Another @magnesianovaa recommendation!
Really beautiful, heavenly ambience is submerged in a blanket of noise. There's the usual rumbling, distorted static, but there's also this lighter sound on top that sounds like plenty of objects falling down or popping. The "destructive" nature of the wall (which isn't really harsh or brutal) enhances the melancholy of the ambience. Really good, and only 24 minutes long; the ambience makes things accessible, and both elements add ... read more

Recommended to me by @magnesianovaa.
Bloodstalkers is more like multiple waves rather than a wall. The two tracks are assaulting and waterboarding you at every occasion; your screams are audible in this stream of noise. It's harsh, and it's brutal, but instead of having this crunchy, heavy sound, it's more so electric. Really solid HNW (if you like more dynamic stuff), and it's only 20 minutes long, so you can easily find some time to give it a spin.

An unreleased tape from the late 80s or early 90s. Imagine Yasakuni Jinja and William Bennett Is My Dick crossing streams, transferring their sonic piss onto tape—that's what Piss Shower Girlfriend is: nearly 30 minutes of brutal feedback assault mixed with Juntaro's voice and the occasional distorted low-end goodness (like the banging on Anal Destroyer). Unlike the Geros' other noise releases (like their self-titled or Nothing to Hear / Nothing to… 1985, for ... read more

As I'm too lazy to work on my (new) Moenai Hai review, I got this genius idea: what if I just do the "easier" reviews first?

The first Gerogerigegege release after Moenai Hai, and it's essentially a shitpost—its title translates to "Unburned Belly" and has "Burn Fat" written on the obi strip. The liner notes tell some story about the Gerogerigegege starting an 8-city West Coast tour on April 23rd, 2003, making history by partaking in the first-ever ... read more

The Gerogerigegege's last release (but not the last of their output, as a track appears on the 2002 compilation Back Ground Music For Midnight Driving) before Juntaro's disappearance for more than a decade. It's a return to the project's noisecore sound after a long while, but there's no fun to be found here at all beyond the track titles and lyrics. Yes, lyrics! Saturdaynight Big Cock Salaryman has a lyrics sheet included with it, and it's what you could expect ... read more

Welcome Japan's number one superstar, Hiroshi Itsuki!
Thanks to No One / Special Thanks to Hiroshi Itsuki (Our God!!)

This split with Dutch noisecore band Crowd Surfers Must Die is one of the last pre-hiatus releases by Juntaro. The thing is, there's no Gerogerigegege material on here at all, only a few Hiroshi Itsuki songs from ラスベガス・オン・ステージ, which documented his first US concert in Las Vegas. The first track is just some guy introducing Itsuki; the other ... read more

Early Dream Exit is a collection of bits and pieces from old recordings, turning the Geros noise/noisecore material into dark ambient. The tracks mostly consist of drones, with outbursts of noise sprinkled in. The first track probably has the most painful-sounding screams in the Gerogerigegege's entire discography. The only other track that doesn't have noise in it is the sixth one, where a slowed-down guitar appears. The ambiance on this release sounds like the cries of an unknown ... read more

Dedicated to Juntaro Yamanouchi

Hiroyuki Okura was coming to Juntaro Yamanouchi's parents' house to tune the piano before Yamanouchi was even born. In the 1960s, his father's company was involved in a scandal, and he had to hide all over Japan, taking company documents with him. He had no peace of mind and could hardly sleep at night due to this. After several years, Okura finally returned home. He had become an alcoholic; he always kept a small bottle of whiskey in his pocket, ... read more

"As for NONE FRIENDLY, of course, I made it because I wanted to. It took a very long time before its completion; since this track was born, it has acquired a great meaning for me. For the story, as was written in some Japanese magazine, NONE FRIENDLY is just as its title."

My original "review" for None Friendly went something like this: "Funnily enough, this is one of their friendlier releases". While that still is somewhat true, I understand why it is called ... read more

Another split, this time with German noisecore band Pyosalpinx. The Geros' only track (recorded in 1988) begins with the sounds of a crowd, some French dude, and a child speaking, after which there's some not really special lo-fi harsh noise consisting of high-pitched squeals and some noisy bass rumbles. Pyosalpinx's side is just uninteresting noisecore that's so lo-fi it mostly turns into sludge.

