The following Gaping Hole cassettes are all single-sided C40s. Click cover image to access audio excerpt.
Infirmary
Necropenetrator LP
[SNSE076]
Immense and violent harsh noise. Ripping, crunching power loops, searing feedback, and full-blown static-laden walls of melting sound. Necropenetrator is Infirmary's debut LP after numerous cassette releases, including two on Gaping Hole.
Suicide Virus excerpt
Green Goblin excerpt
Lock excerpt
The Rita
Shark Knifing 7"
[SNSE075]
Lurching, ripping, and tearing. Relentless and sharp. Thrashing about in the blood water, coming back for the torso. There are sharks and then there are knives. How about sharks getting their throats slit by humans with knives? Think about it.
These two sides present a concise and brutal attack by the master. As if the short format pushed him to pack each track with all the highlight elements typically spread out over longer form The Rita recordings. Hits hard, hits fast.
SNSE is proud to present this large-hole 7" wrapped in a twelve page booklet adorned with not-nice artwork culled from McKinlay's massive personal collection as well as drawings created by the man himself.
Inhalant
"bondage" LP
[SNSE074]
Searing and psychotic, droning and disturbed power electronics from long-running Texas project Inhalant. Themes of control and obsession are explored via maniacal vocalizations drowning in a sea of churning, bordering on psychedelic, noise. "bondage" is Inhalant's first vinyl full-length after years of tape releases and compilation appearances on such stalwart labels as RRRecords, Pitchphase, and Chondritic Sound.
Bondage excerpt
All Tied Down excerpt
Love Song excerpt
Let Down excerpt
Ghosts Of Liberation excerpt
Diaphragm
Sublimation CD
[SNSE073]
The debut CD from Diaphragm is an amalgamation of dark droning machinery, choppy shuddering, and static-laden buzz and whir augmented by a rusted mountain of ancient oscillators. These are exacting compositions inspired by the greyed-out hulks of broken concrete and broken razorwire that litter the landscape of the artist's surroundings. The sounds on Sublimation may appeal to listeners of Speculum Fight, Iovae, Tom Grimley...
Diaphragm is the project of New York native Nicholas Pace. He is part of a core group of diverse young artists that include Halflings, Cathode Terror Secretion, Ahlzagailzehguh, Pharmakon, and others, that are providing for some serious and difficult listening in early 21st century NYC.
Review - One True Dead Angel
Review - Idwal Fisher
Rachis excerpt
Party Foul I excerpt
Black Watermelon excerpt
Hum of the Druid
Raising The New Wing/Braided Industry LP
[SNSE072]
Eric Stonefelt returns with another meticulously crafted album of crunching, crumbling, crackling modern industrial music. The sounds of metal and machinery and vocal vomit. HOTD constructs audio works of intricacy with such careful attention paid to timbre and texture, each repeat listen revealing a heretofore unnoticed detail or ten. For fans of Daniel Menche, Small Cruel Party, The New Blockaders, Einleitungzeit, Linija Mass...
Review - Aquarius Records
Review - Plague Haus
Review - Idwal Fisher
Review - Existence Establishment
Raising The New Wing excerpt
Braided Industry excerpt
Pig Exam
Contort Thine Cells CD
[SNSE064]
On Contort Thine Cells, New Zealand native Loren Clements (aka Pig Exam) lets fly with the SHOCK VOLTS - heavy electric razor wire blastage kicking and screaming from your shreded-out speaker cones. Nothing dark, dreary, or mysterious here, just the unadorned sounds of getting shot in the face by a police taser from short range. Twice.
Lorent has been creating the sharp painful noise for over ten years in both solo and group settings under various monikers: Downfeed, Zorac5, EggSpecies, Blisstuff, Balance & the Blossum, Mommy Won't Wake Up, Degenerate & Enable, and of course, Pig Exam. Contort Thine Cells is Pig Exam's first pro-pressed cd and his second release for SNSE, following 2003's Rape of the Bees cdr.
Long Division Superstition excerpt
Pregnant w/Virus excerpt
Devillock
These Graves CD
[SNSE062]
“Devillock is Justin Chris Meyers on organ, tapes and electronics. He also runs the Tone Filth label and also plays as Panther Skull. 'These Graves' is his debut on a real CD, but he has released handmade tapes and CDRs. He offers four tracks of densely layered sound, knitting all the sounds he can find together. Slowing down old reel to reel tapes on the title track provide another dark gesture in this music. Devillock doesn't play harsh noise as such, but he provides a pretty noise related drone sound. Minimal piercing sounds, mainly the lower region of the sound spectrum, making this quite a menacing affair. Noise as it's supposed to be: menacing, not by the harshness of it's sound, but by the content of what its sound has to offer. Despite it's title and bandname, I think it's a much more serious affair than the average noise attack. Great stuff.” – Frans DeWard, Vital Weekly No. 494
Review - Blood Ties
Review - Dusted Magazine
Panther Skull
Slothwave CD
[SNSE057]
Spoiled gunk tape roll with the organ heave and moan. The howl. This is bleak and this is zoned. Might as well plug and blow out your nose as hard as you can for 25 minutes straight. Panther Skull is Justin C Meyers (Devillock, Tone Filth label). Slothwave is Panther Skull’s debut CD.
“Panther Skull is the invention of Justin C. Meyers, whose other activites include involvement with Tone Filth, Devillock and others. Under this new pseudonym, however, Meyers comes up with a more foreboding approach. Here he uses tapes, organ and electronics to produce a quartet of sinister sounding moanings that echo and reverberate in some dark, dripping sonic cave of his own design. Sloth Wave has distinct elements of Mirror drifting through it, as supernatural gusts of electronic fog roll in and out of the mix and traces of feedback suddenly rise up like tiny voices trying to be heard through the ensuing gloom of Meyer’s bleak blanket of electronic murk.” – The Wire, Dec. 2005
Niellerade Fallibilisthorstar
Hålrum CD
[SNSE050]
CD version of Hålrum runs about 6 minutes longer than the LP and presents the work in its uninterupted entirety.
"Beautiful career-spanning collection of outside musical thought from this Swedish sound-collective, with two sides of collaged pieces that span clattering sounds-of-the-junkyard noise improvisations, the bells of ghost ships long lost to the tide, beautiful Gregorian/choral tones, fractured jump-cuts that bring to mind Nurse With Wound circa Spiral Insana and A Salt Marie Celeste and moments of joyous free-folk blurt. Recorded between 2001-2004, this makes for some beautiful deep-listening and should suit fans of early Ghost, Nurse With Wound, Asmus Tietchens, Einsturzende Neubauten, The New Blockaders, David Jackman, Keiji Haino and The No-Neck Blues Band. ... you get the feeling this one is gonna be a major item in years to come. Highly recommended." Volcanic Tongue mailorder
Mammal
Double Nature CD
[SNSE037]
“Really, this is an intensely unpleasurable record. When the beats do emerge in these four long tracks, they are sick, withered, fried, dead. I don't mean all of these adjectives in a negative sense.” – Blastitude 16