Wilt - Wither (2001)

Previously on OPIUM HUM:

The Rita & Wilt - Werewolf in the Black Space (2008)

Wilt - M Y T H O S (2016) + Funeral Song (2016)

Utterly unmusical dark ambient/noise from Wisconsin (now Illinois) musician James P. Keeler. Crackling flames of harsh noise, droning black winds, and shimmering echoes of the void.

Track listing:

1. Passage of Seasons

2. A Bridge Between Two Drums

3. Soiled

4. Shivering Spine

5. Mud

6. Bloodletting

7. Still... Violent Waters

8. Black Amphora

9. The Burden of Flies

10. Taunting the Raven

11. Fallen Harvest

12. From Dying Branches

13. Untitled

14. Autumn Calls

15. Winterkill

Terror management

Also listen to:

Hollow Earth - Dog Days of Holocaust (2006)

Aymrev Erkroz Prevre - Noir Voyage Obstrué de Rencontres Difformes (2006)

S·Core - Pretension (1988)

Uneasy experimental sounds from Japan. Frail keyboard figures floating amidst abstract, analogue drones and muffled industrial noise. Music for ghosts to listen to when they're alone.

Track listing:

1. Plasmodium

2. Giaour

3. Lame Meter

4. Somnus

5. Concussion

6. Hard Words

7. End All

Set: The leathery skin of a female straddling a furnace. Illuminates in blue. Hands melt against the burning surface. Feel no pain. Kiss the burner. Lips fall away. Blood runs down the inside of her thighs. She tightens her grip in one last exaggerated movement and falls to the ground. A pile of ashes. The furnace stands triumphant over the mound.

If you like this, you should hear:

Attrition - Death House (1982)

raison d'être - Residuality (1993)

Mz. 412 - In Nomine Dei Nostri Satanas Luciferi Excelsi (1995)

Related:

Pouppée Fabrikk - Rage (1990)

Black industrial from hell. Ugly drone, harsh noise, industrial excrement, throbbing martial rhythms, distorted synths, movie samples, and Satanic incantations.

Track listing:

1. In Nomine Dei

2. Salvo Honoris Morte

3. Necrotic Birth

4. Black Earth

5. Daemon Raging

6. God of Fifty Names

7. Regis Satans

8. Paedophilia Cum Sadismus

9. Hail the Lord of Goats

Everlasting hedonistic rhapsody

More gnarly industrial:

In Slaughter Natives - Enter Now the World (1992)

Brighter Death Now - The Slaughterhouse (1993)

Dissecting Table - Ultimate Psychological Description II (1993)

I'm been visiting with family back east, and won't be back to normal life for another week and a half, so posting will be slow-to-non-existent until then. That said: here's Dissecting Table. As I mentioned in my Zeni Geva post, I couldn't decide which Dissecting Table record to post and in the end, as with that post, I just went with my personal favorite. Ultimate Psychological Description II is a panic-stricken controlled cacophony of industrial noise, hectic percussion and synths, and distorted vocal ejaculations. Starting in the mid-aughts, Dissecting Table started releasing harsh noise albums at an absolutely insane rate, so there is a staggering number of DT albums that I have never heard; any tips on which of those are most worthy would be appreciated.

Track listing:

1. Hymn

2. Kill the God

3. Accomplishment

4. Execution

5. Dead Gods

6. I Get My Slogan

7. Control Matter

8. Untitled

9. Silent Violence

10. Camouflage

 Never ending trip to hell

More laid-back tunes for sunshine, good times, and fine wine:

Ramleh - Hole in the Heart (1987)

Stratvm Terror - Germinal Chamber (1994)

Necrofilia - Sein Zum Tode (1995)

Related:

Lunus - Monolilith (1993)

Atrax Morgue - Smasmosynthetics (1997)

One-off collaboration between Italian noise artists Marco Corbelli and Devis Granzeria. Rumbling, often rhythmic noise, piercing electronics, and distorted, rasping vocals. More of a slow-burn than an all-out onslaught.

