AssassinMonk Complete Discography

I ran AssassinMonk, a tape and CDr label between the years 1999-2006.  It was mainly a vehicle for me to release my own noise recordings.  When I started releasing CDrs, though, I turned to other artists for material.  At this point, everything is sold out except for the KADAVER CDr.  That was one of the best things I ever released.  KADAVER has gone on to put out more excellent material, by the way, so if you get the chance, check it out.

Since the old web pages have faded into electronic dust, I decided to post all of the information here in case anybody's interested.

THE CEASE - Volume 1  c60 (1999 More Noise Please 01)
Numbered edition of 23 copies.
Re-issued as a CDr in 2005 in an edition of about 6 copies.

THE CEASE - Beyond c60 (1999 More Noise Please  02)

Numbered of 23 copies.

THE CEASE - Dim Mak c60 (1999 More Noise Please MNP 03)

Numbered of 23 copies.

THE CEASE - Slender Spikes c60 (2000 More Noise Please  MNP 04)

Numbered of 23 copies.

MAGICUSER - Spells  c60 (2000 More Noise Please MNP 05)
Numbered of 23 copies.

THE CEASE - Volume 2 c60 (2000 More Noise Please MNP 06)

Hand-numbered of 23 copies.

THE CEASE - Winter c60 (2000 More Noise Please MNP 07)

Hand-numbered of 23 copies.

THE CEASE - The End c60 (2000 More Noise Please MNP 08)
Hand-numbered of 23 copies.

THE CEASE - Bundles of Hiss c60 (2000 More Noise Please MNP 09)
Hand-numbered of 23 copies.

THE CEASE - From Ashes Rise... c60 (2000 More Noise Please  MNP 10)
Hand-numbered of 23 copies.

LE PETIT MORT 'Want A Taste???'  c60 (2000 More Noise Please #11)

Limited to 23 copies.

THE CEASE - Volume 3    c60 (2000 More Noise Please  #12)
Numbered of 30 copies.

THE CEASE - The Stench of Waste  c60 (2001 More Noise Please / Smell the Stench  13/no #)

THE CEASE - Tomb of Horrors c60 (2001 More Noise Please  #14)
Numbered of 23 copies.

THE CEASE - Decease c60 (2001 AssassinMonk  AM-1)
Numbered of 23 copies.

THE CEASE - Unceasing c60 (2001 AssassinMonk  AM-2)
Numbered of 23 copies.

LE PETIT MORT - Women Pt 1   c60 (2001 AssassinMonk AM-3)
Limited to 23 copies.

LE PETIT MORT - Women Pt 2  c60 (2001 Smell the Stench/AssassinMonk  no#/AM-3.5)

THE DWELLER IN THE DARK - ...Is Rising c60 (2002  AssassinMonk  AM-4)
Numbered of 23 copies.

THE DWELLER IN THE DARK - Infinite Darkness CDr (2003 AssassinMonk AM-5)
Numbered of 23 copies in slim case.

DEI NOSTRI  'tba'  CDr  (AssassinMonk AM-6)

Never released.

I AM THAT I AM - Hacked to Pieces c90 (2003 AssassinMonk AM-7)

Numbered of 23 copies.  A project of Jason Campbell.

SEISM - Grim Horizon c60 (2003 AssassinMonk AM-8)
Numbered of 23 copies.  A project of Jason Campbell.

THE DWELLER IN THE DARK - The Ruins 3"CDr (2004 AssassinMonk  Dagger 9)

Numbered of 23 copies.

NOTHING IST TRUE / THE RITA - Her Corpse Was Missing the Head CDr (2004 AssassinMonk  Dagger 10)

Numbered edition of 23 copies.

TAKASHI OHKAWA - Harsh Sonic Experience CDr (2004 AssassinMonk    Dagger 11)
Numbered of 50 copies.  Came with a small insert on red paper.

NOTHING IST TRUE - There Comes A Point... 3" CDr (2004 AssassinMonk    Dagger 12)
Numbered of 50 copies on an uncut 3" CDr.

CORPOPARASSITA - Zona Mulilazioni CDr (2004 AssassinMonk  Dagger 13)
Numbered of 50 copies.  This was a reissue of their debut CDr with one bonus track.

