chaotic, lurching explosions of noise erupting through tidal waves of cacophony and discord, frenzied fretwork and spuming mania and derangement are everywhere... auralaggravation.com/2026/01/02/d... @dense-pr.bsky.social Dééfait

Night off for my last beer and live music of 2025....

For an album which appears, on the surface, to be a fairly innocuous work of experimentalism, with Combinations 4, Richard Francis has created something which delivers substantial psychological impact by stealth... auralaggravation.com/2025/12/26/r... @room40.bsky.social @dense-pr.bsky.social

simply huge in every respect: scope, scale, ambition, sound, production. It’s heavy, it’s inspired, and it’s an album to lose yourself in... auralaggravation.com/2025/12/23/z... @houseofmythology.bsky.social @rarelyunable.bsky.social

It's rare I share other people's reviews here - but then it's rare that my own works gets reviewed. Thanks to Simon Phillips for covering my compilation, 'The Beast of Noisenibor' it really does capture the context & essence of the contents nicely... www.whisperinandhollerin.com/reviews/revi....

As much as I’ve always struggled to work with visualisation in guided meditation, 'Meditations' somehow conjures mental images through its abstraction – perhaps because of its abstraction... auralaggravation.com/2025/12/21/d... @room40.bsky.social @denseclarity.bsky.social

It's felt like the longest night of the year for about 2 months now....

digital decay and interference gradually erode the graceful atmospheres conjured by piano and acoustic instruments alone... auralaggravation.com/2025/12/18/c... @dense-pr.bsky.social

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... and mine! auralaggravation.com/2025/12/18/w... @houseofmythology.bsky.social @rarelyunable.bsky.social

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... auralaggravation.com/2025/12/11/w... @litronix.bsky.social @rarelyunable.bsky.social

Black Friday = peak capitalism. Enticing you to buy shit you don't need with money you don't have.

This is not fun and it’s certainly not entertainment... auralaggravation.com/2025/11/24/k... @dense-pr.bsky.social

Over the course of the album’s seven pieces, Ov Pain really do push the limits of their comparatively limited instrumentation... auralaggravation.com/2025/11/22/o... @room40.bsky.social @dense-pr.bsky.social

Gets the Aural Agravation vote... and mine! auralaggravation.com/2025/11/19/w... @houseofmythology.bsky.social @rarelyunable.bsky.social

...will be taking the night off. Beer and live music will be involved.

an immersive journey. And cat pics always win… auralaggravation.com/2025/11/04/o... @dense-pr.bsky.social

I recently recorded a section for @colinspencermusic.bsky.social's radio show, where I got to pick three songs by an artist of my choice and talk about them - that artist being Toiling Midgets - and having three of my own compositions aired for the first time ever... www.mixcloud.com/ColinSpencer...

a raging behemoth of feedback and sustain, every chord struck a billowing beast that punches through the endless drone... auralaggravation.com/2025/10/16/s... @subpop.bsky.social @rarelyunable.bsky.social

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... and mine! auralaggravation.com/2025/10/14/w... @rarelyunable.bsky.social

This is music with a physical force and a power beyond words, beyond contrivance. It’s archaic, occult, primal in its power... auralaggravation.com/2025/10/11/n... @dense-pr.bsky.social @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... auralaggravation.com/2025/10/08/w... @shamelesspromotion.bsky.social

Raoul Sinier is most definitely back, and this is very much a good thing... auralaggravation.com/2025/10/07/r... @dense-pr.bsky.social

You can truly feel the earth move... auralaggravation.com/2025/10/06/s... @rocketrecordings.bsky.social @rarelyunable.bsky.social

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... and mine! auralaggravation.com/2025/10/05/w... @swordtongue.bsky.social @shamelesspromotion.bsky.social

Intense, hypnotic, relentless, it’s a pulsating, shifting noise beast that slowly spins off its axis and out of control in a swelling surge of sound... auralaggravation.com/2025/10/03/f... @paultone.bsky.social

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... and mine! auralaggravation.com/2025/10/02/l... @ipecac.com @rarelyunable.bsky.social

This is a monster... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/27/k... @editionsmego.bsky.social @dense-pr.bsky.social

I know, I’m sort of dancing about architecture here, but something about Reaks’ work prompts a multi-sensory response... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/24/a...

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... and mine! auralaggravation.com/2025/09/24/w... @rocketrecordings.bsky.social @rarelyunable.bsky.social

Well I'm excited... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/23/b...

For all of its abstraction, 'Sasquatch Landslide' provokes quite visual interpretations of the sounds emanating from the speakers. I expect to have very strange dreams tonight after this... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/20/t... @rarelyunable.bsky.social

Harsh, heavy, abrasive, messed-up… these are the selling points for this release... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/19/f... @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social

This is the twentieth anniversary edition of an album that likely very few people have even heard of, let alone heard... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/18/b... @dense-pr.bsky.social @room40.bsky.social

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... and mine! auralaggravation.com/2025/09/17/l... @rarelyunable.bsky.social

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... and mine! auralaggravation.com/2025/09/17/w... @rarelyunable.bsky.social

Sometimes, I feel I should be able to asemble my thoughs more quickly, and type faster...

The execution of Neon Swans is hard to fault, and it does cover considerable ground, with range, over its expansive duration. But it is sprawling in its scope, its focus is variable, and it is very long. And it’s maybe better with drugs... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/12/r... @dense-pr.bsky.social

Agriculture give it all, and the impact hits like nothing else... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/10/a... @rarelyunable.bsky.social

So, this happened. It's not quite the announcement I'd envisaged, but while I work on that, here it is. A free compilation album culled from my last five years of noisemaking... christophernosnibor.bandcamp.com/album/the-be...

Agriculture don’t only transcend black metal, but genre entirely, and the experience is dizzying, a visionary creative peak which is truly peerless... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/06/a... @rarelyunable.bsky.social

Everything about tonight feels like a win... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/05/c...

Feeling quite overwhelmed by my inbox, so will be focusing on my write-up of last night's gig and a few other pipeline bits, and will start sifting through stuff over the weekend - or when I'm feeling up to it.

tonight’s advertised lineup is a cracker. Diverse, but solid quality of an international reach... auralaggravation.com/2025/08/24/j... @heinouswhiner.bsky.social

20 years on, it’s clear that this is a work which is timeless. Niche, but timeless... auralaggravation.com/2025/08/21/s... @dense-pr.bsky.social

The album’s mid-section takes on a dreamy, drifting, dreamy quality, floating from here to there, with scratches and scrapes, forward and backward providing texture to these ponderous sonic expanses... auralaggravation.com/2025/08/19/e... @dense-pr.bsky.social @room40.bsky.social

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... and mine! auralaggravation.com/2025/08/17/l... @dense-pr.bsky.social

They have no confines, no limits, and to touch them is to embark on a journey. And what a journey this is... auralaggravation.com/2025/08/16/r... @rarelyunable.bsky.social @rocketrecordings.bsky.social

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... and mine! auralaggravation.com/2025/08/13/w... @rarelyunable.bsky.social

A collage of challenging sound on sound, any underlying concept fades to insignificance as the sounds assail the ears... It's not harsh, and on the noise spectrum, it’s fairly gentle, but it’s by no means accessible or easy on the ear... auralaggravation.com/2025/08/12/r... @dense-pr.bsky.social