BONG-RA
BLACK NOISE - CD
UPC: 652733841483
Label: DEBEMUR MORTI PROD.
Format: CD
Release Date: February 28, 2025
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Defying convention since their mid-1990s formation, avant-Metal breakcore pioneers BONG-RA arrive on DMP in monolithic style with the cold Industrialised wallop of new album “Black Noise”.
BONG-RA are the central project from Jason Köhnen (THE LOVECRAFT SEXTET, THE KILIMANJARO DARKJAZZ ENSEMBLE, CELESTIAL SEASON), who over the past 25 years has used the alias to craft a diverse body of consistently challenging experimental work as one of the primary acts to meld underground Metal with electronics.
BONG-RA has always been deeply rooted in and possessed of the same energy, rawness and rebellion as Metal and Grindcore. “Black Noise” finds Köhnen returning to the fuck-you extremity of his heritage: blending visceral and weighty stabs of guitar with mechanical electronics, interweaving polyrhythmic relentlessness with grim-faced, steely-eyed Industrial Metal heft – the nervous psychopathy of breakcore bubbling at the edges to boil over in cascades of propulsive energy.
The early trademarks of the raw electronic BONG-RA sounds and drum patterns all remain, only now the distorted guitars and confrontational vocals take a more prominent lead in the compositions. Whereas in the past many guitar riffs were sampled, this album steps away from that concept and moves into a fully DIY method of recording and processing.
The album title functions as an opposite to ‘white noise’ – a sound that contains all frequencies across the audible spectrum in equal measure. “Black Noise” stands for opposing dynamics, inaudible tones, and conflicting frequencies. Symbolizing the many dissonances we face, it is a personal journal into machinal distorted hybrid electronica that reflects the dystopic elements of the modern world.
Recommended if you like: GODFLESH, SCORN, PITCHSHIFTER
TRACK LIST:
1. Dystopic 04:37
2. Death#2 04:22
3. Nothing Virus 04:12
4. Useless Eaters 04:52
5. Black Rainbow 04:12
6. Bloodclot 03:00
7. Ruins 04:37
8. Parasites 04:09
9. Blissful Ignorance 04 :19
