FIRE IN THE- Be My Enemy Ltd. Ed. w/ lyric sheet and sticker (stickers vary)
"Be my enemy", proclaims Audio Immolation Industries' first album length release, which less than surprisingly sports the name Fire in the Head on its cover. Once again Michael Page vents some pressure in the form of rough, deformed noise at health-endangering volume levels, so if you're in pursuit of rich melodies and angelic sounds, better start clicking the browser's back button.
If, for some reason, Fire in the Head is not a familiar name yet, the best way to describe his sound is an amalgam of harsh noise and power electronics, where constantly mutating, dirty walls of sound meet vocals that are often said out in a cold, even tone full of despise. Sometimes, but only sometimes, the sounds quiet down to a momentary lull, but even at a full pace FITH's mood is much closer to threatening and menacing than outright aggression. Something like this should've without question been on the sound track of Saw, last year's most entertaining comedy, instead of dumb toned down guitar wankery.
Be My Enemy is a mean disc. It utilizes every frequency available from room shaking basses to debilitating high ends without sounding muddy or unclear, and every sound seems to have only one purpose: to make the listener cringe, and the only thing that varies is intensity. Hard, even noise usually leads to hard, even boredom, but on Be My Enemy the tracks are sonically varied enough to fend off dullness. Headphones are recommended, because all the little detail embedded in the cacophony takes the experience a level further.
My personal favourites are without question the opener When This No Longer Satisfies, the outright weird Collapsing Sun and the almost melancholy No One Can Hear You, where the background is ripe with sounds reminiscent of a choir of tortured screams. Even though after repeated listens I consider the aforementioned trinity to be the definite high points of the album, the rest of the material is also strong. There's also a remix bonus from Wertham of When this No Longer Satisfies on the disc. It's a solid piece, but its most remarkable quality is its similarity to the rest of the cd's contents, up to the point where without it being stated in the track list, I would've never guessed the track was remixed by someone else than FITH himself.
There's no point in becoming an enemy of Fire in the Head over this cd. Instead, a better idea would be to toss the requested amount of cash at Michael for it and hope that the bucks go into providing us with another album like this, because Be My Enemy just happens to be that good."
PAGE/WILLIAMS/TURNER CD
$9.99 USD
SKY BURIAL / SELF Split 10"
$8 USD
Where Sky Meets Earth
$11.99 USD
FIRE IN THE HEAD- Forever In My Screams: Studies In Paramnesia w/ Oil Painting
$10.99 USD
Lot of power electronics/noise cds/stickers/postcards/flyer (F/I/T/H, Slogun)
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FIRE IN THE HEAD- Further Acts Of Sedition And Sodomy
$12 USD
Baptist Skin Communiti (Richard Ramirez) 'Negative Air' cdr
$7.99 USD
SKY BURIAL- There I Saw The Grey Wolf Gaping cd w/bonus 3" cdr ltd. ed. of 50
$10.99 USD
FIRE IN THE HEAD/Hum of the Druid LP TEST PRESSING.
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F/I/T/H 2 cassette package - Split with I Discern & Reopening Wounds
$12.99 USD
Of The First Light – CDr
$5.99 USD
IRUKANDJI (F/I/T/H Harsh Noise Side Project)- 6 Release Package
$27.99 USD
FIRE IN THE HEAD- 3 Recent Releases Package
$23 USD
FIRE IN THE HEAD- Forever In My Screams: Studies In Paramnesia
$7.99 USD
SKY BURIAL- A Revised History Of Dreaming Painting Edition
$9.99 USD
SKY BURIAL- There I Saw The Grey Wolf Gaping Artist Edition
$14.99 USD
Kiehtan – Compact Disc (limited to 500 units)
$6 USD
Fire In The Head- Solace Through Psychosis - CDr
$9.99 USD
SKY BURIAL 12 Disc Lot
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There I Saw The Grey Wolf Gaping - CD
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SKY BURIAL- Transmissions From The Void CDr in DVD Box & Art Cards
$7.99 USD
FITH 21 disc/cassette/lp lot w/sticker, postcards, and zine
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FITH/Hum of the Druid LP +ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING, Ignite/Submit, Forgive With Flame, Stickers, Patch
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FIRE IN THE HEAD/Hum of the Druid LP w/ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING + patch & stickers #2
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10 disc/cassette mystery package
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Zero Tolerance #36 w/ FITH
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Stations Of The Sun
$14.99 USD
FIRE IN THE HEAD / I DISCERN - Blood Ties split cassette
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IRUKANDJI- Prey For Me I-V lp
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FITH 15 disc/cassette/lp lot w/sticker, postcards, and zine
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IRUKANDJI- Prey For Me one-sided test pressing W/ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING cover
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SKY BURIAL- Of The First Light cdr reissue
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Sky Burial Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Sky Burial was formed in 2006. Michael has collaborated with Nik Turner and Bridget Wishart (Hawkwind), Jarboe (Swans), Anni Hogan (Marc Almond), Danny Hyde (Coil), Nigel Ayers (Nocturnal Emissions), Mark Spybey (DVOA/Zoviet France), Nick Blinko (Rudimentary Peni), Robert Williams (SIEGE), with production by James Plotkin (Khanate) and Justin Broadrick (Godflesh), and art by Gee Vaucher (Crass). ... more
