Hot on the heels of the haunted Sulphur Bloodlines 12” on Cold Spring Records comes the new Iron Fist of the Sun album, Who will Help me Wash my Right Hand. The working methods of Iron Fist… seemed to reformulate differently on Sulphur Bloodlines, with its extended notes, shifts of noise and synthesiser modulations. This […]

There’s always been a number of shared aesthetic elements between the grittier variants of Black Metal and Death Industrial. Whenever you attend a concert showcasing either genre, you could see the cross pollination in the crowd. The common disregard for polished production, use of feedback as an instrument, and nihilistic or adversarial themes have led […]

I’ve never been able to reach an absolute conclusion as to if the conceptual approach has a place in noise. In the ideal scenario, for me noise is sufficiently saturated with energy, emotion and images and I don’t need anything else but the sound itself to experience it at its fullest. However, I’ve seen and […]

I have a painful confession to make. I never came across Wolf Eyes until their 2004 Sub Pop debut, Burned Mind, started making the rounds. Embarrassingly enough, I have Pitchfork Media to thank. The review I read, and a much better-informed housemate’s hard drive, turned me on to a band that now, eight years on, […]

Positive Adjustments is a power electronics act from Sweden. According to the label website, this release “takes a step into the world of beliefs and the weakness it brings[.]” (Obfuscated Records) “Abominations and Filthiness” is a lot of high-end scraping and squeal. My initial instinct is to compare this to The History of AIDS by […]

One conspiracy theory I read on the explanation of chemtrails claimed that the US Air Force was setting these clouds up in our atmosphere in order to act as some kind of weapon. It had to do with the creation of clustered particle layers that could redirect the light and energy of the sun into […]

Circle inside another circle and both of them trapped in a third one. An endless chain of movement transmissions, an endless chain of sound. Like a tiny stone thrown into the immense ocean, you are penetrating layers and layers of fictional stasis, fictional as nothing is actually static or ordinary in our world. And nothing […]

Behind the steps of death, past the prison of grief, many of us can have a clear vision of what or who has passed away from us. We can appreciate that the perversions of life no longer plague our loved ones, and the value of the best moments we’ve collected alongside the departed reaches as […]

Last week, I got into a few discussions about the point of releasing compilations, and as I’ve attempted to be or was involved in a lot of them in the past, I have to say it’s damn hard to make something really worthy and interesting. And this one is among the best examples of how […]

Today I want to take a few steps back and review some recent releases which, for one reason or another, have yet to see review here at Heathen Harvest. First up on the chopping block, Trash System by Tar Pit, released 2011. Tar Pit is one of several aliases used by Midwesterner Sam Hooker. That […]