Year: 2025Label: Freak Animal Often, when I’m reviewing noise, I’m thinking: why? What’s the point? Noise is… well, noise. And I don’t mean that in the sense that it’s all just mindless cacophony and who in their right mind listens … Continue reading RAUTAKYMI: Ei tästä maailmasta
Year: 2025Label: Dunkelheit Produktionen We’ve reviewed a number of releases by Finnish experimental act Absolute Key (see here), and if there’s one thing we’ve come to expect is to not have expectations. Straddling an amorphous no man’s land between industrial, … Continue reading ABSOLUTE KEY: Ei meidän kotimme
Year: 2025Label: Steinklang Industries Italian Whiterat don’t muck about on their newest tape release. From the very first second, the listener is bombarded with an unrelenting barrage of harsh, violent and extremely abrasive noise. And for the next 22 minutes, … Continue reading WHITERAT: Conglomerate Malaction
Release year: 2024Label: Steinklang Industries On their follow-up to 2021’s Rottenverse (reviewed here), German Bresthaft are simply more. More vicious, more loud, more noisy, more sadistic. More. So no point to beat around the bush. I’m going to spoil the … Continue reading BRESTHAFT: Termination Transmission
HARMONY OF STRUGGLE: Brutal Aesthetics Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum One thing I’ve always wondered about are individuals with several projects within the same genre. What’s the reason, the point? OK, if they are stylistically drastically different from each other, then … Continue reading Brutal harmony
LUGOLA: The Truth Penetrates Your Mouth Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum It’s honestly a bit tough to write about power electronics from time to time. Especially in the case of an act like Lugola and their second album The Truth Penetrates … Continue reading Lugola penetrates your mouth
CDG NOIR: Static Momentum Release year: 2023Label: self-released I’ll level with ya. When it comes to the harsher end of the industrial/post-industrial spectrum, my preferred style is without doubt power electronics. Typically, it’s got a bit more structure and internal … Continue reading Monuments to static momentum
GOVERNMENT ALPHA: Mind-Altering Substance Release year: 2023Label: Steinklang Industries Steinklang’s most recent batch of releases included a couple of pretty major names within the industrial/noise field. Maurizio Bianchi, whose newest album Geni-Z we recently reviewed (here) is of course a … Continue reading Mind alterations a’la Government Alpha
GRIM: Magnolia’s Dream Release year: 2022Label: Steinklang Industries For people into noise, power electronics and the harsher side of experimental music, Japanese Grim should be a familiar name. The one-man project released a small body of work in the mid-to-late … Continue reading Magnolia’s grim dreams
T_ERROR 404: New Game, Old Rules Release year: 2022Label: Steinklang Industries Apparently this album has an interesting story behind it. Russian T_Error 404 and long-running cult industrial label Steinklang Industries had a mutual interest to co-operate. The only hitch was … Continue reading T_Error 404 mastering the rules
Only Death Is Real 