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Dust Volume 11, Number 1

Jessica Pavone

Look at us embarking on another year. So much in flux, so much anxiety, and yet the flood of music continues, album after album after album (even though the album is dead, it’s doing okay). So let’s get on with it, listening and thinking and writing about the ones that catch our fantasy, and you all out there can get on with listening and reading about it and, for a lot of you, making it, too.

This time around we scratch the usual itches for death metal and improvised jazz, electronic experiments and hip hop mainstays. We’re happy to be here, and hope to continue—bear with us for another year, won’t you? Contributors included Jonathan Shaw, Bill Meyer, Jennifer Kelly and Ray Garraty.

Blazing Tomb — Singles from the Tomb (Creator-Destructor)

Twelve minutes of thrashy OSDM, Singles from the Tomb is a rollicking good time — if you’re looking for heavy riffage, up tempo grooves and volume that presses its knuckles right into your forehead. Nuthin’ fancy but hugely engaging, if a little presumptuous given the industry’s sense for the single. Used to be that labels bet on songs, as money makers and as marketing tools. But the idea of the single depended on a lot of context: the rest of the record from which the single was selected; the network of broadcast signals and stations, which wove together a system in which the idea of the “hit single” was measurable. The industry is in a very different configuration now. Does Blazing Tomb care about that history, and death metal’s tenuous position in it? Did a death metal band ever have anything like a hit single? Are these even the right questions to ask? The Richmond-based band provides “Tortured Minds” as a sort of response. It’s a banger, in heavy rotation in your humble reviewer’s digital playlist. It’s meaty and moldy enough to saturate the mp3 with something like the presence of the tomb. The single might be dead, but these songs lift the lid on the crypt.

Jonathan Shaw

The Brunt — Near Mint Minus (Aerophonic)

The name of this album might imply a vinyl quality rating, but this album will never rest in a crate-digger’s hands, since it’s only available as a download. Like so many 21st century manifestations, it requires you to either kvetch in vain about things taken away by time (in this case, the album’s essential thing-ness) or count your blessings. The latter option is easier on one’s blood pressure and not that hard to do, since this Chicago-based free music quartet’s debut is a rewarding listen. There’s the alternately jousting and supportive interaction of saxophonists Dave Rempis and Gerrit Hatcher, who share a determination to make heavy lifting an act of grace. But equally rewarding is the rhythm team of double bassist Kent Kessler, who has been an essential member of the Chicago scene since the days when Hal Russell helmed the NRG Ensemble, and drummer Bill Harris, whose maxi-informed drumming firmly situates the action in the anything’s possible musical milieu.

Bill Meyer

Faithxtractor — Loathing & the Noose (Redefining Darkness)

An appealing set of gonzo death metal tunes, this curiously titled LP (what’s with the ampersand? wouldn’t a simple “and” do the trick?) from Faithxtractor flirts with melodeath and blackened textures. But mostly it slashes and growls with abandon, packing more riffs in per tune than most other outfits manage across whole albums. Ash Thomas, who plays almost all the instruments and gamely gurgles and howls, is in particularly fine form, soloing with demented energy and having a palpably grand time tearing sound into meaty gobbets. The pleasure is infectious, an entertaining counterpoint to the bummed-out vibe of many of the tracks’ titles: “Noose of Being,” “Ethos Moribund,” “Flooded Tombs” and so on. For a band that sees so much hopeless darkness, they sure are having fun.

Jonathan Shaw

T. Gowdy — Trill Scan (Constellation)

The Canadian experimental artist T. Gowdy got his musical start with the American Boys Choir in Princeton, and his love of medieval and choral music comes through in this 11 track meditation on alchemy. Trill Scan melds twitchy, hyper modern electronic elements with haunting flights of sung melody. “Strewn” conjures the mystery of monk chant in ancient abbeys, then interjects a blippy, synthetic motif. In “Novus Lumen,” vocals murmur and sigh, as altered guitar patterns circle and repeat. Some of these songs are pure skitter and glitch, as in the hammering, percussive “Flit” or the architectures of polyrhythms that define “Arislei Bone.” But the two “Anonymous” cuts, IV and V, juxtapose ethereal, god-scented plainsong with the antic play of synth beats, a kind of alchemy all its own.