A split with Bastard Noise. Despite Gero's side being called Ramones, there's more noise from 1985 on it than punk from the 90s. Change Matter (a really fun track) and All Night Nippon (which is only 7 seconds long when you ignore the silence) are sandwiched in between a noisy drone and what sounds like a really distorted Juntaro screaming into a microphone. The Bastard Noise side is, well, more noise. New Toy for Children has this pulse at its core, with squeaky sounds in the left ... read more

Don't let the edited Mother Fellatio cover fool you; this is a power electronics release, and it isn't William Bennett Is My Dick 2. Pt. 1 begins with this thick, squelching bass, after which Tohru Mayuma's (Juntaro only has credits for "tuning machine") distorted whispers and high-pitched screaming kick in; there's even something resembling a chainsaw at one point. Pt. 2 features a wall of high-pitched static, and of course, Juntaro screaming. This isn't an ... read more

A few tracks taken from various late 80s Gero live shows.

The first track is an extended cover of The Stalin's Meshi Kuwasero; the only real difference is the lack of singing, as Juntaro only screams a few times. For some reason, the next two tracks are indexed as one on the CD, even though they're separate on the tracklist. A Mountaineer Sexual is a dark ambient piece featuring multiple ominous drones and audio culled from some documentary, with the occasional cheer from the crowd ... read more

A split with Origami Erotika, a.k.a. Kjell Øyvind Braaten. The Geros track, Gay Sex Can Be AIDS, is just Violence Onanie from Singles 1985-1993 with an added drum machine on top, turning this senzuri warzone masterpiece into a dance track. The Origami Erotika side has an even cooler drum machine beat played over what I think is straight porn. It's an alright release—the rip on YouTube is pretty clear, but the one I have downloaded is quite distorted, which improves it in my ... read more

Everything I've said in my review for Piano River still applies—it's all just chopped-up piano playing and a river cutting in and out—except that now the two sides are mixed together. I feel like this change improves the album even if the tracks themselves are the same, as you aren't forced to listen to an entire side of what sounds like static popping in and out. Bored of the piano? Here are a few tracks of a river! Bored of the river? Here's some piano! I doubt ... read more

Piano River is a tape recorded by Juntaro in 1991 and sent out to 10 people. He cut a recording of someone playing a piano and the sound of a river into a flexi-disc using a cutting machine for 7" EPs. The sound sources constantly cut in and out—they're completely chopped up and tend to loop. The piano is almost unrecognizable on side A, but it is interesting enough and somewhat anxiety-inducing (or soothing, depending on who you are). The river on side B just sounds like ... read more

Thanks to @ScottShelby for recommending this to me!

Origin's Hesitation is Fushitsusha's first album as a duo of Keiji Haino and Yasushi Ozawa (as drummer Ikuro Takashi left the band a year prior). While pressing play, you might expect to hear loud guitars, but instead you're presented with a barrage of drums, bass, and Keiji Haino screaming and moaning. You see, Haino decided to play the drums on this album while also employing real-time looping. The next track is very ... read more

Another release from Sergey Pakhomov under his Shishanote alias, made 5 years after the previous one. While it sounds similar to its predecessor, it's different—my mind can't conjure up the "being in a glass of sparkling water" analogy while listening to this one. The rumble on here doesn't make you feel like you're submerged as much. On the first track, the rumble is higher in pitch than the two tracks on 1; there's this crackling that sounds like a ... read more

This is just meh, even if you ignore the fact they could've just released a silent record. It sounds like Juntaro is crushing cans and rattling chains together with Kaoru Koga and Motohiko Satoh for the most part, sometimes something bigger hits. I might've rated this slightly higher if not for the second track. They're doing the same thing but they're more focused on the higher-pitches; I'd say it sounds like a train. The result is something much less interesting than ... read more

Even more noisecore! Shit recording quality as always, this time bringing you great low-end, with the piercing feedback taking a back seat—the only other really audible thing is the rapid drumming, as the vocals and feedback seem a bit muffled. In the second half, the vocalist (Shobu Saitoh) doesn't even bother with count downs and shouting; there are only drumstick count-ins.