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Review: Gridfailure ‘Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III’

6th November 20256th November 2025 Reza Mills Ambient, Gridfailure, Nefarious Industries, Noise

The second installation of the Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery series was my first exposure to Gridfailure, and I remember finding it

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Review: Holy Scum ‘All We Have Is Never’

19th August 202519th August 2025 Martin Williams Experimental, Holy Scum, Industrial, Noise, Rocket Recordings

Just as I found myself wondering when, or if, I’d hear another record from Holy Scum, the Manchester-area collective spearheaded

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Review: Uboa ‘Impossible Light’

13th August 202413th August 2024 Reza Mills Ambient, Experimental, Noise, The Flenser, Uboa

I have a soft spot for San Francisco based label The Flenser; Midwife, Mamaleek, Agriculture, Ragana and the recent Your

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Review: Corrupted ‘Felicific Algorithm / Mushikeras’

13th February 202413th February 2024 Sandy Williamson Cold Spring Records, Corrupted, Doom, Drone, Noise

Japan’s Corrupted are a mystery to most. No interviews, no photo shoots, very little is known about these drone, doom

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Review: Full Of Hell And Nothing ‘When No Birds Sang’

7th December 20237th December 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Closed Casket Activities, Doom, Drone, Full Of Hell, Noise, Nothing, Shoegaze

‘If we’re doing our job, it will freak you the fuck out in the best way, because you’re staring at

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Review: Bastard Noise ‘Mantra Of Desperation’

22nd September 202322nd September 2023 George Green Alimentary Music, Ambient, Bastard Noise, Noise, Power Electronics

‘It’s just noise, isn’t it? Anyone could do it.’ I’ve harped on before about loving the range of art that

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Review: Bastard Noise ‘Incineration Prayer/Self Righteous Suicide’

4th August 20234th August 2023 George Green Armageddon Label, Bastard Noise, Noise, Power Electronics

There are some forms of art that I have a special category for, I call this category: ‘I’m not sure

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Gridfailure 'Perpendicular To The Living Ones'
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Review: Gridfailure ‘Perpendicular To The Living Ones’

9th January 20238th March 2023 Reza Mills Ambient, Experimental, Gridfailure, Independent, Noise

Gridfailure aka David Brenner (also of Earsplit PR) has never been workshy as is evident with this, his fourth release

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Intensive Care: Jamie Grimes Interviews Andrew Nolan Of The Industrial Noise Duo

6th October 20229th December 2022 Jamie Grimes Closed Casket Activities, Industrial, Intensive Care, Iron Lung Records, Noise

Andrew Nolan and Ryan Bloomer are lifers. The pair have been unleashing and developing their own particular form of industrialised

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Colossloth Interview & ‘Promethean Meat’ Review

3rd October 20229th December 2022 George Green Ambient, Cold Spring Records, Colossloth, Industrial, Noise

We live in a small world. Wooly – the one-man noise behemoth known as Colossloth – is someone who I

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Bastard Noise & Merzbow 'Retribution By All Other Creatures'
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Review: Bastard Noise & Merzbow ‘Retribution By All Other Creatures’

14th September 20229th December 2022 Jamie Grimes Bastard Noise, Merzbow, Noise, Power Electronics, Relapse Records

Two absolute fucking titans of the underground meet to create an album together. Neither Bastard Noise nor Merzbow should need

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