This time around Fighting Boredom give you a handful of stuff we have listened to and written about for your perusal, this page’s reviews include Guiltless who were ‘Born from a love of experimental rock, noise rock, early industrial, sludge, and doom’. ‘Based in the Texan city of San Antonio, and has deep roots in Mexican culture, darkwave/synth punk solo artist’ Night Ritualz. Pig with ‘an expanded and fully remastered version of the 1996 album by UK industrial glam kingpin Raymond Watts.’ Lust For Youth & Croation Amor give us a ‘a beat-based, atmospheric record inspired by the Golden Record, which was sent into space as humanity’s message to the unknown. A ‘symphonic death metal Band from Switzerland’ Kerberos. Biollante who have decided it’s ‘time to give new life to this wild, violent, emotional first album that remained too underground’. Joni Void who ‘conjures deepening subtlety, elegy & emotion with their diaristic sample-based sound collage’. The ‘resplendent, immersive, alchemical work’ of T. Gowdy. The Funeral March of the Marionettes ‘commemorate the life and legacy of their late founder and bandleader, Joe Whiteaker (b.21 October 1968, d. 17 May 2024), with their final release’. Turbo Diesel, who ‘channel an uneasy and distorted pop sensibility’. Have a read and listen below and if you don’t agree we are always open to argument.
Guiltless – Teeth To Sky
Neurot
If you like Godflesh you’ll bloody love this. An album of the finest Industrial metal I’ve heard in a long while. Nice and slow, doom filled and constantly immense and heavy. This will do nicely while I’m pruning the roses and mowing the lawn. Battering, menacing and relentless are the words this brings to mind. A good album
Night Ritualz – Night Ritualz
Metropolis Records
This album is proper unadulterated old school goth, from the crisp hard drum machine to the banks of synths. Texan based Night Ritualz has conjured up a heady mix to grace the atmosphere of any self respecting man or woman in black. It throbs with sleaziness and then gets all emotional and sad. As I said, a proper goth album and who doesn’t like a bit of goth every now and then.
Pig – Wrecked
Metropolis Records
This is a reissue of an album first released in 1996 on Wax Trax! File with Ministry and Nine Inch Nails, very well constructed and pretty essential for any industrial music fan. It’s not my thing anymore, I mean I loved the likes of Ministry and Revco back then but don’t reach for them that often nowadays. Having said that, if you do listen to all that stuff, then this will fit right in.
Lust For Youth & Croation Amor – All Worlds
Sacred Bones
An electronic treat to be played after the madness, after the club or the party or wherever your particular kink takes you. It’s the sound of the dawn breaking over the city, electronic pulses like the gradual switching on of lights and appliances, a weird one but quite enchanting.
Kerberos – Apostle to the Malevolent
This is truly bonkers, an Adams Familyesque organ recital starts it off with a dirge, but then the over the top guitars and drums break off into Prog Metal land and we are off. Just when you thought the sound couldn’t get more bonkers and epic the vocals start, utterly ludicrous, operatic and grunty, just unbelievable. It sounds like Rick Wakeman has taken too many arthritis pills and being set loose on stage.. I mean it just gets more and more bonkers and epic until the nine minute tour de force of their insanely catchy bonkersness that ends this record. I’m not saying you should buy it but it definitely needs a listen.
Biollante – J’Espère que tu danseras
Non Serviam Collective / Atypeek Music
I remember the first time I heard the Bomb Squad destroying the ground underneath Chuck D, that dense mass of sound the likes of which I certainly hadn’t experienced before. Well Biollante have taken that blueprint and layered it harder and stronger than PE ever did. French Rap and singing, conversations, arguments and animal noises are just the start of this immense recording, the groove is immediate and so is the anger. Utterly hard core, I’ve not heard much like this and I like it a lot.
Joni Void – Every Life is a Light
Constellation
These songs are as likely to switch away on a tangent as stay focused on the same groove, they are soft, low and gentle. Joni Void has kept things tiny and it just works. This soothes and stimulates the brain as it insinuates itself into your being, addictive electronic and strangely wonderful.
T. Gowdy – Trill Scan
Constellation
This is bright and open and another release where the idea is to create sounds with a minimum of fuss and volume. It’s all very light and floaty. It reflects a sunny walk in the woods or sitting in a cafe on the coast watching the light sparkle on the waves as people run in and out of the surf. Small, intricately crafted and very very bright.
The Funeral March of the Marionettes – It All Falls Apart
I think that the thing most worth mentioning is that the guy who made this died shortly after, so the emotions on the record are raw to say the least. It’s a great slice of goth groove, excellent beats and scratchy guitars over the deep rolling bass lines holding it all down. This is proper Goth and in that it’s great. As a last record, it’s a legacy to be proud of.
Turbo Diesel – Turbo Diesel
Delicious Clam Records
This at first struck me as another EP of quirky indie pop. With that they lost me. But going back to it you realise that the songs are pretty good, but the feeling I get is that it’s odd for the sake of it, which isn’t my thing at all. However the music gets really interesting in places but I’m afraid I still just can’t cope with the vocals. One for the indie kids I think.
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Guiltless’ website is guiltless.band, they are also on Instagram.
Night Ritualz is on Instagram.
Pig’s website is pigindustries.com, he is also on Facebook and Instagram.
Lust For Youth & Croation Amor are on Instagram.
Kerberos are on Facebook and Instagram.
Biollante are on Instagram and Facebook.
Joni Void is on Facebook and Instagram.
T. Gowdy is on Instagram.
The Funeral March of the Marionettes are on Facebook.
Turbo Diesel are on Instagram.
All words by Adrian Bloxham.
