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Showing posts with label BloodLust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BloodLust. Show all posts
Monday, July 29, 2019
July 29, 2019 Update
Friday, April 28, 2017
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
BLOODYMINDED T-Shirts Shipping
BLOODYMINDED "Whose Side Are You On?" T-Shirts are now in stock. Pre-orders will be mailed out today. Thanks to everyone who already supported this new design!
You can order the shirt here: http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/bloodyminded-whose-side-are-you-on-t-shirt
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Out Now: B!174 The Fortieth Day + Sshe Retina Stimulants + Terence Hannum "Advent" CD
B!174 The Fortieth Day + Sshe Retina Stimulants + Terence Hannum "Advent" CD
http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/b-174-the-fortieth-day-sshe-retina-stimulants-terence-hannum-advent-cd
CD version of 2012 Land of Decay cassette
These are professionally duplicated CDs, with single panel, double-sided inserts, featuring black and white artwork; in jewel boxes with shrinkwrap; released in 2013.
LoD description:
This release marks the rare, one-time only, collaboration of The Fortieth Day, the Chicago duo of Mark Solotroff and Isidro Reyes (also of influential power-electronics group Bloodyminded), Sshe Sshe Retina Stimulants (the solo project of P.NG5361.B, or Paolo Bandera, a founding member of Sigillum S), and Terence Hannum. The recording took place during a late night session at WLUW on Loyola University’s campus for Phil von Zweck’s “Something Else” radio show on November 29th, 2009.
The group created these six tracks live using guitar, bass, synthesizers, and vocals. The live recordings were then processed in Milan, Italy by P.NG5361.B. The group uses these instruments to create burned out industrial drones made up of looped feedback, percussion throbs and the sounds of machines dying. Hypnotizing repeating layers tactfully shift into blasts of angular high-pitched mechanical frenzy. There are implicit melodies in the chaos. Strong material from this unique collaboration.
From The Inarguable:
A massive collaboration within itself, it isn't hard to imagine The Fortieth Day (Mark Solotroff and Isidro Reyes from Bloodyminded), Sshe Retina Stimulants, and Terence Hannum (Land of Decay co-proprietor and Locrian analog wizard) meeting up in WLUW 88.7 FM's studio. The product of a group of like minded musicians, the Advent tape is a work based in juxtaposition, suddenly changing from soft, deep drones and quiet drum machine mantras to complete, utter chaos. Synthesizers do relentless battle with atonal guitar work and crumbling laptop noise, sometimes not letting up for extensive periods of time before entirely disappearing without any cue or warning. To be a fly on a wall in that studio, sheesh.
Stream the album:
http://thefortiethday.bandcamp.com/album/the-fortieth-day-sshe-retina-stimulants-terence-hannum-advent
Friday, April 26, 2013
New Release: B!173 Sshe Retina Stimulants and Neil Jendon "A Brutal Case Of Glacial Blasphemy" CD
Out Now:
B!173 Sshe Retina Stimulants and Neil Jendon "A Brutal Case Of Glacial Blasphemy" CD
Purchase here: http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/b-173-sshe-retina-stimulants-and-neil-jendon-a-brutal-case-of-glacial-blasphemy-cd
Exclusive new studio recordings from the dream team.
Neither of these artists needs much introduction to people who follow BloodLust! -- Sshe Retina Stimulants has been here from the very start and Neil Jendon has been a part of the live and recorded extended family for several years now, joining some particularly memorable live bills with BLOODYMINDED, The Fortieth Day and Anatomy of Habit. He also has two previous releases on BloodLust! Recently, Neil has joined another band with an LP on the label, Rabid Rabbit, adding his synth skills to their doomy, dark psychedelic sound.
I am not sure, exactly, when the thought occurred to me that Paolo and Neil should record and/or play together, but when I introduced them and watched them converse at a show in Chicago, maybe two or three years ago, the idea certainly clicked. They are, individually, two of my favorite electronic musicians -- and although Paolo continues to investigate increasingly spartan digital set-ups, and Neil always dazzles me with his very analog modular rig -- the two share a sensibility that makes them a great match. Both men frequently take a rather minimalist approach to their sound, and both often exploit a range of isolated frequencies that solidified the concept of their pairing in my mind.
They bring these varied elements together on this collaboration, offering a wide range of electrical sounds, beautifully blended, at times testing and straining the low-end response of the listener's speakers and demanding the that one pay very close attention to their array of inhuman crystalline tones and frequencies.
The two finally played live together, in Chicago, in late November of 2012, quickly throwing subtlety to the wind and blowing the roof off the performance space. It was a treat!
