Sonic Deaf Squad - The Basement Tapes, Recordings From The Vault

 

Sonic Deaf Squad - The Basement Tapes, Recordings From The Vault
Self-released – 2025
Rock, Alternative, Noise, Punk
Rated: ***

Out since the first of February, a brand new collaboration between four artists that you might know from bands like Geishas of Doom, Kintsugi Empire, Atlanta, Ten East, Hilltop Howlers, Tricklebolt, Automatic Sam, Shaking Godspeed, Love Supreme, Giant Tiger Hooch, Eins Zwei Orchestra and probably a whole hell more! Cause this is a band with four highly intuitive artists that always flow according to the energies of the great magnet. They let the wind carry them and do their magic on whatever canvas presented. Case in point, drummer Stephan Konings is also a visual artist and painter. Free flowing, tumbling and gritty, the punk is presented like slow moving experiments, with noisy outburst and with different grooves for the listener to latch on to. The eight tracks, seven of them only with a maximum length of two and half minutes, are only seemingly chaotic, for even though there are these various channels to swim through, you are always able to head out with the current. In all, these Recordings From The Vault, exhibit a lot of drive, and a lot of sixties, seventies psychedelics turned into punk and noise fare from later decades. “The music reflects the unrest of an unstable social climate with raw, experimental sounds capturing the chaos of the modern world.” A statement that you can hear Sonic Deaf Squad deliver with sinewy momentum and sparks flying everywhere…

(Written by JK)

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Geishas of Doom – The First Four Tapes

Kintsugi Empire – Shun

Automatic Sam – Arcs

Tricklebolt – Honey From The Sky

Geishas of Doom – The First Four Tapes

 

 

Geishas of Doom – The First Four Tapes
Self-released – 2024
Punk, Thrash, Noise, Garage
Rated: ***

In days long gone there was a short period where I shared the same office space with Jan Petit, who plays bass for Dutch (usually) 6-piece thrash, punk and noise band Geishas of Doom. I saw them play live once and could never have imagined before that fateful night that Mr. Petit could make that amount of ruckus. He was such a good and tranquil dude. Now, I do realize that the name of Jan Petit might mean little to you crazy few that might have stumbled upon these words, and therefor we should probably namecheck a few others from Geishas of Doom. Cause yes, the members from this band all play or played in different outfits. And here’s that list of damn cool bands: Birth of Joy, Iron Jinn, Automatic Sam, Giant Tiger Hooch, Tricklebolt, Atlanta and Love Supreme. So, responsible for all that noise, that lo-fi punk, that raw, venom spitting, dynamite throwing explosive racket are: Jeroen Lichter - Vocals and Spaceplank, Pieter Holkenborg - Vocals and Guitar, Rense Slings – Guitar, Daan Wopereis – Drums, Bob Hogenelst – Drums and of course Jan Petit on Bass. And on this album called The First Four Tapes, which will be released in May, they have collected their first four releases, two releases per side, twelve songs each, twenty minutes on Side A, and twenty-one on Side B. Which immediately tells you how furious and fast paced these songs are, still retaining basic melody and offering a primitive groove, the moments when they let some surf in or some experimentation, are the definite highlights. But Geishas of Doom aren’t here for highlights, they’re here to shout and scream against ‘everything that has gone too far in this day and age, the direction of perfection, narcissism, polarization and hypocrisy.’ A righteous punk adagio if ever there was one! And a fiery collection of their work so far…

(Written by JK)

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