Track listing:

1. Essere per la morte

2. Reprise

3. Inside Ath

4. Tumescenza

5. Il Corpo

6. Distruzione e catarsi

7. Esame interno del tronco

8. Efil

Meditation for homicide

If you like this, you should hear:

Stratvm Terror - Germinal Chamber (1994)

Deathpile - Agonize Humiliate Destroy (1996)

Ron Geesin - Right Through (1977)

Queasily playful experimental pieces by Scottish composer Ron Geesin. A series of interconnected but distinct movements consisting of layered synths, dissonant guitars, noise-addled tape loops, field recordings, musique concrète, spoken word, demonic choirs, and more. I came to Geesin, as I'm sure many have, through his work with Pink Floyd -- in addition to arranging the symphonic elements of "Atom Heart Mother", he collaborated with Roger Waters for Music from The Body -- and was pleasantly surprised to learn that his work outside of those collaborations was just as bewildering, but with a greater sense of absurdist purpose, maybe?

Track listing:

1. Door-O-Plane Get Its Blades

2. Blades Spin Notions

3. Motion Above Rhythidoor

4. Four Guitars Did Laugh, Then Thought Again

5. Throb Thencewards Thrill

6. Hiding Haul of Voices, Hail!

7. Shut Out Hailing Calls Through You

8. Gong of Going Goes Right Through

9. Rhythiano Plonks the Plug Out, and We Follow

I've never come this way before

Revolving intermittent door

You should also hear:

Horrific Child - L'Étrange Mr Whinster (1976)

Asmus Tietchens - Nachtstücke (Expressions Et Perspectives Sonores Intemporelles) (1980)

Twin Stumps - Seedbed (2010)

Blown-out, draining Brooklyn noise rock. Burly bass, feedback-drenched guitars, plodding drums, a pure harsh noise source, and strung-out, distorted vocals. Very gnarly.

Track listing:

1. Landlord

2. Missing Persons

3. Pigs at the Trough

4. Lungs

5. Child Republic

6. Drainage City

7. Business Class

8. Caged Emily

9. Pope's Nose

10. Body Plan

11. Lust Murder

Painted in blood

More bad vibes:

Cows - Sexy Pee Story (1993)

Clockcleaner - Babylon Rules (2007)

Endon - Mama (2014)

A mind-melting, eardrum-shattering cacophony of Japanese blackened noisecore insanity. Harsh noise, samples, drumming that's akin to free jazz but with blast beats, tremolo-picked guitars, serrated synths, and unhinged, shrieking vocals. Produced by Atsuo of Boris.

Track listing:

1. Etude for Lynching by Family

2. Parricide Agent Service

3. Acme Apathy Amok

4. Pray for Me

5. WIWTWM

6. Just Like Everybody

Perversion till death

Further into chaos:

Musica Transonic - Musica Transonic (1995)

The Armed - Only Love (2018)

dälek - Absence (2004)

Previously on OPIUM HUM:

dälek - Deadverse Massive Vol. 1: dälek Rarities 1999-2006 (2007)

My favorite dälek record, and definitely in my hip-hop top 10. Impenetrably dense, shoegaze-like walls of noise, monstrous beats, and bleak, extremely pissed-off flows. One of the only rap records that's made me do the invisible pineapple. 

Track listing:

1. Distorted Prose

2. Asylum (Permanent Underclass)

3. Culture for Dollars

4. Absence

5. A Beast Caged

6. Koner

7. In Midst of Struggle

8. Eyes to Form Shadows

9. Ever Somber

10. Opiate the Masses

Makes our leaders play minstrel, left with none to lead our people

How the fuck am I gonna shake your hand when we never been seen as equals?

You might also like:
Gravediggaz - Nightmare in A-Minor (2001)

Blue Sky Black Death & Nacho Picasso - Exalted (2012)

Burial Hex - Wall of Zombies (2007)

Misanthropic industrial noise/dark ambient. Knob-twiddling harsh noise, tape loop drones, disturbing samples, drum machine, ear-annihilating high-frequency feedback, stuff like that.

Track listing:

1. Anthropophagus Awaken

2. For Love of Brother

3. Malkuth Rant

4. Rekne LL

5. Erase Risen

6. Torture Child

7. Wall of Zombies

The truth is in the gas chamber.

