Crypto Order - Destructive Strategies for Sustainable Living (2021)

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An album that at first glance would be way out of left field for Severed Heads Open Minds but upon further inspection into Crypto Order's sonic aggression in the arena of off-kilter industrial electronic and hallucinatory rave songs you could deduce a host of similarities to boundary acts like Gnaw Their Tongues, Daughters, Mamaleek, Jute Gyte, etc.

Much like Death Grips in the sense that there are perceived as well as sighted influences from a cornucopia of bands that revolve around feral energy like Revenge, The Doors, The Microphones, Lightning Bolt, The Jesus Lizard and things that feed off the dark and dismal. You will find much of the same energy on Crypto Order's Destructive Strategies for Sustainable Living.

Listen around on Italy's Democide Products page and those without a "strictly blast beats" mentality will find an arsenal of songs and albums worth your time.

Crypto Order - Destructive Strategies for Sustainable Living (bandcamp)

Amulets - Blooming (2021)

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You know when you go out for sushi and you eat a fresh piece of ginger in-between your meal as the sort of palate cleanser to maximize the impact of flavours between bites? Blooming is the sonic equivalent to that practice. At least when it comes to the curation of this blog and what it is I choose to post in-between what. It can't just be a consistent deluge of black/death metal posts… you should take the palate cleanser.

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What Blooming is is a floating audio piece comprised of mixing ambient drone, shoegaze, experimental electronic, tape loops—Utilizing the imperfections of analog tape to traverse a soundscape that leaves the listener quite open to its own interpretation. Whenever something is presented minimally, we will often use the empty space to fill in whatever emotion or thought we experience in that thing. The same could be said of Blooming—It's an open black room, and you're free to move around in it in anyway you see fit. Enjoy.

Amulets - Blooming (bandcamp)

HIDE - Interior Terror (2021)

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HIDE are a noise based duo from Chicago that are carving their way into the fray with a reeking blend of hypnotic electronic wrapped in a thick wall of pulsating noise which serves to unearth sounds that make the listener feel supremely uncomfortable. Much like how The Body use driving bass and drums to evoke discomfort, HIDE take it in a multitude of different directions that range from the fetid industrial dirge of early Pansonic to the post-punk noise of the perfectly executed Daughters record from 2018. This won't be for everyone, this won't even be for most, but a small amount of you masochistic sycophants will somehow for some reason derive a sick pleasure in the sounds from Interior Terror. I'll listen to anything coming out of the Dais Records library, I guess.

HIDE - Interior Terror (bandcamp)