Bleak Bliss

Impregnable - Consumption

This is a curiosity in the Impregnable canon of short and sharp releases. I've always thought that this 50 minute blast was a way of working through ideas and then realising that the longer form simply constrained his ideas. Obviously, that's pure conjecture on my part. It wasn't intended for release, but whaddya know ... it slipped out anyway. I, for one, am glad it did!

Single sided C100 released on Lame Cunts Imagination in 2005.

Consumption

XX Committee - Steel Negro Music

Bravo to Trash Ritual! They had a nearly-flawless run of nasty noise cassettes by unsavory brutes from around the world, but their choice of reissues made it clear that they knew their history. This 2011 CD reissue of an obscure but excellent (if unfortunately-titled) 1982 cassette might be TR's crowning achievement. Maybe you've never heard of the band, but you've surely heard of band member Scott Foust, who would go on to helm the astounding Idea Fire Company and the Swill Radio label. Marvel at the synthetic thumps and metal-shearing industrial thud contained within. An influence on Trash Ritual, an artifact of early 1980s cassette noise, and a terrific album on its own.

XX Committee - Steel Negro Music

Impregnable - Deflower

Perhaps the exact opposite of the previous post. Lovely celestial drones.

3" CDr released on Students Of Decay in 2007.

Deflower

Impregnable - Polishing The Mirror

Blast Off!

Ridiculously good 3" CDr released on Chondritic Sound in 2007.

Polishing The Mirror

Laxative Souls - Twist and Decease/Desinfektionsraum (The Definitive)

Another of Trash Ritual's major reissues was this terrific double CD set by Italian industrial band Laxative Souls. What were initially cassettes released on Multiple Configuration in 1982 and 1983 are dusted off and given digital polish for the kids. Excellent.

disc 1
disc 2

Impregnable - Smile She Says

Full-on roaring single-sided 7" released on Troniks in 2005.

Smile She Says

Impregnable - Wooden Love

Static wall with harsh penetration ...

7" released on Static Aktion in 2007.

Wooden Love

Mania - 1 Gun, 100 Graves

Brutish Texan power-electronics by The Artist Formerly Known As Taint, released as Trash Ritual's 4th cassette in 2006.

Mania - 1 Gun, 100 Graves

Impregnable - A Calm Perversion

Perversion? Yes. Calm? No.

Business card CDr released on Callow God and Conception Arts in 2005.

A Calm Perversion

Impregnable - Pink Thorn

This is the clearest indication that Impregnable is changing and that it would lead us to Marble Sky ...

C32 released on Ekhein in 2007.

Pink Thorn

Sewer Election & Werewolf Jerusalem - Collaboration

Exactly what you think it is. Two sides of thick, juicy noise roar. Cassette released by Trash Ritual in 2008, edition of 75 copies.

Sewer Election & Werewolf Jerusalem - Collaboration

Impregnable - Shell

Just ace ...

C12 released on Callow God in 2007.

Shell

Macronympha - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The world of harsh noise has a small number of truly classic, genre-defining records: The New Blockaders "Changes Les Blockeurs", Merzbow "Material Action 2", The Haters "In the Shade of Fire", Controlled Bleeding "Knees and Bones"... and this. Macronympha's 1995 LP "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" was first released by the German label Praxis Dr. Bearmann and had a huge impact on the next generation of noisers. This record is loud and ugly, relentlessly negative with savage tape edits and a palpable core of gut-level disgust. In 2009, Trash Ritual reissued it on CD for the No Fun Fest generation. You can hear the album's influence on bands like Hair Police, Prurient, Kakerlak, The Rita, Grunt, and so many others. If this is what Pittsburgh is like, I'm happy here in Ontario.

Macronympha - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Impregnable - Beauty Stone

Originally released on Iatrogenesis Records in an edition of 50, then reissued a matter of months later in an edition of 25.

C16 released on Callow God in 2006.

Beauty Stone

Maim - Solvents and Bleach

Little-known Swedish harsh noise act Maim unleashed this torrent of blech in 2005 as Trash Ritual's 3rd cassette.

Maim - Solvents and Bleach

Impregnable - Apart

There was an earlier privately released C10 with the same title. I've never heard it but apparently the only thing the same is the title.

C20 released on Callow God in 2006.

Apart

Impregnable - Glass Body / Private Healer

Double C10 packaged separately but still part of the same release courtesy of Callow God in 2006.

Glass Body / Private Healer

Strict - Kiss

Obscure, nasty power electronics act Strict has just a handful of low-profile releases to his name plus collaborations with Taint and Pain Jerk, and seems to have stopped altogether in 2002. The material on this LP was recorded in 1993 and 1994, but released as a 250-copy record by Trash Ritual in 2008.

Strict - Kiss

Impregnable - Cherish

Three sides of harsh slap followed by one of sweetly calming church-space drone.

Double C12 on Callow God in 2005.

Cherish

Slogun - Bloody Roots

"True Crime" thuggish power electronics from New York, released on CD by Trash Ritual and the band's own Circle of Shit label in 2009. Noise by tough guys who probably like to fight. Doesn't do much for me, but your own mileage may vary.

Slogun - Bloody Roots

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