GRIZ+ZLOR - HEAVY MASONRY

(ORIGINAL LABEL DESCRIPTION FROM EARTH.SPACE NOISE)

GRIZ+ZLOR - HEAVY MASONRY 3" CDR

ONE 21 MINUTE TRACK OF NON-EVOLVING TEXTURE.

VERY BLEAK, HOUSED IN A SPRAYPAINTED FLAT BLACK SLIMLINE 3" CASE,

WITH A GLOSS BLACK SQUARE STENCIL PAINTED ON.

16 COPIES ONLY.

KINDA SELF EXPLANATORY, AS I WROTE IT. A NICE MONUMENT, MAY SEE A WIDER RELEASE AT SOME POINT.

REVIEW FROM MUSISQUE MACHINE

'Heavy Masonry ia all about creating a very thick & constant black jittering wall of evil sounding & murky static tone. Inside the black spray paint of black plastic case Griz=zlor offers up just over twenty minutes of grim, nihilistic yet rewarding 'wall' making.

The tracks 'wall' is built around a mid-pace rolling & crunching static boil which has some nice speaker rippling & crackling semi tones come off of it. At times it feels like jitters & crackles could suddenly join-up together & speed-up into all out overload, but they never do. It just keeps a steady, mid-pace & entrenched path through-out which over time becomes very hypnotic & additive as the 'wall's  almost stuck groove really digs into your head. The whole track fells like your sliding slowly down a vast black slop of shadowy form& everywhere you look up, down, and from left to right is this juddering static fog that has more pitch blackness in it than white light; and it just seems to be getting thick & more engulfing the longer the track goes on.

Another excellent example of pitch black, thick and unmovable slice of 'wall' making from this Pennsylvanian based one-man project that has been active since 2006.

V/A - BRICK BY BRICK 3" CDR BOXSET

FROM SMALL DOSES

IT WAS AN HONOR TO ONCE AGAIN BE A PART OF A MASSIVE COMPILATION, WITH SUCH ACCLAIMED ARTISTS.


ORIGINAL LABEL DESCRIPTION:


harsh noise walls. seven acts. seven different approaches. seven different results. one disc by each: a view from nihil, ryan bloomer, four flies, griz+zlor, infirmary, vomir, white plague. seven 3" cdrs packaged in a hard plastic binder box with a 12 page booklet, vomir's manifesto, and a 1" button.


REVIEW FROM MUSIQMACHINE (EDITED FOR RELEVANCY HERE):

'Brick By Brick' is an impressively presented, distinctive looking & sonically quality bound collection of Harsh Noise Wall material. The set offers up seven HNW artists who get a 3inch disc or twenty minutes worthy of space each. The seven discs come in a very neat & classy small plastic box which has black ink on black paper outside cover & inside the box you find a twelve page booklet detailing each track, a near A4 manifesto by Vomit & a 1” badge/ button. Each of the seven discs has it’s own plastic see-through sleeve which is attached to the box by two little plastic ring binders- as I said a very classy, distinctive & thought out package. ... On disc four we have a twenty minute untitled track by Griz+zlor & it’s a nice example of this projects often storm bound, thick & murky take on HNW. The track really feelings like your trying to make your way through a high wind tearing, snow heavy storm- it’s very thick, near unchanging yet rather for filling in it’s constant & brutally hypnotic attack. ... All told a very nicely presented & thought-out celebration of the steadily growing HNW scene, which works as a wonderful primer for those who have still to taste this extreme but often exhilarating & hypnotic form of Noise, but i'ts also a must have item for anyone who’s already an admitted wall addict. To buy direct drop into here

CXXIV - UNTITLED

FROM JESHIMOTH ENTERTAINMENT

TO SAY THE LEAST IT WAS RECORDED DURING A HECTIC TIME IN MY LIFE. THE LOGO ASSEMBLAGE WAS AN ATTEMPT AT A PORTRAIT ARRANGEMENT. I LIKED IT BECAUSE IT REMINDS ME OF A SPINE WITH SHOULDER BLADES AT THE TOP (NO RIBCAGE). BUT I THINK THAT'S THE ONLY TIME YOU'RE GONNA SEE THAT...


ORIGINAL LABEL DESCRIPTION:


A massive 20+ minute black monolithic wall of deliriously crumbling harsh noise. Anonymous and bleak frequency shifts and mind-erasing static battery. LTD TO 50 COPIES

HERE IS A REVIEW FROM MUSIQMACHINE:

CXXIV: Untitled offers up a frying, crumbling & thick 20 minute track of Harsh Wall Noise by Griz+zlor- the HWN project of  Philadelphia based Paul Dever (Failure Of A Great Machine & earth space noise).