Also listen to:

Ramleh - Hole in the Heart (1987)

Megaptera - Near Death (1991)

Stratvm Terror - Germinal Chamber (1994)

Related:
raison d'être - Residuality (1993)

Killer industrial/power electronics from a project of the great Peter Andersson. Thick synths, pounding rhythms, distorted vocals, and big, pitch-black atmospheres. Has a heavy, almost Godflesh-like impact at times. Pretty musical, as far as this stuff goes.

Track listing:
1. Blemish Slaying
2. Cvrses
3. Pvlppit
4. Germinal Torture
5. Saphead
6. Braindash in Plasma Christ
7. Darkgrave
8. Skvllbreeding
9. Why Oral Zebras
10. Sleeping
11. Pvlp
12. Vixen-Angel's Death

The scent of hate

More like this:

Lunus -
Monolilith (1993)

Murderous Vision -
...Loathe (1997)

Vucub Cane - Sacrificial Hatred Rituals (2012)

Putrid, noise-fucked US raw black metal in the dissonant, obscenely lo-fi LLN tradition. Sacrificial Hatred Rituals collects everything the project has put out thus far, which amounts to four demos and a comp track, and is possibly the most lo-fi, incomprehensible mess I've ever posted on here. Is "The Gate of Nanna" the most covered black metal song of all time?

Track listing:
1. The Sacred Triangle
2. Voices of the Mourning
3. On the Wings of the Sphynx
4. Evocation
5. Descend the Flesh
6. Transformation of Holy Water
7. Hail to Thee Who Overthrows Mankind
8. Becoming One of the Ancients
9. Worship
10. Eternal Hatred of the Human Race
11. The Gate of Nanna [Beherit cover]
12. ... March
13. Forest/War

The dream descends to the region of the moon

More like this:

Osculum Infame -
Sadomatic, Impure Artgoat (1994)

Mons Veneris -
To Rape the Nazarene +
Abismo a Céu Aberto (2006)

Scanner - Mass Observation (1994)

Unsettling collages of hissing radio feedback and distorted voices -- often of real, private conversations captured via radio scanner -- set to ambient drones, warbling synths, and minimal beats. Feelings of paranoia, voyeurism, and modern malaise abound.

Four untitled tracks

Can you see me?
We are watching
You are fading in the daylight

You may also enjoy:

blackhumour -
It Was Inappropriate (1989)

Stephan Mathieu -
Wurmloch Variationen (2000)

Ramleh - Hole in the Heart (1987)

Old-school British power electronics. Echoing, distorted vocals, industrial drones, screeching feedback, and grainy, mournful synths.

Track listing:
1. Spear Flowers
2. Hole in the Heart
3. Product of Fear
4. Grazing on Fear 2

Thou art my god

You'd probably also like:

Schloss Tegal -
The Grand Guignol (1993)

Atrax Morgue -
Spasmosynthetics (1997)

dälek - Deadverse Massive Vol. 1: dälek Rarities 1999-2006 (2007)

Mind-blowing, noise-infused experimental hip-hop from this perennially underrated duo. Shit fucking SLAPS. One might think that a rarities collection wouldn't be the best entry point to an artist's discography, but 1) you can't go wrong with dälek, 2) it was my entry point, 3) it's amazing, and 4) it's what I'm listening to right now, so take it or leave it.

Track listing:
1. Megaton (Deadverse Remix)
2. Angst
3. Ruin It, Ruin Them, Ruin Yourself, Then Ruin Me (Deadverse Remix)
4. Vague Recollection
5. Desolate Peasants
6. Rouge (Deadverse Remix)
7. 3:46
8. In This City (Deadverse Remix)
9. Music for ASM
10. Streets All Amped
11. Ascension
12. Maintain
13. Back to Burn

Freedom through violence

You might also enjoy:

Pharoahe Monch -
Internal Affairs (1999)

Supreme Cuts & Haleek Maul -
Chrome Lips (2012)

Filmy Ghost - Haunted Caves (2017)

Chilean dark ambient. Hollow, void-like drones and glitchy textures abound. Chances are you're gonna be listening on headphones anyway, but if not, you should, as there are some really crucial headphone moments. Free/name your price via bandcamp.

