Minitel (Canada), seriously into Discordance Axis + Bandcamp Friday
I might have been offline for a while but I guess I always kept rotating about a discordant axis, as apparently many still do to this day and age. Present day, present time. Namely, Minitel is a grindcore band of blatant, unabashed, downright wonderful DxAx worship, and aesthetically they're like a digital runaway band straight out of Serial Experiments Lain (the anime series; take note of the cover art, as well as their use of samples) or some other Japanese creative interpretation of technology-induced alienation, with no trace of the s…
Gall (Germany) - 17:21 MIN (2020)
The term “psychedelic” often conjures to mind sunny California jangle-pop or the stoned, soulful leads of Jimi Hendrix. But psychedelia has a broader reach than tie dye and incense. It can be violent and oppressive in ways that the summer of love never imagined. Germany’s Gall play a noise-damaged, decidedly psychedelic blend of powerviolence, grindcore and sludge that meshes masterfully across 17:21 MIN ’s 18 tracks. Screeching, chittering electronics and depth-plumbing bass are anchored by drumming that oscillates between textured and blas…
Mor Thiam (USA/Senegal) - Dini Safarrar (1973/2015)
What's up cephalochromoscopers, cephalochromologists, dudes and dudettes? I may have not written a post since April 2012, which is why posting a noisy grindcore album right away just wouldn't feel 'ethical'. I hope you're all doing well, blastbeats included, and please feel uninhibited to leave a comment or send an email - I'd love to hear what's up! Judging by most of the blogs that I followed, the blogosphere is in a state similar to punk, and browsing through old posts trying to find a trace of life feels like wa…
Blaencathra/S'gath(UK) - Split Demo (2009)
*tap* *tap tap* This thing on? Hello? Ah, superb. Afternoon, 'scopers! Kept you waiting, huh? Over nine years since the last post, and I've been hit by a wave of nostalgia. Everything has changed, everything is different, we all consume our media so aggressively. We stream records like we're eating grapes. Spotify, Bandcamp, YouTube... they've all made everything so disappointingly easy . Nine years is a frighteningly long time, after all. I can't speak for the other Ceph-writers—I can't speak to them, …
Alaric(US) - S/T (2011)
I don't know about you, 'scopers, but the Great Postpunk Revival left me a bit cold. I felt like William Reid in that interview on Belgian TV: "What's so fucking great about Joy Division?" So why, you might reasonably ask, am I uploading a postpunk album? These guys. These guys get it . There's the standard chorussed-up guitar and cardboard box drums, but there's also a lot of Amebix in there. There's a lot of proper goth in there. A lot of Killing Joke in there; a lot of anger in there. Alaric do not sou…
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