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VOLTAGESTRESS*R022
MUTANT TURD - DISCO ANALE CDR

VOLTAGESTRESS*R021
THE RITA / FILTHY TURD - KILL THE WOMEN RAPE THE MEN CDR

The "walls of noise" release. Two of the heaviest tracks around delivered by two of the most respected noise artists doing this type of noise. The Rita offers a 35 minute crunch fest of low bass scratches and barrages that seem to have two different channels, one centered and one in the right ear. A wall of noise drone titled "Green suit, black depth". That continuos drone of his that makes death seem all too peaceful. The Rita wants to take you to a scary place, rip out your eyes, seal your eyelids with super-glue, and pull the face of "River fish-woman monster evil" over your screaming skull...it works well and I can't take much more of it.

Filthy Turd creates his 34 minute version; "The fish-woman has her finger in your arse-hole". This track has a lot of channel movement and most of the noise seems to be generated from yells and screams, either Filthy Turd himself or samples, not sure. This track is also a lot more textured than The Rita's. There are more sounds ranging from ear to ear and the noise has a less menacing quality to it, but it's still loud as fuck. I get the feeling that these creatures want to take me by surprise, bend me over, and stick large wooden pikes up my ass. It hurts!

Not much in the way of packaging but the knife wielding fish-woman on the cover is great. The Rita's track has a crisper feel to it and it is much louder in terms of stereo play, but when dealing with noise walls, you can't be picky.

Taken from:
http://noisear.blogspot.com/

69 minutes of classic static harshnoise of good quality equally divided in two by The Rita and Filthy Turd. Yes: that’s two long tracks of 34 minutes, harsh all the way. There’s really not that much I can add to that description, if you like harsh noise, you’re gonna love this one, otherwise you’ll be hating this release, that’s how it goes with harsh noise. Get a copy by contacting The Rita at zombie_lake at yahoo dot ca or Filthy Turd at voltagestressr at ntlworld dot com. Voltagestress is also the Leeds based label that released this one (next to some Bongoleero-releases), visit their site at this location: voltagestress. Remember: “The fish-woman has her finger in your arse-hole.”

Taken from:
http://www.mangenerated.com/blog/

 

VOLTAGESTRESS*R020
LYSERGIC SCUM - BATTLE DOSE CDR

VOLTAGESTRESS*R019
FEAST OF ISHTAR - HACK OFF HER LIMBS ONE BY ONE CDR

VOLTAGESTRESS*R018
DOGLIVEROIL - CLEANED BY STEVIE WONDER CDR

VOLTAGESTRESS*R017
EGOSPASTICHE - VERGISSINGEN : COMPILATION CDR

This compilation is on the cover announced as Egopastische and 'Vergissingen' ('mistakes'), the title, but we are dealing here with a compilation of various bands and projects from the Dutch Fckn'bstrds and their Hondenkoekjesfabriek label, so Monomarc, Odal, Civic TV and Sjabel Kebab are all present. This is a varied release, ranging from harsh noise to really lo-fi recordings of people mumbling or unamplified noise.

Taken from:
Vital 476

Vergissingen (which is Dutch for “mistakes”) is a compilation of projects related to “the many headed Dutch sick monster the FCKN’ BSTRDS”. That sounds like a good idea, but unfortunately I must say that this CDr is a perfect example of the old adage that the sum is greater than the parts. Sure, there are some good tracks on this CDr, like the collage of noisy electronic sounds by Vulvax or some harsh noise that starts with eastern chanting by Sjabel Kebab. Fokking Odal surprises with one of the best things I have ever heard from him. An experimental well constructed track with a strong atmosphere created by manipulated voices, electronics and some controlled noise. But there are also tracks that are not very good or even really bad. Kruttizan (Odal & Monomarc) are disappointing. Not really bad but I know they can do much better. De Hondenkoeh-giesfabriek (sic), drunken chanting and a monotously played accordion, is funny for one time only. Most of the other contributions is just mediocre noisy stuff. The tracks in which we here Wildberry stumbling around, mumbling and looking for his pills are even irritating. Though some of the tracks on this release are really worth being heard I expected more from this. Maybe too much.

Taken from:
Rigodon #3

VOLTAGESTRESS*R016
DEAD AT DER SATAAN VOLUME 1
INTERNATIONAL LIVE HARSH NOISE COMPILATION CDR

Five noise makers team up on a compilation. I never heard of Chrysalis, but Cheapmachines, Fckn'bstrds, Filthy Turd and Concrete Violin are all a bit more well-known in the world of CDR and MP3. All five tracks are pretty standard radioshortwave doodlings, feedback and bangs on metal.

Taken from:
Vital 476

There are five interesting bands on this compilation. Chrysalis kicks off with the sound of a factory that has come to life. Harsher than I expected from him. A good track. After that it’s Filthy Turd's turn. And he is harsher than ever. His track is more like a wall of noise that, unlike Chrysalis, doesn’t change very much. But it works. The effect is that after a while the sound really creeps into your brain to do its damaging work there. Third on the menu are the Cheapmachines. Their track has much more variation. In the beginning it’s almost ambient and they also use all kinds of samples from radio or voices and other unidentifiable sounds. They are followed by the FCKN’ BSTRDS. If you know them (and who doesn’t?), you know what to expect. Lo-fi chaotic noise and screaming voices. Unfortunately the sound-quality of their track is a bit weak so they don't sound as powerful as they actually are. The compilation ends with the best track: a well-recorded furious harsh pedal-noise cut-up assault by Concrete Violin.

Taken from:
Rigodon #3

VOLTAGESTRESS*R015
VIOLENT DETONATIONS VOLUME 1
INTERNATIONAL NOISECORE/SICKNOISE COMPILATION CDR

 

VOLTAGESTRESS*R014
HendersonRichardson - NEITHER WORK NOR LEISURE CDR

Whoever Henderson and Richardson are, I don't know, but their 'Neither Work Nor Leisure' is a pretty short (twenty minute) release of a wall of feedback and distortion, in which nothing of interest could be detected.

Taken from:
Vital 476

Henderson & Richardson: Neither Work Nor Leisure (CD-R, Voltagestress*r) One 20-minute track of raw harsh noise recorded live in studio. It's very simple with feedback, electronics and also some metal junk and analog synth I guess. Basic tools making basic noise and that's just fine, as this is loud and the sound is pleasantly sharp (although a bit one-dimensional). Also the playing time is short enough so you won't be bored with this (a longer whole of this kind of material would probably cause too many yawns). I've said this before and I say it again: guaranteed noise entertainment!

Taken from:
Dilettante's Digest #2 zine
http://mir.blogdns.com/

Scraping madness arises when I pop this cdr in my cd player. Constant raving insanity surrounds me. As I'm trying to focus on other things, the feedback keeps disturbing me from all other activities. The noise and feedback stays constant on the same level for about 15 minutes and it is not that varied after all. It keeps going and then changes in sound or harshness for another 5 minutes. It is painful and it may cause sporadic ear bleedings. Whatever you call it, I call it lo-fi shit, harsh noise in full effect. If the sound would have been better the effects would have been disastrous for our nerve system. But for now, only 20 minutes is a little too less. Harsh and painful.

