REVIEW: Joris J/Ratbag - "Liar Paradox" split

New from kulturterrorismus netlabel comes a split by two great artists who I am getting to hear for the first time. Joris J and Ratbag epitomize true, traditional industrial music as it's meant to be played. Ratbag starts it off with some dark ambient atmospheres, punctuated by clangs and scrapes that are dampened, not jarring and mix well. The second track is a tightly composed harsh noise piece with low rumbles, high-pitched chirps and mid-range metallic drones. More industrial atmospheres are followed by Joris J's contribution, their first track starting off with some distorted bell tones that evolves into some aggressive sample & hold electronics. The next track starts off with some unplaceable '60s sample, then moves into a multi-layered drone passage. More ambient industrial atmospheres follow, with a short noise piece wrapping the split up. Diverse sounds that you can play in order or random for different flavors with every listen. Available as both VBR MP3 and Ogg Vorbis, highly recommened!

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v.a. - "Chain Reaction"

Another new, epic compilation. Kopp Netlabel presents an ambient journey of vibrant soundscapes that tear the very fabric of time & space, taking your ears to places you never thought existed. Featuring excellent contributions from The Hare And The Moon, Bpolar, Dolorism, Lunatic Moe, Loki fun Lilith + Halgrath, D_e, Herr Schmitd hat Krach, Nosens, Intergalactic Wizard, Cousin Silas, Subterrestrial, Cezary Gapik, DEDALE(S), Wulgata, Petstov, No Way Out, Black Era, Mentalny Kolaps, d-brane, This Playground Earth, Hazelpark, Heirdrain, Covered Faces, Ablaze Eternal, Sanderson Dear, Mark Bradley, God Pussy and Tarmacians.

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v.a. - "Owl Eater Hex"

The sixth and final volume of the Owl Eater project is now online.
A monster compilation covering the spectrum of underground experimental music, from noise to free jazz, to avant garde experimentation. 29 tracks by 29 artists, almost three hours of music. Featuring Metal Mother, Eraritjaritjaka, Jamison Williams, Subterrestrial, Abusive Consumer, Welby, Creep City, Churner, Loopool, Richard Kamerman, Second Thought, Cannibalistic Humanoid, Tree, Inappropriate King Live, Sick To The Back Teeth, Tracy Widdess, PBK, Atomic Populist Melt Machine, VWLS, absence.insolution, Sleep of Ages, Rain Symbols, A.R.GH, Arvo Zylo, Travis Johnson, Uncle Dave Lewis, Monuments Are No Good To The Dead, Screwtape and GET HARD.

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v.a. - "Fakebit Compilation 2011"

The 8bc Fakebit Comp 2011, fulfilling your non-purist chiptune needs for the front end of the new year :D This collection features some excellent contributions from Fragile Chaos!, FantomenK, Seence, Starpilot, Hexwolves, Awesome Force, el Musho, Byzantine, Subterrestrial, Decktonic, Knot_L0, _ensnare_, Dj Hollow Life and ant1.

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REVIEW: Hellhaunt - "Filth Beast of Chaos"

As an old school metal head I am morally obligated to post a metal review at least once in a while on this blog. The only way to really describe Hellhaunt is to say that they sound like "Haunting the Chapel-era" Slayer in a knock down, drag out fight with Bathory in a dark alleyway, with an open sewer with dead bodies floating past. Likely to appeal to both old school metal heads and open-minded black metal fans alike, Hellhaunt is blackened thrash at it's filthiest. They have several albums on both CDr and net audio as well as their first two demos; "Hatecraft" and "Sea of Nausea" recently re-released on one ultra limited cassette. But my favorite is "Filth Beast of Chaos," maybe because it's the first HH album I heard, or maybe because it's just a great album to introduce someone to the band with. Get it now or have your face ripped off by undead wolves!

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SUB004 Subterrestrial - "Conspiracy Music"

Subterrestrial welcomes the new year with our first new release of 2011. Inspired by secret societies and conspiracy theories, "Conspiracy Music" features over an hour of ethereal and hermetic-sounding melodic dark ambient music.

