★Malignant Records
Staring Back At You
2007 release ** "Subtitled "A collection of rare tracks and demos," this latest reissue remains just as essential as the others. "Staring back at you" offers true rarities. Most of the tracks present are from almost impossible-to-find compilations, but four tracks are also present in the form of demos, whose distinction from the original versions, when they exist, gives them a completely new content. A different reading that brings additional value to the Megaptera collection, which has seen a s…
Avatars Of Rape And Rage
2008 release ** "Avant garde noise with SM attitude"
Altered Nights
Third CD from the acclaimed collaboration between Andrea Marutti (Amon, Never Known, among others) and Giuseppe Verticchio (Nimh). Spread out over two CDs and totaling over 100 minutes, there's a lot to absorb here; organic, textural ambience that's murky and abstract, uncurling like tendrils of smoke before coalescing into a simulacrum of shadowy figures, to turbulent, more immersive post industrial sounds that prowl the depths of subterranean caverns and forgotten, still radioactive ruins. Fea…