Thursday, October 31, 2013

SKULL SKATES COMMERCIAL

HEAVY AND PIVOTAL INFLUENCE TO THE BARRIER KULT IS FEATURED IN THIS RECENT SKULL SKATES COMMERCIAL - THE GRINDABLE EDGES OF THE CHINA CREEK TEACUP, THE TIGHT TRANSITIONS OF SEYLYNN'S TOP AREA, THE SKULL SKATES DIEHARD DECK, CARLOS LONGO AND OTHER VANCOUVER MEMBERS OF THE JAK'S SKATE TEAM. 

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

BARRIER KULTIST RECENT KNIFING SET-UP

MUSKELLUNGE OF DARK ISLAND'S SIMS SCREAMER WITH GULLWING PRO III'S, MINI-CUBICS.  AN EXAMPLE OF THE BARRIER KULT'S FANATICAL DEDICATION TO 1980s PIG SHAPES AND TIGHT TRANSITION RITUAL PURITY TRUTHS. 


Sunday, October 27, 2013

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

BA. KU. RELATED POWER ELECTRONICS / HARSH NOISE

ACQUAINTANCE OF THE BARRIER KULT, SAM McKINLAY OF THE HARSH NOISE PROJECT 'THE RITA', WAS ASKED TO PROVIDE POWER ELECTRONICS (HARSH NOISE WITH VOCALS) AS THE SOUNDTRACK FOR THE EXTRAS ON THE BARRIER KULT HORDE VIDEO.  SEPARATE AND SIMILAR RECORDED MATERIAL WAS EVENTUALLY PUT TO AUDIO CASSETTE WHILE STILL UNDER THE MONIKER BA. KU.  (BEFORE CHANGING THE NAME TO BT. HN. TO AVOID CONFUSION).  SOME OF THE MATERIAL IS NOW AVAILABLE ON A LIMITED EDITION LP FROM URASHIMA RECORDS.  
MORE INFORMATION:
"...Originally released by Trash Ritual in 2005 under the name Ba.Ku. and later re-released as BT.HN., the “Ritual Totemic Stone” cassette showcased a markedly different style for McKinlay. The sound on “Ritual Totemic Stone” was sharper, darker, and more dynamic, tending more toward heavy Power Electronics with high-end feedback and indistinct vocals emerging from behind the sort of immense walls for which McKinlay is more customarily known. Drawing both sonic and conceptual inspiration from raw and bestial Black Metal, BT.HN. began incorporating samples from obscure horror films and a new aesthetic sensibility that, at that time, had not been fully explored in the Harsh Noise scene; indeed, the overlapping attributes of Black Metal and Noise were only just beginning to be explored. (Note that in 2006, The Rita and Bone Awl issued their collaboration that explored the nexus between these two genres.) While the use of Black Metal tropes in Noise is now disgracefully commonplace and usually trite, McKinlay's approach in 2005 was engaging because, as with his other thematic focal points, his tendency toward obsession granted him the ability to appropriate the right characteristics of Black Metal and incorporate them seamlessly. Regarded years later, “Ritual Totemic Stone” is a significant release within McKinlay's overall discography and a landmark release in the history of Harsh Noise. As such, Urashima, recognizing that it should be preserved and made available once again, has issued this vinyl edition .  The record has been pressed on 140 gr black vinyl with black label and black inner sleeve and comes in a deluxe silver silkscreen on black cardboard sleeve, limited to 99 copies with strip insert in luxury 160 gr ivory paper."

Notes from J. Campbell (Influencing Machine Records)


Saturday, October 12, 2013

CHRIS MOYEN'S THORN CROSS: BLACK INK AND METAL BOOK

THE CHRIS MOYEN ARTWORK FOR THE BARRIER KULT 10th ANNIVERSARY ITEMS MADE BY DEATH BY METAL IS ONE OF THE MANY WORKS FEATURED IN THE CHRIS MOYEN'S THORN CROSS: BLACK INK AND METAL BOOK.  THE BOOK IS AVAILABLE FROM NUCLEAR WAR NOW! IN VARIOUS NORMAL AND DIE HARD VERSIONS. 





































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