Listening Notes - October 17, 2025
I’m excited to introduce Listening Notes, honest opinions on international releases newly added to The Nocturnal Library. This time including new additions to The Nocturnal Library from Grubenwehr Freiburg. Re-Drum / EMERGE / Svart1 / Lefterna - Split An excellent four way split C90 mixing solo tracks, a collaborative live recording and studio collaborations by Re-Drum, EMERGE, Svart1 and Lefterna together for a really great listening journey. This material is superb dark Industrial Noise with a high degree of immersion, quality sound play, excellent performances and a unique sound. The A side has a surreal stream like crumbling rocks blended with warbled dirty distorted sound matter like quality to it with a hazy mix of dark ambience being mixed in the left channel whilst gristle, garbled mixed sound sources chime in mystery in the right channel. At times there are melodic pulses and some kind of rhythm but the progression of the pieces is quite unpredictable, organic and not repetiti...