CXXIV: Untitled kicks straight in with a very thick wall of sound that is a mixture of frying, hammering rain type noise textures, & just at the back of these textures is this low down drone texture which becomes very hypnotic as the piece goes on really sucking you nicely into whirling maelstrom of HNW. I really like the way Dever keeps the track constant & thick through-out, yet he nicely mangers to shift the tonally qualities between: heavy static down pours, frying in sound fat fast simmers, jack-up ‘n’ rolling hammerings & fast crumbling tones. There's also some really neat sort of stretched spray paint like hissing static textures of noise coming in towards the end of the track

Another great slice of HNW that’s primed for full submersion & blocking out the world around you. With Dever cutting the track to the optimum HNW length of 20 minutes- meaning you have enough time for it to infect & engulf your head yet not enough time to become boring or stayed.

Audial Decimation Compilation Vol.1

ADR003 a compilation from Audial Decimation Records
my track is another in my statue series using a statue as a source. This time though i was using four different lines producing a very pronounced texture. Very much along the lines of Domina Oriens.

Original Label Description:

A compilation of Power Electronics, Wall Noise, Harsh Noise, Death Industrial and pure Sonic Terror. 500 pro pressed shrink wrapped cds with 16 page full color booklet with full page for each project. ALL EXCLUSIVE TO THIS RELEASE

track listing is (in order):

GRUNT - Wings of Revolution
88MM - Funeral March of the Cosmological Principle
GRIZ+ZLOR - Statue003
BRETHREN - Zionist Axiom
EMIL BEAULIEAU - The Wild Goose Goes
MANIA - Wake Up and Kill
PRURIENT - The Shortness of Life
THE GREY WOLVES featuring WEREWOLF ENSEMBLE - Awake!
FFH - Disposable women
GREEN ARMY FRACTION - Wielder
FLESHOBEDIENCE - Defectives
PAIN NAIL - Watchtower
NEFARIOUS COMPLEX - Hymn of a Psycho
DEATHKEY - Monolith

A Review from an unknown source (i'll separate what's relevant if possible):

Griz+zlor: Brutal walls of chunky, grinding noise attack you from your speakers at the onset of this track. High pitched pings float over the chaos. The noise moves and shifts as lower throbs make their way to the surface. The amount of variation and time length makes Statue003 a standout track among the sea of strictly noise artists who dominate the scene.

A Review from Plaguecast:
http://plaguehaus.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=191&Itemid=27

Griz+zlor - Statue003: Wall Noise can get kind of boring if the artist has no purpose or sense of direction. The Griz is definitely one of my favorites because he suffers from neither of these maladies. Using a statue as the source sound, it carves it’s way around the brain folds and inserts enough variety to keep you guessing.

A review from Antimodene Tonträger:
http://amt.blogsport.de/2008/09/22/review-va-audial-decimation-vol-1/
“Statue003″ by Griz+Zlor is a nice contrast to the predecessing tracks. Overdriven, saturated and static waves of distortion with minor or almost no movement. Very harsh.



Cover:


Back Cover:

CURSED AETHER - IT IS COLD AND BARREN HERE...

THIS IS THE FIRST "OFFICIAL" EARTH.SPACE NOISE RELEASE AFTER DROPPING RESEARCH LABORATORIES. ESN 031. THIS IS ALSO THE FIRST IN A LONG LINE OF UNIQUE ONE OF A KIND RECORDINGS. NEEDING TO CLEAR SOME SPACE AND GET RID OF SOME OF MY TO BE RECYCLED PACKAGING. HERE WE HAVE TWO SIDES OF NON-MOVING SIMPLE STACTIC HNW. RECORDED ONTO A C90. VERY TEXTURAL WORK, ONLY AVAILABLE ON THIS 1 OF 1 CASSETTE. E-MAIL GRIZZLORSMASH [AT] GMAIL [DOT] COM FOR AVAILABILITY.

V/A - END OF DAYS

THIRTEEN FINGERS/GRIZ+ZLOR/MIKE PAYNE/BACULUM - END OF DAYS
FOUR WAY CDR SPLIT.
PHAGE TAPES PT:39
LIMITED TO 50 COPIES.

