Raiding The Crimson Tides and The Burning Of Eterna City - Ghost (2011)

Torn Flesh

8.7

/EBM, Crossover, Black metal, Leftfield, Cybergrind, Electronic pop/

Comment: this set of 6 tracks is a blend of glowering and growling metal propulsions and the aesthetic of punching programmed beats and fluttering synth sounds full of unexpected progressive points and bars. Indeed, the album`s nature is acid and technical loaded with brutal  power and outbursts now and then.

Sangre Y Tierra - El Machete Negro (2013)

Torn Flesh

Bandcamp

8.5

/Improvised music, Black metal, Noise, Avant-metal, Drone, Psychedelic, Lo-fi/

Comment: Marvin Quinones´ 4-track issue takes on thoroughly lo-fi and noise tinged black metal explorations, however, bringing forth its charm with regard to ghastly, resonating sonic walls and massive, punching gears underneath. Furthermore, the issue provides some psychedelic resonances every once in a while. At times the compositions are varied with silence-induced snippets and whining, abrasive guitar riffs. In true, the centric track Agonia is a improvised one based on flange and stereo effects as if having a duel between a static and convulsive layer. By kindred souls I recommend to listen to Wreck And Reference`s Black Cassette (2011).

Angry Norwegian & OxCxWx - VARG YAGAMI (2013)

Torn Flesh

Piss Cough

9.2

/Brutal metal, Powerviolence, Math metal, Grindcore, Anti-metal, Non-music/

Comment: if you are intended to experience the most acrid moments in the music world then one choice would be to visit the home site of Torn Flesh Records having more than 700 items in the discography (though being also a part of Piss Cough, another label either). The recent issue is the split release of Angry Norwegian, and OxCxWx involving the torrents of smithereens-alike  and galloping drum sequences, heavily tortured vocals and crust-y bass guitars and peculiar samples in the forefront thereby warning us with regard to the dark side of the human being - human shit. By this angle it is more normal (or less sick) than the most of pop albums together with. Ina word, it will make you stronger unless does not kill you.  

Vulgar Disease - Gangland (2013)

Torn Flesh

9.4

/Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Psycho-acoustic, Noise, Non-music, Microtonal/

Comment: Mario Quiroga`s noiseful torrents and zombie-alike incantations unleashed there over 8 tracks are undoubtedly impressive and striking. More concretely, it involves an incessant array of  ascending and then a little withdrawing energetic units made mainly of brown noise. Quiroga`s soundscapes are up over the area where angry obsession impulses are imbued with instense sexual drives (Erotic Tsunami, Rapequake) and the rush of destroying. 

SATANIC ERYNN BOE 666 - Immortail (2012)

Torn Flesh

Bandcamp

• Avant hip-hop
• Experimental
• Noise-hop
• Rap
• Urban music
• Angst 
• Psychedelic
• Breakcore

SATANIC ERYNN BOE 666 - The Final Bass Fight (2012)

Torn Flesh

Bandcamp

• Hip-hop
• Noise
• Noise-hop
• Avant-hop
• Experimental hip-hop
• Rap

Sangre Y Tierra / Adrift Split-2010 (2012)

Torn Flesh

Bandcamp

• Black metal
• Brutal metal
• Noise rock
• Alternative rock
• Experimental metal
• Lo-fi
• Psychedelia
• Experimental metal

Mental D-struction - Extrapolation (2011)

Torn Flesh

8.7

/Breakcore, Dark electronica, Breaks, Neoclassical, Electro metal, Cybermetal/

Comment: this batch of 7 pieces is a frantic blend of thudding breaks and desperate beat sections, neoclassical synth hooks and whiffs, furious metal attacks and demented black metal appearances, however, all of that is forced out with enormous power and confidence. In a nutshell, it is intense, powerful, and even somehow majestic on its nature.

Gangrena - The Zombie Survival Society (2012)

Torn Flesh

9.2

/Death metal, Crust punk, Grindcore, Goregrind, Non-music, Brutal metal/ 

Comment: the listener can be sure that Gangrena, the Mexico-based collective is obviously an out of pop group because of incessantly mutilating and demolishing possible fine song structures and harmonies presented in mind. Gangrena`s release used run on devouring, indecipherable vocal/moaning lines, angrily attacking guitar massives, deathly punching drums and other abrasive (or on the other way unexpected) minutiae by right and left side. As the result the issue releases a vast amount of psyched-out emission into surrounding space. In a word, it is a genuinely cruel, hellish dog.    

