STALAGGH, Abruptum, Sunn O))), Emit, Silencer, Bunkur, Tomb, 20.SV, Mutiilation, Planet Aids, Lugubrum, Deathspell Omega, Clandestine Blaze, Katharsis, Burzum, Darkthrone
Projekt Nihil digipack cd
Projekt Terrror cd
Projekt Misanthropia cd
Drawing by one of the mental patients who performed on Projekt Terrror. These drawings came with the first 50 copies of the STALAGGH DVD (Autumn Winds prods).
Drawing of the mental patient (R.I.P.) who performed on Projekt Nihil. This drawing can be found on the inside of the digipack edition of Projekt Nihil.
Some reviews:
We've had records from some hateful, extreme, heavy and truly black bands in the past but Stalaggh definitely out-hate and out-black them all. Named for WWII concentration camps (the extra 'g' and 'h' stand for 'global holocaust'), this Dutch blackdoom industrialnoise horde, are often compared to Abruptum, for their extreme and ultra personal approcach to music making, but they take it even a step farther. Not content with harsh hateful vocals, Stalaggh actively set out to recruit mental patients and convicted murders, by using connections working in mental hospitals and carefully planning their recording sessions to coincide with the two days a month patients are allowed to leave the hospital. Woah. The main vocalist featured on the first 30+ minute track (originally released as Projekt: Nihil) is a convicted murderer who stabbed his mother 30 times when he was 16 years old, and subsequently spent the next 11 years in prisons, juvenile detention facilities and mental hospitals. Apparently he suffered from an extreme aggresion disorder, anorexia nervosa and a host of other mental problems. During the recording sessions he indulged in very excessive self-mutilation while howling and wailing through all his hate and pain and fury. Sadly, he killed himself mere months after the recordings were made. The second half hour track (originally released as Project: Terrror) features vocals from three different mental patients, one female. Wow. That's some seriously intense and messed up shit for sure. A rare and maybe problematic instance of music that straddles that blurry line barely dividing art and exploitation, a stretching of the boundaries, an exploration of how far one can go to tap into primal emotions and create music that is emotionally pure, no matter how hard it is to listen to or understand. But the results do definitely convey that hate and despair and misery, which probably can only actually be attained by going to such great lengths. This stuff is so bizarre and so fucked up but somehow strangely beautiful as well. The sheets of noise smear and shift, occasionally attaining an almost drone like quality (albeit an extremely harsh one) . Nihilistik Terrror is a massive, mind frying, soul shattering, freaked out, slab of droning, fuzzy, buzzy, whitenoise brutality, not black metal, not even metal really, more a sort of industrial noisescape, most definitely black, and bleak and harsh, but these are not songs, they are slow shifting sonic fields of squealing shrieking distortion, grinding ear shredding ambience, crunchy and gritty and NOISY! Definitely one for the extreme noise fanatics and lovers of the harsh and brutal, but black metallers who dug later Abruptum might check this out as well. There might be riffs here, maybe even songs, but if there are, they are buried under an impossibly dense ocean of sound, layer after layer of white hot noise and sonic sludge, all swirling maniacally around the terrified, vitriolic, angry, hateful, freaked out howls and screams of real human beings with truly damaged psyches. So intense! Includes both original releases, remastered and sonically even more harsh and aggressive, with a previously unreleased bonus track. http://www.aquariusrecords.org
I'm not quite sure what I'm witnessing here. This maybe the most terrifying music I've ever heard in my existence. Ultra harsh noise and feedback with screams and cries of a mentally unstable creature . I'm not even sure it's human at this time. I'm truly unnerved and a bit envious that one project and make this kind of anti music so well. I bow at there altar. Stalaggh is a sickness that will grown under your skin and fester if your into harsh extreme non music releases. I really can't wait to hear more and I think this CD may have made me deaf to all other noise in the world . Noise release of 2006 for this reviewer. Get this now or be left always wanting. http://www.absolutezeromedia.us/
Nihilstik Terror features both previous Stalaggh full lengths remastered on one horrible disc. (remixed by Xardas of Veinen) From word go this disc has a feeling of nothing but your greatest possible fears, vocals are done by the mentally deranged to add a real feeling of hate, you can hear this deep deep under layer upon layer of Noise and Fuzz. Nothing like any of the other child-like Black Noise bands coming out of every bedroom in America; here you will find nothing but true feeling. Project Nihil is the first track and like Project Terrror this is near 35 minutes in length, this track has no sort of structure and no usual instruments are present [guitars, drums etc.] Here and there you can hear some dungeon like sounds as if the vocalist is trapped; ready for death, but thats about as normal as this recording is... This track really is a nightmare coming from your speakers; the