Severances

The culmination and peak of all these years of industrial Merzbow without a moment wasted. An hour of consistently entertaining, incredibly fun, and perfectly paced early Merzbow soundscapes that show the more lighthearted, humorous side of the project even through its dark sound palette. Every arrangement here glows with the energy of two friends having a goddamn blast revisiting and remixing their whole catalog, now with 50+ albums under their belt together, in ways that outshine but also ... read more

MERZBOX DISC 34 / https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/chtc/album/233220-merzbox/
Merzbow's old material gets remixed yet again, with even better results! It's another one of these industrial sound collages (although with a more rock influence this time) and it gets CRAZY.
At one point in the second track (Merzbox reissue-wise) this synthpop instrumental appears out of nowhere and gets obliterated by a wall of noise and later on Motörhead and Jimi Hendrix covers appear on this. I ... read more