Merzbow Works
Crush of the titans(Mercliless Core Records:2001)
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This remarkable split CD for merzbow which was
released at the Czech Republic.Merzbow production are two song on this.Other
musician is the noize unit Napalmed who may be Czech.
The
cover picture used Japanese Sumo-wrestler exposured again and again.Others
picuture of jacket adopting Japanese looks like sampling from Japanese sport
newspaper.Merzbow does not credited as a jacket designer.
I do not know
this designer but he may use Japanese words deliverately.I want to know the
trigger till which this spliy CD is released.
The music of Napalmed are powerful metal noize.He may
release much CD energetic by manual,not mechanical.And these CDs look like using
with various image.
They presened four songs titled "Metal Fabricunt"
on this split CD.I suppose there are some same title songs,becaus the numbering
of these songs are not serial.
Napalmed recorded these metal noize at 1/14/2001 at
their home.Other field noize recorded from 11/20-/21 on 1999.And they mixed
these noise ato 1/17/2001.
Napalmed are formed with two man.They have
many ideas of noize.The trend of extreme may be more calm compared with
Merzbow.
This CD has the silence part beyond 10 seconds
before each song.This production is very rare for merzbow.Is it the idea from
Napalmed?Anyway,these silence help me to make clear the image of each
songs.
（written at Dec/15/2002）