Review - Axesscode (french)

http://chroniques.axesscode.com/chroniques/article/neon-rain-of-the-dead

"... véritable tour de force, sans jamais perdre la cohérence du sujet... chacun des trois disques de ...Of The Dead dispose de sa propre ambiance, sa propre couleur, rendant le tout encore plus vertigineux."

Review - Noise Magazine (French)

Out Ov The Coffin - podcast

NR features into the last podcast of Out ov the Coffin

http://outovthecoffin.blogspot.fr/2012/08/podcast-august-10th-2012.html

Review on the Crucial Blast e-shop

The world of modern horror cinema and the extremes of the industrial underground have continuously crossed paths over the years, resulting in some amazing work like Coil's lost soundtrack for Hellraiser. On the ambitious new triple-disc set ...Of The Dead, the French industrial outfit Neon Rain takes inspiration from an even more iconic piece of extreme horror filmmaking, paying homage to George Romero's classic Living Dead trilogy as it threads traces of dialogue and incidental music from each film through a sprawling post-industrial soundscape. Neon Rain's driving force is Serge Usson, a former and current member of several French underground black metal bands (Acarus Sarcopt, Eostenem, Sael), but with this project Usson explores a more inorganic nightmare realm where fragments of hallucinatory speech and haunting film scores drift like threads of black rot through cold mechanical dronescapes and grinding industro-terror.
The first disc A Night begins with a weirdly nostalgic piano piece laced with the sounds of pipe organ and buried dialogue samples from the opening graveyard scene in Romero's original Night Of The Living Dead; this soft instrumental music is gradually overtaken by waves of rough static and low-end distortion, until it eventually transforms into a wall of distorted rumble and crackle, sort of resembling Werewolf Jerusalem for a couple of minutes until a crunchy pulsating synth-line drops in amid clanking anvil percussion and metallic roar, building into this pounding electro-dirge that has a sinister Goblin-like vibe. Much of this album centers around a heavily layered form of rhythmic industrial music that combines equal amounts of clanking, whirring mechanical rhythms with electronic synthesizer arrangements that remind me a lot of older horror movie soundtracks; it also reminds me of some of those old, obscure UK hypno-industro groups that released stuff on HeadDirt in the early 90s. The rest of the disc goes from fluttering synth noises and high keening test tones that take on the appearance of warning sirens, to blasts of black cosmic horror-electronics and vast, sprawling expanses of seething death industrial, to the minimal and menacing "The Cellar Is The Safest Place " that echoes John Carpenter's early 80s film score works. Then there's "A Shot In The Head, A Heavy Blow To The Skull", where some extremely heavy distorted guitar sounds come in, huge grinding squalls of metallic blown-out melodic crush, almost like waves of Nadja-style blissed-out ultra-sludge crashing over the hallucinatory samples and mechanical rattling.
Disc number two picks up with Dawn Of The Dead as its muse, and interlaces samples of dialogue and music from that movie into the grim industrial ambience that spreads across the whole disc. This is described as the "ambient" disc in the set, and that's pretty accurate; the music on A Dawn drifts through dreamy drug-fogs of electronics effects and air raid sirens and malfunctioning mainframes, often taking big chunks of Goblin's score and re-working it into a vastly more fucked-sounding form. By the third track I was already dizzy, disoriented by the swirling Italo keys and analogue bloops and random noise. This also has some of the set's heaviest sounds, like the buzzing distorted guitar-drones that ooze like black streams of Sunn O)))-baked tar on "They Know We'Re Here" and suddenly transforms this into a crushing drone-metal dirge.
My favorite though is the third and final disc titled A Day. This features the most rhythmic material of the set, tracks like "They Rise" and "More & More Every Day" sounding like a strange sort of electronic pop, with hooky synth melodies laid out over pounding industrial rhythms and booming tribal drums, super catchy but still possessing that dark apocalyptic vibe of the previous discs. The catchier music will also suddenly transform into a lumbering bit of splatter soundtrack work, and most of the tracks end up sounding a LOT like contempo giallo-programmers like Gatekeeper and Umberto. Not all of this is like that though. There's still moments of bleak wasteland drone-burn and passages of rumbling death ambience found among the pulsating electronic pieces. It's all about the sinister 70s/80s electronic soundtrack sound overall, and fans of the recent wave of bands mining retro-horror OST grooves would probably love this.This killer horror-industrial epic comes in a six-panel gatefold jacket, and was released in a limited edition of 2,000 copies.
http://www.crucialblast.net

Summer Tape Summer Hate (7th mix)

This is summer, and a lot of CDs cover my desk. So I share with you what I listen to while the sun is burning every organic life outside. Take a deep breath and a cold drink... Enjoy.

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The Tracklist : 

Laibach - Warme Lederhaut

Crystal Castles - Monumental Retro-Avant-Garde (Live At Tate Modern / 14 April 2012) ©Abbey Road Live Here Now 2012

Second Planet - Never Never Land

Second Planet - Work Processing © SkullLine 2012

Brigade Rosse - Allein Mit Dir

Brigade Rosse - Nachts am Fenster © Plastic Frog Records 2012

Maska Genetik - Ernste Stunde

Maska Genetik - Strada © Galakthorrö 2011

High Damage - Brain Tone

High Damage - High Damage © Jarring Effects 2012

Black Mayonnaise - Narcotic Fog

Black Mayonnaise - Ttssattsr © Emperor Jones 2004

Kristoffer Nyströms Orkester - Vulgalina Fever (Edit)

Various Artists - Thanateros - Visions Of Love And Death © :Ikonen: Media 2011

Agent Side Grinder - Life In Advance (Jacques C Remix)

Various Artists - DEATH # DISCO Compilation Volume II © DEATH # DISCO 2012

Exlovers - You're So Quiet

ExLovers - Moth © Young And Lost Club 2012

Fever Ray - Concrete Walls

Fever Ray - Fever Ray © Mute 2009

Big Blood - ECHOHEAD

Big Blood - Already Gone I © Don't Trust The Ruin 2009

Lykke Li - Get some

Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes © LL Recordings 2011

Traum'er Leben - Lili Marleen

Various Artists - Enemies - A Collection Of Wartime Lyrical Tunes © Der Angriff 2009

Of The Wand & The Moon - Tear It Apart

Of The Wand & The Moon - The Lone Descent © Heiðrunar Myrkrunar 2011

Warpaint - Majesty

Warpaint - The Fool © Rough Trade 2010

Silent Signals - Berlin Is Lost

Various Artists - DEATH # DISCO Compilation Volume II © DEATH # DISCO 2012

Contagious Orgasm + Flutwacht - Inspection 09

Contagious Orgasm + Flutwacht - Inspection Of 1 Hour © SSSM 2009

Thorofon - In Blood And Heels

Thorofon - Targets © Ant-Zen 2012

Slogun - We Attack

Slogun - We Human Animal © Circle Of Shit 2011

Hanatarash - Young Hate

Hanatarash - Hanatarash 3 © RRRecords 1989

Incapacitants - We need more products Sub-advised

Incapacitants & TADM - Stocks & Bonds © Self Abuse Records 1999

Yelle - S'éteint le soleil

Yelle - Safari Disco Club © V2 Records 2011

¡Viva España!

Lux Atenea Webzine

"...Of The Dead", un álbum de culto inspirado en una trilogía cinematográfica de culto. ¡¡¡Disfrútenlo!!!

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