Fleshpress / Throat - Split 7” & Throat - Pee 7”

More noise from Finland based monsters Throat. This time throwing two new 7-inches at us, one being a split with fellow Finnish sludge mongers Fleshpress. I can’t say I’ve really given much of a listen to Fleshpress in the past, but what I have heard was some incredibly slowed down and exhausting doom/sludge material on their LP Pillars. So, it goes without saying, I was a bit surprised to hear them on this split coming out of the gate with a more traditional type of noise-rock stomp. Solid stuff, and something that will probably force me to scour their back catalog some more. The Throat side of things is some pretty standard stuff from them, in terms of what their past discography has to offer. It gets into a rather Unsane influenced groove towards the end of the track. Each track here from the bands are untitled by the way, with nearly as little identifying which side is which on the actual single. So people who are unfamiliar with both may have a difficult time differentiating the two bands on this split. A co-release from Kaos Kontrol and Kult of Nihilow.

Fleshpress – Untitled (stream)
Throat – Untitled (stream)

The second of the two singles, is strictly a Throat release titled Pee, out now on Kaos Kontrol. Featuring two more new songs from the band, side-a houses the track “Prison Shower” and turns up the hate some. Not that they’ve really ever lacked in the department of bad attitude, but “Prison Shower” seems to be really channeling it hard. The flip of “Pet Peeves” mixes it up some, and even midway through kind of adopts some classic rock ‘n roll riffing before dropping out completely and pounding out a slower monotonous sludge like riff surrounded by high pitched feedback for the last minute or so. Definitely dig that track and may be the winner of the two here. Generally into what these guys are doing and it’s no different on this release. Fans of the band will probably want to grab this.

Throat – Pet Peeves (stream)

I believe both of these releases are available through Kaos Kontrol, however the split it is also available through Kult of Nihilow if you can’t happen to find it there.

Hebosagil - Herätys 7”

Three new cuts here from Finnish group Hebosagil. Not all that long ago I had the chance to hear their album Ura, which was some rather killer sludgy influenced noise. However these three tracks kind of caught me off guard as these are very well the noisiest and most aggressive sounding tunes that I’ve heard from them yet. The two songs featured on the a-side in particular are pretty fantastic in this respect, just blown out and relentless from start to finish while still maintaining some of their sludgier beginnings. On par with a number of similar styled bands that really blossomed throughout the 90’s. The b-side “Talta Tuntuu” is more of a representation to the bands sludgier/doom influenced side, spanning six minutes and moving along at a noticeably slower pace than either of the tunes on the flip. Kind of a best of both worlds here on this single, as Hebosagil do both quite well and really have sort of surprised me with how impressively vicious they can sound if they choose to be with the a-side. Pretty fantastic and has already warranted numerous spins. Don’t let this one slip by.

Hebosagil – Saalin Sua (stream)

Anyone interested in picking this up can do so by hitting up Kult of Nihilow. Well worth it.