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CraveOnline reviews Greymachine’s Disconnected

Posted on Monday, August 17th, 2009

On the exact opposite end of the scale are the Greymachine and their new album Disconnected which is a brutal and ugly album. How ugly? Imagine a low flying plane cruising over the remnants of a burned out city filled with desperate people killing each other for basic survival. Take that image and ugly it up and you might touch upon the sonic castration that is Greymachine.

Greymachine - Disconnected

Greymachine - Disconnected

This is not music for the lighthearted this is the stuff nightmares are made out of. Droning soundscapes layered into weighted guitar riffs, feedback and general noise. This is the dark underbelly of the avante garde.

It’s no surprise that Greymachine operate this way since it features Justin Broderick and Diarmuid Dalton of Godflesh and Jesu fame as well as Aaron Turner of Isis and Old Man Gloom and Dave Cochran of Head Of David, God and Ice. Each of these musicians has mastered the art of turning extreme music on its ear and when they combine forces the results are like a bad car wreck. You want to turn away but you just can’t.

Continue reading: Double Play: Baroness and Greymachine – CraveOnline.com – Page 2.

Greymachine’s Disconnected is available for streaming on the band’s website.

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For your online listening pleasure: Greymachine, Jesu & The Devil’s Blood

Posted on Friday, August 7th, 2009

There’s some nice, new music online: stream the whole GreyMachine (Jesu’s Justin Broadrick, Isis’ Aaron Turner, Head of David’s Dave Cochrane and Godflesh / Jesu’s Diarmud Dalton) debut album here. A track of the album, Vultures Descend, has been available as mp3 for some time now. A new Jesu song, ...read more

Supersonic Festival 2009

Posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Sunday night’s performance of the reunited Goblin brought Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival to a close, a fitting conclusion to a great weekend for me and Jurgen. One of the special things about Supersonic that we noticed was how much time the musicians from the various bands on the bill spent hanging ...read more

Supersonic Festival: Birmingham, July 24th – 26th

Posted on Thursday, July 16th, 2009

We are currently gearing up for our sonic pilgrimage to Birmingham’s annual Supersonic Festival. Louise of Terrorizer.com recently conducted an interview with promoter Lisa to find out more about their aural annual adventure. An excerpt from the chat follows below. What is Supersonic Festival all about? We aim to put ...read more

Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, 24th – 26th of July

Posted on Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

We’re going to attend Birmingham’s very own Supersonic Festival in July: “As British music festivals go, Birmingham’s annual Supersonic event is the best kind of mixed musical bag, a dizzying assortment of avant rock textures and Heavy Metal thunder on a bill which swings from the sublime to the ridiculous ...read more