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Josh Lay/Jason Covelli split c-20.Josh Lay bleeds bleak vacant Death Industrial/Black Metal that focuses on loosing yourself in isolation and daydreams.Jason Covelli answers with a spoken word reading of a strange found family diary excerpt.Full color artwork.Edition of 50 hand numbered copies.$6 ppd in the U.S./$10 world.
josh lay: true mask
dose66 cd
it's hard to believe that this is the first josh lay release to find its way to the compact disc format. fittingly, josh considers this to be his best work to date, and i can't say i disagree. this is a four track, nearly 40 minute meditation on the masks people wear to make their way in the world. elements of black metal, harsh noise, power electronics and dark ambient combine to create a dark, twisted environment built from electronics, guitar, and some of the most gutteral vocals I've heard him spew. the accompanying art was hand-made by the artist. edition of 200 copies packaged in jewel cases with 4-panel inserts and double sided jewel cases and shrink wrap.$10 ppd in the u.s.a./$12 ppd world
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RECENT REVIEWS OF TRUE MASK...
Josh Lay "True Mask"
Small Doses
A synth heavy creep fest, a one-man black metal show and a circuit eating screamer all in one, Josh Lay brings the demented stuff right to your front door. It doesn’t rely on the volume or feedback of some power electronics joint, but is more interested in the graveyard type of atmospheres. It’s dripping in its black metal influence and fidelity, half of “Behind the Mask” sounds like the music is being played on a one-speaker boombox in another room.
-FOXY DIGITALIS
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Lay likes what he likes, and he likes the gnarly dark stuff and wants to combine it all on this disc. He pulls it off too, without wading in too deep and combining his influences in subtle ways. Although the influences are not as divergent as some folks, that doesn’t mean it’s a narrow concept record. “Human Skin” has about four solid minutes of loopy guitar riffing that isn’t evil sounding until the bleeding vocals start. The churn of electronics competes with the vocals more than the guitar, but it all sounds pretty balanced. This is ugly and awesome and worth checking out. 8/10 -- Andrew Murdock Livingston (18 November, 2009)
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It all started with Poison Drinker, Josh Lay's last full length, a noise record that managed to be both noisy and melodic, harsh and pummeling, but also weirdly listenable, and kinda pretty. We're pretty particular when it comes to noise records, so for that record to kick our asses so hard, something special was definitely going on, which was confirmed with the super limited Worm Terrain cassette. Now we've got Lay's first proper cd full length, and while definitely still noisy, it's even more removed from traditional 'noise music'. Sure there are several serious bursts of harsh grinding NOISE, but here, those parts almost sound more black metal, with distorted hellish vox, over swirling sheets of sound. But those moments are actually few and far between,. The first half of the title track is all synthy and sci-fi, droney and abstract, a looped electronic soundscape that eventually does splinter into some blackened noise, but the second track pulls the sound back from the edge, weird angular riffs buried beneath a sea of glitches and trills, that riff is the anchor of the song, chugging away relentlessly beneath a endlessly churning and ever shifting field of glitched out hiss, and some more of those sinister vokills.
But as the record progresses, it gets less and less noisy, and more and more abstract and a tiny bit prettier. Track three is a high end sprawl of looped glistening skree and throbbing rhythmic bass pulses, minimal vokillizing, a swirling sea of streaked trebly blur, and then the final track, which is perhaps still technically noisy, but that noise is blunted, muted, dulled, like some churning blackened sonic sea, a throbbing industrial dronescape, a little Wolf Eyes, but way less abject, and weirdly a little bit warmer sounding, still ominous and buzzy, but again, strangely soothing and almost serene.
-AQUARIUS RECORDS
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Josh Lay - True Mask [Small Doses - 2009]
True Mask is an engaging & atmospheric sonic psychodrama in four parts that takes in elements of brooding & gritty cinematic noise matter, panicked yet atmospheric black art guitar flays, grim & emotional pained black metal growls, and generally troubled grimy ambience & pained/ atmosphere heavy noise matter.
Each of the four tracks here nicely jitters, crawls & nervously yet deliberate slices between: murky to pained psycho-ambient scrawls & shaking hands sonic stares, onto thorax pressing airless noise hovers & grim/sinister slow synth saws. Through to more cluttered & noisy meeting of purring sonic uneasy, choking black guitar spidery splinters & grim harmonic splatters. With the pained & emotional battered blacked metal growls rising & falling through-out all but the last track here in a effective, deeply disturbing, but always atmospheric manner. Yet for all its noise hints & broods it never fully takes off into ture realized noise pummelling’s or caustic sound storms; Lay always just keeping control and form of the tracks grim & brooding red tinged harmonic trails.
