"Spring Break '98" makes me think of the Toxic Avenger. It's wonderfully lo-fi, warped and sleazy in its noisy beauty, but at the same time holds up well as an aural grindhouse experience featuring heavily mutated field recordings and noise manipulations. From the moment I discovered it on Bandcamp I knew I wanted to put it out on Bone Valley.
Download it for free here and grab yourself one of the limited edition CDs here. Stream below.
Gravegonzo is back! His debut album was one of my favourite LPs from 2021, so I'm super stoked there's a follow-up on its way. The single "Whatever, Forever" came out all the way back in March, but I missed out on it at the time. Still, the track fits the autumn season perfectly, so I'm happy to share it here. I can hear echoes of the past decade in this cut, carrying ripples of all the best bits from that era filtered through Gravegonzo's own style. Buy the track here.
Dead Neanderthals (Otto Kokke and René Aquarius) are back with "Flesh Is Fragile", a new, self-released slab of black vinyl. Following their insanely good EP for Bone Valley, the duo returns with a fresh sonic onslaught. These six ultra-textured, abrasive compositions embrace both noise and metal in equal measure, creating a gritty listening experience that will etch itself onto your cerebral cortex when played at maximum volume. One for fans of The Body and late Burial Hex stuff.
Order the vinyl here, stream below.
Wavey, melancholic new single from Self Perception (aka Colby Johnson). Apparently it was written a while ago, but only recently he revisited the track and gave it a polish and published it on socials. Really catchy stuff, I love the build-up and the vocal sample. Buy and download here.
Riga-based newcomer Morrowtree released this double-A single just the other week, and since I'm always drawn to the Baltic underground, I had to give it a spin. Out of the two tracks, "Downhill" takes the lead for me. I appreciate the noisy guitar work in particular. It's a solid, witchy twin pack with a hip-hop spine, though I'd be lying if I said there wasn't still plenty of room to grow. Definitely one to watch for the future.
Pwin Teaks returns to Phantasma Disques with a new EP entitled "The Black Lodge Files", plugging back into interdimensional frequencies. Dark ambient and spooky, stretched soundscapes bring back memories of the O'69 label, while some of the eerie vocal samples sound like something straight from the bleakest folders of Voodoo Crystals, maimed and deformed beyond recognition. One for lonely nights.
You can cop the EP here and steam it after the jump.