noise element here is very strong and this is the main point of this track, the foreground if you prefer. Somehow this merges into nothing when combined with the other distortions going on and if in the right mind frame the over-volumed noise simply disapears and all you can hear is the screams, have to focus in quite a bit for this to happen though. Project Terror starts off similar to Project Nihil in the sense that the noise element here is very strong, again the vocals are very deep down in the mix but are more present than ever before. This time alot more hissy and distortions can be heard and the track allthough no rythm or tune is obviously going on it feels almost like a faster track; as if things are changing quicker... Within this track the feeling of schizofrenia isn't near, but is present, who knows what the layered screams are telling you to do without you even knowing, what messages are hidden in the darkest depths of this song whilst you are trying to focus in and listen the way it should be done. The 3rd track is nothing like the above tracks, this time its a 5 minute journey without the noise, just layer upon layer which have been distorted, twisted, put backwards, slowed, fasten etc. etc. I can even here some sort of Bass present behind the vocals, this is by no means a structured usual song of course; but I think this is about as normal as Stalaggh will ever get... the best vocals are found in this track also. This CD is not a Black Metal release... Whatever music you are interested in this is defiently the worst nightmare you will ever hear. Somewhere between a usual noise artist and then mixed with the most fucked up vocals from any Black Noise release you can ever imagine. www.winterreich666.cjb.net
First of all, I'm not STALAGGH, just a huge fan!---------------------------------
STALAGGH DISCOGRAPHY:-----------------------------------------
2000: 'Projekt Nihil' promo cd-r (limited to 20 copies)-----2001: 'STALAGGH' 7" vinyl (New Era productions, limited to 300 copies)----
2002: 'Projekt Nihil' LP (Total Holocaust records, limited to 500 copies)-----
2003: 'Projekt Nihil' digipack cd (New Era productions, limited to 1000 copies)------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2004: 'Projekt Terrror' cd (Total Holocaust records / New Era productions)--
2006: 'Projekt Terrror - a visualization' DVD (New Era productions, DVD-r, limited to 50 copies)---------------------------------------------------------------
2006: 'Projekt Terrror - a visualization' DVD'(Autumn Winds productions, pro-pressed DVD)------------------------------------------------------------------
2006: 'Nihilistik Terrror' (re-mixes of Projekt Nihil and Projekt Terrror and a new track) cd (Autopsy Kitchen records)-------------------------------
2006: 'Projekt Terrror' LP (Basilisk Productions, limited to 500 copies)-------
2006: 'Projekt Misanthropia' promo cd (limited to 20 copies)-----------
2006: 'Projekt Misanthropia' 7" vinyl (A side: 6 minute sample of Projekt Misanthropia, B side: handmade engraving of 'STALAGGH' and number, limited to 100 copies, New Era productions)-------------------------------------
2007: 'Projekt Misanthropia' digipack cd (Autopsy Kitchen records) ---------2007: 'Projekt Terrror' digipack cd (Rigor Mortis Productions), (limited to 2000 copies, 1st 200 will come in a special metal box), --------------------2007: 'Projekt Misanthropia' Risperdal edition (released by STALAGGH), limited to 25 copies. See below for more info.-------------------------
2008: 'Pure Misanthropia' cd, contains a completely different version of 'Projekt Misanthropia'. Limited to 300 copies.-----------------------
BIOGRAPHY:
Stalaggh is a Misanthropik-Nihilistik projekt of leading individuals from both the Dutch and Belgian Black Metal and Elektro/Ambient scenes, with as aprior aim propagating the sonic ideology of human genocide. With among it's members a murder convict and a mental institution patient, Stalaggh is bound to awaken emotions of depression, hate, nihilism, misanthropy and drag you deeper down into it's pits and voids.
My collection of STALAGGH releases!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------My wantlist: Projekt Nihil promo cd---Projekt Nihil red vinyl testpressing (only 5 exist!)---Projekt Misanthropia promo cd. If someone has any of these for sale/trade, please contact me!
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Projekt Nihil test-pressings on red vinyl (only 5 copies exist). The engraving has a misspelling (it says 'existence is fukte' instead of 'existence is futile'). These are numbers 1/5 and 2/5 and they have hand-drawn covers by one of the mental patients. These are owned by STALAGGH.
Projekt Nihil demo cd-r (released in 2000, only 20 copies). The demo has a different mix than the official Projekt Nihil cd. From the collection of Stalaggh's cover artist Jeroen van Valkenburg
Projekt Misanthropia 'Risperdal edition', limited to 25 copies only. Contains empty box of Risperdal medicine (anti-psychotic / schizophrenic medicine) used by one of the mental patients who did vocals on Projekt Misanthropia. This edition also includes the limited digi-pack cd, a black envelope with black print, an OBI strip with picture of drawing by mental patient, and a sticker which is hand-numbered.
'Pure Misanthropia' cd cover, released in 2008 and limited to 300 hand-numbered copies.
