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Shredded Nerve / Form Hunter
In the summer of 2023 Shredded Nerve and Form Hunter embarked on an east coast tour that culminated at the Initial Shock festival in Montreal. This CD is a reissue of a limited edition tour cassette available at those shows, and also features a brand new track from each artist, totaling 4 tracks and more than 40 minutes of music. Psych-noise incantations colliding with metal junks avalanches that rip the forest to shreds. Smashing cassette players into oblivion with a baseball bat to the cheers …
Bending Your Sauna
In 2022 New Forces received a pair of discs in the mail from Nick Forté (Rorschach, Raspberry Bulbs, Half Mortal) that contained the initial creative burst from his new project Green Tea. The albums were astonishingly well crafted and could hardly be considered "demos"; indeed, they felt like masterworks that emerged out of thin air, blending psychedelic harsh noise with ambient and new age music in a way that felt incredibly fresh and exciting. As the artist describes it, "I knew I was working …
All Pressures Past
Primitive Isolation Tactics is the foremost example of how the current generation of Canadian noise builds on the foundation forged by some of the country's textural masters while expanding into new and ever more dynamic territory. There is plenty of monolithic crunching to sink your teeth into on "All Pressures Past," but the sounds skitter, jump, and implode into a satisfyingly damaged wreckage of burned wires and fried voltage. Primitive Isolation Tactics wields both patience and restlessness…
Wilderness & Industry
Perfected Grave Vault is the high octane noise duo of Charlie Mumma and Aaron Aspinwall. Following on the heels of their highly regarded 2023 CD Mutative Forecast (Oxen), this latest offering is a constantly shifting, fast paced flamethrower of a recording. Evoking the Americanoise crunch of classic acts like Skin Crime or Macronympha, "Wilderness and Industry" manages to to achieve a monolithic heaviness without bogging down in static minimalism. This is a quick moving recording that seizes you…
Black Flights
*300 copies limited edition* A new devastating alliance in the Italian Power Electronics / Industrial underground. Black Flights marks the first collaboration between: Uncodified, Funerale Classico Italiano (aka Giovanni Maffeis, long-time collaborator of Brighter Death Now), and Wertham / Caligula031.
Black Flights delivers everything you'd expect from this trio: structured, oppressive patterns, high-octane harsh frequencies, distorted field recordings, and vocal. The album is a cold, methodica…
Sick Thoughts
*300 copies limited edition* Murder Corporation returns with a brand new full album after about 10 years of silence. You know exactly what to expect from such Italian monster! Harsh & Sharp Maniac Killer sounds... If you need more words, you don't need this album!
Sex Worker: The Complete Recordings
The Sex Worker series began in 2019, as a reflection on my relationship to the sex industry. There are three cassettes in the series - all out of print, and highly collectible - published by Total Black, with my take on power electronics and death industrial, channelling the emotions of rage, mania, depression, and lust, and featuring interviews and vocals from women in the sex industry from around the world, telling their stories, expressing their place in the industry.
The first two cassettes …
Red Magnesia Pink
First released by Extreme in the massive, infamous 'Merzbox,' "Red Magnesia Pink" is extracted and recontextualized as a standalone release for the first time. Recorded in 1995, "Red Magnesia Pink" sees Merzbow in peak form. A psychedelic whirlwind of synthetic transmissions; harsh, wet, screeching sounds that could only be produced by Masami Akita. Featuring two previously unreleased bonus tracks from the same era.
Infinity Quartet
*300 copies limited edition* The debut album from a new Gothenburg group featuring Erik Nystrand (Capers), Dan Johansson (Sewer Election), Per Palmqvist (Slow Exit) and David Valleryd (Schakalens Bror). A blistering free noise tornado recorded at Longest Night in Kortedala during October 2024. Electronics, guitars, drums. Blown-out and at times almost psychedelic grittiness in the spirit of Hijokaidan, Borbetomagus, Ascension and the likes, though channeled through the neverending well of unmana…
Parallel Disalignment
Tip! *300 copies limited edition* "Since Fallen Sun’s debut CD, 'Beyond the Flat Earth', which appeared on Fourth Dimension Records in 2024, there have been rare live appearances and collaborative releases by this solo project of Malaysian electronic artist, Y’ng-Yin Siew. She has also released a few albums under the name, Reverse Image, which is a comparatively sedate project given to more atmospheric sounds yet no less metamorphic or unsettled because of that. Fallen Sun, as the name itself al…
Impurity
Industrial/noise visionary Uncodified returns with a powerful new offering—"Impurity"—out now and set to captivate fans of experimental electronic music worldwide.