Tracklist:
1. Bovine Mutilator 7:50
2. The Bohemian Grove 8:00
3. 322 8:08
4. October 13, 1307 8:04
5. Black Helicopters 8:08
6. Illuminati 15:34
7. Things Seen in the Sky 8:18

Total length: 1:04:01
Encoded at: 44.100 KHz 320Kbps

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v.a. - "TONES OF THE APOCALYPSE"

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v.a. - "M2F2 (Music to Fuck To)" 3xCD

"M2F2 (Music to Fuck To)" is a newly released compilation on Pigdurt Productions, featuring 50 artists and 240 minutes of noise ranging through all forms on three professionally pressed CDs. A preview featuring a medley of all tracks included is available at Pigdurt's website. Artists involved: mono no aware, wormhead, false flag, black lung, half an abortion, vomir, jerk keroua, hypnoskull, mongolian blooming, cowper’s fluid, griaule, petals, ritual stance, fuck, the retarded girl, neurotic envelope, travis johnson, worry wort, hidden illness, welby, subterrestrial, art schnurple, a night to dismember, hjorten, shalocins, arvo zylo, raytownian(s), churner, breakdancing ronald reagan, hippycrack, 100blumen, second thought, clitoris less cunt, loathings, zz, my lovely figmen, sunao inami, synapsis, sick to the back teeth, snog, eraritjaritjaka, tufftitz, nxfxtxex, awesome bin laden, josh lay, waratah, jesus is angry, sleep of ages, pilegesh, the smudge & cory rowell. This compilation is limited to 1000 copies and is available now for $15 PPD worldwide from Pigdurt Productions via PayPal.

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Bloodlust Episode 16

I don't think I've ever posted this, so being the end of the year it's probably a good time to do so. Bloodlust is a program hosted by Bekk on Australia's Temple of Despair internet radio network. The following episode was broadcast and archived earlier this year and it was the first time Subterrestrial's music was ever featured in a radio/podcast program. The program opens with "The Sin of a Twin-Soul" from our debut album "The Goddess of Atvatabar" and is followed by music from Sunn O))), Profetus, Agalloch, My Dying Bride, Solitude Aeturnus, Conifer, Hawkwind and Melvins. The program is still available on archive.org as both VBR MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. If you're a metal head or just looking for a new interesting mix to listen to then be sure and grab this while you still can!

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"I was almost swallowed by the earth...."

True story. Earlier this evening, I avoided falling into a sinkhole by literally one second. On my breaks at work, I go walking. There are a lot of hills in the neighborhood and one particular alleyway runs up a very steep hill. I was coming down this alley for about the hundredth time this year when I heard a rumbling behind me, not terribly loud but sounding like something very large falling. I spun around to see most of the ground where I'd just stepped a moment ago collapse and go sliding sideways, under the fence into someone's backyard. They'd done some work in their yard recently and apparently had tried to level it out by removing all of the dirt along the fence between their yard and the alley. Obviously, they didn't think to install a retaining wall or anything because recent heavy rains have apparently washed out the dirt under the alley and now they have a huge slab of asphalt in their backyard. Sometimes I wonder if this subterranean thing isn't going to get the better of me?

Subterrestrial - "The Burning Earth"

"The Burning Earth" is an elegy for Centralia, PA where a coal seam fire has been burning since the early 1960s. Four tracks of experimental noise build in intensity, then disintegrate. Available now as a free download on Datahex Records.

Tracklist:
1. A Solitary Ember 7:38
2. Smoke and Heat from the Basement 10:14
3. The Burning Earth Opens to the Sky 9:59
4. Desolation 21:55

Total length: 49:46
Encoded at: 44.100 KHz 192Kbps MP3

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Klangboot Radio #020 Berlin Moscow Transit

Klangboot Radio is a podcast show, featuring ambient, electronica and soundscapes. Their November 3rd podcast featured "Ghost Town" from Subterrestrial's latest release "Forgotten Places" on Rejected Netlabel as well as some 2 hours of music by many other great artists. Please see Klangboot's website for complete playlist, streaming and download options.

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Klangboot Radio #020 ~ podcast ~ Berlin Moscow Transit by klangboot

Subterrestrial - "Forgotten Places"

"forgotten places is an album where the mind gets immediately immersed. through it, subterrestrial pulls us out of the strictly functional roles we play in our societal wheel of change and reminds us of our own existences beyond that, opening ways to the finitized being's reabsorption in the vaster and obscured realm of reality where stillness rules."

New album by Subterrestrial on Fm-Ra's brand new Rejected Netlabel.