ARMENIA - Anti-Symetrics CDr (2005 AssassinMonk  Dagger 14)
Numbered of 50 copies.

KADAVER - Necro-Pleasures CDr (2006 AssassinMonk CDr Dagger 15)
Pro-pressed CDr.  Numbered of 100 copies.

Other Releases:

INSOMNIA / LE PETIT MORT - Split c60 (2002 Smell The Stench   no #)

THE CEASE - Ceaseless c60 (2001 Scrotum Records  HODE 106)

Links: 

Smell The Stench 

Kadaver

V/A : Death Odors

V/A : Death Odors CD
1994 Slaughter Productions SPCD01

01 Megaptera - Shadow Land
02 Megaptera - Sodom (Pt I-II)
03 Raison D'Etre - Pharynx
04 Inanna - State III
05 Atom Infant Incubator - Praenatal Segment
06 Deaf Machine - Final Destination
07 Die Sonne Satan - Cheopys
08 Runes Order - Sacrificio Finale
09 Archon Satani - Hear My Anger
10 Alio Die - Fragment of Fire
11 Alio Die - Ansia
12 Consono - Send Your Dreams
13 Allerseelen - Santa Muerte
14 Shee Retina Stimulants - Shaitan Through The Circuits
15 Grey Wolves - Riddled With Cancer

This CD was issued in 2 editions of 1500 total copies. It is long out of print.
CD -> EAC -> FLAC

This early Slaughter Productions compilation presents an excellent starting point, and overview, of the Death Industrial genre. The sounds presented here are typified by a dense atmosphere, low-end drones, and occaisonal distorted vocals. I've always considered Death Industrial to be a combination of aspects of Dark/Ritual Ambient with the quieter atmospheres of the Power Electronics subgenre.

MEGAPTERA (Sweden): This long-running unit (discontinued in 1999) was one of the first to be associated with Sweden's revered Cold Meat Industry label. Somewhere between Archon Satani, In Slaughter Natives and Brighter Death Now, Megaptera is a reflection of a time when insanity, violence, lies, deceit, war, disease and death rule the planet.

RAISON D'ETRE (Sweden): raison d'etre is a well-established Swedish dark-ambient-industrial project by Peter Andersson, active since 1991 and with a large number of CD releases on Cold Meat Industry... Peter's side projects include Necrophorus, Atomine Elektrine, Bocksholm, Stratvm Terror and more....

INANNA (Sweden): Solo project of Mikael Stavöstrand after the split in Archon Satani.

ATOM INFANT INCUBATOR (Italy): bleak soundscapes by members of RUNES ORDER and DIE SONNE SATAN.

DEAF MACHINE (Sweden): An early project by Mikael Svensson, of Megaptera, is now finally documented! Its mix of muffled voice fragments, disjointed rhythm loops, and crude, bass-heavy synth-noises sound unlike anything else that came out of sweden at the time!

DIE SONNE SATAN (Italy): Coldest, finest Dark Ambient - sometimes darkminded and frightening, then tribal-percussive, sometimes hypnotic, then again haunting with slight background-chorals.

RUNES ORDER (Italy): Synth-based darkness that often delves too deep into Euro-Darkwave territory.

ARCHON SATANI (Sweden): A dark ritual project, playing eerie and haunting industrial ambient music with a satanic background, obsessive percussions and frightening demonic voices. The original line-up consisted of Tomas Pettersson and Mikael Stravöstrand. They worked together from 1990 to 1993, then the former went on to form Ordo Equilibrio, while the latter continued under the name Archon Satani, as well as with his other project Inanna.

ALIO DIE (Italy): Stefano Musso studied art and electronics in his home town of Milan, Italy, and began performing ambient-electronic music under the name Alio Die in 1989. Characterized by evocative acoustic sounds manipulated and tendered electronically, Alio Die's work builds intimate soundscapes tied to the mystery and majesty of life and nature. His CD "Under an Holy Ritual", released on Projekt in 1992, was received with international acclaim. He subsequently released more than 20 CDs, and collaborated with many well-known artists such as Robert Rich, Vidna Obmana, Mathias Grassow, Nick Parkin, Yannick Dauby, Amelia Cuni, Raffaele Serra, Ora, Antonio Testa.