3 Way Split - Trifarious Assault (2011)

Torn Flesh

9.0

/Grindcore, Noise, Brutal metal, Cybergrind, Crust punk, Post-metal; Doom metal/

Comment: I love this split recorded by three artists and issued on Torn Flesh Records. Indeed, it is ill-natured and a little bit sick, yet, offering up much energy which pours out from the walls of grindcore and doom-veiled anxiousness and angriness. Their posture while gourmandizing the mire assisted by ultra heavy guitars and permanently punching drums and "throat singing" is truly impressive. In true, there are up three artists - What Makes a Time Bomb Tick; Dog Snot; Skull Incision - who convey the brutal forays of metal, and demented punk (or just call this combination grindcore-ish as I mentioned it already above). However, Skull Incision displays more electronic visions differentiated with the help of pure, digital noise-inflected strikes and slaps. An intense yet matter-of-fact listening.

Satanic Butcher - Anti-Human Theory (2011)

Torn Flesh

9.2

/Brutal metal, Death metal, Deathcore, Brutal metal, Black metal, Hardcore punk/

Comment: this 11-track issue comes out from Mexico and is a sheer foray of brutal death metal which is mixed up with black metal and goregrind, and even hardcore punk-esque mist at times. By its artistical approach it is an impressive output, having lots bits of cogent angriness an frenetic despair. By the ideological standpoint Beast Butcher (the man behind the drum programming, vocals and guitars of the album) does rise up against the Western-sided hypocrisy and demagogy, material gulosity and moral decay. This is an instance of nowadays punk rock. Malcolm McLaren would have liked it.

Casket Sludge - The Contents Within Permeate With Necrotic Reek (2011)

Torn Flesh

9.0

/Goregrind, Brutal metal, Avant-metal, Experimental metal, Non music/

Comment: Do you know where can be drawn the distinct frontier between the areas of goregrind and grindcore? Indeed, along the realm, out from where awful kinds of objects begin to surface (excrements, sexual perversity, vomit, necrophilia, brain tumors, schizophrenia, visceral entities etc). (Be very careful if you are intended to check out the sleeves of albums issued on Popsakal, for instance). Goregrind is previously the most banished stylistical lot with enormous brutality and showed up with distorted outlook. Obviously in the former Soviet Union such guys would have been imprisoned in psychiatric hospitals to be cured for (along with political dissidents, by the way). Indeed, mental illnesses and social deflexions are the productions of society (directly and indirectly - depending on the definitions of sanity by certain societies). On the other side, life is a vast theatrical stage where role plays begin to appear. First of all, I like those spectacular prototypes and instruments appeared in Casket Sludge - Moe "Spermblaster" Lest(h)er -pukes & growl - gurgling formaldehyde phlegm throat; Mr. Gorecyst - torso ripping string shreds; Cacophallus - digital pummelling of rotten flesh. If you want to get more involved in absurdity then erstwhile explore the titles of songs and album coverprint. The business as usual - at the first sight there is huge entropy everywhere, i.e through zombie-like moaning and destructive noodling, yet, which have managed to ascend to the organized level of composition ultimately. It always works out.

Choking on Entrails - Black Mass (2011)

Torn Flesh

8.0

/Grindcore, Black metal, Goregrind, Experimental metal/

Comment: Actually it is quite hard to say something extraordinary while reviewing a sequent goregrind/grindcore album (in true, the recent album is compiled of the details of the both aforementioned genres). It might be just to hint at one issued next in order. Business as usual - very short-running tracks are filled in with this ultra low and indistinguishable moaning and guitar noodling and heavily pondering drums. Black Mass is an one-man result by Andrew Shore At least by listening to it in the early morning it makes much impression. Not thought to be listened by everyone but thrown in the air for the fans of extreme metal for sure.

Orphalis - Watchmaker Analogy EP (2011)

Torn Flesh
Lastfm

8.5

/Brutal metal, Death metal, Black metal, Progressive metal, Technical metal, Goregrind/

Comment: Orphalis (Jens Duerholt - vocals & guitars; Morten Formeseyn – guitars; Danny Koehler - bass; Kai Volman - drums) is a combo from the western part of Germany (Dortmund-Luenen) who used to play appealing technical death metal with some influences from the black metal, and goregrind purviews. Within the 3 tracks can be met stumbling grooves of key changes, mangling riffs, punching drums and grinding voice, all of it wrapped up in an organic (metal) whole. Indeed, it mostly takes on impression via (omni)potent energy.

