from norman record's blog
More industrial-tinged sound art & drone for you kiddies. Both tracks here are inspired by Ulver; bleak avant-rockers from Norway. I’m not sure what to say about this apart from the fact it’s shrouded in a blackly evil veil and spits sonic acid at you at regular intervals whilst screeing, grumbling & hissing frequencies disturb & distress in equal measures. The other side is less harsh & evil but still very desolate, infused with the creeping dread of infinite dystopia. Alien sounds ricochet down a leaky rusted metal tunnel whilst a shadow in the distance emits the sound of a horrific digital chuckle, the essence of which dances in the atmosphere like an echo. The worst kind of echo – the aural reflection of your mind’s worst possible thought? Ltd 10?, black on black art which looks a bit Magick.
Brian gave this 4/5.
from frans de waard in Vital Weekly:
Quite an obscure record here. One side of the record says 'MGH plays Ulver' and the other 'the eveningsongs are fully & completely dedicated to the Forces Of Darkness' - printed black on black. Plus the name of the label somewhere really small. Had I not spot some event page on Facebook (thank God for Facebook), I would have not figured out that MGH stands for Martiens Go Home, a Brussels based group, whose last release was a USB device with no less than ten complete albums on it. Up until now I thought of the band as a kind of Farmers Manual, laptops a gogo, but this 10" shows a bit of humor, if perhaps a bit buried. The idea was to do a kind of old black metal record, which by the look of it, certainly succeeded. The music is inspired by Ulver, whom I only know for doing something with Merzbow. This 10" however is a not case of showing off black metal to attract a new crowd, Martiens Go Home still stand for experimentation in music. They take whatever input (be it a black metal record, or something that they generated themselves) and create some highly dark sound matter. I seem to be recognizing some metal sound (as in iron not the music), pitched down and played around, along with glitchy high-end sounds, deep bass rumble, and a slow built up. Frightening stuff going on here. The other side start out in a crumbled noise land, with heavily distorted and compressed tones, delving into the world of feedback. Maybe its the pressing, maybe its the music, but what causes the distortion is not entirely clear. Its not an entirely satisfying side, unlike the other side of this. But perhaps this side will go down better with the metal-heads wanting something more experimental. All in all quite pleasing as well as haunting. (FdW)
from metamkine:
Après leur clef USB qui documentait dix années d'expériences sonores sur plus de dix heures de musique, les Martiensgohome reviennent en douceur avec un 25cm et deux faces inspirées par la musique du groupe de blackmetal norvégien, Ulver. Ni pastiche, ni gimmick, mais une réelle inspiration pour deux faces sombres et illuminées en même temps. Couverture noire sur noire avec signes cabalistiques sur une face et sabots cornus sur l'autre. Toge et fumée ne sont pas fournies.
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