CONSONO (Sweden): ConSono was formed in Södertälje, Sweden, 1990 by Jens Lindh and Magnus Bjärlind. 1991 saw the release of their first cassette Onus Uteri, featuring 8 tracks ranging from tribal sounds to experimental industrial. Onus Uteri was released on Sound Source, a side label of Cold Meat Industry.

ALLERSEELEN (Austria): The Austrian group Allerseelen have been active and innovative in the industrial and apocalyptic folk genre for many years. Their CDs and 7" editions have been issued on Aorta and their double-LP editions on Ahnstern. Allerseelen is a unique combination of industrial and folkloristic elements, and "Industrial Folklore" might be an appropriate expression to embrace these seemingly contradictory qualities. Allerseelen have performed in many European countries as well as in North America and Russia. On stage, the songs quite often manifest very differently from the studio versions. The dynamic stage presence of one or two martial drummers, the psychoactive bass player, and the front man all contribute toward a unique mood of "Apocalyptic Krautfolk" for these live performances.

SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS (Italy): Sshe Retina Stimulants ("Super-Sound High Energy Retina Stimulants") was started in 1993 and is the solo project of P.NG5361.B (aka Paolo Bandera) of Sigillum S. An Italian post - industrial audio project of many different natures, where concepts have led the effort and employed sound as a tool for the exploration of the forbidden areas of the subconscious. The result has been a endless paradigm of alien electronic mutations, merging concrete noise research with acoustic transmigration, while visuals and many other forms of media have been also adopted, in order to achieve maximum interaction intensity.


GREY WOLVES (Australia): The Grey Wolves are Dave Padbury and Trevor Ward. They exist since the early '80s and have released a lot of tapes via their label Anal Probe, which later split into Artaman and Zeal SS, the latter changed it's name quite often and is nowadays Open Wound. In 1992 they were contacted by Tesco Organisation and recorded their first LP. Their art is definied as "A Manifestation Of The Cultural Terrorism Network", and their packages and visuals are collages of disturbing and provocative images, photos and symbols. The Grey Wolves play heavy industrial noise with a genuine punk attitude, being irriverent and nasty, but never lacking self-irony.

Slaughter Productions

Slaughter Productions was started in 1992 by Marco Corbelli of ATRAX MORGUE. For 15 years he released some of the best Death Industrial and Power Electronics. Marco committed suicide by hanging on 06 May 2007. He always had a vocal fondness of and interest in death.

The torrent can be found here.

SORT VOKTER - Folkloric Necro Metal

Sort Vokter used to be Ildjarn’s side-project. Although there seem to be rumors of a demo being recorded prior to this, it was never officially released and “Folkloric Necro Metal” is everything we have got from this strange atmospheric black metal band. And what a mindblowing fucking album it is!

Sort Vokter’s art isn’t entirely original. They seem to have incorporated some elements from Burzum, while focusing more on the theme of Nature, like Ulver did on “Nattens Madrigal”. As the title of this review suggests, Folkloric Necro Metal actually has a lot in common with Nattens Mardigal. It comes to the listener as the very essence of Nature in its most primitive and beautiful (or ugly, depending on the kind of song) form. Through this album, you will witness various manifestations of Nature at its wildest.

The first song, Kveldstimer, is a definite highlight. It really sets the mood for the rest of the album. As mentioned in the previous review it starts with a synth intro that resembles a church organ. And it slowly builds up until it blasts all of a sudden into something that will probably make you think of the Apocalypse. Many things are awaiting the listener here: some absolutely grandiose/majestic/evil sounding synth melodies unfold as the guitars and percussion jump in the song together, as well as some of the most inhuman, out-of-this-world screams I’ve ever heard. And it goes on for the rest of the song. Probably THE most incredibly powerful, blasting opener I’ve ever heard. Yes, better than Unsilent Storms in the North Abyss. Somehow this song reminds me of Negura Bunget’s album “Zirnindu-Sa”, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Sort Vokter was one of their main influences.

