Amazing second album by these british sludgers who tread a line somewhere between krautrock repetition, heavy as fuck riffing and blissful post-rock. Highly recommended! £6

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YES!!!! So this isn't "noise" or "experimental"...I don't give half a fuck! Hirax are fucking brilliant and this is the perfect introduction to one of the best thrash bands ever. This compiles their first two records - "Raging Violence" and "Hate, Fear And Power" - put out before Katon left and the band split up for the first time. Both these are complete raging thrash violence, with amazing screaming vocal dexterity from Katon and some hideously technical speed metal riffs, but a total hardcore sensibility (note: Eric Brecht of DRI plays drums on HF&P!). It's good that years of Spazz going on about this band resulted in Katon putting them back together, and the early stuff getting reissued. Egg On The Hirax Cover!!! Artwork by PUSHEAD. £6

Quite humming drones and sparse processed electronics make up this small but perfectly formed package from the supoib Small Doses label. I can give or take a lot of HPK's stuff to be honest but this is really solid stuff, highly recommended. Totally amazing packaging and (as with all HPK releases) brilliant artwork. £3

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Part of a trilogy of recordings made by this legendary one-man death knell. Horrific sounds going on here, some of it reminds me a bit of Jap legend Dissecting Table. Guitar, drum machine, samples. Total evil! Limited to 100 copies and I think sold oot at source. £4

Part of a trilogy of recordings made by this legendary one-man death knell. Horrific sounds going on here, some of it reminds me a bit of Jap legend Dissecting Table. Guitar, drum machine, samples. Total evil! Limited to 100 copies and I think sold oot at source. £4

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Power trio featuring two ex-members of Circle, this act share some similarities with said band, building songs from repetitive riffs and precise krautrock rhythms. This is very much more angular, metal, almost hardcore-influenced stuff though, and comes across to me a bit like a less drugged-up Brainbombs. £6

Re-release of two out-of-print LPs from this french doom mob. There's not a significant difference between records to really look at them seperately here; in fact, there's little difference between SONGS if I'm being honest. Still, if yer a fan of heavy sub-bass rumble you can't really go wrong with Monarch. Pretty good stuff in a Corrupted/Noothgursh/early Godflesh kinda way. And yeah, I know they're being "ironic", but the cutesy art gets on my tits. What's that? DOOOOOOM. Yeah. £7

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Debut album by Noosebomb, formed from the ashes of doom legends GRIEF. This isn't a million miles away from said band, but a little more punky, not as slow-paced, and almost garage rock in places. I've got to be honest it doesn't do it for me like Grief did but then who does? Great art as usual from Grief member/regular collaborator Eric Harrison. £6

Finally a reissue of this long out-of-print classic!! So many great songs on this, the first "proper" album The Obsessed put together after Wino reformed the band in the early 90s. Some of dooms all-time great moments on here, such as the amazing riffing of Brother Blue Steel, the punk-edged "No Blame", the soulful "Endless Circles", right to one of the greatest crescendos of rock ever, the chorus of LUNAR WOMB. Okay, so the songs Scott Reeder sings on suck, but you can skip them due to modern CD technology! New art and liner notes from Joe Carducci, as well as a bunch of previously- unseen photos. Genius! £6

Reissue of the now out of print 7" that Southern Lord put out a couple of years ago, this sees most of Eyehategod regroup and come up with a completely brutal new mission of intent. Coming on a bit like EHG but faster and with more of a kinda crusty influence, this is great stuff, and features one bonus live track. It's a real shame all the problems these guys have had to deal with (Mike Williams in particular) because as yet this is the only document they've managed to get out. Great stuff. £5

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Relive the moment Noise Bastard wiped his bung-crusted finger on some Newcastle noise geek, which led to a FULL SCALE RIOT...if you consider a full scale riot to be some guys getting a bit miffed and the police being twats. Sounds rubbish. £2