MY TRACK IS A SLOW MOVER, BUT HAS A BIT MORE MOVEMENT THAN NORMAL. STARTS OUT PRETTY MIDRANGE, BUT LOW-END MUD CRUSTS OVER NICELY.

CURSED AETHER - I

THIS RELEASE WAS ORIGINALLY SLATED TO BE SANDWICHED BETWEEN TWO SHEETS OF SCREEN PRINTED, CORRODED COPPER. AFTER OVER TWO YEARS IN THE ELEMENTS, I CHECKED ON THE COPPER SHEETS ON MY ROOF ONLY TO DISCOVER THEY WERE NO LONGER THERE. I HAD ORIGINALLY DEMOED A FEW OF THESE IN A PLAIN WHITE SLEEVE WITH A COLOR INSIDE. I CAME ACROSS A FEW OF THE SLEEVES READY FOR DISCS. SO, AFTER THE FRUSTRATION OF LOSING THE COPPER SHEETS, AND THE FACT THAT THIS MATERIAL IS OVER TWO YEARS OLD AND SOUNDING DATED. I DECIDE TO RELEASE THIS AS-IS. A MAXIMUM TOTAL OF 20 IS MY GUESS OF WHAT IS OUT THERE. ALSO THE SLEEVES WERE ERRONEOUSLY MARKED ESNRL #023 (BUT IS NOW GIVEN: ESNRL 029)

REVIEW FROM MUSIQUE MACHINE:

'I' is the first release from Cursed Aether; this is a sub project of Griz+zlor's Paul Dever and each release is dedicated to moon worshiping HNW, with all recordings happening during full moons.


First off it's worth mentioning the package for this CDR; the disc comes in a black ink on white paper slight over sized folder which opens up & inside you find a dramatic colour painting of mist shrouded mountain scape; which adds a bit of class to the release. Sonically  Dever offers up a twenty two minute track of fast moving & rather hypnotic wall making, the sound I guess is a little cleaner & less dense than Griz+zlor work. The track stays in fairly tight looped electro static form for most of it's run time with Dever occaisionaly adding in sudden longer curls of static tone release, but really this is all about trapid, focused, rewarding and looped 'wall making'


Another very worthwhile & nicely made 'wall' of noise from Mr. Dever with the added extra of some neat & dramatic package. Drop into Cursed Aether Griz+zlor blog here for info & how you can pick up a copy for yourself.

CURSED TAPE

FROM ARCHAIC EARTH TAPES. THIS IS AET003.
THIS TAPE WAS INSPIRED BY THE "RINGU" (THE RING) SERIES OF MOVIES.
I MADE ONE MASTER TAPE, AND I MADE ONE (!) COPY OF IT AND MADE IT AVAILABLE FOR SALE. THE PERSON WHO GETS THE TAPE IS THEREBY OBLIGATED TO COPY THE TAPE, ARTWORK AND ALL, AND SELL/TRADE IT TO SOMEONE ELSE. ALONG THE WAY THE PERSON ADDS THE NEXT SEQUENTIAL NUMBER ONTO THE BACK OF THE INSERT. IT IS MEANT TO BE ALSO PART EXPERIMENT, TO SEE THE COPIES CHANGE TONE/PITCH BETWEEN MULTIPLE COPIES BETWEEN PEOPLE. TO SEE THE ARTWORK DEGRADE...

MAYBE IT WILL MAKE IT'S WAY BACK TO ME EVENTUALLY.
(IF ANYONE HAS PICTURES OF THEIR COPY, E-MAIL ME AT GRIZZLORSMASH AT GMAIL DOT COM AND I'LL ADD THEM TO THIS THREAD. THANKS)

B-Version:

MUFF OBSESSION

AN UNCREDITED TAPE OBSESSING ABOUT THE SOVTEK BIG MUFF PI. VARIOUS ERA'S OF THE PEDAL WERE USED IN CREATING THE SOUNDS. CAME OUT IN AN EDITION OF 30, AND WAS ONLY ANNOUNCED ON THE HNW FORUM.
IF I WERE A BETTING MAN I WOULD SAY WE WILL SEE MORE IN THIS "OBSESSION" SERIES. AGAIN, I ALSO WOULDN'T HOLD MY BREATH FOR A REVIEW. THIS IS THE FIRST RELEASE FROM THE DESICCATED HUSK LABEL.

Statue 005 Bronze Edition

Personal Edition B-card cdr of the previously unavailable Statue 005.
In an Edition of 2 copies...

i doubt there will ever be a reviewor anything else. Just made as gifts for people,
using packaging i had laying around.