Track two, Langs Stier Uten Ende. This is where you really notice for the first time, that first: the bass is very loud in the mix (If you thought the bass has to be inaudible in true black metal, you’re in for a big shock. If that is not your case, Folkloric Necro Metal still has many more surprises awaiting you...) and second: the production is raw as hell. So the song starts with a pretty creepy bass riff, soon to be joined by the main guitar. Yeah, dark sounding riffs like this galore on Folkloric Necro Metal, so if you like that (and I know you do), you’re in for a treat. As for the poor production, if you’re reading this review, you’ve definitely already experienced that with plenty of other bands so it shouldn’t be much of a problem.

Two of the most memorable songs would be “Grålysning” and “Ni Gygrer – Nattjakt” because they perfectly represent the two “sub-themes” in FNM: day and night. Both sub-themes are symbolized by the instruments used (I tend to associate the keyboards with the light of day and the guitar, bass, drums and screams with the darkness of the night). Grålysning greets you with some extremely raw guitarwork and constant drumming, but after a while the keyboards will make their appearance, slowly becoming louder and louder while the guitar, bass and drums will become weaker until they completely fade away. This symbolizes the passage from night to day; Ildjarn suggests that once the keyboards become the sole instrument heard, all the shadows are gone and the sun has fully risen. The other track, “Ni Gygrer – Nattjakt”, represents the opposite process, but this time the synth melodies are much more gloomy and there is no percussion at all. Soon, the guitar takes over again but the synth remains. By now you can guess that this song is about shadows growing longer as the sun slowly sets and blood-thirsty nocturnal beasts awake from their slumber and leave their dark lair to hunt down some preys in the forest. Creepy.

The vocals are absolutely beyond description. In fact, they are beyond anything from this world, including your imagination. It’s nearly impossible to imagine such maniacal, diabolical and hateful screams being performed by a man, let alone any kind of animal on this planet. On the sixth track (“Hatefulle Tanker ut i Natten”), which I consider to be the sickest and most obscure track on this album, the screams reach such a high level of intensity that they will most likely freeze the listener in his tracks! Songs like this are the reason why Folkloric Necro Metal is always best listened to when alone, deep in the woods late at night, because it is then easier to see the connection between the music and various natural elements surrounding you.

The last song, Fjellstev, is a basic and repetitive, yet mysterious and eerie keyboard composition in the vein of Burzum’s “Rundgang...”. Another highlight, this is a perfect ending for such an eerie album. Fitting!

As a conclusion, some repeated listens may eventually lead the listener to wonder whether or not black metal really is all about shouting “Black metal ist Krieg” 42 times without any real purpose. This is one of the few truly essential albums to ever come out of Norway. Fans of black metal cannot be without this piece of transcendental art. - Metal Archives

Uploaded in lossless quality here.

Pentacle - The Fifth Moon 12"

I remember finding this picture disc in a record store in Columbus, Ohio. It was safely tucked away in a vinyl graveyard, probably waiting for a Celtic Frost fanatic like me to pick it up. There was nothing special about the pictures on the disc itself nor the insert; it appeared to be another example of European death metal. But the last track I recognized as a Hellhammer cover. Those were rare at the time, so I decided to purchase this and add it to my collection.

I was pleasantly surprised by the sound quality. Most picture discs that I've listened to haven't had the greatest sound, but this one sounded much better than I expected. The guitars and drums are right beneath the vocals in the mix. As usual with a lot of metal bands, the bass is nearly non-existant. There are two guitar players listed in the band, but the majority of this sounds like one guitar. The guitar tone is not very thick, and it has just enough distortion to give it a rough edge. The drums are solid and don't rely completely on the double bass.

The music here is solid, old-school death metal like Morbid Tales-era Celtic Frost or Cause of Death-era Obituary. The singer sounds a bit like John Tardy, with an occasional death grunt. His vocals on the third track are the most possessed on here. That track also features some sparse shifting on the guitars in the middle section which really makes the track stand out from the others on here. The riffs are mostly simple and steady. I don't hear any of Celtic Frost's snaky riffs or odd guitar lines. Each song has plenty of tempo changes, shifting out of mid-tempo and into double time. Pentacle's cover of "The Reaper" is faithful to the original. The only real changes are better production and the lyrics are almost decipherable.

This was definitely worth purchasing. If you can find the picture disc version, I would recommend that, as it's the only place you'll find Pentacle's Hellhammer cover. The rest of the tracks are not drowning in Celtic Frost worship, but are good examples of solid European death metal.

The torrent can be found here.