I think the 29th cut is the deepest, and so from our favourite noise label from Israel; here we have the ‘demon from Finland’, a.k.a. Maskhead. As with the other Finnish noise project released in the same batch – V.C.O.B.T. – Maskhead is an anonymous project, so no clue whatsoever, so the first paragraph (the about section) is already written: ‘I don’t know, he’s from Finland and he’s loud’. Check. Interestingly, however, he is promoted with the info ‘[…] uses self-made oscillators’, so who knows, being a DIY guy myself, I might have encountered him on some platform already. Who knows, the fun of anonymity.
The cover of “Passion Bruises” is filled with ladies in ropes and gagged, etc. It’s seemingly normal for this kind of music to have a bit of a shock element still, but in all honesty, being an old grey fart, there is not much that shocks me anymore. Yeah, well. That’s currently the most shocking thing I can think of. So, a fun cut-up style cover and music to fit the imagery. As the promo says: ‘Drawing inspiration from sleazy grindhouse movies and extreme sexual behaviours’ but admit it, since shades of grey, should BDSM and torture still be considered extreme? Or is it maybe extreme in its context? Is BDSM a taboo in Finland? Or maybe illegal? I honestly don’t know. But it would explain a lot.
The music itself is nice, though, with lovely feedback drones, harsh metal percussion (I think), loads of distortion and many layers of weirdness. On a correct volume, it’s hypnotising as hell, and while listening several times, I found myself in my world of chaos, working my ass off on a few projects on the computer. Exactly how I like to be pushed into my mental environment.
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