Track listing:
1. Dense Plane of No Existence
2. Haunted Caves
3. Graves of Yarborough Cemetery
4. Void of Ghosts
5. Weeping Willow
6. Haunted Caves (Zachary Zena Giberson Remix)

Beyond the outer walls

Also listen to:

Hollow Earth -
Dog Days of the Holocaust (1996)

Murderous Vision -
The Tines Without Gods (2002)

Black Seas of Infinity - Within Daathian Chasms (2005)

Related:
Equimanthorn - Lectionum Antiquarum (1999)
Black Seas of Infinity - AMRITA: The Quintessence (2007)

Otherworldly occult dark ambient from SLC, Utah. Creepy synth, dissonant drones, some extremely well-utilized samples, and all-in-all mysterious, reverberating sounds that suggest something unknowable, unspeakable, and terrifying. One of my all-time favorite dark ambient albums.

Adding to my feeling that there's something genuinely supernatural about this record is the fact that I once put "Lucitathan" on a mixtape, and when I listened back to it, the looped "It is an illusion" sample had fucking disappeared. I swear, it was not on the tape. It WAS a goddamn illusion. Now, some might say that the sample in question is so quiet that it barely registers as it is, and that the added tape hiss just drowned it out, but I think it's fairly obvious to anyone with half a brain that those hypothetical people are just bootlicking meat puppets for the great, dark forces that shape our reality from sunken crypts outside of time. Try again, losers.

Also, I just decided that I also want to post the first Black Seas of Infinity demo, which is straight-up raw black metal -- not even a little dark ambient -- but I don't feel like re-doing this whole post, so here's the link to that.

Track listing:
1. Vortex of Awakening
2. Mass of Apep
3. Blessed Sacrament of Levanah
4. Retromingent Periodicity
5. Pallid Stardust of the Moon's Blind Sister
6. Lucitathan
7. Whore of Babylon, Shed Thy Dew of Nothing
8. Ecstasy of Octinomos
9. Within Daathian Chasms
10. Eternal Aeons of the Flame
11. Path of the Void (Beyond the Fathomless)

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You should also hear:

Black Funeral -
Moon of Characith (1998)

Kerovnian -
Far Beyond, Before the Time (1999)

Aymrev Erkroz Prevre - Noir Voyage Obstrué de Rencontres Difformes (2006)

French lo-fi dark ambient. A massive, empty, lightless sonic space. A gateway opened to nothingness. Degraded aural evidence of an all-too real hell.

Two untitled tracks

You build a place for things... things come.

More like this:

Atom Infant Incubator -
Copula (1994)

Oöphoi -
Night Currents (1998)

Junji Hirose + Otomo Yoshihide - Silanganan Ingay (1989)

Well kids, due to the anxiety med withdrawal that's making my head feel like there's an electricity gremlin rattling around inside of it, I'm completely wired. So, how 'bout a spazz-y, free-form clusterfuck courtesy of two Japanese experimental musicians? I know I'm not sleeping.

Track listing:
1. Noise from Far East
2. The Time to Live and the Time to Die
3. 1.2.3.4.
4. 6 and 14 Wave
5. Black and Blue
6. Green Bicycle
7. Intolerable Fellow
8. Short Tune
9. Mob?
10. For T.T.
11. Crying Sky
12. #7
13. Jalan
14. Don't Be Late!
15. Rip

I wanna get up and do my thing

Let the insanity roll:

Royal Trux -
Twin Infinitives (1990)

The Focus Group -
Sketches and Spells (2004)

Proyecto Mirage - Two Tons of Rubble (2001)

Second album from this Spanish rhythmic noise duo. Driving beats, feedback, and tape manipulation -- all red-lining, all the time. I've never smoked meth, but I feel like this would be great to listen to on meth.

Track listing:
1. Otro Paso Más
2. La Invasión Divine
3. Conspiracy
4. Bello
5. Dark Side
6. Dancing with My Victim
7. Longing for Change
8. Naima
9. Radio Orbit
10. Ich Werde...
11. Demolish Once More
12. Baila Entre las Ruines de Madrid
13. Colapso Neuronal

I'll try anything once

Similar listening:

Hocico -
Autoagresión Persistente (1994)

Xylocaine -
Experiment in Fear (1995)