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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: Gruntsplatter
Title......: Pest Maiden
Rip Date...: Mar-18-2007 Cat.No.....: PACrec107
Style......: Noise Label......: PACrec
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 83,9 MB Source.....: CDDA
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
Tracks 2 & 4 originally released on Pest Maiden 7" (Troniks,
1999).
Gruntsplatter, the primary project of Scott Candey, came to be in
1994 after about a year of experimenting. It has always been a
maleable creature that hovers in the gray area between abrasive
noise and dark ambient. The music has been called "noise ambient"
and it's a term I embrace.
Mood and depth of composition have continually been of the first
importance for Gruntsplatter. By mixing the harsher elements and
their details with the more atmospheric elements I feel I am best
able to acheive what I am working toward. My intent has always
been, and continues to be, to make something evocative and subtle
in it's detail.
Influenced primarily by my mood and immediate state of mind I also
draw, somewhat esoterically, from literature, history and the
death rattles and rituals of our eroding gene pool.
I have also collaborated with a few others over the years, those
projects include, Circadian, Triage, Blunt Force Trauma and Umbra.
Gruntsplatter has always, and will always, consist of only myself.
"You cannot escape. A reissue of Gruntsplatter's grim, oppressive
deathscrapes, haunting atmospheres, impending doom, and
obsessively constructed heavy electronics that detail the plague
devastation. Originally released as a 7-inch and cassette on
Troniks (1999). Remastered by Thomas Garrison (Control) for your
ultimate death trip."
www.relapse.com
"Although Gruntsplatter isn't exactly new either, it's a new name
for me. They had previous releases on Relapse Records, but 'Pest
Maiden' compiles his early 7" and a cassette release on Troniks
from 1999. This is noise of a different order. It's not some over
the top feedback howl, but darker than dark atmospheric doom death
rattle. Everything moves in the darker edges of the sound spectrum
- just much low end, a little bit of mid end and no high end.
Moving slowly forward in these pieces, like some alien beast, just
landed on earth and seeking human life in order to destroy it.
Music like that of Gruntsplatter reminded me of Brighter Death Now
or some other Swedish groups along the lines of that, which is
good. Horror B-movie stuff here."
Vital Weekly
"Recorded way back in 1999, Gruntsplatter's Pest Maiden 7" and
cassette release may not have made much of an impact on the
noise-loving public (perhaps due the limited nature of its
release), but it is a fine album deserving of attention. Thus,
Troniks/PACrec has made the split-up release one monstrous album
and Scott E. Candey has remixed the material especially for the
occasion. The album consists of three long pieces and two shorter,
these serving more as setup compositions for the giants that
follow them. "Permeating Tissue" is a strange beginning; a vacuous
low-end loop cycles over a series of atmospheric bubbles and gasps
for roughly thirteen minutes- the result isn't boredom, but a
strange trance ensues that covers the rest of the album in a
blackness only a subject like the plague could evoke. In fact, the
rest of the album seems to issue a blackness that chokes every
sound Candey decided to use. "The Watchman, The Visited, and The
Under-Sexton" might have been a medieval chant culled from an old
monastery still sitting in the mountains of France, but instead is
sounds like possession, an incendiary demon ripping apart every
holy symbol and fracturing the physical body until the soul begins
to bleed from the bones. Five minutes may not register as much
time for a noise-maker to establish such a vivid mood in a piece,
but Candey pulls it off with grace. The sounds on the album all
feel old, the static and hissing producing the effect of being in
a library at times. This could very well have been a recording of
the plague years, though the frequent spacious elements used on
the record give it a mystical air, as though a Masonic library
would be far more appropriate. "Finally Silent" is the 25 minute
closer and, true to its name, squelches the previous four tracks
in its size and stature. Screaming, scraping, and absolutely dying
to be released from the terror the album emanates, "Finally
Silent" emasculates and devours everything, leaving a tiny quiet
place in its wake that feels less like relief and more like
desperate loneliness, a tiny figure waiting to die."
Lucas Schleicher, http://brainwashed.com
http://www.myspace.com/gruntsplatter
p l a y l i s t
01 Permeating Tissue 13:26
02 All Fall Down 05:27
03 A Hasty Grave 16:47
04 The Watchman, the Visited & the Under-Sexton 05:14
05 Finally Silent 25:34
66:28 min
g r e e t i n g s
agw - amok - bass - bcc - bex - boss - cmg - cmc - cms - d2h
def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - i8 - ipc
jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
sever - sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe
uki - xtc - yard - zi
respect to music lovers worldwide
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