Catafalque / Coalminer – Catafalque / Coalminer (Album – URB Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Noise, Ambient-Noise.
Format: Digital, Cassette.
Background/Info: This split release features the UK project Catafalque at the A-side and right from The Philippines Coalminer at the B-side. Each project features two tracks.
Content: Catafalque takes off with 2 cuts mixing dark, oppressive, atmospheres creating a sort of noisy Soundscape mixed with Death-Industrial. Coalminer sounds more explicit and deals with harder, Noise-orientated tracks.
+ + + : This work is an opportunity to get more familiarized with the Slovakian URB Sounds which is clearly devoted to pure Underground music. Personally I’m more into the controlled and inhibited sound universe of Catafalque. I like the way both tracks have been built up featuring elements of different- but related music genres. The way the screaming vocals have been manipulated into an extra noise source is cool and efficient. It’s also great to discover a project from The Philippines.
– – – : Pure Noise never has been my cup of tea so Coalminer is not exactly my stuff; only for Noise lovers here!
Conclusion: This work gave me mixed feelings; a cool discovery named Catafalque and another project which was harder to endure named Coalminer.
Best songs: “Charred Remains”.
Rate: 6.
Listen to the “Catafalque / Coalminer” split:
Artist: www.facebook.com/CatafalqueUK
Label: https://urbsounds.sk / www.facebook.com/urbsounds
About Catafalque / Coalminer
Catafalque / Coalminer is a split release pairing two projects. Catafalque is a noise, drone and metal project from the United Kingdom run by Thomas Ozers, also of The Dead Yesterdays, and Daniel Dolby of Mastiff. Coalminer is a duo from Manila in the Philippines.
Catafalque self-released the album “Catafalque” in 2019 and shared the split “Memento Mori” with Clawing on Trepanation Recordings the same year. “Corpses” followed on Trepanation in 2020 and “We Will Always Suffer” on Cursed Monk Records that year, with “Dybbuk” arriving through Code666 and Aural Music in 2023.
Coalminer issued the “Burning Magnesium” EP on Steinklang Industries in 2020 and a split cassette with Jugendwerkhof on Karma Detonation Tapes the same year, then “Dead Light Miasma” with Government Alpha on Orb Tapes in 2021, “Borrowed Joy” on E.C.T. in 2022 and the LP “Beautiful Deterioration” on Steinklang Industries in 2022.
Urbsounds Collective released the split on 15 September 2021 as a stereo cassette. It runs four tracks: Catafalque’s “A New Torquemada” and “Charred Remains”, and Coalminer’s “He Never Evolved To Be Human” and “Abscess of Purity”. RBNX mastered the release, and the cover art and design are credited to Relay Mosh, Catafalque and Coalminer.
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