The Empty Bottle on Death Musick Ritual

'Death Musick Ritual' featuring Bruce Lamont & Mark Solotroff (DJ set) - Stick around after the show for DEATH MUSICK RITUAL featuring DJ sets from two of Chicago’s formidable faces in the metal and noise scene: YAKUZA sax slinger and BLOODIEST chair chucker BRUCE LAMONT will be joined by BLOODYMINDED and ANATOMY OF HABIT roarer MARK SOLOTROFF as they spin all things “metallic, electronic, and death-rock” until we pull the shutters. Admission is free after 11:30, so no excuses.

"PHASES :THREE" Going Out Of Phase

I am down to my last ten (10) copies of the BLOODYMINDED "PHASES :THREE" box set, should anyone still be interested in obtaining a copy from me... Thanks for the fantastic support on this "monumental" release!

Crucial Blast on BloodLust!

It is always nice when a store or mail-order source takes the time to listen to a release and write their own blurb about it, rather than just copy and paste from a label's one-sheet. I always appreciate Aaron Dilloway's personalized descriptions in the Hanson catalog, and Aquarius Records always goes above and beyond the call of duty. Crucial Blast is another great outlet that takes the time and makes an effort... Here are a few examples: CULVER Sugar Tip CD Guitarist and dronemaker Lee Stokoe has been a member of the new Skullflower lineup for awhile now, appearing on some of the newer studio and live recordings and performing live with Matt Bower, and his addition to the band has probably been a big factor in the 'Flower's evolution into the furious blackened dronerock behemoth. Also a member of the UK sludge band Marzuraan, this guy keeps pretty busy, and on top of all of this he's still able to crank out new material from his longrunning solo project Culver, which I'm always stoked to hear. Sugar Tip is one of Culver's latest slabs of crushing metallic amp-trance, released on the Chicago industrial label Bloodlust! and packged with Stokoe's signature style of brightly colored and surreal collage art. The first track "Suicide Crypt" is roaring pit of blacknoise rumble, endless walls of buzzing, grinding, raging distorted drone like a massed Chatham-like army of doom metal guitarists all playing the same single chord behind a cascade of roiling low-end rumble and threads of humming high-end drone that almost sound like orchestral strings distended from massive gravitations pull. For more than twenty-one minutes this piece stretches out, a massive wall of roaring distorted dronebuzz, a purely ambient noisewall that undergoes only the most subtle chordal shifts. At just two minutes, the middle track "I Know You're Alone" is just an interlude between the two other larger tracks, a swirl of muted low-end thrum and murky cosmic winds obscuring a vague melodic pulse, droning and dark kosmiche drift that leads straight into the final distorto-drone epic... "Suicide Witch", like the first track, is both minimal and massive, a single feedback drone writhing serpentine through cosmic clouds of warbling high-end shimmer and thick metallic buzz, a mighty blackened raga buzzing through the void, Sunroof-style. As this goes on, the soft smears of ambient hum and metallic resonance that float around this roaring static raga-drone undergo slight shifts, forming into eerie fragments of melody that evolve ever so slightly over the track's twenty-three minutes, winding down at the end as the drones are stripped down layer by layer until all that remains is a throbbing electrical hum at the end. Fans of Sunroof, Vulture Club, Ajilsvga, Birchville Cat Motel, RST, To Blacken The Pages, and other guitar-centric heavy psychedelic drone outfits, here's another crushing psychdrone archtitect for you to zone out to! ENVENOMIST Hidden CD A re-issue of an extremely limited cassette released in 2006, Hidden is another excellent slab of ultra-heavy, pitch black drone from Envenomist. The differences between Envenomist and dronesculptor David Reed's other project Luasa Raelon are subtle, as both projects produce intense pieces of desolate, bottom-heavy black ambience that is heavily influenced by the early Lustmord albums. Where Luasa Raelon uses a variety of instruments and sound sources to create it's monstrous industrial doomscapes, Envenomist uses only synthesizers to build these minimal sheets of black industrial drone. The seven tracks on Hidden suggest a much heavier Maurizio Bianchi, the sound is definitely similiar to Bianchi's icy, inhuman electronics, and the ongoing influence of German kosmiche music from the 70's is also felt on the deep reverberant washes of analogue drift and black hole drone. Vast waves of black shimmering whirr and deep doomy low end float through an endless void, the sound cold and threatening and bleak, a metallic black drone that changes shape with each track but never loses it's massive buzzing malevolence. Equal parts Klaus Schulze and Lustmord and Bianchi, with song titles and cover art that evoke a suffocating sense of urban dread. KRIMINAALISET METSANHALTIJAT Anarkkia, Kaaos, Maailmanloppu! CD I love Finnish hardcore and black metal, but I've hardly heard any Finnish industrial music. Most of what I have been exposed to has come out on the Kaos Kontrol label, which specializes in grating, psychedelic old-school industrial, and if you told me that this album from the Finnish band Kriminaaliset Metsänhaltijat was in fact a Kaos Kontrol release, I wouldn't doubt it. It's actually on the American power electronics/industrial label Bloodlust!, however, and is a reissue of a super-limited cassette that came out on Triangle Records in 2008. The band has been around since the 90's but is only now beginning to get some exposure over here in the States, a good thing, too, as this disc points towards a very cool and heavy form of apocalyptic machine music. The six tracks on Anarkkia, Kaaos, Maailmanloppu! have an obvious old-school Throbbing Gristle/S.P.K. influence with lots of clanging metal rhythms, buzzing distorted bass-tones, looped feedback, dense clusters of dubby percussion, blasts of pure white noise, warning sirens, radar pings, but also incorporating some really menacing and doomy synth-bass lines and creepy melted samples that make this a heavier, more evil sounding version of classic industrial. One of the things that really set these guys apart are their vocals, which are snarled and distorted and are all over these songs. The band not only cites early Japanese noise and classic Industrial as primary influences on their thick, cacophonous industrial dirge sound, but also the ferocity of Finnish hardcore, a strange sounding mix at first, but when you actually hear Kriminaaliset Metsänhaltijat it makes sense, a fierce and furious sheet-metal attack with intensely psychedelic noise, howling hardcore vocals and dub effects swirling around the dark, nihilistic atmoshere, all set to an extremely raw and hissy recording that makes this sound like it was recorded in the hallways of an old abandoned mental hospital. Kind of like a heavier, angrier, more PE-influenced Wolf Eyes. 

