Love Earth Music released another new vinyl, a true split album between Subservientdominance and Peasant Farm. The first side I’m listening to is by subservientdominance, a.k.a. Doug Dewalt. He is from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, runs Eternal Nightmare and is known under many names of which Sodom Hussein raises the most eyebrows but triggers all the giggles also. In under 20 minutes, Doug gives us three tracks, which can best be defined as harsh noise of quite a complex order. “Sixty Second Snuff” opens with a sample after it bursts out of your speakers. Deep bass drones with more than enough happening in all layers to make a tired brain active again. The 8-minute “Blanket Of Pearls” has fewer extremes but is based on an excellent looped-like structure that brings you into a hednodding state. Finally, “Hatred Has A Home” also doesn’t have those basses of the first track, but it’s so brilliantly chaotic … So yeah, hatred has a home, and it’s either Bethlehem, Pennsylvania or just plain old Hell.
The reverse side of “Engineered For Oppression” has four tracks by Peasant Farm, a.k.a. Ian Tyler. Ian only had four traceable releases on Discogs, but holy sh1t, I hope this is not the last thing I hear from him. In the time I’ve been writing for Vital Weekly you must have noticed I do like my power electronics and death industrial dirty, gritty, in your face and throbbing in all directions. And well, Peasant Farm checks all the boxes. Where Power Electronics is in my book a bit more US-based as Death Industrial – with icons Atrax Morgue, Lille Roger / Brighter Death Now – is more EU-based, there are always a few bands that will not fit an actual scene or style. And at THAT moment, it becomes interesting. So yes, Peasant Farm fits that latest category. I can’t get over how the four tracks speak to me. There are no long tracks (roughly between 3 and 5 minutes), vocals I can’t decipher, analogue-sounding layers, loops, and structures with a lot happening in subtle layers of heavily manipulated vocals and added noises. It will speak to fans of Genocide Organ, Atrax Morgue, and I can’t WAIT to hear more !!!
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