Taken from:
http://www.semtexinc.com

Release Nr. 14 of the ultimate Harsh Noise Label Voltagestress from the UK. This is brand new stuff of Henderson / Richardson (recorded 12.9.04). 20 minutes of harsh noise which sounds like if a train derailed next to you...much much noise! So only for noise fetish freaks!

Taken from:
http://www.skprecords.com

You call "HendersonRichardson", the studio of 20 minutes or less of cheap harsh unit (the air) the one-shot recording work, just a little being rough, noise of the air impression of pulling was good.

Taken from:
http://www02.so-net.ne.jp/~nobb/abh.html

Yet again some more droning harsh and raw noise produced by Voltagestress... This one kind of reminds me of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre score mixed with piercing sounds of powerdrills! High-pitched feedback, persistent sizzling noise, a few twisted, ear-drum ripping variations at times and even some interesting textures... you'll feel much more abstract after listening to this.

Taken from:
http://www.goregrind.net/

One 20-minute track of raw harsh noise recorded live in the studio. As with most Voltagestress*r releases I'm baffled as to exactly why this sounds as crude as it does, as it goes beyond the aesthetic value of the lo-fi sound and actually detracts from an otherwise decent composition, but what can you do? In the same boat, the CD-R comes with a weak xeroxed cover in a clear sleeve. This time out most of the art is actually terrible, though I really like the strange feel of the back cover a lot. Thankfully the sound is pretty listenable on this one, so even though tons of detail is lost in the shuffle, there is an atmospheric quality to the piece. It gets a little boring in its persistent use of biting midrange distortion, so 20 minutes might be a little long for this as it's basically the same thing with a few subtle variations throughout. But, at the same time, for this style of relatively harsh, improvisational noise… it's not so bad. Once again I think the quality of this could have easily been made stronger without much extra time, though. D.I.Y. packaging is fine, but that doesn't mean it has to look like crap, you know? Seriously, the cover art is disgraceful. Get rid of that crap, use the back cover as the front image, clean up the sound a touch, put a few minutes of time into putting the label's contact information on there so that it looks more presentable… there's just no excuse for this kind of shoddiness. I don't understand the motivation behind this kind of presentation, nor the willingness to accept it.

Taken from:
http://www.aversionline.com/

That is possibly one of the most strange release I’ve come to hear and see for a while. I don’t know for you but seeing a release with 2 puppet make me very curious about this one and also makes me taking my distance from it! These two puppets apparently are England’s answer to the Wolf Eyes. Whatever it’s true or not, let’s just say that they kick some harsh asses! This release is a very stunning wall of sound performance. The sound is very punchy and the sense of tension is at a very high point. There is a big constant noise wall with some very dense manipulation on this and the whole result is a very nice noise performance. I guess it should have been cuter on 3” but the sounds really matter here, not the format of release! I didn’t heard a good (I mean fucking harsh and well done) wall of noise release like this one for a while. I don’t know if this combo (I suppose) got other releases but this one is a very cool one from UK’s fine DIY noise label! Nice shit for a bunch of fucking puppets…

Taken from:
http://www.angelfire.com/punk2/itfor/Reviews/Reviewfeb2005.html

What can I say? This is yet another head tripping, ear massaging release from Voltagestress. How does Eeyow do it? This is a twenty minute track of some pretty intense light saber wrestling garble and other science fiction foolery. With a bit of a1970's psychedelics harsh noise twist, the background of monotonous proportions lasts for a painfully long time with a foreground that clusters and in some ways filters the mess that is pouring from you speakers, this track just gets harsher by the second. Only to calm a bit at the seventh minute and like a bag pipe gone bad, stammers of such little noises billow then build to a high frequency feeding frenzy until one is left and fades out. You will need a break after this one.

Reviewed by Joe Lombardo

VOLTAGESTRESS*R013
FEAST OF ISHTAR - CDR

Feast Of Ishtar is 'Dean "Mr Romance" on dug up bones stolen brains looped violence and Eeyow "my name is Filthy" on Connie Mason appreciation pigs blood and electronic limping. Their untitled CDR was recorded in 2004 at the Armley Butchers. So far all the data. The first two tracks are pretty short and the third is pretty long. Radiosignales are fed through the endless line of distortion pedals, waiting with hunger of signals. Maybe there is a guitar in this wall of feedback too. Perhaps. We don 't know. Pretty standard noise along the lines of Eeyow's own solo releases for Verato.

Taken from:
Vital 476

The band name got me thinking and then I remembered "right, Stench Of Ishtar, an old Unholy track". I was really proud of my discovery, and only after that I realized that the name of the band is actually Feast Of Ishtar. So I'm an ass and wanted to let you all know that. Anyway, what we have here is three tracks of excellent harshnoise. The sound is quite lo-fi all the way, but you can still hear the high-end screech well, and lower frequencies are nicely dirty. The first track has a kind of droning background and pleasant feedback on top of that. It's very short but still enjoyable. The second track is more of mid/high frequencies screeching, and it's also much longer and that's just fine. The last track is a real epic in length, and it has a nice occasionally almost ambientish background and different kinds of screech and buzz on top of that. This is a very enjoyable and recommended noise recording.

Taken from:
Dilettante's Digest #2 zine
http://mir.blogdns.com/

Feast Of Ishtar consists out of two members from the noise projects Romance and Filthy Turd, who have been spewing out the sickest harsh distorted noise on this label before. So I suppose this is a small side project or experiment. The cd-r comes in a closable slipcase with a photocopied sleeve with no info at all. There's not much needed to inform you on whenever you decide to put this into your cd player. It’s sick, loud, brutal and harsh noise kicking in your brain as loud as they can. The first song "Ancient Rite" takes up two minutes of your life and sucks it up with brutal harshness. The second one "Egypt" is more interesting and takes about eight minutes: one huge wall of fucked up noise. It’s all so sick and perverted.They throw in some hypnotic tones and slowly build up to a state of hypnosis. I must be fucked up really bad listening to stuff like this. "Sacrifical" is a 23 minute episode on how to fuck up your neighbours by tuning up the volume. Harsh and one big mess of dirty scumfucking noise. There's no frills on here and if you basically like diy fucked up harsh noise, cheap and true to the bone. Check out this label. After all I liked this; turning my stomach upside down.

Taken from:
http://www.semtexinc.com

If you see the Voltagestress logo on the cover you know what happens J Harsh Noise is coming to your soul. The first track Ancient Rite plays little 2 minutes. If you have survive this you could taste your head with the noise of Egypt (8 minutes) and if you are the strongest listener of the world you could give your ears the full power with Sacrifical (23 minutes) of sounds...you couldn´t identify anything...no instruments, no rythms, no system. You don´t believe??? So check out this release!

Taken from:
http://www.skprecords.com

Here's a noise duo themed after Herschell Gordon Lewis's Blood Feast: gotta love this! 3 extremely noisy tracks with more of an ambient haunting vibe, first track is fairly short, the second track is longer, starting as a calm humming squeal progressively getting louder, nastier, more and more blistering to the point of becoming completely deafening by the end of it! Third track is 23 more minutes of this amorphous racket: disturbing, patience-testing, nerve-racking junk that'll only leave you with buzzing ears and a headache... For hardened noisefreaks only!

