Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Winters in Osaka
Sometimes putting out music is more about sending signals out and hoping like minded fuck ups will respond on some level. The upcoming Bastard Noise and Unearthly Trance split releases are both fine examples of projects coming about because of this.
Anyway, Adam Jennings of Chicago's Winters in Osaka is someone i'm suprised we weren't in league with much sooner than we were.
Adam is now an occasional live collaborator with us and we released a WiO/ Deat Agonies split cassette last year and have WiO/ Death Agonies live collaboration due out sometime later this year.
WiO's latest CD is called Molded to Crawl and the first two tracks feature sizable contributions from us (amongst others). It's available from Haunted Hotel now (who also released the excellent Brodies Militia/ Antiseen split 7" and the Mass Grave/ Catheter split 10" amongst others).
Anyway, Adam Jennings of Chicago's Winters in Osaka is someone i'm suprised we weren't in league with much sooner than we were.
Adam is now an occasional live collaborator with us and we released a WiO/ Deat Agonies split cassette last year and have WiO/ Death Agonies live collaboration due out sometime later this year.
WiO's latest CD is called Molded to Crawl and the first two tracks feature sizable contributions from us (amongst others). It's available from Haunted Hotel now (who also released the excellent Brodies Militia/ Antiseen split 7" and the Mass Grave/ Catheter split 10" amongst others).
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
this isn't about noise
Brutal Knights are in Europe soon, bring Matthew a book on history or cavemen or something nice.
Slaughterstrike is the band that everyone from The Endless Blockade who isn't in Brutal Knights is in. It's also got two of these dudes in
First show this friday in Toronto.
As I enter middle age my friday nights of having a few beers and playing misanthropic death metal with the lads is the equivalent of my fathers generation going out and playing darts at the pub.
Coming soon to 2009: some news about The Endless Blockade. Maybe.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Death Agonies
Yeah, we really should be doing other things but we've been working on a bunch of Death Agonies pieces recently.
- Split C20 with Pig Heart Transplant on Survivalist (Blockade/ Pig Heart Transplant tour in september).
- Something or other on Brise Cul.
- Cassette on Cathartic Process (buy the new Bastard Noise behemoth 5xCD set and Bizarre Uproar 2xCS from him).
- and something on some label by some dude that played a pretty great noise set at Traumatone HQ (Skeeter). No links, i'm as clueless as you probably are.
a minor playlist of sorts:
Bastard Noise - Rogue Astronaut CD
Piss Horn - Hatred Mountain CS
Kathaaria - Complex Void of Negativity LP
Urban Blight - best band in Toronto
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Noise
If you "sort of like" The Endless Blockade but can't get into "all that feedback and effects and weird shit" then you'll probably want to skip this post entirely.
Gack has a new CDR out called Thrombosis. Because this isn't my project i can say i really enjoyed this release in a big way and it's not a callous lie. Warped sounds all of his own that aren't trying to consciously fit in with any particular strain of noise. I wasn't expecting much from this one but in all honesty it was one of the most compelling noise releases i've heard in an age.
Contact him via myspace or at theendlessblockade@gmail.com
Joshua Norton Cabal (and i really should put more songs on that page) has two new releases out that i'm pretty happy with.
We Speak Through Wires is available on cassette from the mighty Self Abuse and Counting The Ways is available on CDR from Traumatone
You might want to e mail Self Abuse for availability as Patrick seems more concerned with trying to grow his dredlocks back than update his site. Anyway, Self Abuse was basically the Slap a Ham of modern noise in the 1990s.
There are a lot of Ground Zeros for noise but in my humble opinion Self Abuse was the genesis of harsh noise as we know it in the western hemisphere today.
Self Abuse (d)evolved noise past it's goth and industrial European roots and the zen-like Japanese approach and gave noise a particularly US flavour adding a depth of embittered nihilism to the genre that wasn't present before in the harsh noise scene. It took the sheen off the hyper animated (and let's face it sometimes far too empty and glossy) then massively influential Japanese scene and dragged it down into the gutter.
And of course Macronympha and The New Blockaders were hugely important in the creation of modern harsh noise but to my mind Self Abuse was the focal point that brought everything together and got shit done in a way no one else really did.
As for Traumatone, after Self Abuse came Hospital Productions and Prurient who developed the scene further. In my opinion the next tangible development was Wall Noise and its chief midwife and theortician is still clearly The Rita but equally important (again, in my humble opinion), but much less in the public eye to the Wall Noise world's formation was Ryan Bloomer of Traumatone.
None of this says anything about the two new Joshua Norton Cabal releases and in all honesty that's kind of the point. Both releases veer from harsh full frequency spectrum overloads to more composed psychedlic electronics and found sound work outs. Fellahean contributed a small number of sounds to the end product on Self Abuse and Chris Dodge contributed all the source material for the second track of the Trauamtone release which i then spent too long pulling apart and putting back together again.
Gack has a new CDR out called Thrombosis. Because this isn't my project i can say i really enjoyed this release in a big way and it's not a callous lie. Warped sounds all of his own that aren't trying to consciously fit in with any particular strain of noise. I wasn't expecting much from this one but in all honesty it was one of the most compelling noise releases i've heard in an age.
Contact him via myspace or at theendlessblockade@gmail.com
Joshua Norton Cabal (and i really should put more songs on that page) has two new releases out that i'm pretty happy with.
We Speak Through Wires is available on cassette from the mighty Self Abuse and Counting The Ways is available on CDR from Traumatone
You might want to e mail Self Abuse for availability as Patrick seems more concerned with trying to grow his dredlocks back than update his site. Anyway, Self Abuse was basically the Slap a Ham of modern noise in the 1990s.
There are a lot of Ground Zeros for noise but in my humble opinion Self Abuse was the genesis of harsh noise as we know it in the western hemisphere today.
Self Abuse (d)evolved noise past it's goth and industrial European roots and the zen-like Japanese approach and gave noise a particularly US flavour adding a depth of embittered nihilism to the genre that wasn't present before in the harsh noise scene. It took the sheen off the hyper animated (and let's face it sometimes far too empty and glossy) then massively influential Japanese scene and dragged it down into the gutter.
And of course Macronympha and The New Blockaders were hugely important in the creation of modern harsh noise but to my mind Self Abuse was the focal point that brought everything together and got shit done in a way no one else really did.
As for Traumatone, after Self Abuse came Hospital Productions and Prurient who developed the scene further. In my opinion the next tangible development was Wall Noise and its chief midwife and theortician is still clearly The Rita but equally important (again, in my humble opinion), but much less in the public eye to the Wall Noise world's formation was Ryan Bloomer of Traumatone.
None of this says anything about the two new Joshua Norton Cabal releases and in all honesty that's kind of the point. Both releases veer from harsh full frequency spectrum overloads to more composed psychedlic electronics and found sound work outs. Fellahean contributed a small number of sounds to the end product on Self Abuse and Chris Dodge contributed all the source material for the second track of the Trauamtone release which i then spent too long pulling apart and putting back together again.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
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