The latest band to join the Heart & Crossbone rooster is Remesh,
a three-piece act from the holy city of Jerusalem.
Influenced by the pagan-industrial of Coil or Swans, and the contemporary avant-garde black metal of Leviathan or Xasthur, while wallowing in self-loathing, "Choke" is a bit more than 15 minutes of epic-noise anointment, accompanied by deviant sensibilities of refined abhorrence.

Collaborating Torture is one of the last known recordings made by Matt Gibney AKA Hollowing, who died in January 2006. Gibney, a member of SOIHADTOSHOOTHIM who was also running the important Rectrix label and mail-order, was joined here by the prolific Maor Appelbaum (Grave in the Sky, Poochaltz and Maurizio Bianchi, to name but a few...) to create a brooding and massive 54 minutes track of dark pitch-black ambient of hypnagogic swirls and industrialized drones. Sometimes subtle, yet mostly haunted and delirious, this is highly recommended if you like Wilt, Murderous Vision, Brighter Death Now, Aidan Baker, Z'ev, Daniel Menche, The Caretaker and John Duncan.

Like demented twins in crime, Burmese (tUMULt / Load Records) & Cadaver Eyes rephrase Doom, Grindcore and Power Electronics by using an agonizing mechanism of plain brutal aesthetics, ascending these genres to a higher level of cognitive surge.

This split CD is difficult and pungent, a warm spew in the face and an endless buzz in the eardrum that fiercely occupies the brain and treats the grey cells as if they were an ashtray. A crude awakening and a classic case of ponderous self indulgence.

(Something on the Road / Woolwung / Heart & Crossbone)
Named after River Lagan in Belfast, here comes a new sonic oddity from Israel, this time by Lietterschpich members David OPP (also; Barbara and Cadaver Eyes) and Lil' Oof (also; Panda Porn).

The Lagan Tapes is the aftermath of a Lietterschpich gig at the Sonorities Festival held in Belfast in 2005. The day after, while killing time before the flight back to Israel, David and Lil' Wolf found themselves walking across The River Lagan whereas David was thumping on fences and banging on random garbage cans with his bare hands, while Lil' Wolf was documenting the rawkus with her broken Sony TCM-323 Cassette-Corder that gave this recording its' essential lo-fi quality.

The result sounds like a regressed Gamelan workshop that evolved into an occult of modern primitives, providing tribal rhythms & haunting sounds reminiscent of MCMS, Crash Worship, Pain Teens, early 80's Sonic Youth, 23 Skidoo, Gamelan Son of A Lion and the Ince Ore & Lemon Bear Orchestra.

14 tracks, total running time: just under 30 min

Juxtaposing noise-core, grind and doom, with strong hints of black metal, it's hard to accept the fact that Barbara's instrumental line-up is comprised only by a drummer (David OPP A.K.A Cadaver Eyes) and a bass player (Re-em H), both of them also deliver the screams and perverse whispers on their first album in four years, a hectic and mindless anti-musical rupture.

For fans of Today Is the Day, VOG, Truman's Water, Burmese, Lightning Bolt and Pig Destroyer.

If Mark Stewart was joining Khanate and Bad Brains were playing black metal, there's a slight chance that a resemblance to what Lietterschpich (Hebrew for Liter of Cum) has achieved with their debut album will arise. This bleak digital-doom-dub shriek is bound to slap the hard-core fans of innovative harsh music.

It doesn't get more extreme than this! Featuring members of Barbara and Grave in the Sky, this is highly recommended if you like Throbbing Gristle, Volt, Stallagh, Menstruation Sisters and White Mice.

The Sludge-core scene is injected with a poison: Horror movies DVD subtitles are being gargled and forced into song lyrics, backed up by heavy poundings and black metallic space-rock dirges, on this new release from Rani Zager (Poochlatz /Lietterschpich), Maor Appelbaum (Poochlatz/Sleepless/Screening) and Matan Shmuelly (Armilos).

Check this out if you're into Hey Colossus, Corrupted, Gravitar, Darkthrone and Electric Wizard.

Against all odds, we strive for excellence - we pray for prey, but shudder helpless - what's the meaning of this perverse? I've got them infecting on the flaws, questioning the truth - if needed, they will convert heaven into a burning hollow space - but once anxiety will slap me back, sanity will strike some points - could it be that everyone needs a miss to flourish?

Get down to it and finish the job: Poochlatz debut CD, Victims of Self Preservation, is out now - a limited edition of only 999 copies

Ultra noise distortion with; Maor Appelbaum: bass and production, Rani Zager: distorted vox

Future grindcore is here, this release contains; "NO TIME TO HASTE" recorded aug, 2001 @ Austin Enterprise by Steve Austin of Today Is The Day, and "THE ACQUISITION OF POWER OVER FIRE EP" recorded at Day-Dream 2004.

19 tracks + 5 more tracks = 42 MIN of blasting future grind - these 24 annihilating tracks range from ultra blasts to death doom and from black metal to industrial noise.

MILDEW aka; OVESH, David Opp, [drummer of] Shalosh Hait, barbara, Lietterschpich, & Cadaver Eyes] from blazing fast to super slow, dark & repetitive electronics, drum machine gone out-of-control, a digitized binhexed godflesh floating in cyber-outer-space. -- Recorded back in 11.1998, this project marks the birth of Cadaver Eyes - played live only once: [TransHudson Gallery, NYC, 1999] - tracks appeared in compilations, soundtracks & installations in the US & Japan.

This release includes "EXTERNAL CONTROLLER 1.06b" [interactive piece, runs on Mac & PC] CD RUNNING TIME = 50MIN

"The recording quality is top notch, in an overblown, loud as fuck blowout, as BARBARA tears through 9 songs of harsh black metal / prog punk brutality, with a crushing bass guitar attack, crusty witch vocals, and fastpaced drumming.

Lots of weird math-y breaks amongst jazzy tornado thrash and slow, sludgy dirges"
taken from crucial blast
over 40 min, 9 tracks.

"3H" hcb-001 [released 1991 as OPP-001]
post punk trio, vinyl released in jerusalem 91,
a limited edition, hand numbered, found 20 or so
copes in storage.

[price gone up due to shipping costs]