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Reviews v/a -- AMERICANOISE [Mother Savage Noise Productions] HIGHLIGHTS: pretty much the whole rancid enchilada Sheer gut noise-blowout... a legacy of brutality... wallowing in sonic filth... all this and MORE at your disposal! MSNP delivers another loud and obnoxious compilation for "severe noiseheads" and it lives up to its title (even though it "cheats" by including one non-American, Montreal's Knurl, but what the fuck, that's close enough, we got nothing against the Canadians). At 120 minutes (with stellar sound, lest you start getting worried about tape length/quality ratio considerations) and including such participants as Emil Beaulieau, Skin Crime, Death Squad, Taint, Chinawhite, Namanax, Daniel Menche, Abfall, Tropism, Knurl, Stimbox, Crank Sturgeon, Limacon, White Rose, AMK/The Haters, OVMN, One Dark Eye, and (of course) Macronympha). There's way too much here to go track by track, but it's all pretty damn savage -- all meat, no filler, and all loud and painful. Fuck art, let's drill holes in someone's skull, mon! Highlights include: Shrill cut-up filth from Knurl ("Tetramix (excerpt)"), explosive bursts of pure demolition fury from Skin Crime ("White Trash Serenade"), the shuddering cyclotron rumble of Daniel Menche's "More Rooms to Explore," sadistic stuttergun audio assault and samples (of a perverted nature, natch) in Taint's "Teenage Discipline," Abfall'swhirling shriek of the mutilated ("Das Chemische Produkt"), and the subsonic bleating of Stimbox's "The Nightmare Continues." Namanax provides a white-noise hurricane in "Turbulence (edit)," while Death Squad pummels the listener into submission with the churning bed of avalanche sounds in "Neurology (excerpt)." Crank Sturgeon's "Kakistos" will have you wondering if your speakers have finally given up the ghost, and then Macronympha's "Political Kill Time" kicks in to equal the earlier Death Squad track in pure sonic street-leveling potential. Tropism implements the supremely aggravating effects of static distorted beyond all proportion on "Dirt, Disease, Crime" and White Rose gets positively catastrophic on "Effervescence," throwing in everything including the kitchen sink and setting the blender to "puree." Chinawhite's contribution ("Ovencleaner") combines hurricane noises, repetitive lockstep hammering, and other top- secret noises to approximate the sound of a Concorde being stripped away layer by layer during a sandstorm. OVMN provides sandblasting in the background, shrill drilling in the foreground to helpfully obliterate your senses on "Cocaine Erection," then Death Squad (again!) does you in for good with the closing track "Porcelain Fuck Machine/Charlie FF World (edit)," a blast of power combining stun-phaser mayhem and blasts of complete heart disruption that is the only fitting end for a compilation as intensely brutal as this one. As with nearly all MSNP releases, this comes with a sizeable booklet (crammed full of obnoxious sleaze graphics); it also comes packaged in a deluxe hard-plastic slipcase box. This is deluxe edition is limited to only 150 copies, so if the thought of having your brain erased and squeegeed clean for two hours flat appeals to you, contact MSNP quickly... they will go FAST.... from: Dead Angel #16 Dead Angel Zine
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