WE ARE WATER

Raw is a Noise Drone Metal project from Athens Greece.

Raw - Raw

Dry Cough Records is most pleased to team up with the excellent Raw Birth Records to bring you this new split from two of the finest bands currently peddling grimy, disease-ridden punk-influenced sludge/doom (along with the UK's Moloch, and Germany's Nightslug - two other bands with an impending releases on Dry Cough!). This EP features one track each from Slovenia's Leechfeast, and New Zealand's Meth Drinker.

Leechfeast may not be quite as well known as their Antipodean counterparts, but they're just as revoltingly brilliant. This track has more of a mournful, murky doom-like feel to it than much of their previous output - but this is definitely not a bad thing; they're still as dark and disturbing as ever.

The flip side features another chunk of seething, ugly sludge from down-under. Painfully slow, bass-heavy, piercing feedback, miserable-as-fuck lyrics, vomited vocals, this is classic Meth Drinker  (hell, it's even called 'Sewer' for gods sake!), so rejoice.


LEECHFEAST: Aimless

"Nandito" was written, performed, produced and mixed in a wooden hut. 
In one single day. 
Afterwards the two Soraya worshipers put the sacrificial hut on fire. 
No animals were hurt during the production of this album, only 
Nandito's photos.

Soraya Montenegro is:
Worshiper I - guitar, bass, engineer 
Worshiper II - throat, lyrics, percussion, cover

www.sorayamontenegro.bandcamp.com/

Mi Dominio

Circle - Rakkautta Al Dente

CY007 - V/A - From Heavy Metal Bashing to Leisure Pursuits EP

A1 - Eindkrak - Shawarma
A2 - Andromeda Complex - The Servant (Extract) (1994)
A3 - GDL - 4

B1 - Circling Vultures - Feasting on the Caucus of the Fallen Divine King
B2 - Andromeda Complex - The Servant (Klankman Remix)

VINYL: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/eindkrak-andromeda-from-heavy-metal-bashing-to/641477-01/

DIGITAL: https://contortyourself-cy.bandcamp.com/album/cy007-from-heavy-metal-bashing-to-leisure-pursuits-ep


Hot on the heels of CY006 we have the latest quintet of past profanity and new nastiness. Unknown Precept’s Eindkrak serves up a grease dripping, ball bearing filled dish of “Shawarma.” After the entre comes a 90s treat. Kirlian Camera’s Angelo Bergamini’s side project with Celestino Pes under the name Andromeda Complex. Here the partnership offer the drums flailing beast that is “The Servant (Extract)”, tongue lolling, eyes bulging techno brutalism from 1994.  “4” sees GDL collide claps and low level bass line abuse as a thick haze gathers. On the flip. L.I.E.S. and Secret Studio scavengers, Circling Vultures are savagely “Feasting on the Caucus of the Fallen Divine King” before Bunker back row bully Klankman twists his knife into “The Servant”. Your latest dose of mean musical medicine has been served.

CY007_SC CLIPS

From Heavy Metal Bashing to Leisure Pursuits EP

CY007 - B1 - Circling Vultures - Feasting on the Caucus of the Fallen Divine King

The self-titled debut for the trans-Atlantic project Split Cranium was a ferocious homage to Nordic d-beat masters like Terveet Kädet and Anti Cimex. The album’s no-frills barrage of charged hardcore might have been a little orthodox in its blitzkrieg riffage, stampeding pace, and gravel-throated ire, but its straightforward approach was an unexpected departure for bandmasters Aaron Turner and Jussi Lehtisalo. While Turner has hinted at an affinity for crust classics in the base misanthropy of Old Man Gloom and Lehtisalo toyed with peace punk aesthetics on Circle albums like Panic, neither musician has ever done such a faithful approximation of a pre-existing sound. But for two artists with extensive catalogs of challenging and groundbreaking music to take a stab at working within an established framework was, in its own way, an exhilarating middle finger.

Six years later, Split Cranium returns with their sophomore album I’m The Devil and I’m Okay. Turner and Lehtisalo waste no time establishing their new mission statement, opening the album with Popol Vuh-inspired keyboards by Faith Coloccia (Mamiffer, Mara) that saturate the ruthless reinterpretation of the Discharge template on “Evil Hands”. The contrasting breaths of sublime ambience serve to highlight the savagery abetted by bassist Nate Newton (Converge, Doomriders, Old Man Gloom) and Tomi Leppänen (Circle, K-X-P), making I’m The Devil and I’m Okay simultaneously more sonically rounded and more visceral and vicious. “We wanted to make a record that was less straightforward than the first one,” Turner says of their method. “Jussi loves melody and I love dissonance and noise, so that is probably the healthy creative contrast that made this record what it is.”

While Split Cranium continues to be driven by the blazing guitar malaise of Lehtisalo and the harrowing bellows of Turner, the melodic counterpoint provided by Newton on “Wet Shadow”, the ethereal vocals summoned by Coloccia on “Ingurgitated Liquids” and “Death Bed – The Yellow Room”, and the squalls of white noise on “Whirling Dusk” are a but a few of the components that knock I’m The Devil and I’m Okay off the axis of traditional d-beat hardcore. The strongest records in the anarcho-punk canon have figured out ways to inject melody or push extremes without diffusing their punch or diminishing their hooks. Split Cranium retains the principal components of speed and vitriol while expanding their frequency spectrum into realms of both beauty and sheer ugliness, making I’m The Devil and I’m Okay a white-knuckle headfuck in a realm of sterile imitations.

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Split Cranium - Evil Hands

Mirrors

Inside Out Records present "Irina Remixed", based on Athens-based Metaman's original album "Irina", with the eponymous track featuring the mesmerising vocals of the mythical Lena Platonos. Rising star Echonomist follows his debut EP release on Innervisions with an underground, peak time re-creation of “Irina”, with unforgiving percussions and exhilarating arps. Stevie R & Parisinos explore slower, hypnotic rhythms and acid elements to accompany the transcendental story telling by Lena Platonos. Breakin' moves experiments with repetition and minimalism for his experimental interpretation of Battle of Perugia. Finally, Athens Computer Underground completes this release with a raw acid re-invention of Antigone's Stasimon.

Mi Dominio

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