"Impurity" continues Uncodified’s celebrated exploration of harsh soundscapes, merging dense industrial textures with haunting atmospherics and eerie melodic fragments. Across its tracks, the album delves deeply into themes of contrast—purity and corruption, order and entropy—inviting listeners into a sonic journey as unsettling as it…
Persona: A Complete Retrospective
Tip! Roman Torment were the combined efforts of Evan Pacewicz (Moth Drakula/Swampland) & Jeff Witscher (Impregnable/Callow God) at the height of the short lived but very important LA harsh noise scene of the early 00's. Together they wove a blanket of brutal crumbling razor-honed electronics. Inspired less by contemporaries or legendary acts and more by film, literature, photography, poetry and what Swampland Press refers to now as "romantic nihilism" the duo was able to carve a permanent scar i…
Chwalfa
Tip! “Chwalfa” (Welsh for “dispersal, rout, upheaval, upset, or a confused or chaotic state”) documents the first return of Incapacitants to the UK since 2016. With the windows boarded up and the subs doubled, two ordinary looking blokes Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai obliterate OTO’s usual whisper hush with clipped out, scorched earth tape loops and pedal chains - transporting the room to the planet’s furnace core and back again. It’s all music, all at once, in a whorling vortex of time bendi…
Barbare Electrique
The trip of Steel Mammoth has truly been long and strange. On this album they've finally come to an end, sort of. This is true post-post-apocalyptic electro-acoustic noise, culled from metal percussion, gongs and electronics by Jussi Lehtisalo (Circle, Pharaoh Overlord), Ilkka Vekka (Gatha, Haare etc.) and Ville Pirinen (Seremonia, VPCS). Imagine a lost INA-GRM session, dug up from radioactive black sand in the year 3019. Circuit funeral march, ritual music for androids. A joint release between …
Azumi Muto
*24 copies limited edition* Harsh noise, tense and violent from Italy. The theme is based on the crime story of the Japanese model and pin-up Azumi Muto, killed by her brother...
Lust
*18 copies limited edition* Harsh porn noise from Italy, based on licentious and lustful sonnets of the Italian poet of XVI century Pietro Aretino.
Merzphysics
*300 copies limited edition* First released in 2012 on Japanese label Youth Inc. as a 10xCD Box and long time sold out. After 13 years this completely re-mastered Super-Merz-Sonik album is finally going to be re-released on OEC!
The Merzphysics set features previously unreleased recordings from 1993 to 1995, focusing on pure noise made before the introduction of synthesizers and other electronic instruments. The noise is described as being linked to grindcore, having a sense of speed, and was re…
Sporangium
*300 copies limited edition* A sporangium (from Ancient Greek sporá 'seed' and angeîon 'vessel') is an enclosure in which spores are formed. It can be composed of a single cell or can be multicellular. Virtually all plants, fungi, and many other groups form sporangia at some point in their life cycle. Sporangia can produce spores by mitosis, but in land plants and many fungi, sporangia produce genetically distinct haploid spores by meiosis.
Sporangium is brand new "merzsoniks"! Equipments used b…
Sky Blue Void
Matthew Bower's Total released 'Sky Blue Void' in 1994 through Freek, recorded the same year as previous NOHL reissue Skullflower's "Last Shot at Heaven." "Sky Blue Void" is the zoner of zoners, as heavenly and crushing as the rapturous cover art suggests. Release yourself to the void.
Merzbow Mixed Total
The two masters, thousands of miles apart, released this fearsome collaboration in 1997 on Sterilized Decay. Matthew Bower's source sounds were processed, mangled and reassembled by Masami Akita for 50 minutes of unbridled destruction. At once a summation and reconfiguration of both artist's incredible work throughout the 1990s. Remastered and with a new layout based on the original tape.