Excellent three-wat slab of noise from superb Russian label Abgurd. PI start things off with a 20 minute long lesson in every way to be harsh; just a total clusterfuck of horrible noises which don't let up. Ganzer start off with what sounds like a snippet from Mexican radio (a tribute to Celtic Frost haha?!) and then deliver three tracks of fairly predicatble harsh noise. Not much new going on to be honest. SS deals in high-end harsh walls, their last track in particular sounds like a total black wind of death!! Pro-done folder sleeves with a couple of nice wee inserts. £4

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Two sides of head trauma from this pair of noise misfits. The Rita from Canada serves up a platter of HUGE multi-layered harsh noise wall, whilst across the pond and on the other side of the single, George Proctor smacks our brains into submission with a further five minutes or thereabout lesson in guerilla warfare. 220 copies! £4

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Drones, tones, field recordings, manipulated electronics...it's all here. I really don't know much about this chap but there's some decent stuff going on here: kind of like an attempt to orchestrate the sounds of the objects which are all around you every day. Usual nifty Small Doses packaging. £3

Insane blur of noise and tape loops, spasmoid drumming and mental bleeps; sounds like getting sexually assaulted by a million rabid Pokemon or something. Ten minutes of so and yer left wondering what the hell just happened. Top stuff! DVD-sized wallet with inserts and stuff. £4

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Follow up to Exquisite Fucking Boredom and what a follow up this was! Skullflower have occasionally frustrated me, often amazed me, but have always pushed the boundaries and made music by which the rest of the music underground follows. There's a huge amount of the multi-layered feedback noise that was to follow on Tribulation but it's all loosely held together by wailing psych, harking back to the early 90s period. Magic! £6

The new Skullflower album! After the superb return to form that was Orange Canyon Mind, where the fuck could Matthew Bower go? Well I guess he could make a massively loud racket of total SOUND, repeat several thousand times and layer it on top of itself a billion times. Which is exactly what he did! This sounds like the world imploding, just intense as fuck and even better than the last one. Listen on headphones and hear something sompletely new on each listen. One of the most rewarding and important Skullflower records yet, instant classic! £6

Reissue of Skullflower's classic 1992 album that was a total watershed in many ways. Tribal, sub-industrial drumming and repetitive, almost stoner (was this term even around then?) riffs, heavy thick as fuck METAL guitar tone, all with a wall of psychedelic guitar wail going off all over the place. I remember when I first got this album thinking how totally powerful it was in its innate simplicity...and guess what? IT STILL IS!!! Great reissue package in a double slipcase with booklet and liner notes, and the full remaster treatment by yer man Scott Hull. ESSENTIAL. £7

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Great sludge compilation; this features Mugwart, Goatsblood, Molehill, Fistula and Sloth. Note the entire "Hail The Basement" 3" by Sloth is included on this, one of the best early Sloth releases and featuring their hilarious take on "Dying Inside" by Saint Vitus. £6

Second installment of Shifty's sludge compilation, this one's even better, featuring: Headache, Weedeater, Fistula, Cruevo, King Travolta, Tusks Of Blood, Moho and Sloth. Worth the entry price alone for KT's piss-take of QoTSA, "Queers Of The Stoner Age". £6

Amazing comp from my current favourite UK CDr label, Dead Sea Liner! Exclusive tracks from FRU, Bjerga/Iversen, Dead Wood and Nackt Insecten amongst many more! Totally excellent animal-friendly packaging too. £3

The best sludge lable on the planet beasts us across the chops with a compilation of songs dedicated to King of the Monsters, Gojira!! Heavier than the force of Godzilla vs Mothra!! Featuring - amongst others - Fistula, Sloth, Dot(.), Rwake, Solace and Hangnail. £6

EPs worth of material each from Grief, Moss, Thee PLague Of Gentlemen, Ramesses, Fistula £5

69 of the world's most respected noise artists combine to pay tribute to one of the greatest grind bands of all time, FEAR OF GOD!! Basing their tracks on original FoG material, much of this is cut-up harshness that bears almost no relation to the swiss masters, but on the whole the music is pretty good and every so often you can hear something you recognise coming through. Very interesting concept, though I have to question whether some of the tweed-wearing fruits on this record had ever actually heard Fear Of God before doing a track, or indeed if I'd rather just listen to their masterful first EP. And by that, I meant "THIS IS GREAT, BUY IT"! Includes: Unholy Grave, Yamatsuka Eye, Mike Patton & Kid 606, Jim O'Rourke, Merzbow, Russell Haswell, Sudden Infant etc, as well as a short story written by Jupiter Larsson. £6