Monday, April 22, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Sleep Museum "Forschung" Box Set underway...
The long-delayed Sleep Museum "Forschung" 5xCD box set is slowly grinding into production.
This will be a BloodShop! webstore exclusive!
"Forschung" is the darkest and most experimental Sleep Museum material to date. On the five CDs in this box set, Sleep Museum launches itself into the abyss, exploring questions of identity/non-identity, death, suicide, pain and despair, through a series of tracks that use intense analog synthesized music, dark ambience, noise, and vocals, to summon the chasm inside.
Pre-orders are coming soon with T-Shirt size selection function. Please watch this site and/or the following link for an upcoming pre-order announcement: http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/b-168-sleep-museum-forschung-5xcd-box-set
Set includes:
B!163 Sleep Museum "Forschung 1" CD
B!164 Sleep Museum "Forschung 2" CD
B!165 Sleep Museum "Forschung 3" CD
B!166 Sleep Museum "Forschung 4" CD
+
B!167 Sleep Museum "Parra" CD (exclusive to the box set -- not sold separately)
+
Sleep Museum "Forschung" T-Shirt
Sleep Museum "Forschung" Sticker
Sleep Museum "Forschung" 1-Inch Button
...and more
Edition of 100
Released in Spring 2013.
Details to follow...
Friday, April 12, 2013
Now in production: B!161 The Fortieth Day "Tenochtitlan: 1520 AD" CD
Now in production:
B!161 The Fortieth Day "Tenochtitlan: 1520 AD" CD
CD version of 2012 digital release
Stream here: http://thefortiethday.bandcamp.com/album/tenochtitlan-1520-ad
Details to follow...
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Now in production: B!174 The Fortieth Day + Sshe Retina Stimulants + Terence Hannum "Advent" CD
Now in production:
B!174 The Fortieth Day + Sshe Retina Stimulants + Terence Hannum "Advent" CD
CD version of 2012 Land of Decay cassette
Stream here: http://thefortiethday.bandcamp.com/album/the-fortieth-day-sshe-retina-stimulants-terence-hannum-advent
Details to follow...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Coming Soon: The Dream Team
B!173
Sshe Retina Stimulants and Neil Jendon
"A Brutal Case of Glacial Blasphemy"
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Crucial Blast on Intrinsic Action "Sado-Electronics" CD
INTRINSIC ACTION Sado-Electronics CD (Bloodlust!)
A classic slab of American power electronics that is finally available again, the debut Intrinsic Action album Sado-Electronics was originally released on Tesco Organisation back in 1992 and later reissued with new artwork on Bloodlust!, the label run by IA's own Mark Solotroff (also of Bloodyminded and Anatomy Of Habit). Although the band had been in action since 1984, they only released a handful of cassette releases prior to this Cd, and leather clad and frothing at the mouth they set upon this collection of brute force sadistic-sexual nightmares, lust-murder fantasies and terminally morbid visions gushing from the skull of bandleader Solotroff on tracks like "In A Glass Cage", "Metamorph" and "Shock Pit", set to a pulsating backdrop of primitive electronic noise and throbbing black synthesizer. The eleven tracks that make up the Sado-Electronics portion of the disc center around stripped down arrangements of delayed vocals rippling across heavy carcinogenic electronic throb, agonizing feedback abuse and crackling pestilential static, and often settling into an evil hypnotic lock groove pulse that took the Whitehouse influence into an obsessive new direction and combined it with a sinister minimal synth sound that had echoes of Suicide (just check out the opener "Male Payment"). The other half of the disc comprises the Surgical Stainless Steel: First Operation Incision Durations, a series of ten untitled short extreme electronics/death-synth pieces that range from crushing PE attacks to ghastly Atrax Morgue-esque drones.
I've been dyin' to get my hands on this disc for awhile and am seriously stoked that it turned up again in the Bloodlust! catalog; it's definitely one of that labels must-hear releases if you're into the early U.S. PE underground. Re-mastered for this new edition, with updated artwork and photos that differ from the old Tesco version.
http://www.crucialblastshop.net/
Crucial Blast on Bereft 7-Inch
BEREFT Tough Man 7" VINYL (Bloodlust!)
