BirthControl10 - Cremation Science 'Pure Bone Ash' cassette

Sweden’s Pierre B Jonsson has been performing experiments in industrial noise since the late 90s, but it was not until the late 2010s that this sequestered anchorite decided to begin sharing his demonic findings with the world. In addition to releasing under his own name, he has employed a range of pseudonyms, among them VÄRLDSBRAND (see BirthControl06, 2019’s split CDr with ABUSE POTENTIAL), DÖDENS VÄDERSTRECK (see BirthControl03, the ‘I De Världsuppslukande Vågorna Av Eld’ C90, also released in 2019), GALGBACKEN, ICKE-GLÄDJE, INSTRUMENT OF TORTURE, MPK877, NIGHTMARE KULTURE, NIHILISTIC ENTOMBMENT OF A DISMEMBERED CORPSE, THE PROVOCATEUR, and UNATTESTED. In just a few years he has built up an impressive discography of releases on a variety of small labels as well as through his own Hidden Words Productions imprint.

Today we’re pleased to announce this prolific artist’s third outing with Birth Control Productions, this time in his CREMATION SCIENCE manifestation, a project that debuted in 2020 with the ‘Bleeding Earth Dry’ tape on Solium Records. 

The ‘Pure Bone Ash’ C40 (BirthControl10) contains 4 potent 10-minute emanations of dry and morbid industrial harsh noise, evoking a journey through a world without hope, beginning in rage and ending in numbness. There are some elements here of the ritualistic sound associated with the VÄRLDSBRAND moniker, but these cuts are entirely more necrotic, their carefully-controlled violence interred within a bleak, crypt-like atmosphere. Fans of PROIEKT HAT, ATRAX MORGUE or MOLOCH’s ‘Humane Too Sheeps’ album will very much enjoy this material.

‘Pure Bone Ash’ is for sale now in a hand-numbered edition of 50 professionally duplicated cassettes with double-sided glossy j cards. Copies are €5 / $6 each. 

Orders can be placed through Discogs, Storenvy, or by direct email to birthcontrolproductions@gmail.com. Ships from Ireland.

No digital download of the album will be made available, but one track can be heard on the BCP Soundcloud page:

Birth Control Productions · Cremation Science - Pure Bone Ash III

BirthControl09 - 8HourAnimal 'Armsanxhor' cassette

8HourAnimal, NYC's enigmatic purveyor of psychedelic industrial noise, released his debut album ‘Pejorative’ as a cassette on Birth Control Productions in late 2019. Now our small guerrilla operation is proud to announce the release of the artist’s sophomore recording, ‘Armsanxhor’.

This 70-minute work consists of two long tracks recorded in early 2020. Less anguished and claustrophobic than ‘Pejorative’, but just as full of brown acid, these expansive sessions invite comparisons to the 1970s industrial midwifery of Throbbing Gristle or SPK. We also detect traces of the esoteric guitar-noise styles advanced by such “cult” projects as Uncommunity, Skullflower, Gog, Pacific 231 and Maeror Tri. Astute listeners may detect scrambled notes of krautrock and shoegaze in the sounds also.

Insistent machine rhythms, shrieking feedback, alienating electronic drones, and freakishly beautiful clashes between textures dominate this layered and immersive excursion into roughness. A mordant sense of compositional humour belies the intensity and knack that clearly went into the creation of this passionate industrial document, a release that stands proudly with one foot in the past of ‘noise’ and one in its future... if it has one.

8HourAnimal’s ‘Armsanxhor’ is strictly limited to 50 copies on pro-duped black C90 tapes, with one track per side. Includes hand-numbered, pro-printed J cards. 

Tapes are €5 or $6US each. Orders can be placed through Discogs, Storenvy or by direct email to: birthcontrolproductions@gmail.com

A brief excerpt of side A can be heard at the Birth Control Productions Soundcloud page:

Birth Control Productions · 8HourAnimal - 'Dealer' [Excerpt]

Out now on Cult of Osiris: ABUSE POTENTIAL - The Mass Psychology of Misery

 EDIT 24/3/2021: the tape version is now available at the Cult of Osiris Bandcamp page

The new full-length album from ABUSE POTENTIAL has arrived on the UK’s Cult of Osiris. It is the label’s first release without guitars…

‘The Mass Psychology of Misery’ is a raw death industrial/power electronics audiodocumentary exploring anarchoprimitivism, psychosis and the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre from a morally indifferent point of view. 40 minutes of décadent schizo-noise straight from the limbic system of an exhausted animal in a cage.

