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2026-04-03

Veil of Stuff feat. BONG-RA, IVAN THE TOLERABLE, PONTE DEL DIAVOLO and THE SHITS


1, 2, 3 aaand it's time for another roundup of my last for reviews on Veil of Sound, as always - if I own it - with some pictures of the physical media.








IVAN THE TORABLE - Chromophobia (Crystal Clear vinyl 2LP) (2026)
[MY REVIEW ON VEIL OF SOUND.COM ]

Not only am I pretty satisfied with my review, if I daresay so, but unbelievably when it was published this double album actually was Oli Heffernan's most recent release. Of course now, as a couple of months have passed, I'm behind again, because the prolific Psychedelic / Ambient / Jazz / Electronic artist has already put out new stuff.

This album with the serious background of the death of an important friend and collaborator however still remains an important beacon in Ivan The Tolerable's discography. Based on minimalist ideas, but ornamented in countless creative ways plugged from the history of Psychedelic Electronic music, these fourteen tracks just emit a special radiance between profound weight and floating lightness.

The simplistic artwork and the as transparent as transparent goes vinyl are of course a match. Perfection.











PONTE DEL DIAVOLO - De Venom Natura (transparent green vinyl LP) (2026)
[MY REVIEW ON VEIL OF SOUND.COM ]

The two-basses-powered Italian Blackened Post Punk Prog Doom Metal sensation is back with their second full album for friends of Healthyliving, Kothi Tuhoa, Gggolddd, Maggot Heart, Brutus, Shaam Larain and everything between. With select guests on duet vocals, theremin, clarinet, trombone and more, each song shows new facets of Ponte Del Diavolo's sound. Charismatic front witch Erba leads the group from highlight to highlight until the album ends - way too early - with a crowning Bauhaus cover. What a banger!

The record comes in a gatefold with lyrics on delicously poisonous green vinyl. Nice.









BONG-RA - Esoterik (transparent orange with black smoke vinyl LP) (2026)
[MY REVIEW ON VEIL OF SOUND.COM ]

Holy Egyptian Stargate Space Jesus! Jason Köhnen takes Bong-Ra full circle... again... and even fuller than before. After the switches from an Electronic solo project to a massive Doom Metal band, to Doomjazz influences and then to bringing back the breakbeats together with tons of oldschool Godflesh and Ministry worship on previous albums, "Esoterik" continues on the Industrial Metal path, but also sees Colin Webster return on the saxophone and layers all its organic and electronic, crushing, atmospheric and jazzy noises in an overwhelming more is more Blut Aus Nord storm.

Sick stuff and a solid presentation by Debemur Morti Productions (unnecessarily small font for the lyrics though) with a nice vinyl colour.









THE SHITS - Diet Of Worms (2026)

And finally we got new bowel actions from Leeds with the second full-length album of The Shits!

Their "Diet Of Worms" is a brutally repetitive stomper with heavy Crust Punk / Sludge / Noxious Rock'n'Roll riffs, deafening guitar Noise and vocals which hate themselves as much as they despise the listener. It's as real and nasty as it's absolutely fucking glorious! A fourty-three minutes boot kick into the jaw - if you like that kind of thing. For fans of La Muerte, Fetish 69 and good old English anger.

Now let's just don't ask ourselves what was used to paint the cover picture - and shhh please ignore that that whole phrase in the beginning of my VoS review about me surviving a Shits show "without being hit by gobs of spit, half-empty beer cans or ball-sweat flavoured handshakes of their frontman" was completely recycled from my Roadburn 2023 live review. But hey, sometimes you just cannot hit the nail on the head any more precise than you already did, right?






WORLD PEACE CORPORATION - Prosperity

Months and months... and months and multiple errors in the pressing plant... it was a long wait of almost a year since preordering this debut album. But maybe nomen est omen and that's not really a surprise in hindsight. Having "World Peace" in your band name in these troubled times... I don't know, it's not what our dear global leaders and their cult followers want.


WORLD PEACE CORPORATION - Prosperity (clear vinyl LP) (2025/2026)

Luckily "Prosperity" still feels fresh to me depsite the long wait, because I just decided not to listen to my digital copy until the transparent wax would arrive. And with very few exceptions I stayed strong and stuck to that. But a couple of weeks ago the postman finally brought the record, so I can finally properly dive into World Peace Corporation's meditation on "Understanding Authority" (side A) and "Facilitating Unity" (side B).

