Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

Raven Strain
Old Sores

Gods of Tundra

C30 Cassette
£5.99


Matt Billings (aka Raven Strain) conducts this symphony for collapsing metal superstructures, as self-sustaining singing bowls probe through the shuffle of slowly contorting iron girders and bowed breezeblocks somewhere in the dark heart of the Motor City. The residual trail of gigantic heavy metal gongs are combined with short wave radio fuzz and barely-there singing to form an anaemic corona haloing an all but snuffed out sun. Sounds like John Truscinski, Gyorgy Ligetti and the Starving Weirdos jamming at the bottom of the river Clyde. Includes great full colour art by GOT boss Mike Connelly. Highly recommended. – Alex.

Raven Strain
Trisagion

Hanson HN-144

Cassette
£6.99


Great Infiltration/Weird NJ/Subterranea Britannica-style exploration of what sounds like long-abandoned underground tunnel systems piled to the ceiling with unknown industrial debris and threaded with huge mystery loops of high ghost voices and the march of long-dead feet. “Ever heard of the NORTHVILLE TUNNELS?? It's these underground tunnels in Northville, MI that lead to an old abandoned Mental Hosptial. A teenaged RAVEN STRAIN aka MATT BILLINGS used to hang out in those tunnels... ALOT! This is totally the sound of creeping thru there high on paint, seeing only by the light of a shitty BIC mini lighter... runnin around the hospital and reading the forgotten files of the inmates that once lived there. I remember him telling me a story of snakin some old filing cabinets from there and draggin em home thru the tunnels. I think he recorded that and put it on this tape. Total abandonment, illness, and drugs.” - Aaron Dilloway/Hanson.