Damno Te - i bury the living
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(Well known noiseman from the owner of Titus Records. Seven tracks of screeching and blasphemous noise with a lot of delay. Broken rhythms and acute sounds. Ideal if you want to explode your ears ! This record is dedicated to his 2nd favorite b&w movie. "Noise is here to hear, record it")
Review on Heathen Harvest : "Damno Te plays an interesting style. At first, I believed I was going to be listening to a power electronics / noise band judging by the first track. After the first song The Drexels ends, I Bury the Living takes a fairly distinct turn. While the album remains noisy throughout, the real core if it is the distorted drum beats beneath the harshness. Sometime ago, I had borrowed a couple burnt CD’s of various speedcore acts from a friend of mine. While I was first listening to Damno Te, I couldn’t quite place what it was about it that sounded somewhat familiar. It wasn’t until about the third song that I made the comparison to some of the noisier acts on those CD’s. To say that the music on I Bury the Living is gritty speedcore might be a bit of an over simplification, but is a good reference to describe their sound. Drums of varying speeds have had the distortion cranked up, resulting in crackling heavy beats; sometimes to the point that it is had to recognize the sounds as representative of drums. As always, there is a swirl of noise floating around the drum tracks and most songs drift from one to the other often mixing the two styles together. Fans of harsh electronics should definitely give this a listen to. If you normally like power electronics / noise and are maybe looking for something a little different, give Damno Te a listen. I Bury the Living is a good album and a nice change from a lot of bands that sound exactly the same.
Review on Outer Space Gamelan: Damno Te dabbles in both noise and labels, as he also runs the Titus record label. According to the Amorf blurb, "I Bury the Living" is dedicated to his second favorite black and white film (I'll let you guess what the title of the movie is). Judging from the noise Damno brings here, How Green Was My Valley is not the number one pick. Damno's M.O. is almost full-on harsh noise overdrive, scintillating analogue spike tones hurtling through the stratosphere exploding on contact with one another. What's curious about his approach is that Damno has this rhythmic side, where every now and then his noise whirlwinds break up into decidedly-abrasive beats and loops like a Throbbing Gristle or early Merzbow something-or-other. These moments are too few and far between (see tracks "Honegger" and "Trowbridge") though because for the most part Damno's sound is as black and white as "I Bury the Living"'s cover art and the movie which inspired it.