★New Forces
Shredded Nerve / Form Hunter
In the summer of 2023 Shredded Nerve and Form Hunter embarked on an east coast tour that culminated at the Initial Shock festival in Montreal. This CD is a reissue of a limited edition tour cassette available at those shows, and also features a brand new track from each artist, totaling 4 tracks and more than 40 minutes of music. Psych-noise incantations colliding with metal junks avalanches that rip the forest to shreds. Smashing cassette players into oblivion with a baseball bat to the cheers …
Bending Your Sauna
In 2022 New Forces received a pair of discs in the mail from Nick Forté (Rorschach, Raspberry Bulbs, Half Mortal) that contained the initial creative burst from his new project Green Tea. The albums were astonishingly well crafted and could hardly be considered "demos"; indeed, they felt like masterworks that emerged out of thin air, blending psychedelic harsh noise with ambient and new age music in a way that felt incredibly fresh and exciting. As the artist describes it, "I knew I was working …
Music For Organic Performance
New Forces presents Kjostad's Music For Organic Performance. These six new recordings emerged from solitary performances conducted on-location in northern Minnesota. An attempt to rethink the collection of "source sounds" and invite the listener into moments that would be otherwise inaccessible. Electronics and other machines were introduced later in the process, a form of synthesis that added additional depth and contradiction to the original recordings. Listeners will feel the edges of glaciat…
Warlord
Warlord is the latest full-length album from Kjostad, the follow up to last year's Extinctionist released on Chondritic Sound. This is the evolution of Kjostad's approach in every aspect, an attempt to distill 7 years of development into the project's finest work yet. The place-based field recordings are more intimate. The environmental explorations are more harrowing. Hissing tape loops collide with pulsing electronics. The noise clatters, clangs, and grinds across six tracks that investigate a…
All Pressures Past
Primitive Isolation Tactics is the foremost example of how the current generation of Canadian noise builds on the foundation forged by some of the country's textural masters while expanding into new and ever more dynamic territory. There is plenty of monolithic crunching to sink your teeth into on "All Pressures Past," but the sounds skitter, jump, and implode into a satisfyingly damaged wreckage of burned wires and fried voltage. Primitive Isolation Tactics wields both patience and restlessness…
Wilderness & Industry
Perfected Grave Vault is the high octane noise duo of Charlie Mumma and Aaron Aspinwall. Following on the heels of their highly regarded 2023 CD Mutative Forecast (Oxen), this latest offering is a constantly shifting, fast paced flamethrower of a recording. Evoking the Americanoise crunch of classic acts like Skin Crime or Macronympha, "Wilderness and Industry" manages to to achieve a monolithic heaviness without bogging down in static minimalism. This is a quick moving recording that seizes you…
The Final Fumes From The Soup Bowls
Brain liquification from the secret agents residing at Chocolate Monk headquarters. The last installment of their recent "soup" trilogy, these final fumes waft into your ears in precise yet frenetic fashion. Jarring cuts, unexpected sounds, and surreal atmospheres abound. Music to confound and delight.
Fanaticus
Fanaticus is the new full length album from Organ Of Corti, the trio of Dan Johansson (Sewer Election), Mattias Gustafsson (Altar of Flies), and Joachim Nordwall (iDEAL, The Skull Defekts). A significant evolution from 2022's Auris, also released on New Forces, Fanaticus blends tape loops and analog synths into a claustrophobic exhibition of tense and curious sound. Each of these seven tracks has a depth to it that demands repeated listening. Fanaticus deftly weaves together the subtle nuances o…
Volume 2
New Forces is proud to present Richard Ramirez Volume 2, a 6-CD boxset compiling some of the best work by noise legend Richard Ramirez: Supply and Shutdown, Nature's Afterbirth, Barebacking, This Angel's Rusted Halo, and Mistaken Genital Apparatus. Each of these discs contains a classic recording of pure noise from one of the genre's key figures; a massive collection you don't want to miss.
Dread Harvest
Form Hunter returns with their first full-length album since 2021's "Violent Adaptation" (Troniks / Helicopter). Dread Harvest refines their signature blend of in-the-red tape abuse, violent scrap metal, saturated loops, and high-energy noise. Crafted from raw and physical recording sessions in a decaying barn, these four tracks channel the euphoric chaos of Form Hunter's live assaults, leaving behind a crater of crumpled magnetic tape, iron filings, rusty nails, wood, rocks, and dirt. From unco…
Skin Crime
New Forces is proud to offer a reissue of this hyper-limited Skin Crime tape from 1997, originally available in only a handful of copies. Skin Crime on this recording was Patrick O'Neil and Scott Hull. An essential part of the noise archive, and a unique entry in the legendary Skin Crime catalog.
