Cytostatic
(Panta Rhei) Used CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
“Blaring washes of brutal white noise and effected metal objects, bowed with other metals." From 2004
Nervescrap
(Pure) Used CD $12.00
“Walls on walls on walls of noise. Blistering, full-spectrum, ear-piercing, colon-clenching noise. Bottomless layers of samples, static, and screeches combine to an overwhelming chaos that fills every second of this [mid-’90s] album,” says KFJC, before explaining that “Knurl is Toronto-based experimental musician Alan Bloor. He avoids synthesizers digital sounds, instead using found objects such as fan blades, typewriters, scrap metal and car springs to create music that is completely devoid of rhythm, melody, vocals, and production quality.”
Paramecium
(Panta Rhei) Used CDR $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
“Paramecium inspires thoughts of cataclysmic events,” assures Exclaim, “Such as tectonic shifts where the Earth’s plates grind against each other, the onslaught of powerful hurricanes, or the eruption of volcanoes.” Spray-painted cover
Periodic Nephromucilaginocity
(Total Zero) Used CDR $5.00
Bookended by darkness, spooky bass and delay, the three central tracks, with their shrieks of feedback, oil drum percussion and electronic distortion “gnaw at the ear drums with variable intensities” according to Mental. “Cosmic chalkboard scraping…, convoluted [and] glued.”
Reactance
(Wintage - WRT-75) LP $15.00
After nearly two decades of live performances, car crash reality, damaged ear bleed sound, countless CDs and cassettes on various noise labels, Knurl's debut LP delivers a furnace blast of searing frequencies. Trademark saw-blades, chains and metal files leaves nothing but a husk of melted electronics and a pile of smouldering wires under a hail-storm of rusty nails hammering down on a sheet metal roof. “Micrarhyncis” evokes serious backwoods dentistry where the low-end rattles free the fillings from the back of your mouth. On side B, the barbed-wire violin bakes scorching drones under a hot desert sun, eventually melting and congealing in a pool of mercury and chaos. Steel on steel, metal on metal, rust on rust.
Scyamine
(Troniks - TRO227) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)
The sound of distorted, amplified metal from 2006 by Alan Bloor, whose scrapyard inferno roars with the sounds of feedback and blown speakers, live and raw, produced from found stainless steel. Relentlessly rushing forward, constantly moving through a maze of grinding scrapes and crashes.
Standard Deviation
(Oxen - OXEN032) Cassette $6.25 (Out-of-stock)
Thoroughly superb harsh noise, abounding with blossoms of metal corruption. Alan Bloor scours and scythes through the destructive stress of an active, real-time debauching of iron caging and light gauge stainless steel. No overdubs, no loopers. C40
Thiocarbamide
(Phage - PT91) CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
The fifty minutes on this release were composed using constructed metal objects and violin. All four tracks are pure, unrelenting harsh noise with plenty of movement, low bass rumbling, high-frequency feedback and the sound of metal being abused. One of Canada's most reliable mad dogs. Edition of 200.
Vorticose
(Panta Rhei) Used CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
At times more ambient drone than harsh noise, yet with sharp, hammering, acoustic sources more prominent than ever. Sadistic and smoking hot. From 2003 with color print insert.