Jennifer Kelly

The Loft — Everything Changes Everything Stays the Same (Tapete)

Pete Astor’s the Loft was part of Creation Records’ roster in the 1980s, and he’s also recorded as the Weather Prophets and the Wisdom of Harry. He’d been mostly out of sight until the dawn of the current decade, however, when he released the marvelous Time on Earth (“applies the sounds of romantic, rain-on-windows, C86 pop to late middle-aged subject matter and by doing so achieves an unlikely grace,” said Dusted). Two years later, Tall Stories and New Religions reinterpreted songs from Astor’s multi-decade catalogue, and it, too, was very fine. Cut to 2024 and The Loft has reformed, returning with 10 jolts of clever bittersweet-ness, power pop but ruminative about it and touched with a certain amount of sadness. Boisterous, 1960s fuzz garage leaning “Dr. Clarke” is the single; it could pass for a long-lost cut from the Minus Five. But I like the yearning ones the best. Gorgeous, elegiac “Greensward Days” abuts on the Clientele’s wistful patch of baroque pop, while the languid “Killer�� gestures gracefully at bands like the Blue Nile. An unexpected new chapter for a life in pop.

Jennifer Kelly

Roc Marciano / The Alchemist – The Skeleton Key (Pimpire Records)

Released in December, The Skeleton Key was meant to make a lot of EOTYs. But it didn’t happen and not because it was too late. The Skeleton Key is probably the least memorable of Roc Marciano’s tapes. None of it works as songs, and apart from a few lines and a couple of phrases nothing sticks in mind even after a dozen of listens. Marci stopped working on his music as he used to, and instead of songs we get this underbaked poetry, sadly, over even more underbaked production by The Alchemist. Marci and Al the Chemist get too comfy with each other here, and the result is a dud.

Ray Garraty

Jessica Pavone — What Happens Has Become Now (Relative Pitch)

What Happens Has Become Now is Jessica Pavone’s fifth album of solo viola music, and it shares several characteristics with its predecessors. It’s short (most of Pavone’s solo albums hover around the half-hour mark) and its pieces prioritize certain musical elements — long tones, physical vibration, repetition — which are arranged with enough freedom to satisfy both an improviser’s impulse to push past the known and a composer’s desire for organization and control. Two of the album’s four tracks are acoustic, and each is a finds a way to make you hear how wood feels and sense vibrations in your own palms and torso. A third piece for viola and pedals is straight-up noise that induces a different sensation; via sound alone it induces the feeling of being in a black and white movie, on a train, putting your head out the window and getting a blast of dry sand and dust in your face. And on a fourth Pavone also swaps her own instrument for an invented one, Ken Butler’s Sword viola, which yields distant pitches that seethe and sputter.

Bill Meyer

Silvan Schmid / Tom Wheatley / Eddie Prévost—The Wandering One: High Laver Levitations Volume 2 (Matchless)

Given the predominantly analytic tone of improviser, author and drummer Eddie Prévost’s writing, High Laver Levitations imparts an intention that one might more readily to William Parker — that the power of the music will defy gravity. But if you listen, you are likely to concede that the claim is not mere hubris. Prévost’s light touch and acute responsiveness results in music that at some points is lighter than air, but it also generates an energy combustible enough to bring about some updrafts. Joining him in the All Hallows Church in High Laver, Essex are Swiss trumpeter Sylvan Schmid and English bassist Tom Wheatley. The former’s smudges and smears give the music body and the latter’s near-subliminal rumbles a sparse but sturdy mobile structure. The recording, by noted soundtrack producer Daniel Blumberg, nicely captures the church’s clear but generous acoustic. Lift off achieved!

Bill Meyer

Vazesh — Tapestry (Earshift)

Vazesh is trio from Sydney, Australia. Hamed Sadeghi plays tar, a Persian stringed instrument whose quick decay makes it sound a lot like a banjo. Jeremy Rose plays bass clarinet and saxophones (in this setting mainly soprano). And Lloyd Swanton, best known outside of Australia as one-third of the Necks, plays double bass. Like the Necks, they improvise collectively, but there the similarities end. Sadeghi’s melodic sense is steeped in Persian traditions, and Rose takes his cues from Sadeghi. Swanton’s contributions are more overtly contrapuntal in the Necks, particularly during the passages where he plays arco. Despite the album being divided into 14 tracks, it’s one continuous performance, whose evolving, narrative quality lives up to the album’s title. During the best moments, the trio combines exploratory impulses with a capacity to project an array of emotions. The one caveat is that when Rose waxes melodic on saxophone, there’s a little too much sugar and butter in his tone.

Bill Meyer

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Faithxtractor - Loathing and the Noose

Death Metal from Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.

Nearing two years since releasing their last album, Contempt for a Failed Dimension, in Jan of 2023, FAITHXTRACTOR are back once again with an even stronger and more expansive effort entitled Loathing & the Noose. From bludgeoning speed to the suffocating weight of expansive doom passages, this album showcases a band that will never stop developing its craft and have proven so on each and every release. Wielding 8 tunes of death & misery, Loathing and the Noose stabs & chokes the listener through its duration. When questioned about the album, mastermind Ash Thomas describes the album as "malice riddled grief". He continues, "From the music to the lyrics it’s a maelstrom of rage & melancholy exploring the many facets of this waking depression called life."