Taken from:
http://www.goregrind.net/

Members of Romance and Filthy Turd join up for three tracks of raw experimental noise recorded completely live with no overdubs. Despite some overly long running times and a certain lack of movement, this would actually be a nice little release if it didn't sound like complete shit. Don't get me wrong, I can appreciate lo-fi recordings and the aesthetics that intentional rawness often provides, but this thing sounds like it was recorded live in a closet with a microphone placed down the hall. The minutes and minutes of twisted pulses, piercing feedback, tactfully aggressive distortion, and moaning drones are completely clouded with overloaded recording distortion and a completely muddy sound that destroys almost all of the detail to the individual pieces. You can make out just enough to get a feel for what's going on… and to deduce that it wouldn't be half bad at all were the sound more beneficial to the work. Despite being one-sided the tracks flow decently, with hypnotic levels of repetition and consistency helping things along in a sense. The CD-R is housed in a plastic sleeve with very crude xeroxed artwork of a woman whose nose is gushing blood all over her face. Other than that it's nothing but basic text. Were the print quality stronger it might look okay, but I can't stand behind this half-assed kind of look since it would've been made more visually interesting with almost no added effort at all. I honestly don't understand the motivation behind such releases at all. Why waste a half hour recording decent material if it's going to come out sounding like dirt? And why spend a few bucks producing each individual copy when the artwork's gonna look horrible as well? I'm only being an asshole here because with a tactfully minimal and inexpensive package and an even slightly more robust 4-track recording (if that) this release could've garnered a 7/10 from me – which is saying something. But in its current state it comes off as a waste of time and (little) effort. Really, why not take the work more seriously and do it justice?

Taken from:
http://www.aversionline.com/

This little three track wonder is just more of a good thing from Voltagestress. Beginning with a short, squeaky, two minute piece that is very consistent, yet ends before it seems to start. Moving on to the next eight minute or so audio punisher, subtle changes and shifts full the air while maximizing the sound. The last track is a twenty three minute escalation of feedback, gently and at time relentlessly tugging a sludge hammer though hot ash fault. This long track sounds as if some has quickly sliced all the skin under my toenails and just left me here to drown in my one blood. If you like your noise drawn out and subtle with grinding power, then this mother is for you.

Reviewed by Joe Lombardo


VOLTAGESTRESS*R012
CREAKING BRAWLING DREAMS OF UNDERTAKER - Compilation CDR

This features three noise artists with one long track each, and the first one of them is Filthy Turd who offer a live recording of monotonic noise. It's dull and lacks power, and thus it's also the weakest performance here. Coming up next is Romance (what a great name for a noise band!!!) also with a live recording, actually from the same event as the 'Turd track. They begin with a nice droning loop, but suddenly a storm of harsh fucking noise hits you over the head like a meat cleaver. The track is an excellent piece of brutality probably made with a bunch of effect pedals, and there might be some metal junk too. The sound is a little flat because of the live recording, but that doesn't matter much as it's still great. Nothing new, but simply good and honest noise with no compromises and even less mercy. The last one is Feast Of Ishtar (there's more of their stuff reviewed below), and I guess their track is a studio recording as there's no other information besides the track title (which is of course Playmate Of The Year). It's also excellent noise with heavy emphasis on painful high-end screech that is sweet music to any serious noise fan. I guess there's nothing more than feedback and occasionally some vocals manipulated with effect pedals, but what else do you think you need? This is a highly recommended addition to any noise collection.

Taken from:
Dilettante's Digest #2 zine
http://mir.blogdns.com/

Opener FILTHY TURD basically cleans out your whole bedroom with one single feedback tone. For like 16 minutes longs the tone stays there and undergoes a minimal change during the time it takes until some applause finishes it off. Live recorded at a pub in Leeds. I like Filthy Turd personally and I'm not sure, but I bet these guys are quite ironic in their daily lives of harsh bad habits. ROMANCE brings up another 16 minutes of a live set in the same pub. This is quite interesting. The sound quality isn't that fantastic but it definitely wants to make me hear more from Romance. I'f I'm right this sounds like cut up harsh noise, he might be using a laptop. But I can't find any info on this act, I would definitely be into hearing more stuff from Romance. Harsh distorted cut up noise. Definitely my taste. Up next is FEAST OF ISHTAR, with 13 minutes of their live set. Definitely the most varied piece of brutal swirling harsh noise on here. They manage to add quite a good varied mix of swirling tones of feedback and bits of drones. Hypnotic harsh noise. I enjoyed this live compilation cd very well. Diy lo-fi fucked up noise. Just as you epect it to be from Voltagestress. Fucked up.

Taken from:
http://www.semtexinc.com

This 3 way harsh noise split cdr starts with a live recording of Filthy Turd which is basicly a long 16 minutes dirty feedback ending with some applause from the audience! Next up is Romance also live delivering a bombardment of crunchy, tortuous raw noise... simply a bubbling, sizzling choatic mess, alot of feedback and reverb, and well just literal harsh noise... guaranteed to drive you insane; oh and some more applause from the audience on this one, how about an encore?! Last but not least is Feast of Ishtar with a song called "Playmate of the Year" most certainly dedicated the female star of Blood Feast! This is again some well felt aggressive, sense-raping, screaming harsh noise which brought back fond memories of dentists drilling into my teeth!

Taken from:
http://www.goregrind.net/

Ah, yes... Live Filthy Turd, can you ask for much more? This is a test is audio endurance as is the rest of the disk. Ever so slight shifts in sound while the foreground staggers on like a cinder block being dragged through the pebbles and sand of the English Coast this performance is simple in the way it drudges, chills and suffocates the listener. With a long breech of breathing, I suddenly find it necessary to take a deep brief as would anyone who has come in contact with this. If I ere at this performance I am sure I would be drinking Irish whiskey as if it were the nectar as it was intended to be for a number of reasons and with that the sound cuts, the crowd claps while my normal breathing pattern returns... Be sure to contact Eeyow at the above address. Next up, is the performance Romance. Beginning with a piano intermission and quickly blasting like a machine gun in to the audience. Freakishly jumping, screeching, pulsating with a very harsh psychedelic trance inducing audio skull fuck... only to build in abrasiveness, cutting and looping with a confidence that is evident and a security that is not. True this must have been great to have witnessed, but I would have been on me knee just soaking up the harshness as much noise high built, numbing my mind as well as my soul, stopping everything as it has now, leaving only the focus on the next words from my fingertips. This is not as damaging as it sounds, but then again I love destruction and this my friends is. Care to judge for yourself, contact Dean at d_glaister2@yahoo.co.uk. The last track is Feast of Ishtar a collaboration of both Filthy Turd and Romance. Spewing from the speaker into my ears with a symphony of fore and backgrounds, clashing like titans and churning up the stillness of the air, this clash of styles is welded together with fire and ice. Not a feeding frenzy, but more like a corpse infested with maggots rotting slowly, with a lunatic ex-lover in the other room to barge in and yell about something while giving you a swift kick to the head. Enjoy this little mother.

