Korperschwache / Mywomanmywomanmyslave

Crucial Blast

Going back to the mid-90’s, the obscure Austin, TX outfit Korperschwache (German for “organic decay”) has issued a steady stream of releases into the deep underground, landing somewhere between the early UK noise rock scene, the skull-rupturing power of Japan’s more extreme noise artists, the massive gravitational pull and formless guitar crush of bands like Earth and the Melvins at their most art-damaged, and, in more recent years, a filthy, blackened, low-fidelity underbelly that hints at the mutated black metal of bands like Abruptum, Necrofrost, and Vondur. The majority of these older releases have long been out of print, but now, in conjunction with the brand new Evil Walks album, Crucial Blast has assembled a series of reissues of early Korperschwache material, some of which has never been heard by anyone outside the band’s immediate circle. The 1997 cassette Mywomanmywomanmyslave delivers loop-heavy industrial doom-guitar and walls of abrasive noise of the highest order, ranking it as one of the band’s darkest and heaviest. From howling maelstroms of harsh noise, roaring walls of distortion, psychedelic electronics and locomotive guitar-grind loops to brief passages of pounding drum-machine rhythms and sped-up chipmunk pop music warped, stretched and run backwards, Mywoman blasts off into vicious storms of apocalyptic noise. This digital version adds bonus track “Sinister Maggot,” closing the album with the constant death-pulse of an iron lung heaving within a blizzard of static.

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