Cold Meat Industry (Swedish music label)

Regularly staging 'Cold Meat Festivals' all over Europe and America, Cold Meat Industry is one of the oldest and most respected labels dealing with power electronics, noise, experimental and ambient music. It was founded by Roger Karmanik (mainly known for his project Brighter Death Now) in 1987. Their slogan is as follows: 'For the music lover that can sit and enjoy the evolving sound of someone else's nightmare.' I went to one of these festivals about a year ago, and what an experience that was! All kinds of subcultures gathered there: black metal, goths, techno-noise lovers, and all-round weirdos like myself. Have a few beers, then go and sit in a small cinema hall (which I did not expect) and then the drones and screams would begin, strengthened by film projections. It's the combination of sound and sight that did it, really. Normally I don't like visuals too much, but here it freaked us out. Corpses, mutations, abandoned factories... Really heavy stuff - my girlfriend at the time had to run off home in tears, she just couldn't take it anymore. Be warned.

Brighter Death Now - Innerwar (1996)
Power electronics guru Roger Karmanik's 5th full-length album is once again a work of sheer aural destruction and nihilistic brutality: total electronic abuse for those obsessed by the darkest and most evil music within the industrial underground. The imagery of Brighter Death Now's releases largely employs skulls, bones, corpses, death and decay. This is one of the most extreme industrial noise act on the scene, assaulting the listener with monstrous cacophonies and uncompromising walls of noise. His exploration of the extreme music spectrum's further reaches will guarantee that those with a sense of experimentation will be greeted with one of the more blissful hells in existence.

Tracks
1. Innerwar (6:29)
2. American Tale (5:35)
3. No Pain (4:42)
4. Happy Nation (7:50)
5. Little Baby (6:15)
6. Sex or Violence (6:53)
7. No Tomorrow (7:23)
8. War (6:05)

Total time: 51:14


Bocksholm - The Sound Of Black Cloggs (2003)
Stricktly speaking not on Cold Meat Industry, but on Nato/Tesco USA (mail order from CMI), I did see Bocksholm live at a CM festival, so I might as well place it here. The two masters of Swedish industrial/ambient music behind Raison d´Être and Deutsch Nepal (both named Peter Andersson - uncanny!) return with their second album, recorded live in 2002 at the 'God Blast America' festival in New York during their American tour. This fairly aggressive album brings you over 46 minutes of angst-filled ambience, noise, vocals and rhythms wrought from the sounds and memories of growing up in the Swedish industrial town of Boxholm and its surrounding ironworks. You can listen to some samples here.

Tracks
1. Inbreeding Politics At Boxholm Bruk (14:03)
2. The Horror Of Kisa (7:10)
3. Kommisarie Olofsson (12:29)
4. Stenbock And His Disciples (5:52)
5. Bi-Rath, The Beast Of The Forge (6:54)

Total time: 44:29

Brighter_Death_Now_Innerwar_192.rar
Bocksholm_Sound_Black_Cloggs_192.rar

posted by Paxjorge @ Tuesday, March 14, 2006