B!142 The Fortieth Day & Sshe Retina Stimulants

OUT NOW: BloodLust! New Release
Artist: The Fortieth Day & Sshe Retina Stimulants
Title: The Fortieth Day & Sshe Retina Stimulants
Format: CD (Professionally duplicated CD-R, single panel, double-sided insert, black and white artwork; jewel box with shrinkwrap)
Catalog Number: BloodLust! 142
Genre: Experimental / Drone / Dark-Ambient / Noise / Industrial


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BloodLust! is pleased to announce the release of the seventh entry in a series of digital re-releases of recordings by The Fortieth Day. This is the re-mastered version of an out-of-print cassette that was released in 2007 in an edition of 50 copies. The new CD features bonus tracks created by Sshe Retina Stimulants that did not appear on the cassette. The original recordings were from a live show on WLUW 88.7 FM Chicago. This was the very first live outing by The Fortieth Day, who performed at the radio station in collaboration with P.NG5361.B [AKA Sshe Retina Stimulants]. The live recordings were then processed in Milan by P.NG5361.B [who is also a founding member of Sigillum S], and appear here as tracks 2-5. The Fortieth Day is the duo of Isidro Reyes and Mark Solotroff, both key players in the power-electronics outfit BLOODYMINDED, a unit known for its confrontational live shows. The two also record primitive minimal-synth music, exclusively for Wierd Records [NYC], as A Vague Disquiet. In The Fortieth Day, Reyes and Solotroff utilize guitar, bass, and synth to improvise "sustained, withering blasts of high-pitched noise that are as distinct from one another as spotlights sweeping across the night sky; jackhammer clatter, jet-engine whines, and forlorn keyboard melodies dart in and out of those huge sounds with the grace and impunity of plovers picking a crocodile's teeth" [Bill Meyer, Chicago Reader]. These are professionally duplicated CDs, with single panel, double-sided inserts featuring black and white artwork; in jewel boxes with shrinkwrap.; released in 2009.

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Tracklisting:

1.		Part One	(29:48)
2.		Part Two - Microbes	(2:45)
3.		Part Three - Alchemy	(11:49)
4.		Part Four - Canyons	(2:14)
5.		Part Five - Mutation	(17:57)

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Price: $14.00 USA/$16.00 Canada+Mexico/$18.00 Rest of World @ postpaid

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Insert back:

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Traycard:

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Boston 2008 CD...

For those who do not live in or near Boston - or will not be attending the Northeast Noise & Power Electronics Festival II in November - we may be able to help, in regards to the limited edition BLOODYMINDED "Boston 2008" CD... Feel free to drop us a line...

AoH on COTD

Jonathan Canady was kind enough to post a small piece on Anatomy of Habit on his Colors of the Dark weblog:

http://colorsofthedark.blogspot.com/2009/09/anatomy-of-habit.html

Anatomy of Habit joins Cult of Youth show

Anatomy of Habit will be taking the place of Hive Mind on Saturday October 10, 2009, joining Cult of Youth and Death Domain at the Viaduct Theater. Please see the following event links for details:

Last.fm: http://tinyurl.com/ydwcoew
MySpace: http://tinyurl.com/yaqhgce
Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/yd9vbcj
Troniks/Chondritic Sound: http://tinyurl.com/yc84ewp

AoH Practice Pix

Jonathan Canady's Anatomy of Habit practice space photographs from August are now in their own set on the BloodLust! Flickr page

The Ejaculation Sound Boundary of the Splash Condition

New Anatomy of Habit Photographs

There is a great new slideshow up on the nightofthelivingspork Flickr page. Thanks to Carmelo Espanola for taking the photographs at the Cobra Lounge show on 9/18 and for allowing us to share these images!

Extremities Plays Pharmakon + Nightmares

DJ extraweirdinaire Don Rettman recently played some BloodLust! titles on his Extremities show (WPRB - 103.3 FM - Princeton, NJ). The airplay is much appreciated, as always!

http://www.wprb.com/printplaylist.php?show_id=18664