Two tracks, “Out of Blood, ” around 20 minutes, can be found on this cassette. The label is the unknown Eternal Nightmare from Pennsylvania for me, but – with this kind of music – I wouldn’t have blinked if it said Transylvania somewhere. Blood is blood. A little exploring shows us that the label has been active since 2020, and we see some better-known names like Macronympha, New Grasping Machina, Gnawing Teeth, Torturing Nurse, subservientdominance and Sodom Hussein (I’ll never forget that name), those final two being projects of label owner Doug Dewalt. Whose split LP with Peasant Farm was recently reviewed in VW.
But this is about Kadaver, “Monoblood”. Two brilliantly loud and obnoxious tracks the way we know Kadaver’s stuff. Yet there is something special about the first of them. Side A: the clarity of this one track is so beautiful. The noise is obnoxious, as said, but the way Michael Molotov weaves the backing layers through that wall of massiveness is lovely! Backing sounds of all kinds and in the same way where Eno described ambient as being ‘designed to modify the listener’s perception of the surrounding environment’ (wiki) in the same way I completely lost track of what was in the music, what was in the background and what was in my direct environment. So why is that so special, you ask? It meant that Michael created a sonic environment where I lost track of reality. And even though I listen to shitloads of this stuff, there aren’t many Harsh Noise projects that get me to that point.
And to emphasize it, I didn’t have this feeling with the track on side B, which was also a great track, but instead of those background noises used on the first side this second one had voices and more feedback. It is also good, but my God, that first track is massive!
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