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Blind Date – Open Trap

An avalanche of jagged metal. Buildings erupt into shards. Caustic ash. Vehicles detonate. Fires burn wild throughout the city. The singed horizon of Bellona. Open Trap yawns jagged, exhaling, a blast-furnace. This cassette is a powerhouse of hot noise, favoring interruption and causality over the deadpan wall crunch of many contemporaries on New Forces. Samples […]

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Shredded Nerve – Final Vision

Old cinemas are dead as malls. Newspaper covers the windows – the paint curls like overgrown fingernails. Black mold. You could picture it decades ago all lit-up, but nostalgia is a disease. They’ll tear it down one day. Until then, the dead cinema you remember (or imagine, if you never lived near a closed-down cinema) […]

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AJA – “Tuck It, Tape It”

[Album: Self-titled] Aja Ireland tears the top of her elaborate costume off, walks out into a bewildered audience, and all but literally assaults them with her microphone. She spits and screams and mutters and moans, backed by a thudding drum machine and hardware vomiting out tape-recorded loops and her own voice chopped and thrown back […]

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Prurient – “BTK Machine Sugar”

Hello, Dead Iverson here! This is the Noise Discord review series, where a track or album in the genre of noise music and genres related to noise is posted daily along with a blurb about the track and artist (Label and links will be included when appropriate). A casual affair, intended to broaden my own […]