***Reporting Live from Landa Pass (Stories from Red Hill) is the debut full length album of 'Abstract Rhythmic Experimental Electronic Music' by Los Angeles-based Hungarian American sound & visual artist ANDORKAPPEN (born SANDO GERGELY FINTA). It is the culmination of over a decade of activity under this particular moniker, including countless live performances and 12 EPs & split releases on various labels. Finta has been an active member of the L.A. underground music community for over 20 years as a performer, curator and label (Universal Consciousness). He has collaborated with the likes of Raven Chacon, Bob Bellerue, PatrickShiroishi, Smegma, Bastard Noise, Rick Potts of LAFMS, The Cherry Point, Ezra Buchla and many others. He is a founding member & drummer of black punk metal band HARASSOR, whose 2014 LP Into Unknown Depths on Dais Records is considered a classic of its genre. Finta’s solo outsider black metal project LORD TIME has received excellent reviews and is acclaimed for its fearless creativity and idiosyncratic sonic world. Finta’s focus has gradually shifted to electronic music composition in recent years.Reporting Live from Landa Pass is his defining work yet in this realm. It is the central piece in a trilogy of full length albums completed during the Covid lockdown era (along with Transmissions from the Netherworlds on Skin Trade Recordings and Brutális Hatások on Fantasy 1 Records). Both of those works were born out of the Landa sessions which spanned 3+ years.
CD $9.25
04/16/2021
***REISSUED ON CD!!! From the globe-shattering behemoth of Slayer to the esoteric and arcane criterion set forth by the Black Twilight Circle collective, Southern California has cultivated its own distinctly refined extreme metal repository over the past many decades. Scorching its way out of this distinguished lineage came Harassor, a streamlined monstrosity evoking the consummate hallmarks of black, death, and doom metal without ever completely surrendering to any inveterate order. Their shrewdly raw yet deceptively deft attitude was enough for the predominantly industrial/minimal synth-minded Dais Records to unleash their apogeic 2014 LP Into Unknown Depths, one of the label’s few ventures into full-on metal. The instantaneous acclaim illuminated this rarest of anomalies: a band rising out of one of the more uncordial corners of the underground receiving universal accolades through their own studious and diverse ingenuity rather than by sacrificing their sonic extremity. Given the breadth of their concurrent activities (vocalist Pete Majors fronts progressive doom sextet Qaalm, guitarist James Brown III has been focusing on his one-man black metal outlet Moonknight, while drummer Sandor GF explores everything from noise to industrial to IDM in both solo and group settings), it’s no shock that Into Unknown Depths not only barrels forth with relentless fury, but also exposes more unorthodox influences, from the death-rock arpeggios that lead “Winter’s Triumph” to the street punk chug of “The Harassor” not to mention the scorched-earth sludge of closer “Purest Hate.” For the first time, Into Unknown Depths is seeing release on CD, newly remastered...
CD $9.21
04/16/2021
***“Yes! I love GLASS COFFIN and I love HARASSOR and I guess someone figured that out because they obviously made this record for me. Glass Coffin does that amazing naive-bedroom Black Metal thing that totally works for me. I gotta say that this is also incredibly catchy. You will find yourself singing the chorus for the first song while you do dishes at least every night for a week. Harassor does this blackened punk/thrash thing that somehow sounds like music stopped after Bathory and has now progressed to this. It's modern and relevant but also has this classic dark feel in both the music and production. It's real damn good. The art is from Sir Josh Lay and it's killer. Fits perfect for the music and just makes me so damn happy. Highly recommended.”—Dead Formats. Three way split release between Universal Consciousness, HUSK and Rising Beast.
LP $18.95
05/27/2014