Shakily debuting as a dramatically stripped down (and much sloppier) clone of Naked City's "hardcore" phase, Painkiller rapidly transmuted into an aural odyssey of Middle Eastern dark ambient, industrialized dub, and sludge-jazz coincidentally similar to the Swiss band 16-17. The effect/loop experimentation on the instruments (mostly a dry bass, drums, and sax) is impressive not only for it's atypicality, but for the hallucinatory depth it achieves in each session's ambiance. I don't believe there's been any document of the band's collective mindset or goals, anything Harris or Zorn have ever said of the project were terse references to generic jamming...but the strange uniqueness they concocted refuses to show any hint of age or age-induced cringe. As Mick would have called it: "Proper". P.S.: And goddamn do their layouts still impress me. Stunningly beautiful morbidity! 
Painkiller - "Collected Works '91-'94" 4xCD 1997 & "50/12" CD 2005
Shakily debuting as a dramatically stripped down (and much sloppier) clone of Naked City's "hardcore" phase, Painkiller rapidly transmuted into an aural odyssey of Middle Eastern dark ambient, industrialized dub, and sludge-jazz coincidentally similar to the Swiss band 16-17. The effect/loop experimentation on the instruments (mostly a dry bass, drums, and sax) is impressive not only for it's atypicality, but for the hallucinatory depth it achieves in each session's ambiance. I don't believe there's been any document of the band's collective mindset or goals, anything Harris or Zorn have ever said of the project were terse references to generic jamming...but the strange uniqueness they concocted refuses to show any hint of age or age-induced cringe. As Mick would have called it: "Proper". P.S.: And goddamn do their layouts still impress me. Stunningly beautiful morbidity! 
Korpses Katatonic - "Sensitive Liberated Autistiks" Cassette 1983
Pre Zero Kama (ritualistic industrial supposedly made with human skulls and bones...I still can't tell). Quite a variety of electronic sounds can be found on this tape. Hypnotically looping Throbbing Gristle cloned creep-drones share (or overlay) equal time with arhythmic low-bit beats. Unlike Zero Kama, it actually resembles TxGx a great deal, but seems to rely less on improvisation than the interplay of preconceived sounds (electronic OR vaguely organic). I found it to be slightly indulgent, aging noticeably worse in that regard than other projects endemic in mindset to that era of industrial (faux intellectualism, forced shock value, art students in berets et al), but it still offers some fun timewarps back into what makes that same era so continually endearing: exploring minimalism at it's maximum to trigger the pineal gland.
Death Rattle - "Noiz And Peace" CDR 2015
Professionally recorded rototom noisecharge. It's heavy
as fuck, with the (still noisy) guitars having a thick body that belies
the band's overall crashing approach (there's also a slight similarity to Nerveskade, at least in speed and apparent song arrangement). I really...really...dislike modern
noisecore, but this is a project that impressed me enough to attempt to remember. Five
anti-songs in 12 minutes (with full scans...you can thank Phil for ALL of this by scoping out his very un-hipcore label).
Phil-anthropy 4: Japsnore
"Deserve To Die - Demo 2015 New grindcore band from Japan. Touches of PV. I predict this band will be getting heavy radio play in 2016 and selling out the House Of Blues." [They have a surprising resemblance to Endless Demise...with way weaker vocals. --S]
"Fortitude - Resist Til Death And Resisting After Death CD (2008)
One of the best Japanese grind releases i've ever heard...this and their 7" are superb. Love this Osaka band. Shame their not more prolific. Anyone who's not heard them and is into grindcore will blow their nutsack."
"Assembrage - Demo (2012)
Only demo from Assembrage, put out about a year before their 12" "
"13th Moon - CD-Single & Witch Hunt CD (2011)
Death Rock. [Not bad...but not Bauhaus. --S]"
"Chiba Last Warrior - Compilation CD (1993)
Highly obscure and seldom seen compilation from 1993 featuring a mix of bands, some known, some lost to the mists of time. The band Parasite on this is a different one to the metal punks that people know. Scum Blast songs are different to the split 7" with Ghoza, Gestapo also feature on the Museum comp tape series and are pretty cool,although why they sing about fucking dogs is anyone's guess.They come across as a bit of a joke band really. Their songs on here are different than on those tapes also. My favourite band on this comp is probably Soltic, never heard anything else by them other than these songs though. The Beni Tsubaki songs are better than on their 7" releases, but that's not saying much."
"Clown - Deadly Drive Demo CDR
4 track demo from Nagoya City (Traditional) Hardcore outfit Clown. It don't get more Japanese than this."
"The Epidemic - 2nd Demo
3 tracks of hard edged pogo punk from Japan. Sounds like a mix of Last Survivors and The Erections."
