Album Type: Split 10"/DD
Date Released: 26th September 2012
Label: Dead Dead Dead Music/
Hummus Records/
Savour Your Scene Records/
Invektiv Records
Savour Your Scene Records/
Invektiv Records
Track Listing
Coilguns
1) Mandarin Hornet 07:02
2) Dewar Flasks 01:59
Never Void
3) Hungry for Needs 02:07
4) Direcktore 02:55
Coilguns
5) Parkensine (Live) 05:53
6) Mastoid (Live) 02:53
Never Void
7) Son Of Man (Live) 01:49
8) Null and Void (Live) 04:06
Bio
Coilguns
Never Void (NVRVD)
Coilguns
Louis Jucker– Vocals / Crowd Fighting
Jona Nido – Simultaneously both
guitars and bass / Cabinets megalomaniac
Luc Hess – THE fucken drummer
Writing began while Jona was in exile
in the United States in December 2010. Few weeks later, the “band” enters the
studio and through the green haze emerged 3 tracks as brutal as a kick in the
balls, Raw as an open wound, yet as tight as a Swiss watch. The result will be
a split album with noise rock duo performance Kunz release through Pelagic
Records in September 2011.
After the recording of the split,
Louis decided to quit the bass in order to focus on vocals and crowd fighting. From
then on, the band would not have a bass player anymore. To solve this issue,
Jona found the solution: having a ridiculous amount of guitar and bass amps,
cabinets and a huge custom pedal board to allow him to sound like 2 guitar
players and a bass player. Adepts of the DIY logic, impatient and also
hyperactive Coilguns has recorded its second effort “STADIA RODS” in a live
environment in one day. 30 minutes of live violence were released on March 15th
2012 through UK’s finest DIY label Dead Dead Dead Music on a 12’’ vinyl and in
a handmade CD version through the band.
In June 2012, while the band was
playing a couple of shows in Australia, they received an e-mail from long time friends
NVRVD from Germany asking if they would like to take part in a split album.
Coilguns obviously accepted and a week later they booked the YOYO studio in
Perth, Australia with Adam Round. After 4 live takes of each song, a new EP was
born. This last piece of spontaneous violence will come out on a 10’’ vinyl and
in fancy A5 cd version.
This release will also be the first
one featuring HUMMUS RECORDS, a new label
created by guitarist Jona Nido.
Lukas Heier - Drum-annihilation and
Club-Mate-delegate!
Christian Braunschmidt - Guitars, feedback
and noise generator, vocals
Stefan Braunschmidt -
Bass, low-frequency feedbacks, sound, vocals
Formed in the foggy and cold winter
months of early 2004, NVRVD started writing their first songs in a basement
somewhere in Minden/Germany. After a few local shows and the appearance on the
Procol Harum fan sampler, the band recorded their first album WATCH ME BURN
which got some decent reviews. Even in these early days the band polarised in
terms of genre thinking and musical expectations to certain trends of music.
.
In early 2012 the band had another
line up change and Lukas returned to the ranks as a full time member again.
After a few weeks NVRVD decided to move to a place called Oberohe where a
friend of the band owns an old house in the middle of the woods to write some
new tunes there. The result were 4 songs which should appear on the upcoming 5
track EP the band wants to release in 2013.
Right after these sessions Christian
dropped a line to Jona from Coilguns/The Ocean asking if they would be interested
in doing a split release. Coilguns beeing the workaholics they are said yes
right away. NVRVD didn’t want to use this project and invested another
rehearsel in writing two new tracks which became HUNGRY FOR NEEDS and
DIREKTORE. Both tracks were recorded and mixed at the bands own DSMNA studio
while the mastering duties were handled by Role at Die Tonmeisterei in Oldenburg/Germany.
Review
For anyone who didn't experience the enormity and sheer brutality of their previous release Stadia Rods, you missed out on one of the records of the year, with their Dillinger Escape Plan meets Botch noise, Coilguns produced a record that was characterised by the coexistence of disparate or antagonistic elements. What made the record all the more stunning was the fact that it was essentially recorded live in one day. Stadia Rods was 30 minutes of discordant, inharmonious and jarring incongruity, a record unable to exist or work in congenial combination but all the better for it.
So what we have here is a split with 2 studio cuts and 2 live tracks each from Coilguns and Never Void. Again Coilguns employ a live feel to their recordings with the guitar and drums being recorded live, with no overdubs and with the vocals recorded 6 days later. I am not sure what it is about this format Coilguns prefer, perhaps the simplicity of learning the track and then pushing the record button. One thing is for certain though is that despite it's live feel, you wouldn't know it, the music is super tight and from the outset Mandarin Hornet has great depth to it, with the opening salvo of chord progressions interspersed with arpeggios and the seismic blasts of the drums with fills galore smashing the shit out of the intro for over 2 minutes. This gives way to a caustic battering once the vocals kick in and then band come at you full force, with their hardcore battering ram, vocals are harsh, guitars slice and cut in an attempt to unlawfully threaten or inflict irreparable aural impairment. At the 4 min mark things get chaotic with blast beats, fiercely off kilter staccato riffing, until we're back to the opening salvo of chords, just with added crunch and assaultative aggression. The last 1/4 of the track you get more than you could hope to bargain for with a final frenetic bombardment of brutal noise, it is scathingly injurious. 7 minutes of chaos. Man, it is stunning.
