GRUNT/YGGDRASIL-Split Tape-(Darkness Productions/Freak Animal Records-Germany/Finland-1995)

Legendary Split Tape by those no-compromising artists playing harsh noise and industrial madness.

Both artists already covered in this blog.

For all the lovers of a certain kind of old school noise industrial.

This is a pure crystal gem.
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Tracklist

–Grunt	Junk City	4:18
–Grunt	Holy Entertainment	2:54
–Grunt	Iron Throat Part. 2-5	6:21
–Yggdrasil	Blauer Rauch	6:08
–Yggdrasil	Waldland	8:38

GRUNT/ORAL CLIMAX-Split Tape-(Freak Animal Records-Finland-c30-1995)

Grunt was formed in Finland during spring 1993 to create hard audio havoc. Its early incarnations operated with few other names, before settling into Grunt and making the first officially published works. After 20 years of activity, it is still going strong. Various styles of noise electronics are always hammered with such pressure it usually transforms into known Grunt-noise, even if new methods and approaches are added. Various interests, moods and approaches and different kinds of topics have been used during the years. Strong visuals and lyrics are the most well known to people.

Since the early days, Grunt has been merely part of international power electronics-noise scene. There has never been a desire to attract attention widely. There has never been attempts to be credible within academic noise circles, performance art or modern industrial culture. Nor promote it in media outside the core of noise-underground. However, neither there is a clear desire to follow genre restrictions. When invitations have happened, Grunt has been featured in documentaries, newspaper articles, playing together with punk, metal and gothic bands as well as among performance art events.

Grunt is tightly connected to the vision of Freak Animal Records label and has also a handful of other forms, what can be understood as projects of their own or simply branches slightly separated from the main project.(from his webpage)

Oral Climax is a grindcore band from Lithuania active during the 90s, they released many productions as a split with other band/projects.

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ALCHEMY OF THE 20th CENTURY/GRUNT-Split Tape-(Kadef-Germany-C30-1996)

Back in 2010 I passed this great tape to Vita Ignes Corpus Lignum blog,I am going to re-post it here with the nice review by Crepusculum.

"great cassette here which was released on thee German label Kadef in thee mid/late 90s!! both Alchemy Of The 20th Century and Grunt are projekts ov thee Finnish artist Mikko Aspa [Clandestine Blaze, Clinic Of Torture, Creamface, Nicole 12, Stabat Mater] who is also the owner of Northern Heritage label, and also thee publisher / editor of the S/M magazine "Erotic Perversion" and "Northern Heritage Zine"!! Alchemy Of The 20th Century provide two nice longer pieces ov droning experimental atmospherikx with thee use ov shimmering and scraped metals with some minimal guitar usage, and Grunt provides several trackx ov full-on screaming power elektronikx assault!!"

A discogs page about this german label is here.
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Tracklist

A1	–Alchemy Of The 20th Century	Colossal Iron Spiral Part 1	10:38
A2	–Alchemy Of The 20th Century	Colossal Iron Spiral Part 2	3:37
B1	–Grunt	Re-Packed Daily Waste Part 1	3:55
B2	–Grunt	Re-Packed Daily Waste Part 2	2:43
B3	–Grunt	Re-Packed Daily Waste Part 3	2:53
B4	–Grunt	Re-Packed Daily Waste Part 4	4:49

Credits

• Noises [All Noise By] – Mikko Aspa (tracks: B1 to B4)
• Sounds [All Sound By] – Mikko Aspa (tracks: A1, A2)

Notes

A1 recorded 130596+240796.
A2 recorded 150696.
B1 recorded 170796+270796.
B2 recorded 170796.
B3 recorded 140696+170796.
B4 recorded 270796.
Limited to 60 hand-numbered copies.

THE JAPANESE TORTURE COMEDY HOUR/GRUNT-[split tape]-(Freak Animal Records-Finland-c30-1996)

Japanese Torture Comedy Hour was started in 1996 by Scott Hull, Tim Morse, and Andrew Kokes. Other members joined the band later on when they all collectively recorded their acclaimed record "Voltage Monster." Years after, when the band was presumably inactive, Jay Randall released some of his old solo noise tapes under the alias of Japanese Torture Comedy Hour; these releases being the three "live" albums on Grindcore Karaoke. (from discogs)

Grunt was formed in Finland during spring 1993 to create hard audio havoc. Its early incarnations operated with few other names, before settling into Grunt and making the first officially published works. After 20 years of activity, it is still going strong. Various styles of noise electronics are always hammered with such pressure it usually transforms into known Grunt-noise, even if new methods and approaches are added. Various interests, moods and approaches and different kinds of topics has been used during the years. Strong visuals and lyrics are the most well known to people.

Since early days, Grunt has been merely part of international power electronics-noise scene. There has never been desire to attract attention widely. There has never been attempts to be credible within academic noise circles, performance art or modern industrial culture. Nor promote it in media outside the core of noise-underground. However, neither there is clear desire to follow genre restrictions. When invitations have happened, Grunt has been featured in documentaries, newspaper articles, playing together with punk, metal and gothic bands as well as among performance art events.

Grunt is tightly connected to the vision of Freak Animal Records label and has also handful of other forms, what can be understood as projects of their own or simply branches slightly separated from the main project.(from his webpage)

This cassette came out in a limited edition of 75 hand numbered copies  wrapped in a piece of hard white wall-paper.

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