The key takeaways from DEAFBRICK is that there’s loads of great mad shit going on and there’s also bits where they give you a bit of a break.

“It’s very well-executed and if you come to it as what it’s intended to be, which I think is supposed to be a pretty weighty ‘Punishment’ with no reprieve, then you’ll leave highly satisfied”.

“They have a unique angle of being probably the most miserable and doomladen band I’ve heard in the psych scene and it’s no doubt a really strong debut”.

Exactly what you would expect from this lot. It sounds great, it’s super noisy and everything about it is executed really well.

I only work with music I really like, I will work for hours on a song trying to make it better so, I prefer not to do this if I have no deep connection with the music. I am very selective in what type of music I work on because I enjoy working with music not because I want to get the most expensive equipment or drive a fancy car.

As a fan of Ayn Sof, Temple ov BBV and Gnod in all its many incarnations and collaborations, I can safely say The Craic of The Cosmic Egg is Paddy Shine as I’ve never heard him before.

Faca De Fogo is a very successful representation of this approach of jamming with whoever wishes to and creating something that feels transcendental perhaps as a result of its own sincerity; it feels like you’re being welcomed with open arms because… you are.

We’re working on our next full length release – it’ll be our second as a band but our first since Mandy joined, so we’re really excited to get it out there. We’ve been underwater for our last couple of releases (‘The Race’ and ‘The Narrator’) so we’re heading into space for this one. Not to have our heads too far up our own arses, but we’ve really enjoyed translating stories into music (The Narrator is based off an HP Lovecraft story), so we decided to write our own this time. The record follows the story of a civilisation whose planet is destroyed for reasons they will never know – their escape into space and eventual decline into ritual and entropy.

It’s so relentless that ‘Osiris’ basically functions as a three minute collecting of one’s asshole after it gets blown off repeatedly during the previous track.

Having recently released our second album, which was very different from the first, we are looking at how to keep things exciting, not just for the listener but for ourselves as well. Over the recent years we have been listening to more and more electronic music and going to more raves than gigs per se. Exploring labels like WARP, R&S, artists like Aphex Twin / Clark / Squarepusher / Lone / Orbital. With this in mind we are very interested in making more electronic music, putting down the guitars for ARPs and sequencers and designing and building crazy circuits and exploring different drum machines from over the years. 

“We plan to play live with this project at some point. We were down to premiere it to the UK at Supersonic this year but that’s obviously fucked now. However, IMPATV & myself, and also Pedro Fonseca (a filmaker from Porto) have made a video of visuals for the album (keeping in with the Manc/Porto collaboration). It will be streamed on their website on what would have been when the festival was due to take place – the 17th & 18th July. See the Supersonic Festival website for more details”.

Oranssi Pazuzu are unlike any band you’ll ever hear but, they also sound like every band you’ve ever heard played at the same time but, in a really well-executed and expertly produced manner.

“People are really clever when things are left with empty spaces to fill in” – Shalin.

“I always appreciate an artist more when I know he does a lot by himself and also it helps you understand the mind of that artist better”

“Our sound has changed quite a lot since we started, it’s always been about making the most noise from two people but before it was a lot more punk influenced.”

That’s the kind of relentless, punishing, takes no prisoners music I want to hear.

“the band that would perform at the warehouse rave in hell”.

The Bestial Light has to be one of the most brilliantly deranged pieces of music I’ve ever heard.

Flower Violence is a relentless debut for what is clearly a very formidable new band, I look forward to seeing Blóm experiment with their sound in their next release and in their live performances.

Knifedoutofexistence churns out albums of noise like hot dinners and still manages to cut to my core as though it was second nature.

This album is fucking repulsive and I love it.