LAND OF DECAY RELATED: Ablation. Zine

For 2011 LOCRIAN member Terence Hannum will be making a publication every other month. January's NEGATIVE LITANIES was the compendium documenting the monthly 2010 series and exhibition and for March we are proud to present ABLATION.

ABLATION. contains video stills cut from a video Terence Hannum shot featuring a live set of power-electronics group BLOODYMINDED originally intended to be edited into an installation but never quite finding the right cut. This set dates from 2007 when Bloodyminded played with Carlos Giffoni, Burning Star Core and Prurient at the Flowershop in Chicago.



Instead of being cut into a video the images were removed as stills from the source footage, enlarged and placed into a new sequence that emphasizes the dark setting and intensity of this unique group's intense live performance. The title of this zine derives from Mark Solotroff's inimitable lyrics to the song "Genital Panic" from the album Gift Givers and seeks to link the zine's process with its subject one of removal and excision.

Edition of 100 Copies / 24 pages
Full Color / 8.5" × 11" inside of a Black Envelope with Black Print

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$17.50 (US) / $20.00 (Canada) / $24.00 (Europe)
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"Territories" Review from Yellow, Green, Red

Link here.

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Locrian Territories LP (At War With False Noise / Basses Frequencies / BloodLust! / Small Doses)


If it takes four record labels to put out one album, so be it, so long as it’s as nicely produced as Locrian’s Territories. Continuing in the spirit of cooperation, this one features a number of guest players, including none other than BLOODYMINDED’s Mark Solotroff on vocals and synthesizer, the type of collaboration any Chicago-based freak would envy. Speaking of synths, Territories has a lot of them, practically dominating the landscape where metallic guitars once reigned. There are still some fierce black metal guitar riffs here, which make for a nice balance, but my money’s on the synth-drone mood pieces; there might be just a little too much china cymbal for my tastes on the thrashing metal tracks. Their metalwork here is better than I am recalling, it’s just that when a track is credited to Solotroff’s synth and vocals, a bass guitar and another synthesizer, how can anything top that?

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"Procession of Ancestral Brutalism" on Extremities Radio 4/24/2010 WPRB

Link here.

Some great stuff on this playlist, Voivod, Carcass, an expert from Mark Solotroff's solo Archive volume 1 cd, Climax Denial, and some other good stuff.