HÉR is a sort of cinematic folk or experimental post-punk project, which takes influence from traditional Viking music.  Despite being released on Season of Mist, their debut Monochrome is not metal of any kind, but rather a soundtracky landscape of tribal drums, chants, plodding bass guitar and circular string figures.

Jiří Barta is a Czech stop-motion animator from Prague, famous for his only other feature-length film, Toys in the Attic (2009). He is well known for using wood as a medium to create his animations. This new Blu-ray set from Deaf Crocodile features much of his work. On the first disc we have 1986's The Pied Piper, a 53 minute film that is based on the classic fairytale about the Pied Piper of Hamlyn who cleansed a village of rats and then returned for the townsfolks children when the villagers weren’t forthcoming with his payment, while disc two features seven shorts, Riddles for A Candy, Disc Jockey, The Project, The Vanished World of Gloves, The Ballad of the Green Wood, The Last Booty and The Club of the Laid Off. 

Caro Nihil Momenti Est is a thirty-minute slab of crude and morally corrupted walled noise from this rather mysterious US-based project, which recently surfaced like a bloated corpse in water on the scene.

Ohrensuppe presents the listener with two slabs of densely searing and audio nerve-slicing walled noise. Each 'wall' runs around the thirty-minute mark, and each is equally dense and crudely gnarly.

Now here’s a suitably barren ‘n’ battering slice of walled noise from Wisconsin’s Vacant Algin. The single thirty-minute ‘wall’ brings together steadily moving yet gloomy post-industrial texturing, with buffing and baying tone for a bleakly atmospheric, yet seared ride.

Enter The CATHEDRAL sees the very welcome return of Spain’s  Damien De Coene(Charles Razeur, Verwelk, Renoffski), who has been absent from the world of walled noise for a few years. This digital release features a single ‘wall’ created by that classic of wall noise tools- a DOD effects pedal.