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Reissue of the 66 track double CD compilation, featuring a massive selection of some of the planet's foremost extreme music makers, from Dahmer, Agathocles and Cripple Bastards to John Bender, Macronympha and Bastard Noise. Comes in a double DVD-style case with new artwork and a big 7"-size booklet featuring liner notes, art and essays/poetry etc. Essential! £7

Excellent latest volume of fast, hard power violence/hardcore/grind from the "Reality" series. This one features 324, Lack Of Interest (what a great band!), Unruh and Toshihiro Mifune amogst all manner of painfully harsh and violent bastards. 24 bands put down a gazillion tracks in considerably less minutes. £6

What's the last thing a noise fan wants to buy? An Iron Maiden CD? What's that you say.....an Iron Maiden TRIBUTE CD? Well I have to put myself in the camp of not giving a fiddler's fart cos while I could've bought in a bunch of CDrs of some geek tinkling on a bit of wood with a bell tied to the end I thought I'd offer up 26 tracks of variable quality, covering the best of Maiden's 80s heyday. Some of these are great: Crowbar doing "Remember Tomorrow", Warhorse's "Total Eclipse", Solace's "The Prophecy", some of them are diabolical - who asked Sebastian Bach to do "Children Of The Damned"?, and some are just plain weird - a band called Holy Mother doing a kinda instrumental folk version of "The Trooper". Anyway, prove them who say all noise poofs cannae like true metal wrong and give this a listen. Up the Irons!! £6

Given the title and the fact that the band's logo is a rip-off of the Magma logo, I was expecting some highly technical zuul when I bunged this in the stereo. There wasn't a 20 minute drum solo or complex keyboard warbling in sight (dissappointingly) but what I got instead was a collection of songs taking influence from the more challengin end of the Krautrock scene as well as a distinctive electronic/ industrial overtone. Some real moments of brilliance here, can't recommend enough! The main man in this band by the way is Mika Rintala ex-Circle. Comes in a lovely digipak. £6

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Collection of rehersals/demo tracks from this obscure but incredibly significant Norwegian thrash/death band. My favourite material is from the "Rot In Hell" demo, really great stuff!! Basic thrash sound, but there's a real grimy death metal undercurrent to it. The production is of course fucking horrific but to my mind enhances the impact of the music. Very cool that this is being rereleased and massive respect to the always superb Lyderhorn Records for getting it all together!! £5

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Harsh static from the man otherwise known as Richard Ramirez! Though familiar with Ramirez's work under his more famous moniker, this is the first time I've heard WJ and I'm suitably impressed! Layered static, very very dense. As usual, excellent pro-done packaging from the solid rock that is Unrest. £3

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New record from At War friends Winters In Osaka. Mail collaborations between WIO and Spazz's Chris Dodge and Exit 13's Bill Yurkiewicz amongst others. Really engaging noise, ranging from ambient drone to all-out harsh attack. £5

More new recordings from WIO. Two tracks here: first one is a stop start mish-mash of pulsing effects and whizzing electronic emissions, with samples and found sounds thrown in. Everything comes in and out and there's little cohesion. Pretty uneasy stuff. Second track is 15 minutes of ultra-minimal "quite noise", if such a thing exists. Fairly unchaging apart from volume as far as I can tell, there's some frequency distortion and whatnot going on about 11 minutes in, then a fade out. I really like this one! CD in jewel case, not sure how limited it is if at all. £5

Green/brown heavy splatter vinyl, poster and insert; great package! £15

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Weird random mix of tracks from ZBT...a couple of totally incomprehensible weirdo sub-noise jams and some black metal riffage. His more coherant side will be demonstrated in the forthcoming "Eternal Darkness" CD on At War! Compest hit us with a couple of long, creepy dark ambient tracks. £2