We are HAM! The intro to the post below describes my love of HAM, so I probably don’t need to say much here by way of introduction. This is actually a combination of three prior posts – the original cataloging of the band’s output to date appeared on February 26, 2016. Since then HAM put […]
Month: January 2024
Rapoon / Mykel Boyd – “Split” (2011)
Rapoon is Robin Storey, one of the co-founders of Zoviet France. His ten-and-a-half minute track “Stolen Diaries and Marijuana Dreams” takes up the entire A side of Split. Chanting and subtle tribal beats open before giving way to a brief intoned vocal segment, the delivery tinged with a distant, mechanical quality as it drones through […]
Overlord – “Broken Toys” (1982)
I didn’t know much about Overlord when I picked up this copy of Broken Toys at Tacoma’s Hi-Voltage Records the other day, other than that they were from Seattle. Fortunately, however, I have a copy of the essential guide to music in the Pacific Northwest, the 900+ page tome Rusted Metal: A Guide to Heavy […]
Merzbow – “Pulse Demon” (1996 / 2023)
If you have only heard of one noise artist, that artist is probably Merzbow (real name Akita Masami). Noise is, by its nature, difficult for most people to listen to. The genre’s name is actually quite perfect in that regard, “noise” being something that people consider bothersome or unpleasant sound, and chances are if you […]
Basement State Cassettes (2021-2023)
I have to sheepishly confess to not being very tuned in to my local music scene. If we meet in person and you ask me where I live, I’ll say Seattle, but in fact I live on the other side of the lake (aka the Eastside) about a 25 minute drive away and I don’t […]