A funereal echo emanates from deep within the abandoned outskirts of Antigo, Wisconsin.

Hidden among the rusty detritus of a long-since boarded up pea canning factory you will find the Tiki Room, and nestled within its hundreds of Polynesian idols and unused bar ware resides our mournful heroes, Wyrding. A group of reunited childhood friends, Wyrding set forth to take the slow, agonic sounds of the early Finnish "funeral doom" sound, translated into a lyric-based "word ritual" setting. Performed entirely on acoustic instruments, that is to say, stripped of their predecessors' volume and bombast, Wyrding concentrates on the style's essence: raw emotion, atmosphere, and a distinct concentration on melody. A play on the old word for "fate" or "destiny," Wyrding's celestial, doomed folk sounds were derived from an aleatoric re-arranging of words, using chance to define structure. It was fate, nay, Wyrd which reunited these wayward souls, and it was Wyrd which defines their unique, mournful sound.

- Jon Rosenthal

Cassette label based in the Netherlands.

Nate Hall / Bomg / Grey Widow / Mantar / IRN / Renatecordate / Cult of Occult / Destroy Judas / Appollonia / Plague Mask / Muscle and Marrow / He Whose Ox Is Gored / Suffering Quota / Beneath the Storm / Black Mare / Martyn Jackson / Ishmael / Dresden/Leningrad / Black Mare / Electric Citizen / Carrion Mother / Woudloper / Charnia / Deveikuth / Mother Room / Age Decay / Australasia 

"Rain Drinkers is the duo of Wisconsinites Joe Taylor and Xavier Kraal, creating evocative chamber music that flows through a wide range of contrasting movements with a cinematic ease. From spaghetti western-esque horn arrangements through hypnotic electric piano dirges overcome by adept hand drumming and delivered unto comforting cosmic resolve....Unknown to majority of the sonic voyager scene in the midwest, for the last two years these isolated mystery men have conjured and realized an inspiring new world of spiritist sound." - bravemysteries.com

OLD OOP HC (and Cuckoo, linked from the MIE page)

SICKCORE - noise label from Russia.

- harsh noise
- power electronics
- experimental noise


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