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Gridfailure 'Perpendicular To The Living Ones'
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Review: Gridfailure ‘Perpendicular To The Living Ones’

9th January 20239th January 2023 Reza Mills Ambient, Experimental, Gridfailure, Independent, Noise

Gridfailure aka David Brenner (also of Earsplit PR) has never been workshy as is evident with this, his fourth release

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Intensive Care: Jamie Grimes Interviews Andrew Nolan Of The Industrial Noise Duo

6th October 20229th December 2022 Jamie Grimes Closed Casket Activities, Industrial, Intensive Care, Iron Lung Records, Noise

Andrew Nolan and Ryan Bloomer are lifers. The pair have been unleashing and developing their own particular form of industrialised

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Colossloth / Wooly Woolaston
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Colossloth Interview & ‘Promethean Meat’ Review

3rd October 20229th December 2022 George Green Ambient, Cold Spring Records, Colossloth, Industrial, Noise

We live in a small world. Wooly – the one-man noise behemoth known as Colossloth – is someone who I

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Bastard Noise & Merzbow 'Retribution By All Other Creatures'
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Review: Bastard Noise & Merzbow ‘Retribution By All Other Creatures’

14th September 20229th December 2022 Jamie Grimes Bastard Noise, Merzbow, Noise, Power Electronics, Relapse Records

Two absolute fucking titans of the underground meet to create an album together. Neither Bastard Noise nor Merzbow should need

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Trepaneringsritualen 'Veil The World'
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Review: Trepaneringsritualen ‘Veil The World’

14th October 202125th November 2021 Reza Mills Cold Spring Records, Industrial, Noise, Trepaneringsritualen

Before I commence the review I should point out that this is a vinyl reissue from Cold Spring of an

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Lung Knots ‘Golden Dirges, Molten Larynges’
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Review: Lung Knots ‘Golden Dirges, Molten Larynges’

17th June 202121st July 2021 Jamie Grimes Industrial, Lung Knots, Noise, Tartarus Records

It’s almost a cliche at this point to describe a record as sounding like the end of the world, so

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Gridfailure Featuring Mac Gollehon ‘Dismemberment Cabaret’
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Review: Gridfailure Featuring Mac Gollehon ‘Dismemberment Cabaret’

17th May 202118th June 2021 Reza Mills Experimental, Gridfailure, Mac Gollehon, Nefarious Industries, Noise

To say David Brenner has a prolific work rate would be something of an understatement, it’s at Mike Patton levels

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Dead Neanderthals 'Rat Licker'
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Review: Dead Neanderthals ‘Rat Licker’ EP

2nd April 20216th May 2021 Reza Mills Burning World Records, Consouling Sounds, Dead Neanderthals, EveryDayHate, God Unknown Records, Jazz, Moving Furniture Records, Noise, Rat Licker, Restraining Order, Saw-Whet Distro, Sentencia Records, Utech Records

As Twin Sister‘s S/T debut made number one in my Shaman Top Ten of 2020, it made sense for me

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Dead Neanderthals - Artwork by Nicholas Pyle
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Premiere: Dead Neanderthals ‘Restraining Order’

27th March 202128th April 2021 Lee Edwards Burning World Records, Consouling Sounds, Dead Neanderthals, EveryDayHate, God Unknown Records, Jazz, Moving Furniture Records, Noise, Rat Licker, Restraining Order, Saw-Whet Distro, Sentencia Records, Utech Records

You often see two, three, sometimes more labels collaborating on a release to help spread expenses and increase exposure, but

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Boris With Merzbow '2R0I2P0'
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Review: Boris With Merzbow ‘2R0I2P0’

8th February 20219th March 2021 Will J 2R0I2P0, Boris, Doom, Drone, Merzbow, Noise, Relapse Records

Boris and Merzbow have worked together so often that Boris With Merzbow might as well be classed as an act

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Gridfailure ‘Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery II’
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Review: Gridfailure ‘Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery II’

11th June 20208th July 2020 Reza Mills Experimental, Gridfailure, Nefarious Industries, Noise, Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery II

Gridfailure is the brainchild of David Brenner of Valley Cottage, New York, who created the entire album as well as

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Video Premiere: Dirge ‘Hollow’ – Taken From Their Self-Titled Album That Drops 10th March
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Video Premiere: Dirge ‘Hollow’ – Taken From Their Self-Titled Album That Drops 10th March

1st February 20231st February 2023 Lee Edwards

Dirge, although they’ve been around since their formation in 2014, they might be a new name to some, so let’s

Premiere: TORSO ‘A Crash Course In Terror’ – Debut Album Drops This Friday via APF Records
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Premiere: TORSO ‘A Crash Course In Terror’ – Debut Album Drops This Friday via APF Records

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Video Premiere: Hands Up Who Wants To Die ‘L’inconnue’ – New Album ‘Nil All’ Drops Next Month
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Video Premiere: Hands Up Who Wants To Die ‘L’inconnue’ – New Album ‘Nil All’ Drops Next Month

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Premiere: Betty Benedeadly & Braden Guess ‘Dust Storm Dance’ – New Album ‘At The Institute Of Mentalphysics’, Pre-Sales Start Today
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Premiere: Betty Benedeadly & Braden Guess ‘Dust Storm Dance’ – New Album ‘At The Institute Of Mentalphysics’, Pre-Sales Start Today

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