World Peace Corporation is the Swedisch/Dutch duo of Mark Bouwman and Dead Neanderthals' Otto Kokke. Their debut is a pure Drone release, fabricated with guitar and synths.

Each side contains one unbroken breathing, oscillating, booming piece with a tone that mixes Sunn O))) Drone Metal with mighty organ sounds and a pinch of Electronic buzz. Admittedly I'm not even sure if the latter is always actually there or just manifest as a psychic resonance between my brain and the tinnitus in my right ear. But with good Drone (or also Ambient) the listener's mind often does half the work. It's tasteful, with just enough action in its slow progressions to keep you engaged while you're also drifting away.

In its second half the album even surprises with some unexpected annavonhausswolffish beauty. "Prosperity" has a very satisfying sound which vibrates just in the right spots.

A great Drone, comparable to (and at least as good as) Dead Neanderthals' collaboration with Machinefabriek as DNMF on "Smelter" from 2018. Prosperous!






2026-04-02

GLIMMEN - Quatre

Es glimmt wieder! Und ohne den musikalischen Gehalt des neuen Scheibe von Glimmen damit auch nur im Geringsten abzuwerten, muss diese Rezension einfach mit den Äußerlichkeiten beginnen. Denn wow... Was! Für! Eine! Schönheit!


GLIMMEN - Quatre (LP) (2026)

Ok, die wenigen in Europa direkt von Trommler Jörg Schneider erhältlichen Exemplare der auf insgesamt hundert Stück limitierten LP des transatlantischen Projekts rund um Multiintrumentalist Jason Wietlispach dürften alle sehr bald ihre glücklichen Besitzer gefunden haben und danach nur schwer und teuer zu bekommen sein. Von daher werden einige Zuspätkommer sich wahrscheinlich mit dem Bandcamp-Download begnügen müssen. Dennoch sind Alben wie dieses Paradebeispiele für den Mehrwert, den das visuelle und haptische Erleben eines physischen Tonträgers gegenüber rein digitaler Musik darstellt.

Jedes einzelne Exemplar des Gatefoldcovers ist ein individuelles von Wietlispach aus historischen Zeitunge, Zeitschriften, Büchern persönlich angefertigtes Collagen-Kunstwerk, hier und da mit einander ähnelnden Themen und Motiven und doch absolut eigen.

Selbstverteidigung, Fitness, Medizin, Waffen und jede Menge Clowns stehen (nicht nur) bei meinem Einzelstück im Mittelpunkt, dazu Texte auf Englisch, Französisch und Gujarati... und anders als noch beim ähnlich gestalteten 2023er Werk "DOS" ist die Hülle diesmal auch tatsächlich als solche funktionsfähig. Darüber hinaus ist die ganze Ausführung sauberer geraten - Übung macht den Meister - und mit einer mit aufklappbaren Kunststoffhülle sicher geschützt.
Dazu gibt es ein original historische Postkarte - bei mir mit einem Motiv aus den Rocky Mountains - mit hinten aufgeklebter Tracklist + Credits.

Alles in allem einfach eine wunderbare liebevolle Gestaltung. Ich könnte nicht zufriedener sein.

Und dann ist da natürlich die gewohnt großartige Musik! In einer vielschichtigen Melange aus zart mäandernden bis laut lärmenden Gitarren, Vibrafon, Klavier und elektronischen Elementen, gefühlvollen Bläsern, beinahe wie in einem ekstatischen Ritual herumwirbelnden, aber dabei niemals ziellosen Drums und stabil alles von unten zusammenhaltendem Kontrabass zelebrieren Glimmen die Gleichzeitigkeit von Meditation und Chaos, von tiefer Introspektive und stürmischem Ausdruck. Zwischen Albert AylerThe Necks und Swans spannt das Septett bewegende Bögen von Spiritual Jazz und freier Improvisation, über Ambient und Drone bis zum Noise Rock.

Knapp vierzig Minuten Spielzeit, unterteilt in sieben Tracks, sind genau die richtige Länge, um sich in einem Rutsch von diesem perfekten dynamischen Rausch hinwegtragen zu lassen.

Auch ohne die äußeren Schauwerte bestätigen Glimmen wieder einmal eindrucksvoll, warum sie neben Roji wohl mein Lieblingsprojekt in der ständig weiter auswuchernden Diskographie Jörg Schneiders sind. Und "Quatre" als Gesamptpaket... hach, was soll ich noch sagen, so ein Ding hilft doch ungemein, die eigene Vinylsucht vor sich selbst zu verteidigen.