LOUD AS GIANTS is Justin K Broadrick and Dirk Serries.

Justin K. Broadrick and Dirk Serries have been musically in sync since the early eighties when they both were active in the underground cassette network, individually producing experimental, industrial and noise music.  
Both with the highest appreciation for each other’s work for almost two decades, they finally met during a joined tour where Dirk, as Fear Falls Burning, supported JESU during the CONQUEROR Tour.  

Finding out that they both a huge admiration for each other’s immense discography and versatile musical activities, working together was only a matter of time. Remixes (for Vidna Obmana), reconstructions (for Continuum), collaborations (with Dirk Serries’ Microphonics and Fear Falls Burning) and helping each other out at concerts became a constant until finally they unleashed LOUD AS GIANTS.


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LOUD AS GIANTS - I : MONUMENT from EMPTY HOMES (LP & CD, Consouling Sounds 2023)

Friends and frequent collaborators Justin K. Broadrick and Dirk Serries return with this fantastic prelude to Dirk's final chapter in his Microphonics series for Tonefloat. The long-awaited follow-up to his criticially-acclaimed xxi-xxv album (2013) is currently being recorded.
This collaborative song is a beautiful example of their sheer passion for ambience, new wave, shoegaze and all other genres they have been, in their own style, creating musical bridges between. Pressed on virgin black 7" with a 80s press-out and housed in a beautiful 2-panel cover and a sturdy pvc selve, this release will be available on the day of Dirk Serries' live appearance at DUNK! festival on May 7th 2016.

Resolution Heart

JESU & DIRK SERRIES - RESOLUTION HEART PT ONE

Victor Frankenstein (Music for a Dark Evening)

Metamorphosis (excerpt)

Disorientation Flow

The Lament Broke

The Imperative Edge

THE VOID OF EXPANSION - GOVERNED BY DECAY (DUNK! RECORDS February 2019)

LP

SIDE 	1. MATERIAL
SIDE 	2. DISCORD

CD
1.	DECAY

Tomas Järmyr : drums 
Dirk Serries : electric guitar 
 
Performed and recorded at Sunny Side Inc. Studio, Anderlecht (Belgium) on May 25th 2017. Mixed & mastered by Dirk Serries. 

Artwork and design by Juliane Schütz.
Released by DUNK! Records, 2019.
https://dunkrecords.com/

THE VOID OF EXPANSION : GOVERNED BY DECAY Teaser

vidnaObmana
THE SURREAL SANCTUARY / THE CONTEMPORARY NOCTURNE
(2CD, Zoharum 2018)

THE SURREAL SANCTUARY
Produced, recorded and mixed by vidnaObmana at the Serenity Studio, Belgium, between September 1998 and August 1999. Remastered by Dirk Serries in September 2018.

vidnaObmana : harmonics, loops, fujara, overtone flute, voice, electric guitar, fm noise and feedback, surreal acoustics and recycling.
Composed and arranged by vidnaObmana.
Recycled sources structured & performed by :
Joris De Backer : double bass on ‘Infinity’
Jim Cole : overtone singing, tamboura on ‘Lamentation’
Steve Roach : electric guitar soundworld on ‘The Fragmented Dome’

THE CONTEMPORARY NOCTURNE
Produced, recorded and mixed by vidnaObmana at the Serenity Studio, Belgium, between September 1998 and June 2000. Remastered by Dirk Serries in September 2018.

vidnaObmana : harmonics, loops, fujara, overtone flute, voice, electric guitar, fm noise and feedback, surreal acoustics and recycling.
Composed and arranged by vidnaObmana.
Recycled sources structured & performed by :
Joris De Backer : double bass on ‘Infinity’
Jim Cole : overtone singing on ‘Revelation’
Steve Roach : e-bow guitar on ‘Chasing The Odyssee’

vidnaObmana - THE SURREAL SANCTUARY & THE CONTEMPORARY NOCTURNE Teaser

FEAR FALLS BURNING – FUNCTION COLLAPSE
I 
II
Performed & recorded at Studio Jupiter, Tongeren (Belgium) on April 7th 2018 by Koenraad Foesters. Mixed by Dirk Serries. Mastered by James Plotkin.
Colin Webster : tenor saxophone Dirk Serries : electric guitar & effects Tim Bertilsson : drums

FEAR FALLS BURNING FUNCTION COLLAPSE Album Teaser

vidnaObmana - SOUNDTRACK FOR THE AQUARIUM (CD reissue on ZOHARUM)

Aqua 1 (theme) 
Aqua 2a
Aqua 3
Aqua 4
Aqua 2b
Aqua 5
Aqua 6 (theme)

Composed, arranged & played by vidnaObmana.  Recorded and mixed by vidnaObmana at the Serenity Studio, Belgium, between November 1992 and February 1993.  All water and draining sounds recorded digitally on location in November 1992.  Remastered by Dirk Serries in February 2019.

vidnaObmana : electronics, loops, tapes, flute, rainsticks and voice.

This remastered edition includes the original soundtrack created for continuous playback at the aquarium of the Antwerp Zoo in 1992.

vidnaObmana SOUNDTRACK FOR THE AQUARIUM Reissue Album Teaser

Dirk Serries - The Devastation Chant (10", Silentes/13)

side a
I
side b
II

dirk serries : guitars, effects
recorded in 2013-2014, mixed and (re)-mastered in 2018
play at 45 rpm
photos by stefano gentile
layout by the designers of the thirteenth dream 13 | sps1931 | ltd.100 | store.silentes.it

Dirk Serries_THE DEVASTATION CHANT Album Teaser

vidnaObmana - The Transcending Quest (10", Silentes/13 coming September 30th 2019)

Side A : Moonbeam, The Quest
Side B : Authentic Space


Composed, arranged & played by vidnaObmana.  Recorded and mixed by vidnaObmana at the Serenity Studio, Belgium, between April and September 2014.  Remastered for vinyl by Dirk Serries in March 2019.

vidnaObmana : electronics, loops, processed tapes, rhythm programming and various percussion.

VidnaObmana THE TRANSCENDING QUEST Album Teaser

RODRIGO AMADO & DIRK SERRIES excerpt from 'Jazzblazzt' (tape on Raw Tonk Records - September 27th 2019)

Rodrigo Amado - tenor saxophone
Dirk Serries - acoustic guitar

Recorded live in concert August 28th 2018 at Jazzblazzt (Neeritter, The Netherlands). Mixed and mastered by Dirk Serries.

RODRIGO AMADO & DIRK SERRIES Jazzblazzt (excerpt)

Vidna Obmana & David Lee Myers - TRACERS
(cd out on Zoharum, 2020)

Limited edition of 400 copies. 6-panel Digipak.

Sources, recycling and transformation at Pulsewidth, NYC and the Serenity Studio, Belgium.
Remastered in April 2020.

Vidna Obmana & David Lee Myers TRACERS Album Teaser

Over a timespan of more than 26 years vidnaObmana, Fear Falls Burning and Microphonics have become Dirk Serries' personal triptych in analysing, dissecting, creating and processing sound. From the early industrial, the minimal synth ambient, the genre-splicing tribal fusion, the overpowering guitardrones to the pure, straightforward and minimal guitarambience. The perfect closure on his alter-ego's vidnaObmana and Fear Falls Burning completes the trilogy. A tryptich that has come full circle with re-enactment of his passion for the pure, minimal and beautiful.

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