"The Geros - Demo (2014)
[Loud traditional garage in Friction's semi-fi style, with vocals not far removed from Watch's more controlled moments. --S]
"Humongous - Thrashing Punk Attack (2002)
Good shit, I'm drunk...make your own shit up." [VERY energetic traditional Japcore that doesn't mire itself in technicality or too much metal. I actually liked it. --S]
"One River - Demo CDR (Year?)
5 track demo that sounds like it was recorded in someones bathroom. Shame, because it's pretty cool ripping hardcore. This band also had a 7" release and an appearance on the MCR compilation 'This Is The Life Volume 3'."
"EVE - 2nd Demo (2004)
5 song demo CDR recorded a couple of years prior to their release on Blood Sucker Records. Everything is in Japanese on the packaging (except the date)."
Anathema - "All Faith Is Lost" Demo 1991 & FLAC Live 1991
This one's for the nigga Carlo. Dizoom from The Isle (not the Koala one). Contemporaries of Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride, Anathema brought absolutely nothing to that table other than being just as precociously talented, and rising in similarly high arcs (Classique!). What you get here is the second demo, which isn't my rip because the one I own(ed) has seemingly disappeared from the miasma that is my collection, coupled with FLAC files of a live appearance from 1991 (where they perform the first demo). The live show's sound isn't worthy of a lossless rip, but niggaz trip and nerd...TRIP. N. FUCK. ING. N-E-R-D!!!
A//Solution - "Butterfly" 7" 1989 & "Things To Come" CD 1992/95
Orange County's A//Solution channeled the U.K. crustcore sound with inspired passion. The EP feels the most traditional...I hear Antisect and early Hellbastard, with an attempt at Deviated Instinct's "Rock N Roll Conformity" style of production. The CD though has always remained my fave. I jokingly refer to it as the "Janes Addiction of crust" because it has such an impressively melodic backbone of melancholic alt-rock (even extending to some capable singing between the shouts). It was the Gen-X era, everyone decided to be bi, burnouts, and romanticized nihilists (more than usual), so one could argue that fad of monetized mass pessimism added some component to the CD's feel (don't trip, the musculature still flexes it's stenchy bladder). It's really it's own beautiful thing though, with a professional organic production that captured the band's soul flawlessly. There needs to be a serious campaign to get the CD onto LP, I really think it deserves that.
Larm / Straight Edge Kegger - Split 1" 2007
The world's shortest EP (not quite beating the Grindcrusher bonus split 7" in length, but certainly one-upping it's absurdity in physical size). S.E.K. sneezes out ten Seven Minutes Of Nausea style shitblurr tracks that sound like they're overlayed ala Anal Cunt's 5643 song EP, while Larm roasts a live chestnut with it's classic sobriety anthem "Up To You" (I would have chosen "Only Reality" for this brevity race). With enough finagling, you can get this to play. Useless Factoid: This was one of Damaging Noise's first uploads.
Youth Korps - Live (unknown, but early recording)
Chris Pellow taped this for me 20 billion years ago (probably around 1997). I eventually ripped/uploaded it 10 years later, and here we are again because I love redundancy. The sound isn't bad, soundboard and listenable, but there are noticeable mixing shifts every few songs (whoever was manning the console was either drunk, unfamiliar with punk, a fucking douchebag, or all three). Fairly lengthy (16 minutes), so you get all the hits. Oh yeah, proto basic fastcore from '82, predating Siege's rage assault by 2 years (they even did slow dreary jams too). As a bonus you get to stare at Chris' wonderfully resourceful cover. When in doubt: Porn.
Killed By Seanocide & Killed By Fuckin' Japcore CDRs 2006
Roughly a decade ago I compiled a couple of CDR comps to give out to friends or whoever wanted free shit at shows. I snail-mailed a few copies as well as uploaded them (of course) several times over the years. I put in 3/4s of an ass in choosing the bands and presenting the tracks in a "flow" that appealed to me (and possibly you). Long story short, they were just glorified mixtapes. I never sold any copies (Jun Kato may have) and I never presented them as serious releases...but still they wormed their way onto Discogs and Youtube, and STILL needlessly contrarian people took them way too seriously. If you like ebaycore...and aren't a bitch about it...or "rarities" new and old, OR have a mild curiosity in the forms of music I used to incessantly spin all day long, there's the download link you ungrateful piles of shit...
Sshe Retina Stimulants - "Some Whores And A Camera Zaibatsu" CD 1995
Traditional dark industrial and power electronics from the middle of experimental music's 2nd golden age (it R-U-L-E-D!). Organic (and inorganic) samples rhythmically morph themselves with semi-organization through a long spectrum of pitch, tone, texture, and of course hypnotic noise. Layers are easily deduced, themed, and crafted with great compliment to one another (each new layer is allowed it's own time to breathe and build within the tracks). More trippy than frightening, but that's part of the point...no shock value for pretension's sake, just honest explorations into the musicality of amusic regardless of the edgy theme.
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