1. Noose of Being 04:49 2. The Loathing 03:32 3. Fever Dream Litanies 03:49 4. Flooded Tombs 04:45 5. Ethos Moribund 04:46 6. Caveats 04:49 7. Beholden to the Nightmare 04:06 8. Cerecloth Vision Veil 06:53

Release date: January 10th, 2025 via @redefining_darkness

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FAITHXTRACTOR-LOATHING AND THE NOOSE

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[themetalwanderlust]

A VIEW FROM A CAVE: SEEN THROUGH THE FACIAL HAIRS OF PROG-CAVE-OGIER – 2023, VOL. Two - W/ Arnaut Pavle, Faithxtractor, Memoriam, Deviser, Frozen Dawn, Putred, The Abbey, Gravehuffer, Host

Hi, you fellow cave dwellers and metal-mongers alike. Another month has passed and maybe we should see if we have missed something in the release department, right? First off, I need to admit that something crucial slipped below my radar in January. Transylvanian Glare, the second full album of black metal entity Arnaut Pavle was released in January 20th and it was terribly missed from the list…

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Triton Project - Messenger's Quest Vidres a la Sang - Virtut Del Desencís Five The Hierophant - Apeiron Ni - Fol Naïs The Dear Hunter - Migrant Intronaut - Fluid Existential Inversions Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe Aimee Mann - Queens of the Summer Hotel Faithxtractor - Loathing and the Noose Everything Oscillating - The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are Maximum the Hormone - Yoshu Fukushu Ford Theatre Reunion - We Have Only Left Earth

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Metal Release Radar Week 2 2025

All new metal releases in week 2 in 2025. Notable new albums this week from The Halo Effect, The Obsidian Resurrection, Sacred, and Faithxtractor. Source: Metal Archives. Follow our Spotify Release Radar Playlist. BackscatteredEchoes of PandemicJanuary 6th, 2025BergthronNeu Asen LandJanuary 6th, 2025DisurbanCrossover ThisJanuary 6th, 2025DreadnaughtShutdown in a HeartbeatJanuary 6th,…

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Album Review: Faithxtractor – Contempt for A Failed Dimension (Redefining Darkness Records)

A brash, no-nonsense blast of guttural death metal, layered with aggressive speed and dark intent.

Contempt For a Failed Dimension is the new album from death metal two-piece, Faithxtractor. It will be released on January 20th, 2023, via Redefining Darkness Records. Having been around since 2005, it’s safe to say that Faithxtractor are confident in their ability to deliver something dark and dangerous. Something made up of eye-watering speed, monstrous intensity, and hellacious heaviness.…

