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Monday, November 23, 2009

Yet another awesome Atrocitizer review!

Many thanks to TeRRoR Zine in Italy for this outstanding review!

J.

http://www.terror.lt/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=347&cntnt01returnid=54

There are albums that you listen to and cannot catch the sound, cannot
feel it and understand. And the sound does not catch you either and does
not tangle you into the tissue of creator just as another insignificant
thread. But there are completely opposite cases when a few seconds of a
release descend upon you with avalanche of emotions. Such is the case
with this album of Steel Hook Prostheses. I've put this album into CD
player without any expectations, but it spins in there till now. It is
truly the depth of darkness in here and the duo drown you in it without
remorse from the first seconds. Slow and massive terror of synthesizers
where every single sound has its own suitable and well thought place.
Weird rhythms, formed here and there and slowly hiding under the sheet
of ambient, waves of noises, anxious sounds that don't let you relax...
Vocal is also wonderful in this release. It is mostly not aggressive,
but frightful pitched satanic voice, giving a final diagnosis through
the barrier of distortion, flanger or other effects. I don't see a point
in describing every single piece separately because despite of the fact
that every one of them is individual vision and entity, the whole idea
of Atrocitizer is formed just when you hear all of them together. By the
way, this term is explained inside the nicely designed three panel
digipack. "Atrocitizer [noun] - any person or group of people
responsible for the perpetration or conduct of atrocities [e.g. Mass
Murderer, Genocide]." Album starts with troubled and massive
Dehumanization. Above the hum of the synths, samples are braided with
perfectly sounding voice. The album ends with a melody of several notes
of "The Excruciation Sequence" that goes with dreadful, but at the same
time majestic vocal and noises. Everything between them - dark, heaving
charge of sick atmosphere. Sometimes it goes harsher and because of
delivery of vocal and noisier sounds, it lifts you from the blackness,
but just to analyze your disablement. Soon after you drown back to the
darkness, filled with nightmares. This is a top notch release, starting
with design and ending with what's the most important - sonic
information. This duo doesn't spit their releases out that often, but
when they do - it's almost always fantastic product. The same is with
this release. Of course, if you are into primitive aggression - you
won't find it here. In this album you hear sounds from an abandoned
hospital where patients are tortured in unknown ways. It's time in
solitary when you start to feel your amputated limbs in the dark. It's
loneliness in the ward when you wake up and cannot get an answer from
any living being in the building. It is captivity of body, wit and
fantasy. The only way out is stairs that go down. You can hear screams
of your tortured mind from there.

Regards
levas
TeRRoR zine
http://www.terror.lt

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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Great 'Atrocitizer' Review from Connexion Bizarre

Steel Hook Prostheses - Atrocitizer
CD, Malignant Records, 2008
www.myspace.com/metaconqueror

Steel Hook Prostheses - Atrocitizer

"Atrocitizer [noun] - any person or group of people responsible for the perpetration or conduct of atrocities [e.g. Mass Murderer, Genocide]".
So the liner notes of the second full album from Texan power electronics duo Steel Hook Prostheses describe a familiar theme in the genre, alongside photos of tortured prisoners and disabled children. Fortunately the music contained therein stands out admirably above such over-used imagery and shows some interesting variations away from the typical sounds of power electronics alongside a strength of performance which viciously beats down much of the competition.
"Dehumanization" opens the album with an unsettling buzz and an almost melodic, relatively speaking, chord progression, and as the heavily processed and seriously ferocious vocals suddenly kick in violently, it's clear something special is happening here. A mere pop song at 3:30, the opener is then followed by "Murderous Science", an initially calmer piece, with a disturbingly distorted voice sounding like some kind of disabled evil robot, giving way to J. Stillings' powerful roar and a gratuitous account of tests on prisoners, many of the words actually intelligible at times! "Tepid Discharge" is then pure dark ambient, with an insistent heartbeat, leading to the suitably ethereal opening of "In Dreams We Are Malevolent", which predictably enough quickly becomes a terrible nightmare for a sensitive sleeper.
Again, "Skin Melt Threshold" shows how good S.H.P are at being creepy and horrific as much when quiet as when noisy, as does the next piece, "Scarifier", with its ominous bass line and sinister voice fading in from the distance. "Trauma Bonding" is quite enjoyably nauseating, with an oscillating undercurrent and sudden swishes of high end, and "Grand Declaration Of Obedience" offers no respite, with one of the most claustrophobic and clinging sections of sick ambience on the album. The title track appears with a crushing rhythm and dense drones, and a curious feeling of clearing away debris, which is probably quite appropriate leading into closer "The Excruciation Sequence". This is even more musical than the opener, with melancholic chords, subtle background drums and a tragic sounding vocal performance, providing the perfect closing to a highly accomplished album, with very little to complain about, so I won't even mention any misgivings I might have had earlier.