With True Mask Lay builds a deeply troubling yet atmospherically sophisticated work that takes elements from noise, black metal, jagged of kilter yet emotional guitar scaping & grim ambience to build something distinctive, very personal & unsettling.
-MUSIQUE MACHINE
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Josh Lay/Teeth Collection collaboration/split 2xc30.Taken from a two day recording session in the spring of 2008.$10 ppd in the U.S.A./$14 CAN/MEX/$16 WORLD
Swamp Horse - Obsidian c20.Two more side long dirges from Kentucky's Swamp Horse.Super dark and sometimes meditative synth tones take center stage on this one.$6 ppd in the U.S.A./$8 CAN/MEX/$10 WORLD
Josh Lay - Asphyxiation Worship 7"(Black Horizons)$6ppd in the U.S.A.(available in 2 colors.black and gold or cream and copper)
Josh Lay - Heirophant pro pressed cdr(SRA)$7 ppd in the U.S.A.
Josh Lay - Worm Terrain c-20(Husk Records).Dismal and cold electronics for broken lives.Bad time music that drags the unwilling listener into the dark.Hand drawn 3 panel full color artwork by the artist himself.Hand numbered edition of 100 blue cassettes.$6 ppd in the U.S.
Josh Lay - Recycled cassette (RRR).A series of cassettes recycled over crappy mainstream tapes.Over 60 minutes long.$4 ppd in the U.S.
....NEW FROM HUSK RECORDS.... Glass Coffin/Tombstalker split c-30.Kentucky Metal is invoked and recorded to cassette.Glass Coffin lays down 3 new hymns of raw one man bedroom heathen Black Metal.Tombstalker delivers 2 new songs that highlight their unique sound that combines crushing Death Metal,Black Thrash,Crust Punk,and War Metal.$6 ppd in the U.S./$10 world. Josh Lay/Jason Covelli split c-20.Josh Lay bleeds bleak vacant Death Industrial/Black Metal that focuses on loosing yourself in isolation and daydreams.Jason Covelli answers with a spoken word reading of a strange found family diary excerpt.Full color artwork.Edition of 50 hand numbered copies.$6 ppd in the U.S./$10 world.
HM002 - Torturing Nurse - fist a sickle / destruction output c15 cassette - $6 Cathartic and brutally harsh. Analogue noise done right Limited to 50 copies with inserts
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HM001 - Zebulon Kosted - Novaya Zemlya c45 cassette - $6 A truly incapacitating black noise masterpiece; sounds from the snow capped mountains and barren caves of Montana Limited to 53 copies on various coloured tapes with inserts
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thanks for accepting my request, maybe you can give the bands i already released some stuff a listen on my profile and tell me what you think about ;)
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The first release on epileptic media is from the german band Jane Hoe. Listen to the tracks in the player to get to know what they sound like. Limited to 50 copies!
The second tape is the first EP of The Ergon Carousel; ultra fast grind from ex-members of Narcosis, Beacher and Carmen. Check them out! Limited to 100 copies!
Third tape on epileptic media is from little girl terrorist. These guys from Singapur doing extreme music in a style i have never heard before.
Limited to fifty three copies, on variously coloured cassettes, in plastique cases with J-card inserts with beautiful, rustic artwork by Rachid
You can order a copy by sending a message with your name and address. Kanada and Mexico add $2.00 to total price. If you live outside of the US, I will let you know your total (shipping only applies internationally and is figured by distance). Then, send well concealed cash (USD only) or cheque / money order (made out to Amanda Boutourline) to:
He Of The House Media PO Box 4207 Austin TX 78765-4207
These tapes are only six dollars, and the album is a true droning black arctic masterpiece. You can hear an excerpt of the first track, Novaya, on our Myspace. I don't see these lasting very long, so pick up a copy now.
Always open to trades.
Also coming soon:
Torturing Nurse - fist a sickle / destruction output c15 cassette Nemesism / Tayside Mental Health split MESSENGER - Untitled EP (including 1-16-09 live set) Jason "EVIL" Covelli - cassette / CD / literature / photography box set
and many more, including material from Sleepers, Sorry Robin, and another album from Zebulon Kosted
For more information on the Zebulon Kosted release among other pertinent bits, visit:
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