TakeMeToTheMorgue! - This Dark Virus (2011)

Torn Flesh

8.8

/Dark ambient, Neoclassical, Drone, Modern classical, Classical, Dystopbient, Freeformfreakout, Non music, Minimal, Experimentalism, Abstract, Dark wave, Illbient, Martial, Avant-garde, Synth industrial/

In the same way as Jessie Martin aka Ylnez Payne`s previous, the debut album Oblivion EP (2010) used to be, indeed, the sophomore notch is a very brooding release as well. Actually it is even more articulated and channelized into a mighty form, obviously affording for itself vanguard-ish elements of sound processing and off-kilter sonic formations. What does it mean "serious" in the context of this set of 14 (plus 4) tracks? Firstly, it is an annihilator of your highest (i.e ecstatic feelings), on the other side - in the formal sense - it is an impressive drifting between dark ambient, obscure drone, film noir, dark wave, subdued cybercore, electronically mutilated messages, martial techno and beat-based mayhems and neoclassical orchestrations. Moreover, Payne cleverly takes advantage of not using the hermetical approach of sound recording, yet having no side-effects to be sounded somehow vulnerable. By the way, about those off-kilter sonic formations though? For instance, Beauty Inspired By Darkness (ft. Ricky Revenge) which is a silent, minor key-moulded piano track having a bunch of sinister progressions in the backdrop or Eternal Nightmares For Passive Dreamers which relies on hardly minimal, darkscape-driven developments.

Dala Sun - Sala Dun (2010/2011)

Torn Flesh

8.0

/Stoner rock, Doom metal, Psychedelia, Screamo/

Comment: Dala Sun is a self-assured trio from Patras, Greece being debuted with thisself-released album in 2010 already. Indeed, the three men with vocals, guitar, bass and drums play out a blend of doom metal, stoner rock, and psychedelia. Even some screamo shades and such referring details can be detected for in Haris` vocal line. Though the whole may mainly seem as a tough riff-ridden guitar forging, yet, it could be considered as a background just allowing for psychedelic glimpses to come better forth.

BLOODINGTON - DoctorWhoDoneAPooOnTheCybermansMetalHead (2011)

Torn Flesh

10/7.5

/Grindcore, Trash/

TakeMeToTheMorgue! Oblivion EP (Torn Flesh)

I have wondered for myself for a while that the web-based music has had inverted outputs regarding its charts somehow. First off, at the top of download rates can be seen some curiosities and non-musical phenomenons (The Conet Project - Recordings of Shortwave Numbers; Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka: Porn Music For The Masses). Besides it, some labels (Clinical Archives; Torn Flesh Records) concerned on the most lateral scenes off the pop music centre have reached off a thousands of download rates per day, which apparently does mirror for the crowds of experimental music-oriented lads and gals to be veiled behind the Internet music. By the way, this tendency is closely related to a hype relied upon the drag/witch house/crunk shoegaze/screwgaze movement, which uprising trajectory had initially been a matter of the blogosphere only.

Indeed, Torn Flesh Records is a label with increasingly growing discography, which spot is basically focused on bellicose dark/black/grind/noise, on the first place, and electronic overthrows applicated to it, on the other side. In fact, Jessie Martin aka Ylnez Payne aka TakeMeToTheMorgue! from Stuart, Virginia, vis à vis with the label does have a bit different reference set, delivering its touch on (modern/neo) classical music-inflected shots (15 tracks). By its fundamental aspect, of course, it is buried into dark and funeral - still slow-paced rhythms are sometimes stopped to be accessed to the ground, segued seamlessly into lethargic sleep to get have lots of plays with shadows and roaming between the visible and invisible in Nowhere Land, or on the other way, having fast run for noise-near peaks and raging low bass tectonics.

Listen to it here

8.5

GrobyC Inverse Of A Cyborg (Torn Flesh)

Ukraina duo Jacek (programmeerimine)-Apophis (kitarr) oli kahtlemata aeglase vormistamise ning laiema publiku ette tulemisega - enne debüütalbumi üllitamist jõudsid nad posu demosid üllitada. Esma- ja järelmuljed olid kahtlemata positiivsed - erksad industriaalrock/industriaalmetal/grindcore-numbrid, massiivsed kitarririfid ja rütmibiitid ning tõsine riffide ja biitide tulemöll, jutusämplid ja küberkoletiste mögin, riffide ja rütmide vahel tinklev ja podisev elektroonika, opereerimine rütmikiirustega skaalal aeglane-väga kiire. Üllitise muudab kindlasti eriliseks muuhulgas kasutatav 8-bitine elektroonika, mis ei ole kahtlemata tavapärane võte (ka plaadi ümbrispildilt võib leida vihjeid armastusele kübermaailma ja vana kooli mängukonsoolide vastu). Kompliment on, et ilmselt tuntuim ja legendaarseim 8-bitise ja metal`i ristaja ansambel NESkimos ei suuda siinkirjutajale nii muljetavaldavalt kõlada. Ning tõsiselt - albumi ainus viga on lühidus, üllatab, kui ruttu muusika lõppeb; kuigi 9 lugu, kestavad need keskmiselt 1 minuti kanti. Võinuks siis 4-5 lugu vabalt juurde lisada.

Kuula albumit siit

9.2