Next up is Dewar Flasks, Coilguns continue with their ambiguous noise, with a sharp burst of desecrating noise, indeed what I mean about the ambiguity of this particular brand of chaos, is that at first it appears to lack definite structure and yet this perhaps becasue we are used to things being simple and straight forward. There is nothing straight forward about this profane and merciless barrage, using their primitive weapons to devastate and annihilate. Dewar Flasks is an exercise in Coilguns apparent lack of pity or compassion, because they appear to be intent upon inflicting their own blend of unsavoury vitriolic destruction, in turn lacerating your senses. It is their sulfurous denunciation and we love it.
Review
For anyone who didn't experience the enormity and sheer brutality of their previous release Stadia Rods, you missed out on one of the records of the year, with their Dillinger Escape Plan meets Botch noise, Coilguns produced a record that was characterised by the coexistence of disparate or antagonistic elements. What made the record all the more stunning was the fact that it was essentially recorded live in one day. Stadia Rods was 30 minutes of discordant, inharmonious and jarring incongruity, a record unable to exist or work in congenial combination but all the better for it.
So what we have here is a split with 2 studio cuts and 2 live tracks each from Coilguns and Never Void. Again Coilguns employ a live feel to their recordings with the guitar and drums being recorded live, with no overdubs and with the vocals recorded 6 days later. I am not sure what it is about this format Coilguns prefer, perhaps the simplicity of learning the track and then pushing the record button. One thing is for certain though is that despite it's live feel, you wouldn't know it, the music is super tight and from the outset Mandarin Hornet has great depth to it, with the opening salvo of chord progressions interspersed with arpeggios and the seismic blasts of the drums with fills galore smashing the shit out of the intro for over 2 minutes. This gives way to a caustic battering once the vocals kick in and then band come at you full force, with their hardcore battering ram, vocals are harsh, guitars slice and cut in an attempt to unlawfully threaten or inflict irreparable aural impairment. At the 4 min mark things get chaotic with blast beats, fiercely off kilter staccato riffing, until we're back to the opening salvo of chords, just with added crunch and assaultative aggression. The last 1/4 of the track you get more than you could hope to bargain for with a final frenetic bombardment of brutal noise, it is scathingly injurious. 7 minutes of chaos. Man, it is stunning.
Next up is Dewar Flasks, Coilguns continue with their ambiguous noise, with a sharp burst of desecrating noise, indeed what I mean about the ambiguity of this particular brand of chaos, is that at first it appears to lack definite structure and yet this perhaps becasue we are used to things being simple and straight forward. There is nothing straight forward about this profane and merciless barrage, using their primitive weapons to devastate and annihilate. Dewar Flasks is an exercise in Coilguns apparent lack of pity or compassion, because they appear to be intent upon inflicting their own blend of unsavoury vitriolic destruction, in turn lacerating your senses. It is their sulfurous denunciation and we love it.
So, what do Never Void bring to the table? Having never heard their music, I was intrigued to hear if they could immediately turn me on to their music, particularly given that their info sheet suggest they're a band for fans of Trap Them, Converge and Gaza to name but a few; three bands who come with pretty hefty reputations. Never Void kick things off with Hungry For Needs, with guttural growls from the vocals, invoking a death metal vibe and yet whilst Coilguns evoke more mathcore nuances in their music, Never Void are more akin to hardcore. It is extremely pacy track, coupled with ambient noise at times and the use interchanging vocals offers the just right amount of hate and intensity. Never Void breathe just the right amount of malevolence and misanthropy. Direktore is another fantastically malignant track, which feels scornful, indeed the modus operadi of this band appears to be having a destructive clinical course.
Following the two studio studio tracks from both bands, we're treated to 2 live tracks from both bands. These tracks are a further indication of how truly destructive both of these bands are, indeed to me the live tracks are more representative of the uniqueness of these bands, given that the foundation of great band is how they present themselves in the live arena. Coilguns, here with Mastoid and Parkensine, just smash it and to be fair to Never Void completely own and is further example of how truly fearsome a proposition these bands are.
Written by: Aaron Pickford
You can check the link below for info on the bands. Big thanks to Jona from Coilguns for hooking me up with the record to review. You can purchase the vinyl, DD and CD here
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