-- Nathan Clemence [8/10]

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Friday, April 03, 2009

Heathen Harvest review of new Metaconqueror "Of Steel, Bone and Fire"

http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=20090327135218500&query=metaconqueror
Many thanks for the outstanding review. Heathen Harvest is the best web-zine online! Hands down..

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Radical Matters Editions/Label presents, Black Industrial Grimoire..

"This release has been in the works for at least a couple of years now. Glad to see it has finally risen from the depths!"
J. Stillings...

Order direct from http://www.radicalmatters.com
A phono-medianic packaging set created by a shining circle of authors,
cathalized by the pioneer and master of the black industrial musical genre: MZ.412 (and his mastermind HENRIK NORDVARGR BJORKK).
The content of this special concept album, conceived, designed and released by RM-ED/L, is a compendium in the form of Grimoire; a special magical instrumentation for medianic and metaphisical pratiques based on an ancient form of manteia (divination) based on the occult side of the risonance of the sound.
About the GRIMOIRE CD and CD-R: The audio content of the CD-R is developped by the original recordings made by all the authors involved in the CD format where they operas are explicitally composed as a demoniacal evocation "formed with sound".
This audio cd-r is initially manipulated in studio, only to excite the very low frequencies of the original recordings. The result was played with loud speakers and re-recorded live with special microphones, during a liminal cojuntion of events (date 08 November 2008), 13 meter under the ground, during the 16th event of the Etruscan magic astronomy, towards the north-west sol-stitium of Manvtha, for the Samonios of the Triplici Mundus Patet; into an ancient Rasnakh ritual underground place, sited in the core of Tuscia: the Munisvle of Fanum Voltumnae.
Exciting the very low frequencies of the XIII evocations composed by all the authors involved, have permit to manifest the essences of their ritual recordings, through the demoniacal acoustic manifestation of their psycho induction. The particular condition of this second recording session, made in the Rasnakh Munisvle, have permitted to charge the recordings in itselfs with the live presence of the dead energy of the ancient spirits of darkness, which in this deeper underground temples, near the center of the earth, have the door for their reign.

MYSTERIUM CONIUNCTIONIS - GOETIC SCRYING RITUALIS:
The box also include some basic instruction to use the phono medianic set, composed by:
a special packege contening the sacred Unicursal Hexagram stylization as pop-up,
a consacrated trapeoid black mirror.
a special package/speacker cabled with a mini jack able to be connected at your stereo hi-fi.

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"BLACK INDUSTRIAL GRIMOIRE
ARCANI VMBRARUM REGNI
SI.VM E.T A V VM
(Silence is golden)
CD Ttrack list:

I - DRAKH - NUMEREVIL
II - GNAW THEIR TONGUES - BLEEDING LIKE DOGS
III - STEEL HOOK PROSTHESES - THE INVOKATION OF MERIHIM
IV - BREATH OF CHAOS - NOTHING REMAINS THE SAME
V - MELEK-THA - HABORYM
VI - ORDO TYRANNIS - CHORONZON ARIA
VII - BATCHEEBA - LEMEGETON PLACENTA
VIII - MICHAEL W FORD - INVOCATION TO AHRIMAN
IX - DEADWOOD - 218
X - GRAUEN PESTANZ - VOLUPTUS A LETUM
XI - UTARM - CRUSHING INFINITY
XII - *TELESTHERION with: WILDNESS PERVERSION of MORTUARY DRAPE - GRIMOIRE.XIII
XIII - MZ.412 - CURSED IN THE NAME OF ENKI

Full lenght audio: 77:77 min.

M.:.M.:.M.:.M.:.L.:.
PHONO MEDIANIC CDR Ttrack list:

ENCHANTMENT - I
ENCHANTMENT - II
ENCHANTMENT - III
ENCHANTMENT - IV
ENCHANTMENT - V
ENCHANTMENT - VI
ENCHANTMENT - VII
ENCHANTMENT - VIII
ENCHANTMENT - IX
ENCHANTMENT - X
ENCHANTMENT - XI
ENCHANTMENT - XII
ENCHANTMENT - XIII

Full lenght audio: 33:33 min.
In quo tamen tota philosophia ermetica figuris in umbras, tacere audireque, solisque filiis artis dedicatus, atque esse iam coeperant silentio eruditi, autore eius nomen est sigelion, aaru mega therion.

