For Their Graves belies the simple premise of a horror short to deliver an experiential reckoning with one’s own understanding of the unknown. The viewer is greeted with conventional images before transitioning in both startling and gradual movements toward an infernal symbolism which may or may not be indecipherable. A journey in which the exterior world is beheld and forsaken for interior psychogeographies. To contextualize this work within the cinematic landscape, imagine the following: the kinetic psychedelia of Jodorowsky condensed into a logic of stark blacks and whites; an 80s slasher flick infused with the narrative mysticism of Lynch; Kenneth Anger’s ritual Satanism for the digital age; a spiritualized Nick Zedd not on acid. Genre tropes are acknowledged and disregarded. Semblances of tradition can be parsed out. Traces of dialogue act as touchstones for the uninitiated. When all impurities have burned away, a mosaic of visions coalesce into a singular image both sacred and profane.
Sunday, December 6, 2020
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Leg Market
"Final Arrangement"
Primitive Temples 008
3"cdr
Edition of 45
Mastered by J. Stillings
2019
Elements of a Ligeti’s ethereal, disembodied choirs float atop an unsettling tone, swaying in diseased winds as the harpies beckon their unwitting victims near. Approaching the tonal complexity and long-form tension of ecstatic vocal torture and electronic pulse that modern avant garde masters of the twentieth century like Luigi Nono brought, Leg Market initiates an atmosphere of paranoid delusion and wide-eyed dread to the late night listener. The listener is immersed in a dense bath of sound for a quarter hour before dissolving into tape machine stutter in its dying breath.
Saturday, November 24, 2018
FRKSE
"Void Spirit"
Primitive Temples 006
Edition of 68
2018
In defiance of curses uttered in bullshit newsfeeds and utensil-shoved soft serve truth attempts, FRKSE takes a media studies drop-out lens to the lunacy of rotten narratives and false flag waving on a C62 of trauma buried in fragmented samples, radio silence, and drum machine fixations. This is a harsher approach than his usual sample-based exploits. 68 copies on hand stamped j-cards.
Fuck your free-speech rally.
Void Spirit video teaser
Goat Majesty
"Prophecy of the Black Spider"
Primitive Temples 005
Edition of 50
2018
Funeral mood music and subterranean clatter from lone wolf of North East English noise Goat Majesty. Flickering dungeon candles are snuffed out by the stale damp air, as a lo-fi soundtrack plays to the advancing spread of thick black mold. There’s no hope here, just the distant sound of mournful organ, bass rumble and over modulated synths bubbling away toward the inevitable nothingness that awaits us all. Recommended listening for those who get nothing out of life.
Saturday, March 3, 2018
"Strange Mavens"
Compilation
Primitive Temples 004
Edition of 125
Mastered by J. Stillings
2017
A1 | –Steel Hook Prostheses | Iron Bath Immersion | |
A2 | –Theologian | Blood Groove | |
A3 | –Xiphoid Dementia | Dead Endustry | |
A4 | –Nycterent | Cross Of Endlessness | |
A5 | –Climax Denial | Nobody Wants My Blood | |
A6 | –Vhorb | Lifengrod | |
B1 | –TRTRKMMR |
Conspiracy (Bathory Cover)
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B2 | –Steeplechase | Extinction And Punishment | |
B3 | –Deterge | C4H10F02P | |
B4 | –Husere Grav | Ghost Sickness | |
B5 | –FRKSE | Delusions | |
B6 | –Scrotal Tear | Stand There In Chains Of Light | |
B7 | –150 Lbs Of Terror | The End Was Black | |
B8 | –Carl Kruger |
9x
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Vhorb
"Terlingua"
Primitive Temples 003
Edition of 50
Mastered by J. Stillings
2017
"VHORB is loss without words, without meaning. Pain amplified, looped, calculated, frozen in a free-fall of darkness, in perpetuity. Turning the release valve away from reason, demanding an act of surrender - where every auditory element expunged through exhaust is recycled and fed as barbed stimulus to the listener. The subtle touches of... restraint only act as a taunting momentary threat, as meditative screams & calls are powered by an undercurrent of rhythmic, lo-fi industrial rumblings. This 5-song demo is a transportive experience that immediately propels one into a position of submission - only to use gradual, organic treatment to cradle the listener into a waking dream of ambient solemnity. A unique harsh noise approach, from the minds responsible for Husere Grav & Ecocide."
-J. Morse
Vhorb are by no means black metal, but the essence of the project feels like it necessarily sits squarely adjacent to black metal. Kind of like very early Husere Grav (“Haunted Tomb,” “The Great Empty”) or maybe even Doppleganger. It edges right up and alongside black metal…pressing firmly against the structured walls…and leeches its shadows. The sticky umbra is then roughly shaped into semi-comprehensible entities. Presences that are formed from and then back into the formless.
-TRTRKMMR
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