"1997. I get a postcard in the mail from GX asking if we'd like to play at a show he's setting up. Of course I said yes. I talked things over with RRRon, who had also been invited, and we decided that i…
Harrington Ballroom - Exhumed & Reanimated
*2023 stock* Industrial legends Hunting Lodge was founded in May of 1982 by Lon C. Diehl, Carla J. Nordstrom & Richard Skott Rusch. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the band’s inception and of their initial releases, this set contains the entirety of the recorded output from the original lineup. A mandatory archival release that New Forces is very proud to make available as a 3-CD set. Harrington Ballroom is a restoration of the first Hunting Lodge release, a live recording from their firs…
Hangman Cut Himself Loose
*2023 stock* Hangman Cut Himself Loose is the debut full-length CD from ascendant NYC-based noise artist Kyle Flanagan. This is the new psychedelia, an expansive album that ranges from blistering harsh noise to expansive drones. Deep space explorations launched from grimy basements. The perfect blend of careful composition and hallucinatory experimentation. A revelatory noise recording that builds on a series of well-regarded tapes for labels such as New Forces, Dead Gods, and No Rent. This is m…
No Longer Penitent
"No Longer Penitent" is the new full-length from Commuter, a project from Portland's Jackson Abdul-Salaam (Herukrat, Junta Cadre) that blends harsh noise and urban field recordings. Building on the highly regarded 2021 album "Inner SE Industrial" released on Phage Tapes, this new effort pushes Commuter's sound and atmosphere even further. A fantastic noise album. Says the artist: "No Longer Penitent acts as a direct follow-up album to "Inner SE Industrial", the previous full-length on Phage. Whe…
Snowblower
New Forces is proud to present "Snowblower," the debut album from Green Tea, a new project from Nick Forté (Rorschach, Raspberry Bulbs, Half Mortal). Drawing inspiration from the writing of Sheridan Le Fanu and the belief that green tea could make one hallucinate, Forté describes Green Tea as a psychedelic harsh noise project that merges noise techniques with ambient and new age music. Incredibly refined for a debut, "Snowblower" is 8 tracks of crushing ambient noise. There are moments on Snowbl…
Topology
Jeph Jerman (Hands To) and Joachim Nordwall (Organ of Corti) present "Topology," a stunning collaboration that brings out the best from both artists. Jerman's trademark field recordings are accentuated by Nordwall's electronics in a seamless fusion that simultaneously evokes the mechanical and the environmental. There are moments of subtle tension, but longtime fans of Jerman will note several instances of heightened intensity in his contribution that harken back to some of the more aggressive H…
Auris
*2023 stock* Organ Of Corti is the new collaboration of Swedish masters Dan Johansson (Sewer Election), Mattias Gustafsson (Altar of Flies), and Joachim Nordwall (iDEAL, The Skull Defekts). Each artist's individual brilliance shines forth in Organ Of Corti, but this is much more than the sum of its parts. "Auris" takes the familiar murkiness of Johansson and Gustafsson, injects a healthy dose of Nordwall's crisp electronics, and assembles everything into a series of spacious, brilliantly execute…
Third Sign
The long-awaited follow up to 2020's "Acts of Betrayal," Justin Lakes returns with "Third Sign," a psychedelic noise masterpiece that will cement Shredded Nerve's position in the noise underground. Desperation, malaise, dread, and melancholy are conjured up with the project's trademark blend of tapes, electronics, and acoustic sounds. Over the course of seven tracks these approaches are woven together into a sonic spacecraft that launches towards some distant, fading galaxy. The final track, "I …
Music For Organic Performance
*2023 stock* New Forces presents the latest full-length CD from Kjostad, Music For Organic Performance. These six new recordings emerged from solitary performances conducted on-location in northern Minnesota. An attempt to rethink the collection of "source sounds" and invite the listener into moments that would be otherwise inaccessible. Electronics and other machines were introduced later in the process, a form of synthesis that added additional depth and contradiction to the original recording…
Magazine
Tip! *2023 stock* New Forces is happy to announce a 2xCD edition of the monumental "Magazine" by The Rita. This 2-disc edition is fully remastered by Grant Richardson, and includes the tracks by Treriksröset and Werewolf Jerusalem, recorded using "Magazine" as source material, that were previously only available as bonus tapes in the special edition of the double LP version. Packaged in a 6-panel digipack with old and new artwork by Sam McKinlay, as well as a booklet featuring liner notes by Sam…