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Anareta – Fear Not (Self-Released) Ashen Tomb – Ashen Tomb EP (Personal Records) Atrocity – Okkult III (Massacre Records) Atsuko Chiba – Water, It Feels Like It’s Growing (Mothland) Autumn’s Child – Starflower (Pride & Joy) Barnabas Sky – What Comes To Light (Pride & Joy) Big City – Sunwind Sails (Frontiers stl) Black Star Riders -Wrong Side of Paradise (Earache) Celestial Wizard – Winds Of The Cosmos (Scarlet Records) Cloudy Skies – Chanbges (Argonauta Records) Cthulhu Dreamt – Precursor (Self-Released) Dark Princess – Phoenix (Out Of Line) Deiquisitor – Apotheosis (Extremely Rotten/Night Shroud) Dryad – The Abyssal Plain (Prosthetic Records) Dying Light – Shallow Grave (Self-Released) Eye – Anthology (Pride & Joy) Faithxtractor – Contempt For A Failed Dimension (Redefining Darkness) Fastest Land Animal – East Coast, West Coast, In Between (Self-Released) Fatalismo – Dominate To Exterminate (Self-Released) Gypsy Chief Goliath/End Of Age – Turned To Stone Chapter 7 Split (Ripple Music) Half Life – Like A Jungle (Club Inferno) Heroes And Monsters – Heroes And Monsters (Frontiers stl) Imperium Dekandez – Into Sorrow Evermore (Napalm Records) Issa – Lights Of Japan (Frontiers stl) Katatonia – Sky Void Of Stars (Napalm Records) Laura Cox – Head Above Water (earMusic) Leaflet – Something Beyond (Rockshots Records) The Mighty Mister Shame – Through Hell (Firecum Records) Mindless Hope – Mental Truancy (Sliptrick Records) Natt – Natt (Edged Circle) Negative Vortex – Tomb Absolute (Sentient Ruin) Nothingness – Supraliminal (Everlasting Spew) Pander – Break The Oath (Argonauta Records) Pyramid Mass – Monolith (Ossien Records) Re-Buried – Repulsive Nature (Translation Loss) Riverside – ID.Entity (InsideOut Music) Sarah Halter – The Doom That Binds Us EP (Sparrow Heart) Scarlatamusic – Skatepunk EP (Self-Released) Seether – Disclaimer Re-Release (Craft Recordings) Slegest – Avstand (Dark Essence) Ten – Something Wicked This Way Comes (Frontiers srl) Tension Rising – The Last Judgment (Self-Released) Tidal Wave – The Lord Knows (Ripple Music) Tribunal – The Weight Of Remembrance (20 Buck Spin) Turbid North – The Decline (Self-Released) Twilight Force – At The Heart Of Wintervale (Nuclear Blast Records) U.F.O. – No Heavy Petting Re-Release (Chrysalis) Varjo-Orkesteri – Seremonia (Inverse Records) Walk In Darkness – Leaves Rolling In Time (Beyond The Storm) Shoutout to some good labels: @centurymedia @NuclearBlastRecords @NuclearBlastVEVO @NuclearBlastUSA @bloodblast @RippleMusic @metalassaultLA @uniqueleader @InsideOutReport @napalmrecords @SpinefarmINT @spinefarm @pelagicrecords @MetalvilleTV ​@metalbladerecords ​@metalbladeeurope @HEAVYPSYCHSOUNDSRECORDS @EasyRiderRecords 💻 Omar Cordy (https://www.instagram.com/ojcpics​​) 🎤 Micaela Superstar (https://ift.tt/eN0mhBb) 🎵 Fahad Syed (https://www.instagram.com/fahanzi​​). Gear we use: (These are affiliate links ) Canon 80D - https://amzn.to/3ye8WqV Sigma MC-11 - https://amzn.to/3brZdU2 Sigma 18-35 - https://amzn.to/3tLlEd7 Tokina 11-16 - https://amzn.to/3bty9Uk Feelworld T7 Monitor - https://amzn.to/2Re9hta Audio: Sound Devices MixPre-3 - https://amzn.to/3tKkJd2 Gearlux XLR Mic Cable - 3 Pack - https://amzn.to/3w3zN6Y Deity D3 Microphone - https://amzn.to/3tRa6W2 Fifine Usb Mic - https://amzn.to/3w8JHEG Lighting: YONGNUO YN600L - https://amzn.to/2QkNrn5 YONGNUO YN300 Air - https://amzn.to/2QjN5gu Dfuse Softbox - https://amzn.to/3uQq4AN Aputure MC - https://amzn.to/3oirFgx NanLite PavoTube II 6C - http://bit.ly/NanLitePavoTubeII Lightstands - https://amzn.to/3uSBl3x 5 in 1 Reflector - https://amzn.to/33KHdjo #preview #sneakpreview #newmusicfriday #newmusic #rock #metal #deathmetal #stonerrock #stonerdoom #blackmetal #hardcore #metalcore #symphonicmetal #industrialmetal

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FAITHXTRACTOR-Contempt for a Failed Dimension Review

FAITHXTRACTOR-Contempt for a Failed Dimension Review

Ohio’s death metal crafters FAITHXTRACTOR have made a triumphant return with their brand new album, Contempt for a Failed Dimension.   This is their fourth studio offering since 2005 and the first to be released under Redefining Darkness Records.  Full of savagery and lethal guitar riffs, this is the band’s most ambitious and versatile album yet. From the distinct bass, powerhouse drums and…

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FaithXtractor (at The Summit) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0r8DHogKtScg2erHEzoFfJYV6UOyLBA9EpAUc0/?igshid=1otlw8z4c2clc

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Faithxtractor, Razing the World of Myth, CD Dark Metal, Heavy Doom

Faithxtractor, Razing the World of Myth, CD Dark Metal, Heavy Doom

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Album Review - Faithxtractor - Proverbial Lambs to the Ultimate Slaughter

Album Review – Faithxtractor – Proverbial Lambs to the Ultimate Slaughter

U.S. Death Metal outfit ��� Faithxtractor’ return with their third full length  and I don’t think it’s an understatement to say it’s an intense and brutal affair.  They’ve continued to up their game across their subsequent releases in quite generous increments since 2008’s full length debut ‘Razing the World of Myth‘ which was more than adequately brutal, with 2013’s ‘The Great Shadow Infiltrator‘…