A couple of the older "private series" 7" Eps from Bloodlust! turned up recently, allowing us to get both the hard-to-find Whorebutcher 7" and this 2006 Ep from the misanthropic New England power electronics duo Bereft in stock for the first time. As with the rest of Bereft's stuff, this is ultra-heavy shit that combines a hardcore-influenced vocal attack with excoriating lyrics and ferocious electronic noise. The a-side track "Tough Man" immediately launches into a sonic assault of extreme high-end feedback and distorted rabid vocals, a ferocious seething power electronics delivery that repeats the threatening lyrics over and over for maximum effect, while harsh rhythmic rumblings detonate beneath the acidic high-end skree, growing into the monstrous mechanical vibrations that take over the final few minutes. Real fuckin' intense. The other track "Religious Leaders" is at first a departure from the aggression on the first track, unleashing massive waves of cosmic synthdrift and metallic drone across deep, reverberating blasts of percussive power, creating a really heavy death industrial feel. The demonic vocals are situated deeper in the mix, adding to the malevolent atmosphere, but then it evolves into something harsher, erupting into roars of collapsing metal and nuclear blast distortion, transforming into a slow-moving and monstrous maelstrom of broken metal and irradiated synth noise that dominates the last few minutes of the side.
Comes in a plain white sleeve with a xeroxed insert, limited to three hundred copies.
http://www.crucialblastshop.net/
Crucial Blast on Whorebutcher 7-Inch
WHOREBUTCHER Fanatic 7" VINYL (Bloodlust!)
There have only been a handful of releases from this American power electronics project over the past decade, but every one that I've picked up has been incredibly violent and vicious sounding, and I'd rate Whorebutcher's output as some of the harshest to come out of the American PE scene. His works have tended to be hard for me to come by though, with this limited 7" from the Bloodlust! label being the first of his titles that I've even been able to get for the shop. Released several years ago as part of Bloodlust!'s minimally packaged "private" series of white sleeve 7"s, Fanatic is a two-track eruption of extreme power electronics that flaunts some of the most agonal feedback manipulation this side of early Prurient. Opening with a roar of fast-moving distorted chaos, the first track "Fanatic" is a relentless shrieking nightmare of painful feedback abuse, brutal blasts of percussive distortion-pulses and murderous whispered vocals blasted through insane levels of distortion. What you can make out through that squealing, shrieking chaos paints a hideous picture of sexual sadism and obsessive violence, visions of violent debauchery set against layers of crushing electronics.
Comes in a plain white sleeve with a xeroxed insert, issued in a limited edition of three hundred copies on white vinyl.
http://www.crucialblastshop.net/
Crucial Blast on Sun Splitter LP
SUN SPLITTER III LP (Bloodlust!)
I've definitely been picking up on a certain industrial influence that has been creeping into a lot of the underground metal/avant rock that's been coming out of Chicago lately; dunno if it's a direct by-product of that city's long history with mechanized sound with labels like Wax Trax and Invisible, but there's definitely traces of machine-music coming through in some of the Windy City's more doom-laden outfits like Bloodiest, Anatomy Of Habit, Rabid Rabbit, and Minsk. I love hearing metallic music incorporate industrial influences, and the latest Chicago band mixing the mecha with their metal is Sun Splitter, who I first heard on their excellent II cassette on Land Of Decay a while back. Sun Splitter has put a unique, punishing stamp on this sound, using drum machines to create the pummeling slow-motion assembly-line rhythms that drive their crushing guitar/bass drones and sludgy riffage, blending in electric organs and piano into their sound for added atmosphere.
III is the latest offering from Sun Splitter, a vinyl-only album out from Bloodlust!. As soon as opener "Eye Of Jupiter" kicks in, the band is battering you with you their concussive industro-sludge, a hypnotic assault of heavy mechanical drumming and chant-like vocals that snake through clouds of shimmering synth noise around the crushing low-end riffage, building into something akin to a psychedelic version of early Godflesh or Swans, but with that monstrous chugging industrial grind becoming fused to the vast droning narco-crush of Sleep and Om; a weird mixture on paper, but man, I was hooked from the first track. From there the album heads deeper into bludgeoning, down-tuned riffs weighted with moments of striking Sabbathian doom n' gloom, majestic leads soaring over bizarrely-arranged programmed blast beats, and a vocal delivery that goes from harsh frantic screams to weird chant-like utterances. Totally sounds like something that could have come off of the HeadDirt or Pathological Records labels, but with a very modern level of metallic heaviosity. The other tracks follow similar suit in their drive to pummel the listener with brutal repetition, the eleven minute "Parasitic Machine" driving home a pounding pneumatic rhythm while spacey, almost blackened guitar melodies and tremolo riffing ascend skyward as it builds to a crescendo that never comes. Instead, it drops off into an almost Lustmordain abyss of cavernous drones and distant ethereal chanting smeared with streaks of psych guitar, prayer-bowl resonance, and monstrous subterranean rumblings.