Reviewed by Joe Lombardo

VOLTAGESTRESS*R011
VOLCANUS - CDR

Another cd-r release from Voltagestress, somehow the dirtiest diy UK noise label with the most fucked up low budget releases in their catalog. This cd-r comes in a plastic sleeve with a cheap photocopied booklet displaying a close-up from an anus. This 31 song cd-r is nothing but fucking ugly. Ugly lo-fi grindcore is what you get here with a huge overdose on feedbacks and screaming madness backed up by harsh noise. Most of the songs take about between 15 seconds and 44 seconds. Volcanus should be a one man grindcore act and you can hear the instruments through all the fucked up sounds and deformed instruments. It lays close to harsh noise without losing the essence of noise/grindcore at all. I could make it throughout the cd-r without nausea. Some tracks definitely have a better sound quality. The only thing that annoyed me were the cuts of silence in-between the tracks. Otherwise this is another dirty release, that might fuck with everything you once considered music.

Taken from:
http://www.semtexinc.com

Oh yeah! Another release featuring UK’s man of 896246 projects, Eeyow Karoom. I must say that I was really amused by this one. I never like bands with the word anus or anal in it but I like volcanoes so much that I felt really interested. Or maybe it’s me that saw that anus word in the bandname. Musically I guess it’s a return for Eeyow (who is a former member of Sore Throat) to the noise core world. Well it’s still harsh noise but it’s done in the noisecore way. I mean it’s short tracks with vocals apparently inspired by Aztecs or Incas. The result reminds me of the collaboration Merzbow and Gore Beyond Necropsy. The longest track is the first one which time at 1 minute 15 seconds. Most of the other track are very under that. I guess it’s not my piece of pie, but I had very good time listening to this one. If you like that kind of noise, go ahead, but I don’t know if it’s really necessary to get this one. I guess this is a style that was cool years ago and I don’t know if it’s still up to date. However in that kind of style it’s really good work since it’s from a veteran of the style who also perform really good noise as Filthy Turd, Lysergic Scum and Eeyow Karoom. The records is packaged in a Xeroxed cover in a plastic sleeve. The cover feature I guess a picture of a volcano and on the back I guess it’s an anus… Noise-core’s not quite dead but it’s on it’s last mile… take this one as a good survivor of the style…

Taken from:
http://www.inthefenceofreality.cjb.net/

Wild wild, this Harsh Noise band plays 31 songs (15 minutes) without structure, without melodies and without rythms. You could hear that there are a guitar, vocals and drums, but all is a wall of Noise. So only the strongest will survive!!!

Taken from:
http://www.skprecords.com

Nightmarish, messed up noisecore! More or less harsh-sounding depending on the track, but overall pretty fucking rough and demented... It's sometimes extremely hard to decipher, but instruments are actually used: blistering guitar noise, crude drumming and also vocals (absurd screams and shouts)... I'd say this is some pretty intense improvised, chaotic noise not without a few grindcore overtones but obviously in a totally de-structured way and a especially dirtied down, harsh sound quality...

Taken from:
http://www.goregrind.net/

Three long tracks from three different acts, all recorded live, all recorded raw. Filthy Turd is up first with "Filthy Live": 16-and-a-half minutes of minimal harsh noise recorded at the Packhorse Pub in Leeds in July of 2004. And I mean minimal. It's very sparse, very simple, and stagnant piece to a degree. There's no layering at all, so you basically get one harsh texture that breaks up and changes over throughout the course of the piece. A crunchy hum, drones of feedback, more active and brittle sounding distorted crackles, etc. That's about it. Since it's so simple the utterly lo-fi sound actually works okay. Is it optimal? No, but it doesn't detract from the base level of the piece so much. Romance follows with "Romance Live", recorded at the Packhorse Pub on the same night as Filthy Turd's performance. Also 16 minutes, this piece is more active in its harsh excursions, but sounds much more distant and muffled, so the raw nature of the recording situation is more detrimental to this selection. There are a few very brief hints at atmospheric ambient lulls, but all they do is get my hopes up for a change of pace, when in fact things sort of rest at a dense, wispy midrange sputter for almost the entire piece. Closing it out is Feast of Ishtar with "Playmate of the Year", which is nearly 14 minutes of live noise, which I assume was recorded on the same night (despite the lack of documentation on the packaging) since the project is a collaboration between Filthy Turd and Romance. This piece is harsher than the self-titled Feast of Isthar CD that Voltagestress*r released, sounding more like a literal combination of the two tracks that each artist offers up herein under their individual project names. There's a lot of biting feedback and muddy, distant distorted motion, and again things are incredibly consistent for the duration of the track. The CD-R comes in a plain looking xeroxed cover and plastic sleeve, as minimal and rough as the other material from this label. And I don't view that in a good light, I have to say. It looks lazy to me. I think this is a bit of a boring disc, but I've heard worse, and sound-wise the level of rawness is tolerable. I still think the packaging needs to step it up, though. Well, everything needs to step it up, but…

Taken from:
http://www.aversionline.com/

VOLTAGESTRESS*R010
CSMD / KANIBALBLOODBATH - SPLIT CDR

I gave a highly positive review to the I'm Going Ape compilation above featuring among others both bands of this split. Well, although this is quite nice, I think this still lacks something. Can't point out what it is though; maybe this kind of music just works better on vinyl and in shorter length. Also, some of the longer and more experimental tracks are rather lame. If this was only short blasts of insanity, this would be much better. Still some of this is very good, so this is worth getting if you're into primitive chaotic noise(core) mess.

Taken from:
Dilettante's Digest #2 zine
http://mir.blogdns.com/

Both bands play noise from an other planet. If you listen to CSMD you could hear that they have a drummer, a guitar and bass + screaming and growling vocals...but no rythm:-) Kanibal Bloodbath you couldn´t find out if they realy play any instruments or what the sound is from. If you listen to this stuff you think Cannibal Corpse and Deicide make romance music. Only for real real crazy soundlover and friends of no trend music! It came in a DVD case! Noise is the law on the record!

Taken from:
http://www.skprecords.com

Ultra lo-fi noise core meets bizarre electronic noise on this b/w DVD cased split CD. CSMD’s half comprises 25 ape obsessed blasts, rarely passing the minute mark. The anti-production gives one the impression that it was recorded with a broken Dictaphone, which was in turn stuffed up Keith Chegwin’s Jap’s eye for extra brutality. Meanwhile, Leed’s Kannibal Bloodbath offer a pleasant mix of feedback, drum machine blast beats and high pitched vocal regurgitations.

Taken from:
E=MCt zine

CSMD Review: Uk-based label Voltagestress specialises in everything harsh and noisy, this nice split cdr is the first of a whole batch I'm about to review... So if you don't like noisecore, poke up your ears... Ok, this starts off with a nice intro from Beneath the Planet of the Apes and it rapidly degenrates into CSMD's usual brand of traumatic noisecore/grind/crust: abrasive, lofi, muffled sound quality, a lot of bass on the forefront, chaotic drum blasts and extremely pissed off shouting vocals... This sounds alot like Napalm Death "Scum" era/Fear of God to my ears but with a definite tendency towards harsher noise, abstract improvisation and even totally whacked out rock n' roll at times... Some nice and trippy sci fi interludes here and there as well... All in all, just a very enjoyable noise holocaust!

