PYRAMIDS
S/T
(Hydra Head)

FARFLUNG
A Wound in Eternity
(MeteorCity)

GOZU
S/T
(Self-Released)

LITMUS
Planetfall
(Rise Above)

ANOTHER KIND OF
DEATH
Sleepless Every Night
(Underhill)

EAK/CRUSHING SUN
Bipolar 

(Major Label Industries)

TETSUO
David Keenan is My Dick 

(At War With False Noise)

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This starts off with the buried sound of that Blondie song that was featured on Trainspotting. The song’s volume comes and goes. Then, abruptly it turns to noise. Very harsh noise.  Disorderly noise. Scarily real, yes. If you want to scare someone, just play this stuff over the phone and their hair will turn white.  It’s incomprehensible, but it’s quite frightening too.  Piercing shrieks and screams collide with drumming, not sure if real or machine made, but regardless they sound random. This could be the sounds of a massacre as captured through the ass of a horse. Or it could be the fact that David Keenan is My Dick was recorded over the phone from a live show.  Yes, that should be it.

Some education here. David Keenan is a writer who has penned biographies of noise/industrial/experimental bands like Coil, Current 93 and Nurse With Wound. And he is a dick. Or Tetsuo’s dick. Another piece of this noisy and incomprehensible puzzle; this recording was from a live show performed in tribute to Japanese label head and musician Juntaro Yamanouchi; who worked in the noise act The Gerogerigegege. That said, we are listening to some extreme harsh noise here. To that we shall add the fact that this was recorded over the phone and that the result is pretty fucking messy. So much so indeed, that when the tune comes to an end, about six minutes later, we can’t even distinguish between the clapping and cheering from the audience and the actual noise of Tetsuo.