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chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · 1d

Raoul Sinier is most definitely back, and this is very much a good thing... auralaggravation.com/2025/10/07/r... @dense-pr.bsky.social

Smote – Songs From The Free House

chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · 3d

You can truly feel the earth move... auralaggravation.com/2025/10/06/s... @rocketrecordings.bsky.social @rarelyunable.bsky.social

Rocket Recordings – 17th October 2025 Christopher Nosnibor The thing that particularly stands out in the bio for the latest Smote album is this: ‘Daniel Foggin has spent the majority of his adult l…

Watch: ‘Sword Tongue’ by We Are the Resistance

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chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · 3d

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... and mine! auralaggravation.com/2025/10/05/w... @swordtongue.bsky.social @shamelesspromotion.bsky.social

Oakland-based alternative rock / darkwave trio Sword Tongue presents the video for ‘We Are The Resistance’ , a dark gem showcasing their explosive fourth EP Bonfire In The Tempest. Galvanized, song…

3rd October 2025 Christopher Nosnibor Foldhead has been quiet on the output front of late, after something of a purple patch around lockdown, there was a lull, broken by Mirfield Pads in 2022, with…

chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · 5d

Intense, hypnotic, relentless, it’s a pulsating, shifting noise beast that slowly spins off its axis and out of control in a swelling surge of sound... auralaggravation.com/2025/10/03/f... @paultone.bsky.social

Foldhead – Paris Braille

Listen: ‘050809’ by Spotlights

chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · 6d

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... and mine! auralaggravation.com/2025/10/02/l... @ipecac.com @rarelyunable.bsky.social

Spotlights, the beloved trio of Mario and Sarah Quintero with drummer Chris Enriquez, release Rarities, a remastered nine-song compilation of early and rare tracks spanning the band’s full discogra…

Kevin Drumm – Sheer Hellish Miasmah

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chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · 11d

This is a monster... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/27/k... @editionsmego.bsky.social @dense-pr.bsky.social

Editions Mego – 10th October 2025 Christopher Nosnibor This is a monster. A monster that’s been roaring and raging for twenty-three years now. The appropriately-titled noise classic, Sheer Hellish …

Ashley Reaks – At Night The World Belongs To Me

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chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · 14d

I know, I’m sort of dancing about architecture here, but something about Reaks’ work prompts a multi-sensory response... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/24/a...

2nd October 2025 Christopher Nosnibor The context for Ashley Reaks’ sixteenth solo album – and his third in three years (not counting the compilation of demos released earlier this year) – is weigh…

Watch: ‘Snodgerss’ by Smote

chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · 14d

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... and mine! auralaggravation.com/2025/09/24/w... @rocketrecordings.bsky.social @rarelyunable.bsky.social

Following the announcement of Smote’s fifth release for Rocket Recordings – Songs From The Free House – the band now shares a second taster of what’s to come in the form of ‘Snodg…

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chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · 15d

Well I'm excited... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/23/b...

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chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · 18d

Always a pleasure, and of course, excellent music warrants the best words I can muster!

The Dwarfs Of East Agouza – Sasquatch Landslide

chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · 18d

For all of its abstraction, 'Sasquatch Landslide' provokes quite visual interpretations of the sounds emanating from the speakers. I expect to have very strange dreams tonight after this... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/20/t... @rarelyunable.bsky.social

Constellation – 3rd October 2025 Christopher Nosnibor The third album by The Dwarfs Of East Agouza (Maurice Louca (Lehkfa), Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, Sublime Frequencies), and Sam Shalabi (Land …

Cruel Nature Records – 12th September 2025 Christopher Nosnibor Postmodernism, emerging primarily as a product of post-war America was defined by hybridity, the demolition of parameters and distinc…

chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · 19d

Harsh, heavy, abrasive, messed-up… these are the selling points for this release... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/19/f... @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social

Fat Concubine – Empire

Room40 – 19th September 2025 Christopher Nosnibor There are many labels putting interesting and unusual, innovative releases into the world. The majority of them are small, and supremely niche, but…

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chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · 20d

This is the twentieth anniversary edition of an album that likely very few people have even heard of, let alone heard... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/18/b... @dense-pr.bsky.social @room40.bsky.social

Ben Frost – Steelwound

Listen: ‘Titular’ by The Dwarfs Of East Agouza

chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · 21d

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... and mine! auralaggravation.com/2025/09/17/l... @rarelyunable.bsky.social

Maurice Louca, Alan Bishop, and Sam Shalabi expand on their telekinetic fusion of North African rhythm, heat-haze improvisation, shaabi rawness, free jazz, and psychedelic groove, following acclaim…

chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · 21d

He's been getting far too much platform in the local press here in York, but the facade of 'community pride' soon slipped and he started saying how York isn't an 'international' or 'global' city, but an English city, and that he objected to pride flags because they don't represent him

Watch: ‘Dan’s Love Song’ by Agriculture

chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · 21d

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... and mine! auralaggravation.com/2025/09/17/w... @rarelyunable.bsky.social

The forthcoming full-length from Los Angeles–based band Agriculture, The Spiritual Sound, traces a narrative arc through extremes. The album is largely a fusing of the visions of its two prin…

Nocturnal Rainbow Recordings – 5th September 2025 Christopher Nosnibor One significant downside to digital music formats is that is reduces the dimensions of the experience. With a record, and even…

chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · 23d

Sometimes, I feel I should be able to asemble my thoughs more quickly, and type faster...

chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · 26d

The execution of Neon Swans is hard to fault, and it does cover considerable ground, with range, over its expansive duration. But it is sprawling in its scope, its focus is variable, and it is very long. And it’s maybe better with drugs... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/12/r... @dense-pr.bsky.social

Ran Slavin – Neon Swans

chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · 28d

Agriculture give it all, and the impact hits like nothing else... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/10/a... @rarelyunable.bsky.social

The Beast of Noisenibor, by NOISENIBOR

chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · Sep 8

So, this happened. It's not quite the announcement I'd envisaged, but while I work on that, here it is. A free compilation album culled from my last five years of noisemaking... christophernosnibor.bandcamp.com/album/the-be...

8 track album

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chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · Sep 6

Agriculture don’t only transcend black metal, but genre entirely, and the experience is dizzying, a visionary creative peak which is truly peerless... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/06/a... @rarelyunable.bsky.social

Agriculture – The Spiritual Sound

The Flenser – 3rd October 2025 Christopher Nosnibor Agriculture – the name brings connotations of the slow, the sedate, a simple and calm life, of rolling fields, tractors, luscious foliage, abunda…

Cowgirl / The Bricks / Strange Pink – The Black Horse, York, 4th September 2025

chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · Sep 5

Everything about tonight feels like a win... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/05/c...

Christopher Nosnibor Pub gigs provided me with my first experiences of live music, back in the early 90s. Often, pubs with upstairs rooms would pop bands on, and other still would simply pack bands…