Kannibal Bloodbath Review: This is mind-boggling harsh, intense and vivid noise, something that sounds totally out of this world! Grating incidental sound textures triturated and tortured beyond belief, writhing in pain, stretched and ruptured, buzzing, resonating, screaming... Tracks are all very brief but each of em seem enough to provoke tumor metastasis through your whole organism! This shit is fucking raw and definitely not for the faint of heart, so now you're warned...

Taken from:
http://www.goregrind.net/

 

VOLTAGESTRESS*R009
LYSERGIC SCUM - COMBAT STRENGTH

After writing a bunch of bored reviews of mediocre experimental cd-r's, there's nothing better than pushing an honest harsh noise disc into the player and turning volume up to 11. This is primitive, brutal, ugly and no-frills, and that's exactly what is needed. No idiotic goofiness or pretentious experimental stuff but straightforward fucking noise screech and rumble. As a minor point of criticism I should mention that this could've been divided into a few shorter tracks instead of one 46-minute monster.

Taken from:
Dilettante's Digest #2 zine
http://mir.blogdns.com/

never heard of Lysergic Scum before, when I popped this cd-r in my cd player. I just went on to prepare another sandwich as I forgot how risky it actually is to listen to most of the Voltagestress stuff. It scared the shit out of me when this huge loud tone of feedback kicked in into my living room. I basically ran and crawled for my radio to lower down the volume. I should have been aware of that before I started making a sandwich. But hell, life is there to take risks. Suppose I would have popped in the cd-r while I was eating I could have choked. Basically I can stand a lot of that stuff, but the feedback on here was so loud! Essentially, feedback is all what you get here for another 46 minutes. As the sources for his fucked up noise seems to be screams and feedback. He builds up feedback upon feedback swirls. It is painful and fills another 46 minutes of my life. No matter the pain I might say I quite enjoyed this one more than for example the Endersons-Richardsons cd-r. You guessed it. This is brutal feedback and feedback violence also known as Lysergic Scum. Comes in a plastic sleeve with a shitty photocopied sleeve.

Taken from:
http://www.semtexinc.com

46 minutes of noise in one song. I listen sometimes a screaming voice, a overdrive guitar and a sound in the background...it could be a bass or drums. The ultimate invasion of noise for all who don´t know how big the idea of music is.

Taken from:
http://www.skprecords.com

One track, 46 minutes, raw as hell harsh noise from this UK duo. It's not too thick in its oppressiveness though, it's mainly muddy low-end rumbling with varying degrees of rugged feedback cutting through to the front amidst what I imagine are wildly cackled vocal screams (though it's possible that I'm wrong on that). And yeah, it's fucking loud for the most part. At times things let up and the track curdles down to a consistent humming sort of muddiness, faint on the feedback, and these passages really let the natural reverb and distance of the recording show through, which is sort of nice. I would assume that this was recorded live, most likely at some sort of performance considering the atmospheric sort of depth to the end result, but who knows? About 11 minutes in the track starts locking up into some whirring loops, very minimal, so the changes in structure and flow are very gradual here. I'm surprised in a way that I actually enjoy a good deal of this, as somehow its stripped down approach and appropriately lo-fi sound add to the atmosphere, and keep things persisting along the same general path. Of course, this consistency does start to wear out its welcome in the sense that the track is basically over 45 minutes of variations on the same exact thing, only gradually getting a little harsher and more piercing towards the final 10 minutes (remaining fairly minimal, though). The CD-R comes in a xeroxed sleeve with minimal text and artwork including an image of a soldier and a weird sort of manipulated Grateful Dead logo or something. It's all a bit rough/pixilated so it doesn't particularly look great, but what can you do? I think a stronger visual presence would help give something more aesthetic to the basically one-sided audio component, but I'm not opposed to these sounds. A little bit boring considering its length, but possessing enough feeling to get by. -Andrew

Taken from:
http://www.fallofbecause.net/

This is collaboration between Eeyow of Filth Turd and Baz of Traumatized Records and member of many bands that I am not too familiar with, but at any rate after listening to this you will be more than interested in the origin of this nut screamer. Holy Shit, this had to hurt. I wonder how horse Baz was after recording this brain churning mother, I mean if I were to have made this, I would be out of work for at lease a week. I am not a big fan of screaming and noise, but this is fucking brutal in most parts and beautiful in others. I love the noise, and believe me it is noise, not power electronics that I was kind of expecting from the cover and the screams noise comment after Baz's name. The track erupts in random shrills and screeches and carves through the air like a sledge hammer. Packed with a power and plenty of variation, yet at the same time drone, this will tempt you and please the very same sicko. I also like the fact that the piece is one nearly forty seven minute track with no breaks in the flow of this audio orifice violation. Lots of high frequencies with a background that seems to do quite a lot of fluctuating and in some cases shows up the foreground, the track taps through your mind like a hundred pound, baby rattle on each one of your temples. In some parts the noise is unpredictable and in others you can hear where it is going, yet all along the tapping will push you to a new found will power. Noise that is painful but pleasant, raw but refined, minimal but massive, this disk will have you shaken your head as you press the play button again. Hell knows that is what I was doing at the end of this spontaneous combustible. (Review by Joe Lombardo)

Taken from:
http://p205.ezboard.com/fnoiseboard433frm16

My initial reaction on hearing this was "Christ, this'll clear the wax from my ears" (what a fucking sad cliche). Maybe I'm just going through a noise phase (as opposed to the previous fortnights 60's - 70's orchestral easy listening phase) but I can't get enough of this stuff at the momment. This is just more of the usual ingredients: Guitar feedback, rumbles and screaming but done somewhat exileratingly, and obviously live which makes a fine change to stuff which people have spent hours on their PC perfecting. Another cliche (or at least something I once heard somewhere) comes to mind "How long can it take to record a fantastic 45 minute album? 45 mins.", this is a real enbodyment of that mindset.

Taken from:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/hallogallo/

Oh! This is a noise project from UK and guess who’s in this project? Yeah the underground noise legend Eeyow Karoom with another guy named Baz. This guy is a noise scene in one person. This one is not that far from the main project of Eeyow, Filthy Turd. This record is a behemoth track of 46 minutes of pure dirty noise! The difference with Filthy Turd is the presence of the other guy making very very discordant vocals. So this is a nice mix that make a very enjoyable recording. I guess fans of very painful and direct noise should really like. Nothing really new, nothing original, but it’s a very nice records. I guess I’m a fan of Eeyow Karoom’s releases, especially those under the name Eeyow Karoom and his infamous Aggro Stations, if you can check out these, go a ahead. This recording is not as great but is nice with the addition of very very crazy vocals. The records come in a plastic sleeve with a Xeroxed cover art with a kind of soldier on the front and the kind of acid skull on the back with a small inlay with the info. So if you want to got your ears bleeding, you can’t go wrong with this DIY veteran on this pretty intense recording…

Taken from:
http://www.inthefenceofreality.cjb.net/

This sounds like a monkey being raped for 47 minutes then distorted to the point of indecipherable noise. Hence it is rather enjoyable.

Taken from:
E=MCt zine

Earbleeding harsh noise duo... Simply horrendous, violent and screamy noise; the "musical" equivalent to a headsplitting migraine! It's got sort of a shapeless industrial feel, a somewhat atmospheric depth to it and alot of distorted high-pitched, hysterical screaming mixed in... Overall, a fairly disturbing experience, you'll be scarred for life. A real masterpiece of hermetic harsh noise recommended to all the masochists out there!

