Shop - Merzbow – Hatonal (BLOD#20 / ICV003)

Nobody feels the sound fracturing as Masami Akita, nobody understands noise better than Merzbow. This Japanese artist is for more than forty years the maximum exponent of a style that has been catalogued and denominated with perhaps, the most descriptive word of modern music. Noise can have very diverse connotations, however, when we transfer this term to the pleasure and enjoyment that a piece of music generates in the listener, when we treat non-music as music, we understand that sound expressions can be endless, and that noise is a sound tool with the same recreational functionality as any other musical genre.

Blod, together with Heathens, is a Swedish platform that operates as a single entity and divides its activity between experimental music (Blod) and music created expressly for the dancefloor (Heathens). Blod allies with the Spanish label Industrial Complexx to release Hatonal, a work that shows the evolution, style and strength of Merzbow to generate an extreme sound, based on chaos, in the sum of frequencies, in its subsequent distortion and in a continuous and controlled feedback. The release is divided into two pieces of absolute psychological cut, with electric impulses, metallic scratches, pumping feedbacks and expansive dissonances.

Released on three limited physical formats all with unique artwork:
LP smoke marbled red and black colored vinyl edition of 100 copies.
Cassette on body printed cassettes in o-card sleeves first edition of 23 copies.
CD in cardboard sleeves edition of 40 copies.
Released on three limited physical formats all with unique artwork:
LP smoke marbled red and black colored vinyl, edition of 100 copies.
Cassette on body printed cassettes in o-card sleeves, first edition of 23 copies.
CD face printed in cardboard sleeves, edition of 40 copies.