Linekraft: Asura / #2021reviews
Masahiko Okubo's Linekraft was never one of those extra-prolific industrial / noise / power electronics acts that drop new material literally every few weeks and in 2021 he only released…
Merzbow & Prurient: Black Crows Cyborg / #2021reviews
As each and every year, there were a lot of Merzbow releases in 2021, including a fair share of new material (besides all the reissues) and as always, they were…
Toshimaru Nakamura: Culvert – No-Input Mixing Board 10 / #2021reviews
No-Input Mixing Board is Toshimaru Nakamura's long-running series, which started in 2000 and, as the title suggest, it includes music created with a no-input mixing board, which basically means that…
Controlled Death / Mayuko Hino split / #2021reviews
One of this year's surprise releases was a joint album from Controlled Death and Mayuko Hino, two seminal figures of the Japanese noise scene, that came out on UK's Cold Spring…
Grim: Totem Song / #2021reviews
Unlike the previous entries in the "A Year In Reviews" series, this one is not an album, but a 7" single, however it is a very special one, the kind…
A Japanese noise & experimental Who’s Who by Ochiai Soup
While the music industry and live music in particular was hit especially hard by the pandemic, there are also some great things coming out of all this and one of…
New collab album from Boris & Merzbow, inspired by 2020.
The first collaboration between Boris and Merzbow called Megatone was released back in 2002 and ever since then they drop a new joint album every few years. The new one,…
New collab album and cassette releases from Viviankrist
Viviankrist is the name Eri Isaka (probably still better known as Vivian Slaughter, singer / bassist of black metal band Gallhammer) started to use for her solo releases after she…
New limited 7″ release from GRIM on Ant-Zen!
After Hermit Amen, this summer's surprisingly quiet Grim release, Jun Konagaya's project is back with something from the other end of the spectrum: three tracks of pure, raw, noisy industrial.…
New “Cuts” album from the Merzbow / Pándi / Gustasfsson trio
In the fourth installment in their Cuts series (which started with Cuts in 2013 and was followed by Cuts Of Guilt, Cuts Deeper in 2015 and Cuts Up Cuts Out…