Two New Killer Tapes from Gnarled Forest Records

Dead Machines/Blue Sabbath Black Cheer (GF26) I think 100 copies
The Cherry Point (with The Rita)/Dried UP Corpse (GF27) again I think 100 copies

Picked up these beauties up at a recent BSBC gig and they are mighty fine additions to the the Gnarled Forest catalog.

First Up GF26 Dead Machines/Blue Sabbath Black Cheer

The A Side is a fantastic recording of the Dead Machines set at the Second Wooden Octopus Skull Experimental Music Pfestival from 2006. I missed this night of the pfest but this recording helps make up for it. i have been lucky to catch Dead Machines a couple of times but this is probably my fave recording by them. Dark and minimal sonics wash over for several minutes when more glitch/broken/fried circuit noise works it's way into the piece. Not as "noisy" as some other recordings but really refined and powerful in it's way. Beautifully recorded by Vance Galloway.

The B Side is "Desolation" by Blue Sabbath Black Cheer. Let me see if I can avoid the usual adjectives I use regarding BSBC. "Desolation" is a more than worthy addition the the BSBC canon. Evocative of the title in all meanings as they pummel and scrape through a midden of sonic debris screaming at the sky.

Next Up GF27 The Cherry Point/Dried Up Corpse

A Side is The Cherry Point with guest the Rita again recorded live at the second WOSPfestival 2006. Now this night I was at and the Cherry Point brought the power noise assault. I remember he and the Rita at the table just slamming the audience with heavy duty noise. What might at first sound like a blur soon becomes a tidal wave of noise with small fragments detonating all through the piece. Again captured brialliantly by Vance Galloway.

B Side is Dried Up Corpse with an Ostara set at ChickenHed Church 4.12.09. Perhaps if BSBC can be viewed as the sound of death throes and wanton destruction than maybe I see Dried Up Corpse as the sonic documentation of the bonefields that remain. More dessicated and minimal with harsh and muted waves of wasted bleakness but with with some higher edged frequency bombs and tones that sound like mettalic carrion birds en route to a feast. This was a really enjoyable set to catch and kudos to Overdose the Katatonic for catching the sound nicely. Like I was there again in front.

Also seeing as how two of these sides are taken from the second Wooden Octopus Skull Pfest you might be able to find some copies of the Pfestival program at Dissonant Plane. It is a great read and has a Wolf Eyes discography so accurate to that time that even the Soccer Mom Ebonics live release is listed.