Taken from:
http://www.goregrind.net/

31 tracks in a mere 14 minutes!? Only one song tops a minute, opener "Aztec Blood", with slowed down drums and vocals bashing away with some throbbing noise textures amidst it all. Everything else is somewhat similar: Just lots of distorted noise, harsh vocals, and bashing drums – but it's all totally distant and muddy, so you can barely make out any tangible details. How do I feel about it? Let's break it down, shall we? First of all, the band is called Volcanus, which, while it has mythological meaning, is a stupid name – especially when coupled with the silly anal imagery of the packaging. Secondly, as with all of the releases on this label, the packing is basically a xerox with sloppy design, this time quite hard to read due to the nasty asshole images underneath the loads of song titles. And beyond that, the actual audio portion of the disc is basically total crap. Allegedly the project is "Aztec-inspired", and the song titles would often tie into that, but there's no other suggestion of any content whatsoever. The music s completely raw and lo-fi to an almost unbearable degree, and everything is completely random and reeks of sarcasm and improvisational nonsense. You'll get 31 bursts of noise, of which almost all sound identical to a degree, sans the one or two that use samples, let the distortion get louder or more acerbic, or might happen to briefly quiet down for a few seconds. I have to assume they're having a good time with this and trying to be lightly humorous on some level, but this isn't for me. Thankfully it's incredibly short, so there's only so much to endure. But really, even as brief as it is, I start to wear down around the middle of the disc with "Deep Beneath the Earth's Surface". I just don't see the sense in a release like this. I know it's not just me, though I guess there is a select audience out there for this, but… I'm not among them.

Taken from:
http://www.aversionline.com/


VOLTAGESTRESS*R008
FILTHY TURD / ROMANCE /BONGOLEEROS - LIVE IN NEWCASTLE (SPLIT CDR)

This Undertaker compilation is quite similar to the other one. The cover art is similar, and this one also features Filthy Turd and Romance (the third band here is Bongoleeros). These are all live recordings from an event in Newcastle, England in March 2004. Filthy Turd starts, and also this time they bring you monotonic noise buzz with some variations. It doesn't really give me anything, although it's a bit better than on the other disc. Then it's Romance time and their effect pedal is just great, although not as good as on the other disc. The track is also all too short, being less than 7 minutes long. It's still clearly above your average harsh noise and might make this cd-r worth purchasing. If only my experiences of romance in the other fields of life were some day this rewarding… the whining stops here, I'm not making some fukn emo zine am I? Bongoleeros is weird shit. There seems to be some guitars, different percussions and lunatic screaming and chanting. It varies between droning and jerky rhythmic stuff and some piss takes of pop/novelty songs. No, it's certainly not my thing, although I do admit that there's certain charm in music as retarded as this, and it actually did make me smile and laugh briefly on a few occasions.

Taken from:
Dilettante's Digest #2 zine
http://mir.blogdns.com/

Up for another one, and this one definitely sounds better in general. Not sure if it has been recorded straight from the soundboard but it sounds better in general. Opener FILTHY TURD welcomes our confused minds with 18 minutes of crunchy non stop harsh noise. Distorted and cut up with some high tones that result into a messy swirl of harsh noise and some pitched feedbackings. Basic stripped down harsh noise from the camps of the filthy and the turd.

Up next is another live track by ROMANCE that sounds better in general. One wall of distorted harsh noise for another 6 minutes. It gets intenser towards the end of the song when some feedback kicks in. Basic harsh noise pretty along the same lines as the Filthy Turd stuff. I just want to hear more from Romance. Somebody help me out.

BONGOLEEROS however seems to be something different. With band member names such as The Coconut Lady, Bogo Island, Bogo Yobo and Bogo Hobo although there seem to be more Bongoleeros dudes involved. This weird performance/impro/collective sparked my interest through their website. What you get here is 15 minutes of a live set from them. It starts out with some death vocals and frantic screams and shoutings. With song titles such as "lick your plate clean", "pee my pissy dream" and "coconut ladies revenge" they probably mess up the whole damn club. This is not harsh noise but rather a band that plays fucked up sicko improvised music. Sometimes funny to listen to, but definitely fucked up. For anybody into the weird and the useless. This is weird.

Taken from:
http://www.semtexinc.com

Here’s recordings from a live set that was held in Newcastle in England in March 2004. I haven’t heard some new Filthy Turd for a while and this make me happy to check this fine England noise exportation. The king of Filthy noise performs here a nearly 20 minutes of “Live Filth”. I really appreciate the sound of Filthy Turd, it’s dirty but always intricating, it kinda reminds me of Concrete Violin’s one. Here the sets is a long dirty sound that suddently fall in a very high part and some noise performances in the way Filthy Turd can only do it. Very impressive and as we can hear by the applausing at the end, it’s was recorded live, not only from a deck plugged on electronics. The sound is really nice for this one and for the Romance part. Romance is a young project that a lot of people are talking about and here’s the first time I got the chance to hear them. Their performance is a very fast and precise harsh noise performance. I really appreciated it, it’s like a lot of project does but it’s live so we can see that the project manipulate noise in a very thigh way. I can’t wait to hear more about the project. Bongoleeros’ part is not as amazing as the other projects’s ones are. It consist of guy saying stuff like “Pee my pissy dream” and “Popin My Weasel” in a microphone while banging on cymbal and doing some other noises. Not really impressive, I did prefer their split with Fckn’bstrds. So as I said before about these kind of projects, it should have been cool live but on recordings it sucks! But you really should check out this release for the Filthy Turd and Romance’s performances. They are really nice. Usually I don’t dig live recordings but these ones sounds awesomely nice and are very enjoyable. That’s a great release if you skip the Bongoleeros part from one of U.K.’s most interesting very-DIY label.

Taken from:
http://www.angelfire.com/punk2/itfor/Reviews/reviewjune2004.html

Not easy to find the right words for 41 minutes of noise. Filthy Turd and Romance sounds like a nuclear storm or like a monster modem. So only noise...instruments? I don´t believe this. Bongoleeros play music without any rythm:-) and with not normal instruments. Live recorded in mum´s kitchen?:-) No but in Newcastle in England 2004. Only for friends of disaster because this is too crazy for all other. Are you hard enough?

