SEVEN MINUTES OF NAUSEA
Collection CDr
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Reviewed on CRUCIAL BLAST
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Noisecore, by definition, is already about as musically extreme as you can get. It's the next step beyond grindcore, taking a sound that is already brutally violent and barbaric and blenderizing the blastbeats and hyperfast riffing and screamed vocals into a gale force of pure noise. Bands like Anal Cunt, Gore Beyond Necropsy, Fear Of God, Pile Of Eggs, Sore Throat, and Aunt Mary were all key figures in the noisecore underground and pushed blastbeat- driven chaos into a realm of abstraction that ended up being closer to the Japanese noise scene and the most brutal ends of the free jazz spectrum than anything resembling "metal". But even in the final immolating blast furnace of noisecore, there was no other band that approached the warped otherness of Seven Minutes Of Nausea. This band first formed in Australia by members Mick Hollows and Scut in 1985, but after Hollows relocated to Europe in the early 90's, it essentially became a solo project with Mick handling all vocal duties. One of the things that seemed to seperate 7MON (as they are generally referred to in short) from the rest of the noisecore hordes was 7MON's total lack of goofiness. Let's be honest - when you are in a band like Anal Cunt that plays at those levels of speed and aggression and noise, there's going to be at least a small amount of absurdity in what you are doing. This, however, was never the case with 7MON. The sonic annihilation that Mick Hollows created is the ultimate endtime music, each "song" consisting of a four-second blast of rumbling bass guitar noise, gutteral ranting that sounds like the muttering of a murderous derelict, feedback, and (sometimes) scraping percussive noise. Hundreds of these miniature blasts would be strung together on a 7MON release, connected by ominous dark ambient electronics, strains of creepy orchestral music, abrasive Industrial scraping, clattering metal, and whispers in the dark. This made for some of the strangest, most sinister sounding music I have ever heard, totally unlike anything else in the grind or noise canons. 7MON's releases have primarily been tape and 7" projects that date back to the late 80's, and these releases are almost impossible to find now. Thank god for R.O.N.F. The Spanish label has just put together this new pro-manufactured CDR that does a great job of collecting some of Seven Minutes Of Nausea's material from a handful of early 90's releases, including unreleased material from the 1991 EP Noise Of The Rose, their side of the 1992 split tape with Audicion Irritable, a live performance from 1994 that appeared on the No More Music compilation cassette, their tracks from the Rudi Rat Vol.4 compilation CD that came out on Ecocentric in 1992, and their tracks from the Master Of Noise comp LP on S.O.A. Records. Almost an hour of 7MON! Limited to onlym 99 hand numbered copies.
