Law of the Rope - Beasts Will Have You

Super crazed, frantic, and (literally) insane sounding black metal from three individuals (women, i think?) hailing from LA. Sure, the music (mostly the vocals) is weird enough that it was probably made by some art students who were making coco rosie clone tunes back in '05, but who cares? Sometimes you need those people to come into your xenophobic room of desolation and shake shit up a bit.

Here.

Knokkelklang - Kalk & Aske

Fantastic tape. Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic. The first track, at 3 and a half minutes, is just piano and vocals. Very minimal, almost improvised sounding. The second track brings the guitars and drums in, still minimal...or minimalist rather; Knokkelklang lean towards the repetitive side of things. I hate to say 'depressive', but it is and it's certainly one the best examples of the (ugh) genre. The recording quality is black metal lo-fi, but very warm at the same time. It all sounds like it was recorded in a cathedral with the tape player on the opposite end of the sanctuary as the band. Really, it's one of the few perfect recordings i have. Highly recommended.

PS - This is not my rip, it's from aesop over at The Cosmic Hearse. Also, the metal archives list this tape as having 4 songs. Aesop says that when he bought the tape, it only had these two songs on it. I've looked for other rips online, and all of them have just the two songs. I also can't seem to find any distros that still carry this tape. If any of you happen to have the supposed other songs that belong to this tape, please feel free to share!

Here.

*repost from 3/25/10*

Andrew Wilkes-Krier

These are the two best releases by Andrew Wilkes-Krier:


"Ancient Art of Boar - Terrestrial Optical Resonance Resistors" is total mid-nineties style noise. Over-blown recordings of metal on metal banging, weird outsider keyboards, and some electronics with a teenaged Andrew yelling about something on top of it. Harsh and improvised, but full of fantastic subtleties that seems to be lost on this current generation of bored suburban noise makers.

Screee!

This record is the most fun you will ever have in your life. I can't stress that enough.

Get wet!

*repost from 2/25/10*

Nachtmystium - Live 10/06/08

This is a recording i made of Nachtmystium playing at the King Cobra in Seattle back in 2008. I recorded it with a small tape recorder from the 80's hidden inside of my vest pocket, so don't expect great quality. The set starts off with songs from Assassins, then goes into some choice selections from Instinct: Decay, Demise, and Eulogy IV. The set ends with a song that Blake says is really old and then yells it's name, but i can't understand what he says and i don't recognize it, so i couldn't title the file. If you're a Nachtmystium completist and you have all of their crappy early demos and you happen to recognize what song they're playing, let me know and i'll re-upload the file with the proper title. Hope you enjoy!

Here.

*repost from 2/23/10*

Arizmenda - Within the Vacuum of Infinity

There isn't much left to say about the Black Twilight Circle that hasn't been said already. A lot of people love them, a lot of people hate them. I love them. This is Arizmenda, one of the members of the circle. He/they definitely sound akin to everything else the circle has released, so you know what you're in for, but i personally think this is the best (that i've heard at least). Very, very, very recommended.

Here.

*repost from 2/8/10*