Taken from:
http://www.skprecords.com

This three-way split consists solely of material recorded live at the Chillingham Arms in Newcastle, England in March 2004. Filthy Turd begins with one track, titled simply "Live Filth", consisting of almost 20 minutes of minimal, simplistic harsh noise - only in the right channel!? It's extremely typical, muddy distortion with a bit of a sizzle and a raw edge, shifting between feedback, crunching, and other such motions with no real variety per se. Somehow I find it to be pretty good for what it is, but the fact that the left channel is dead silent is definitely frustrating. Romance (UK) follows with "Live Romance", a "brief" seven minutes of material that's very similar in nature to Filthy Turd, with a bit more midrange and a slightly distant sheen. At the very least the noise is in both speakers, so that helps, and makes for a decent track. Bongoleeros (UK) close it out with nine tracks in one 15-minute track marker on the disc. Not unlike their other material that I've heard this is still wrought with goofy chanting/groaning vocal grunts and random chaotic silliness and shit like that. Totally not my thing, and in fact, I hate to say it, but they embody everything that I hate about the noise genre. There's no feeling or sense of purpose to the sounds at all, and titles like "Pee My Pissy Dream" and "Eat My Wild Bunch", while good for a childish chuckle, only solidify the fact that this material is basically senseless... and it's not amusing, either. The CD-R comes in a xeroxed sleeve with a small xeroxed insert for contact information, and things are pretty minimal as far as imagery goes, you'll mostly get text. The end result? Filthy Turd is solid but the silent left channel is a problem, Romance is pretty damn good for harsh noise, and Bongoleeros are lame. I might be interested to hear more from Romance to get more of a feel for what the project has to offer. That's all she wrote. -Andrew

Taken from:
http://www.fallofbecause.net/

This is a live three way split of class British noise, including Filthy Turd, Romance, and Bongoleeros. When I saw the lineup on this little gem, I was more excited to hear the contents and now that I have just pushed the play button; Filthy Turd starts the disk off with a slow developing static driven live set. Subtly building and increasing in depth the trackNs intensity expands and hovers with rash of higher pitches that are pretty difficult to endure. Fluttering at that level for a while the track collapses leaving the noise now crackling and building to a very thick wall of pulsating static then cutting out after blowing a fuse the sound roars on like a locomotive. Flowing like a symphony of cats sharpening their nails on a school sized chalk board the track rips through you and hits a nerve pumping yours innards out and abruptly cutting to the sound of claps at the end. Contact Filthy Turd at homepage.ntlworld.com/vol.../index.htm Next up Romance, here the noise is a bit denser with lot of subtle, but easily recognizable tweaks to the sound. At times flaring up and blasting the listener with high, more piecing frequencies the sound of the track builds to a violent climax with the fifth minute being pure devastation. A great track, but way to short, more Romance please! Contact Romance at d_glaister2@yahoo.co.jp Rounding off this disk is Bongoleeros and sounding like a combination of doom, punk, noise and grind with all the craziness of the lounge at your local mental institution. This reminds me of fun drunken love gone bad and falling off a cliff in a ball of fire. Found junk with a few conventional sounding instruments are beaten to a bloody mess coupled with feedback and plenty of vocals that seem to match the track titles on the jacket. Sounds like fun, but not always my cup of tea. (Review by Joe Lombardo)

Taken from:
http://p205.ezboard.com/fnoiseboard433frm16

Creeping Crawling Screams Of Undertaker sees the three featured units perform live in Newcastle England in 2004; the proponents are attempting to increase the amount of live noise staged in the UK, this being a document of one such effort. The Filthy Turd performance is a burbling monotonous piece of noise, barely breaking from several central tones between which it moves. The slow pace doesn';t work so well on a home stereo, constricting the sound and resulting in a rather turgid end listen. Eeyow Karoom is responsible for some killer noise, but 'Live Filth' is not one of his more remarkable moments. Similarly restricted in the recorded sound, Romance works with a more detailed sound, concentrating on a rush of low-end with intermittent touches of feedback and sharp pedals tones. Mr. Romance, Dean Glaister, informs me this was his first live performance, meaning he was feeling out PA and live noise interaction, certainly the last couple of minutes here see Dean really get into the swing of things, an act I'm keen to hear some more studio work from too. Bongoleeros is maniacal in comparison, inane vocals atop cheap, timeless beats and various clattering clutter, and what I think may be childish toy guitar. All accentuated by the lo(no?)-fi recording environment, the relentless idiocy just failing to engage me on any level.

Taken from:
Night Science zine : http://www.iheartnoise.com/cipherproductions/

Soaring noise from Filthy Turd... Just noise, noise and more noise... Bubbling, humming, ringing, crunching for about 18 minutes straight in a live performance... As for Romance, this is also scathing harsh noise closing with people clapping their hands! In case nervous breakdown hasn't kicked in yet you might also be able to enjoy Bongoleeros for a last track which sounds like something performed by mental patients... Nutty cluttering noise, chaotic with mostly a lot of crazed vocals and insane babbling plus some feedback and oddball sounds... Pretty special I must say.

Taken from:
http://www.goregrind.net/


VOLTAGESTRESS*R007
FILTHY TURD - VIOLENT REACTION

Now this is what it’s all about. Nearly 80 minutes of noise (one track) from Britain. It’s loud but surprisingly ambient, less harsh than other offerings. Really satisfying.

Taken from:
http://www.indieville.com/blod/blodreview1.htm


VOLTAGESTRESS*R006
FILTHY TURD / SEWER ELECTRON - SEWER TURD (SPLIT CDR)

Here’s a release I anticipated for a while due to the meeting of two project I actually wanted to hear for a while. Sweden’s own Sewer Electron begins this long tracks split with a song that begins with some undertoned statics and felt into a very high on power electronics manipulation slapped with return to statics and samples about alcohol and drugs. A long tracks that is really enjoyable to listen to. Filthy Turd continues on their becoming trademark monolithic heavy white noise explosion, it sounds actually a little bit less interesting than their previously reviewed Filthy, Jealous, Violent CDR, but that’s actually enjoyable. The other Sewer Electron track sounds quite exactly like the first one, I dunno if that’s what Daniel wanted to do, but that’s my feeling about it. But actually I really liked that track too, I really want to hear more from the Swede soon. The other Filthy Track is quite better I guess, and this is nearly interesting to say that average length for each track is 12 minutes. The songs is again quite long and monolithic, but there’s some high screechings that makes me feel like I what to take of this white noise carpet an see that little noise dwarf village playing noise. I felt really concentrated on the sound while listening to it. The package is quite a step forward in the production of the DIY frantic label since it got a drawing on the cover and a prehistoric skull that looks like Dan Lilker’s skull on “Sounds Of The Animal Kingdom”. Anyway act fast and contact Eeyow Karoom for a copy of this one since it’s limited and it rocks…

Taken from:
http://www.angelfire.com/punk2/itfor/Reviews/01july03.html

Voltagesstress*R does it again! This time it is with a stellar release from and among two of the better noise artists from Europe. I realize both fairly new to the noise scene, but don't let that fool you. S.E.'s first track softly kisses the speakers then bursts open like a zit that you thought you'd never get. The track then peeks and plateaus only to resort to something that resembles the pleasant butterflies of the beginning. Keep your ears pealed, because at the ninth minute that is when the real passion kicks in and the devastation reveled. F.T.'s first track is a lead coated copper blanket of noise that drops from the sky and snuffs you out like the unpredictability of a flat lining patient. It's unrelenting and soaks what is ever left of your flattened soul with seemingly higher more penetrating frequencies than it began. Volume and intensity are slightly increased and you senses slowly numbed. S.E.'s second track is a bit more varied from the get go and churns out plenty of chunky, acid burning noise. Playing with a sound bite for about 30 seconds, he blasts the hell out of your ear holes utilizing both speakers well and keeping the listener entranced with that what the fuck is happening look on their puss. The F.T.'s second track is a bit more atmospheric in the way that it doesn't completely hold much of the same pitch as the first track did. This also has the shift change speed of a turtle, but the way it is orchestrated is soothing almost to the point of relaxing. Although at the fourth minute, if that is comfortable, you are just as sick as me. This noise is truly intoxicating, I almost feel light headed as I type this. Do yourself some justice and get some real noise that you actually need.

