musik)
MATTIAS GUSTAFSSON - Nedbyrtningen CS (Hästen & Korset)
MNEM - Heart of Complex CS (Satatuhatta)
MOLENA with THE RITA - Barre CS (Absurd Exposition)
SPRING OF LIFE - Interface CS (self-released)
WORTH - Hamper CD (Aussaat)
ZK - Discordia CS (Absurd Exposition)

[xIncorruptibleCorpse777x]

I haven't heard (or even heard OF) most of the stuff people have listed. What webzines/blogs should I be reading? I already read Untitled zine, Noise Receptor (print version), and Noise Widow...

[adult human]

I haven't heard (or even heard OF) most of the stuff people have listed. What webzines/blogs should I be reading? I already read Untitled zine, Noise Receptor (print version), and Noise Widow...

Happy to be corrected on this but I don't think it's a matter of following certain blogs or zines. Not to say they don't exist and aren't good, but more that the can't be a primary way people would have found out about those releases. If you think about how fast and frequently these things come out vs how slowly zines and blogs get updated it wouldn't make sense anyway.

A lot of the best of lists I've read - both harsh noise and more broadly experimental - contain releases I've not heard myself but am not surprised to see because they're released by quite popular labels with a committed audience and decent reach. Whatever that means. In many cases I suspect the people sharing their favourites are no more than 2 degrees separate from the artist or label involved. Not a criticism, just the way things are. But important to be aware of if it seems like there is some centralised place where all the discussion is happening. I don't think there is.

Catching on to these releases is probably more a case of making sure you follow the labels involved and generally just continue to be involved with noise as and where you find it.