*TELE.S.THERION - GRIMOIRE XIII:
Sandro Gronchi: medianic record session using prepared electric bass guitar with metal coils, amplify saturation and enviromental feedbacks .
Pietro Riparbelli: instrumental transcommunication action using short-wave radio recivers with reverb and distorsion pedals.
+ Wildness Perversion - MORTUARY DRAPE: medianic vocal chants.
Concept & editing: Sandro Gronchi

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Sunday, March 15, 2009

New SHP full length Info..

We are proud to announce that the next Steel Hook Prostheses full length CD will be released on Fractured Spaces Records. A Brilliant upstart label from the UK.
http://www.myspace.com/fracturedspacesrecords
Album to be titled "Smells From The Cancer Floor"
After many discussions with Label owner Simon Marshall-Jones, We have found a common interest in occult philosophy, artistic vision and the will to succeed! We are glad to have such a substantial release to look forward to coming out of the UK.
The album will be completed on our end near August-September 2009

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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Yet another great Review of the new Metaconquer disc....

While you may or may not recognize the Metaconqueror moniker, if you’re frequenting this site you are probably familiar with the man behind the project, John Stillings. He’s one half of the Texas Industrial heavyweights Steel Hook Prostheses. How does this project differ from that? Those differences are very subtle, but it’s safe to say if you enjoy one you’ll definitely like the other.

The tracks run the gambit of heavy, dark ambience. Most feature John’s distinct fucked up vocal filters and will include everything from Black Metal guitar, Latin chants and the throb of distant machinery. Most incorporate Death Industrial style synth work with elements of Power Electronics and occult knowledge. Using a minimal amount of sounds, he manages to create a crushing, claustrophobic atmosphere. It’s wet, dripping basement walls, ritual dissection…arcane sigils carved in blue flesh. Imagine if MZ.412 grew some Texas size huevos and you might come close.

Bottom line, this has been one I’ve returned to over and over since receiving it and that’s a rarity. There’s not a single clunker track on the disc. This is one to be consumed whole. No fast forwards, no disappointments. If you’re a fan of the early Cold Meat stuff, this is a must. The disc is housed in a simple cardboard slipcase feature a metal sculpture on the cover created by Mr. Stillings himself. Released by the relatively new Syzmic Records, don’t miss this one. Limited to 150 copies.

Taken from http://www.plaguehaus.com
Thanks for the fine review!
J

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Monday, February 02, 2009

Review of the new Metaconqueror release.

Taken from "The one true dead angel"

Metaconqueror -- OF STEEL, BONE AND FIRE [Syzmic Records]

I don't know much about the band -- apparently the side-project of one of the members of Steel Hook Protheses (about which I know even less) -- but this is apparently the band's second or third release and it's absolutely brilliant, a seething black cloud of rumbling noise and dark ambient fog that falls somewhere between muted power electronics and excessively ambient black metal. The sound of this disc is reminiscent of Cold Electric Fire, MZ.412, Brighter Death Now, and maybe the original Cold Meat Industries aesthetic in general; it's far more about the bleak atmosphere and obsessive, forbidding sound than it is about any proper notion of "songs" or anything resembling music with commercial appeal. Some of this is seriously scary-sounding shit, with no hint of irony or the sense that any of it might be a joke; no, this is pure audio blackness, not quite as willfully obnoxious as Abruptum but every bit as indifferent to anything save audio suffering. Low key but nevertheless most unsettling. It's good to see that the industrial death-ambient genre is not yet dead.

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Sunday, January 18, 2009

New review of recent Dallas live action plus the new CD.

Steel Hook Prostheses Atrocitizer (Malignant) CD - ...This DFW area headliner of said show specializes in so-called death ambient, or death industrial, power electronics, whatever. They make me think of Bastard Noise and Nordvargr and all those dark drone behemoths that just can't get over how fucking grim everything is. They sound amazing live with HUGE surging bass fuzz swells that fog the mind without necessarily clawing the face, as their name might suggest they would. On this CD SHP conjures a crackling compositional morass inspired by how creepy vivisection and surgical procedures can be along with an overriding paranoia of the techno/industrial revolution unfolding before our very eyes. Ultimately a lot more texture than what you'd expect from a duo calling itself Steel Hook Prosthsteses, and despite it's gruesome title and darker predilections, Atrocitizer ultimately provides more solace than pain.

Lee Jackson

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