Who I'd like to meet: Interview from Metal Maniacs (Halloween issue 2007)
Interview from Unrestrained magazine, Canada:
Interview from Metal Maniacs zine, USA:
(interviews from Metal Maniacs zine, USA).
STALAGGH 'PROJEKT TERRROR - A VISUALIZATION' CLIP
heh thank you, i took it to the guy doing it and in his words " thats some insane stuff right there" all the people that work at the tattoo place love the pictures
Projekt Nihil digipack cd
Projekt Terrror cd
Projekt Misanthropia cd
Drawing by one of the mental patients who performed on Projekt Terrror. These drawings came with the first 50 copies of the STALAGGH DVD (Autumn Winds prods).
Drawing of the mental patient (R.I.P.) who performed on Projekt Nihil. This drawing can be found on the inside of the digipack edition of Projekt Nihil.
We've had records from some hateful, extreme, heavy and truly black bands in the past but Stalaggh definitely out-hate and out-black them all. Named for WWII concentration camps (the extra 'g' and 'h' stand for 'global holocaust'), this Dutch blackdoom industrialnoise horde, are often compared to Abruptum, for their extreme and ultra personal approcach to music making, but they take it even a step farther. Not content with harsh hateful vocals, Stalaggh actively set out to recruit mental patients and convicted murders, by using connections working in mental hospitals and carefully planning their recording sessions to coincide with the two days a month patients are allowed to leave the hospital. Woah. The main vocalist featured on the first 30+ minute track (originally released as Projekt: Nihil) is a convicted murderer who stabbed his mother 30 times when he was 16 years old, and subsequently spent the next 11 years in prisons, juvenile detention facilities and mental hospitals. Apparently he suffered from an extreme aggresion disorder, anorexia nervosa and a host of other mental problems. During the recording sessions he indulged in very excessive self-mutilation while howling and wailing through all his hate and pain and fury. Sadly, he killed himself mere months after the recordings were made. The second half hour track (originally released as Project: Terrror) features vocals from three different mental patients, one female. Wow. That's some seriously intense and messed up shit for sure. A rare and maybe problematic instance of music that straddles that blurry line barely dividing art and exploitation, a stretching of the boundaries, an exploration of how far one can go to tap into primal emotions and create music that is emotionally pure, no matter how hard it is to listen to or understand. But the results do definitely convey that hate and despair and misery, which probably can only actually be attained by going to such great lengths. This stuff is so bizarre and so fucked up but somehow strangely beautiful as well. The sheets of noise smear and shift, occasionally attaining an almost drone like quality (albeit an extremely harsh one) . Nihilistik Terrror is a massive, mind frying, soul shattering, freaked out, slab of droning, fuzzy, buzzy, whitenoise brutality, not black metal, not even metal really, more a sort of industrial noisescape, most definitely black, and bleak and harsh, but these are not songs, they are slow shifting sonic fields of squealing shrieking distortion, grinding ear shredding ambience, crunchy and gritty and NOISY! Definitely one for the extreme noise fanatics and lovers of the harsh and brutal, but black metallers who dug later Abruptum might check this out as well. There might be riffs here, maybe even songs, but if there are, they are buried under an impossibly dense ocean of sound, layer after layer of white hot noise and sonic sludge, all swirling maniacally around the terrified, vitriolic, angry, hateful, freaked out howls and screams of real human beings with truly damaged psyches. So intense! Includes both original releases, remastered and sonically even more harsh and aggressive, with a previously unreleased bonus track. http://www.aquariusrecords.org
My collection of STALAGGH releases!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------My wantlist: Projekt Nihil promo cd---Projekt Nihil red vinyl testpressing (only 5 exist!)---Projekt Misanthropia promo cd. If someone has any of these for sale/trade, please contact me!
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Projekt Nihil test-pressings on red vinyl (only 5 copies exist). The engraving has a misspelling (it says 'existence is fukte' instead of 'existence is futile'). These are numbers 1/5 and 2/5 and they have hand-drawn covers by one of the mental patients. These are owned by STALAGGH.
Projekt Nihil demo cd-r (released in 2000, only 20 copies). The demo has a different mix than the official Projekt Nihil cd. From the collection of Stalaggh's cover artist Jeroen van Valkenburg
Projekt Misanthropia 'Risperdal edition', limited to 25 copies only. Contains empty box of Risperdal medicine (anti-psychotic / schizophrenic medicine) used by one of the mental patients who did vocals on Projekt Misanthropia. This edition also includes the limited digi-pack cd, a black envelope with black print, an OBI strip with picture of drawing by mental patient, and a sticker which is hand-numbered.
'Pure Misanthropia' cd cover, released in 2008 and limited to 300 hand-numbered copies.
Interview from Unrestrained magazine, Canada:
Interview from Metal Maniacs zine, USA:
(interviews from Metal Maniacs zine, USA).
STALAGGH 'PROJEKT TERRROR - A VISUALIZATION' CLIP
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