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

Stimulation is very clearly not the objective here... auralaggravation.com/2025/08/10/y... @dense-pr.bsky.social

It’s by no means heavy, but it does have an emotional weight that drags the listener in, and then drags the listener down. And then leaves them… simply nowhere. Caught with their thoughts, and nowhere to take them.... auralaggravation.com/2025/08/02/h... @dense-pr.bsky.social

This is the music of life, and it swells and surges, it’s the sound of being alive, and celebrating its magnificence... auralaggravation.com/2025/07/28/h... @rarelyunable.bsky.social @room40.bsky.social

The joy may be somewhat subdued overall, but it’s there, on what is, ultimately, an accomplished, multi-faceted work.... auralaggravation.com/2025/07/20/d... @dense-pr.bsky.social #AuralAggravation

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... and mine! auralaggravation.com/2025/07/15/w... @rarelyunable.bsky.social @rocketrecordings.bsky.social

By the midpoint, the feedbacks are interweaving in such a way to form a huge reverberating howling drone, which shares common ground with Metal Machine Music, and it would be difficult to completely sidestep Earth 2 here, too... auralaggravation.com/2025/07/12/s... @dense-pr.bsky.social

The density and intensity are only amplified by the volume, and you really do feel as if you’re in the room. Let it carry you away... auralaggravation.com/2025/07/10/n... @dense-pr.bsky.social @room40.bsky.social

This is one dark and difficult album, heavy and suffocating and uncomfortable from beginning to end. And now I need to lie down... auralaggravation.com/2025/06/28/s... @dense-pr.bsky.social

Without words, 'Reverie' paints a picture, and hints that memories and reveries are inherently tinged with sadness... auralaggravation.com/2025/06/27/d... @dense-pr.bsky.social

I shall be mostly staying in tomorrow... youtu.be/dIyUWj8kLGw?...

Souvenir is not an easy or instant album. Quite the contrary is true. But it is detailed, layered, and has much going on... auralaggravation.com/2025/06/19/s... @dense-pr.bsky.social @room40.bsky.social

Immediate it is not. Droney and difficult, it is. Just the way we like it... auralaggravation.com/2025/06/15/a... @dense-pr.bsky.social

never dull, but always strange and alien – and these are reasons to appreciate it... auralaggravation.com/2025/06/09/f... @dense-pr.bsky.social

I'm finally here. I probably won't be here much, but here I am nonetheless.