Reviewed by Joe Lombardo

Two tracks each by SE and FT. Sewer Electron pulls that whole “start off quiet and then explode” bit, while Filthy Turd’s contributions are noisy yet surprisingly listenable. Nice.

Taken from:
http://www.indieville.com/blod/blodreview1.htm

Split cdr limite a 30 copies, reunissant les Anglais de FILTHY TURD et les Suedois de SEWER ELECTRON. Ces deux groupes etant tres prolifiques et creatifs se sont reunis pour nous sortir un split des plus violent qui puissent exister a l'heure actuelle. A l'ecoute de ce project sulfureux on voyage a l'interieur d'un monde qui aurait deja connu l' apocalypse nucleaire et ou tout espoir d' humanisme aurait disparu dans ce carnage sonore dans lequel le bruit se transforme en une douce melodie...

Taken from:
http://pageperso.aol.fr/paradisenoise/


VOLTAGESTRESS*R005
FILTHY TURD - FILTHY/JEALOUS/VIOLENT

Filthy Turd is the solo works of former (I guess) Sore Throat member Eeyow Karoom (which an interview with him should be poster here soon). The name of the album sounds a little bit silly to me as a promo flyer describe it as : “One track. 62 minutes of office worker sickness. Is it the ventilation? No let up.” So now you can see the kind of noise is that. Actually this sounds like a kind of very violent atmospheric noise, like not harsh, not ambient, just atmospheric and very noisy. Actually with this kind of release some may do very good job and dome other may do very boring jobs. Actually this Filthy Turd release is pretty much of an easy to tame records. This is not just of a boring sounds that remains for minutes and minutes, this is some kind of a lengthened dark pounded noise electronic manipulation that have some changes to another and left yourself in a very stressing attitude. The panning in the sounds and the abrupt introduction of sounds into just one speaker take by surprise and never left the recording to be a boring one. Well I’m not the kind to listen to long track but I feel that this is more of the kind of noise album that I feel secure and don’t give a damn playing so long. It’s more of a long succession of sounds and noise than a long boring sound. The album comes in a very minimal package with a transparent sleeve half painted with red paint and with a stick with the number of the release, the name of the band andof the releae and the catalogue number of the release. What can you have if you need more minimal package? I a way this is a good records for moody noise fans and I guess even harsher noise fanatics can goes to appreciate the sheer force of Filthy Turd. Two thumbs up for this one mister Eeyow Karoom.

Taken from:
http://www.angelfire.com/punk2/itfor/Reviews/30mai03.html

This is another great Voltagestress*R release and it is from the Label's owner Eeyow Karomm recording under the name Filthy Turd. There are some mp3 samples of a different release called, Filthy Turd in the Office, on his site at:
members.tripod.com/~sore_throat/stress/. I highly recommend giving them a warm introduction to your computer speakers. They and you will thank me later. This CDR is one long track of 61:45 that begins with higher frequencies ever so slightly bouncing from one speaker to the other while a heavily, multilayered static paints the canvas. This piercing, nauseating, atomic like noise sounds like radar's static or honing tones could have been manipulated or at least give you an idea it's ferociousness. The actual frequency of the whole piece doesn't have much variation, but the pressure, intensity and volume all seem to be evolving quite periodically as well as suddenly. Thus, giving a bit different feel to what I usually get from noise. This is very interesting to say the least, and I look forward to more. Please visit the above link for contact information and be sure to look out for the Sewer Election split cassette.

Reviewed by Joe Lombardo


VOLTAGESTRESS*R004
ROBOT BRAIN - ARCHIVE#1

Soothing Brazil noise. I think this has been mastered from a cassette tape to CDR, the noise is very low frequent (no high pitched squeaking harshness), which makes it very pleasant and the fact that the one track on this lasts for 43 minutes makes it very soothing. It's not just all slow white noise droning for 43 minutes, some interesting sounds (noises) come and go from time to time and that's what makes it worth listening to. I think this would be perfect music for a dark ritual seremony in a dark and cold cave. I really shouldn't be reviewing this as it's limited to 15 copies. Oh, well...

Taken from:
http://home20.inet.tele.dk/eustachian/reviews1.html

The information on the Voltagestress*R web page at: members.tripod.com/~sore_throat/stress/ doesn't offer much on this little mother, other than, Brazil Noise 1995! Then again with a track lasting 43:14 and sounding as if were recorded in a rusting hull of a dry-docked oil tanker somewhere on a pacific island while a typhoon whipped through just to add a bit of background swirl to the piece; I guess, you don't really have to go into details. This has that early, mid nineties harsh wall of suffocation type noise feel to it. It progresses, but at a snails pace and keeps you smothered in a constant noise numbing high, bursting into flares of chaos then mellows back and simmers in the noise saturated air. I don't have any further information about this release other than the Voltagestress*R web link above, get in contact and prepare for an old school noise high!

Reviewed by Joe Lombardo


VOLTAGESTRESS*R003
FILTHY TURD - A FILTHY TURD IN THE OFFICE

Really quick 7 track cdr here but never the less I enjoyed the hell out of it.Filthy Turd make, well, filthy noise. This goes right for the throat, not as powerfull or as harsh as Sickness or Stegm but you get the idea. Each track is no longer than a minute or two, normally not long enough for me to decide if I like something or not but in this case it works well. Simply, Filthy Turd doesn't play around, but why would you with something so smelly and disgusting.

Taken from:
Mental Funeral zine


VOLTAGESTRESS*R002
EEYOW KAROOM - AGGRO STATIONS VOLUME 2

I'm not to sure how to describe this one, it's for sure in the noise vien verging somewhat onto the power electronics playing field (minus the vocals). In spots it's actually quite relaxing & ambient? Maybe like Inade? However, quickly things turn a lot more harsher like Con-Dom and the Grey Wolves meeting Joshua Norton Cabal. Needless to say a very diverse & enjoyable listen.

Taken from:
Mental Funeral zine


VOLTAGESTRESS*R001
KANIBALBLOODBATH - BLOODBATH LOVE

Fantastic! 10 short blasts of grindcore'ish noise. Most tracks start off with a drum-beat (drummachine probably) and then you can hear some distorted vocals and guitars buried deep in the harsh noise. Track lenghts ranging from 35 to 44 seconds, just over 6 minutes in lenght total. I hope the next Kannibalbloodbath album will be 60 minutes in lenght, cause I like grindcore'ish noise music.

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http://home20.inet.tele.dk/eustachian/reviews1.html

Sicknoise? Yeah, that about sums it up. Grindcore meets harshnoise? Hey, that's really not so far from the truth. Plenty have attempted this style but few have mastered it like Gore Beyond Necropsy & Merzbow. The question is Kanibalbloodbath in the same league? I would say yes. Certainly not as good yet but give'em some time. No way will you feel cheated though if you like those split/collaborations ep's or cd's from Gore & Merz.

Taken from:
Mental Funeral zine