Available as a pay-what-you-want digital download and in a specially-mastered limited edition of 30 C90 tapes with the full album dubbed to both sides. 

EDIT 9/4/2021: Availability of the cassette version through Cult of Osiris has been temporarily suspended. The digital version has been moved to the Abuse Potential Bandcamp page for the time being:

SURROGATE ACTIVITY - Old Growth (IS#405) [Digital and CDr]

The new album from Abuse Potential side-project Surrogate Activity is now available from Imploding Sounds in digital and pro-CDr formats.

Three tracks of layered harsh noise with a strong HNW influence. An exploration of old growth forest sites in the Republic of Ireland.

Art and design by Z. and Birth Control Productions.

BirthControl8x9 - Abuse Potential 'Spectacles, Testicles, Wallet and Watch'

The new digital-only release/demo/whatever from Abuse Potential is now available PWYW on Bandcamp. Pathological power electronics/death industrial from a ruined, dead, cursed soul well on his way to becoming meat for his Maker. I think this one sounds pretty good.

In other news:

1. BirthControl09 should see the light of day within the next month, hopefully. It will be a C90 from an artist you already know.

2. A new cassette from Abuse Potential comes out next month on Cult of Osiris.

3. A new CDr from Surrogate Activity comes out later this month on Imploding Sounds.

BirthControl08 - Universe 25 [Untitled] Cassette

 

After a hiatus of nearly a year, Birth Control Productions return with our newest release. BirthControl08 is Universe 25’s [Untitled] cassette. 

Two long rehearsal pieces from the reclusive Los Angeles solo project of Patrick C Albertolle, each originally recorded to tape in single takes during May of 2019. Albertolle employs an extensive selection of sonic interrogation devices from his obsessively-compiled personal gear collection to summon up superbly layered, mechanical-sounding sonic visions of decrepitude and anhedonia. 

Abstract and schizoid, this tape resounds with the personal despair and atomisation of urban modernity. The artist draws on power electronics, death industrial, rhythmic noise and minimal techno to manifest a strong debut that is both ear-splittingly harsh and precisely meted-out. Crushed and shambling static, squealing feedback, pounding drum machines, murmured and highly distorted vocal interjections, and pulsing bass tones come together to create an industrial noise recording that is both deeply indebted to classic recordings and absolutely grounded in the contemporary scene. This one is not to be missed.

Strictly limited to 50 copies on pro-duped cassette with hand-numbered j-cards. $6US or €5. Ships from our new base of operations in the Republic of Ireland.

Order by direct contact at birthcontrolproductions@gmail.com or at our Discogs or Storenvy shops.

Birth Control Productions · Universe 25 - Rehearsal 5/20/2019 [Excerpt]

New Abuse Potential E.P. - 'WORST ONE YET' [BirthControl7X5]

 

Announcing the latest semi-official Abuse Potential release, part of the Birth Control Productions catalogue but unavailable in any physical format.

Occasionally this death industrial/shitnoise project will deign to release archival material for free through its bandcamp page. This latest nugget of failure is derived from choice sessions recorded between 2012 and 2018— creations not fully-enough-realised to send to a label, but still interesting enough to share with the so-called world, if only for reasons purgative. Open wide!

Hear this as a “taster” (oh yes) for more complete works coming before the end of the year. ‘Worst One Yet’ includes the very crème of my “private sessions,” remixed and remastered so as to be palatable to a wider audience. Feeling out and attempting to define the sound of a masturbatory endeavour heavily indebted to Mania (R.I.Fucking.P.), BDN, and Megaptera, among others.

The longest track here was originally released, in a much simpler form, on a DIY series of 3-4 bespoke cassettes given to a couple friends and admirers.

One day I’ll grow up, and then you’ll be sorry.