Tracklist:
1. Ghost Town 5:55
2. Where Rain Goes After the Storm 8:58
3. Alone in the Woods 5:25
4. The Cistern 10:17
5. Abandoned Skyscraper 6:01
6. Ocean of Voices 19:45
7. Stairway to Nowhere 6:00

Total length: 1:02:21
Encoded at: 44.100 KHz VBR MP3

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Black Square Cloudcast - The Machinery of the Universe

The latest installment of Black Square Cloudcast - one of Black Square netlabel's components. Featuring music from Subterrestrial as well as many other artists. See download link for detailed playlist.

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REVIEW: Infinite Inertia - "The Watchers"

The latest in a string of fantastic albums by Vulture's dark ambient side project Infinite Inertia. This is the last II album for awhile, as he switches focus to his main project and there's no better way to go out. Deep atmospheres evoke the most ancient darkness of unknown space.

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Subterrestrial - "Esoteric Zoo"

New album by Subterrestrial on Black Square Netlabel, catalog number BS033.
"Esoteric Zoo" is inspired by fantastic creatures from Persian and Medieval European mythology. Seven tracks of rhythmic dark ambient and tribal industrial sounds, available now as a free download in your choice of super high quality MP3 or Ogg Vorbis.

Tracklist:
1. Melusine 6:32
2. Ezhdehā 3:45
3. Gryphon 7:09
4. Mantikhoras 2:53
5. Ophidian 6:40
6. Melek Taus 4:36
7. Leviathan 7:15

Total length: 38:48
Encoded at: 44.100 KHz 320Kbps MP3 and OGG

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v.a. - "20 TONES OF THE APOCALYPSE Vol.1"

A new, mammoth compilation of harsh and experimental noise and powernoise on Datahex records. This collection is, of course a free download from the netlabel. Artists include: BREAKDANCING RONALD REAGAN, JERK KEROUAC, GLOGA, RITUAL STANCE, DIM DUSK MOVING GLOOM, SUBTERRESTRIAL, A NIGHT TO DISMEMBER, CRAWLING CREATURE, GRANDMOTHER, KINGDOM OF SHARKS, ERARITJARITJAKA, HIDDEN ILLNESS, SICK TO THE BACK TEETH, SECOND THOUGHT, AWESOME BIN LADEN, ABSENCE INSOLUTION, TOMES, CHURNER, THEE CRUMB and PIGSWILL.

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v.a. - "8th Circle Below" CD/digital album

"8th Circle Below," the latest release on Chimera Central. 8-bit noise from various artists around the world! Eleven original tracks that focus on the afterlife and range from peaceful moments to harsh, hellish oblivion. Now available as both a CD and a digital download in high quality MP3, FLAC and other formats. Artists include Subterrestrial, Sadore, Platzangst, La Flore Intestinale, Cementimental, d0us, Vi11AiN, Zomvor, Byrant Davis, Sick To The Back Teeth, DCLXVI and Cursed Chimera.

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v.a. - "The Seven Deadly Sins Compilation: IRA"

“In 2010, Schattenspiel and Neofolk And Martial Forum Franken decided to release a compilation about the seven deadly sins.

The seven deadly sins are Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Pride.

Every sin will be given a separate part of the compilation, and every compilation will be containing 30 tracks of 30 artists and bands.

These artists and bands are coming from all over the world and from the broad fields of neofolk and dark ambient music to take part of this project. The artists and bands interpret their desired sin in a religious or philosophically meaning by using their own musical meaning of expression.

The first Compilation - “Ira” (Wrath) was released in 10/2010.” -from The Seven Deadly Sins Compilation website

"Ira" is divided into two virtual discs, with the first "disc" given over to neoclassical and neofolk while the second "disc" features dark ambient and experimental sounds. Artists include: No Way Out, Karma Marata, Nihil Novi Sub Sole, Schattenspiel & Verney 1826, J Orphic, Nigri Solis, Striider, Erntegang, The Hare And The Moon, Prioratvm, Kazeria, Jörvallr, Aelia Capitolina, Sinweldi, Front Sonore, Nors'Klh, Heresiarch Feat. Andraste, Cezary Gapik [aka CEZAR], Ambient Fabric, Radio Salva, MaCu, The Grave Dominion, Nepenthe, Subterrestrial, Mike Radice, Sonisk Blodbad, Ritus, No-xygen, Arbeiter und Flüchtlinge and Eighth Evening.

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v.a. - "HHHH006 1:01:36"

The second in a series of two harsh/static noise compilations on the Hum and Hiss netlabel. Artists include: Oblive, Plastic Boner Band, Miscreant, Griz+zlor, Hidden Illness, Potier, Subterrestrial, and The Mechanic.

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