Sun Splitter drop a number of these long, mesmeric dronescapes among their heavier songs, and also make a couple of surprising detours from the chugging, industrialized hypno-crush. Like on the closer "Two Cold Oceans", where they lock in to an infectious hypno-rock jam that sounds surprisingly like Finnish avant-rockers Circle at first, a pounding shuffling drum beat driving the hypnotic music into endless circular grooves, a simple chugging riff repeating over and over, the guitars laying down a lysergic meandering melody; after awhile, it suddenly kicks in with much harsher, more evil intensity, the vocals changing from a stoned yowl to harsh blackened shrieks, the guitars surging in heaviness, continuing that looping heavy psych-hook as more and more electronic layers of noise and effects descend upon the music, until everything is swallowed up in a monstrous roar of crushing industrial drone and starry electronic nebulae and whirring Hawkwindian synth effects.
http://www.crucialblastshop.net/
Thursday, February 28, 2013
BLOODYMINDED "Gift Givers" CD - NOW IN STOCK
BloodShop! http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/b-045-bloodyminded-gift-givers-cd
Bandcamp (includes immediate download): http://bloodyminded.bandcamp.com/album/gift-givers
LONG OUT-OF-PRINT -- FINALLY BACK IN STOCK -- NEW EIGHT-PANEL DIGIPAK EDITION
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
BLOODYMINDED "True Crime" on iTunes
BLOODYMINDED "True Crime" now available on iTunes with more digital distribution to follow:
BLOODYMINDED "Trophy" on iTunes
BLOODYMINDED "Trophy" now available on iTunes with more digital distribution to follow:
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Sun Splitter - WFMU
January 22, 2013Blissfully unaware of what was to come later in the month, in preparation for WFMU's Web-only, "silent" fundraiser, the plan for My Castle of Quiet was to mount three special programs; The Sonics of Terror, a soundtracks-only special; and two double bills—one improvised / experimental "noise" bill, and one metal bill, the latter showcasing two bands that I'd been "courting" for some months—Chicago's excellent Sun Splitter, passing through on tour, and Brooklyn's relatively unsung black-metal giants, Yellow Eyes. The latter program was to top off a very eventful month on the show, and boy, did it ever.
As great as they are different, Sun Splitter and Yellow Eyes are both exemplary and plainly evident of how wildly varied what falls under the banner of "underground metal" can be; Splitter draw on "rock," with a thick and good-smellin' Sharpie, culling from Big Black, Led Zeppelin and all points between, with a pure, dense psychedelia permeating their unique compositions, while Yellow Eyes are one of Brooklyn's best-kept black-metal secrets, true to the parent genre, while unquestionably having their own sound, wickedly sea-ferring accomplished players, great songwriters with a murky sound and an attitude to match, seeking neither fame nor widespread success; thus far, YE have released their mini-masterpieces only on cassette, though two full-length vinyl releases threaten to drop within the coming year.
Intrepid WFMU sound engineer Juan Aboites helmed both sessions, bringing to both projects the cohesion that their complex deliveries demand, and though Sun Splitter were pre-recorded on 10.24, the night before the broadcast, had I not been admitting of this fact, the listeners would never have known, the band's pulsating energy and sheer volume rattling the walls at 43 Monty; heavy, hypnotic Gibson riffs broken asunder by the psychedelic cage-rattling of men captured in H.H. Holmes' damned filthy Chicagoan underbelly.
Sun Splitter - Eye of Jupiter-The Anthropocene-Starlit Mire/Time CathedralSun Splitter - Two Cold Oceans
Yellow Eyes blistered through four of their finest songs, acute treble and assaultive blast beats casting their vivid mental picture of a band of ghost sailors, maddened by syphilis and too many hours alone at sea, listening to the persistent slap of the waves against the hull.
Yellow Eyes - Rotted Wheat-No More Than A Soaked Plank-Unlit Kingdom-My Candle Is Gone But I Do Not MoveKeep your eyes and ears on both of these bands, to build continually impressive live performances and discographies, and I cannot recommend highly enough the two full-lengths, Sun Splitter III (Bloodlust!) and Silence Threads The Evening's Cloth (Sol y Nieve.) Huge thanks to Juan and the bands for a night to remember. Both sets are presented as relative continuums, with Sun Splitter's final chunk broken off on its impressive own, and YE's set laid out as one continuous mp3.
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2013/01/no-more-than-a-soaked-plank-on-two-cold-oceans-sun-splitter-and-yellow-eyes-on-my-castle-of-quiet.html
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