Nikoletta Winters
DANGEROUSLY NASTY. I think this entire album should be used in a dark first person shooter. Gives me Quake vibes. Also those vocals—holy shit! All around amazing. A revelation.
Favorite track: Vagrancy.
Be the Hammer [B_Γ_H] is a Belgium-based collaborative project revolving around its sole constant member, Raoul Puke, surrounded with various contributors depending on the release. He started with recording material alongside thereminist / vocalist Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock (Baby Fire, von Stroheim), thus giving birth to Be the Hammer's first album, Tangled Mass, released in 2015.
Later on he teamed up with guitarist / co-producer Jean-Marc Nicoletti (UnSoNiC), forming the project's current line-up.
Their music comes from a combination of drone and spoken word, but keeps exploring various paths, and lately has been including more and more rhythmic elements.
JOHN 3:16 is the guise of Philippe Gerber, formerly one third of the London-based trio Heat From A DeadStar (2004 – '09), who became the first non-US band to be signed by Rick Harte's Boston-based Ace Of Hearts Records. As JOHN 3:16, Gerber's music has been released by Alrealon Musique, Flood Records, 75orLess, White Label Music and more. Gerber has collaborated with the likes of Oxbow's vocalist Eugene S. Robinson, Pas Musique, I-Symptom, Peter Webber and Mark Harris.
Recently, his work as a trailer music composer has helped to inform a new direction in his own studio albums, making them sound more and more cinematic.
Swarm is the outcome of a remote collaboration between these three, resulting in a 44 minute long sonic nightmare, the score to a horror film that doesn't exist.
Credits:
Written, recorded and produced by Be the Hammer & JOHN 3:16
Lyrics by Raoul Puke
Mixed by Jean-Marc Nicoletti
Mastered by Philippe Gerber at All Real Sound
Be the Hammer are:
J-M. Nicoletti: guitars, synths, programming
R. Puke: vocals, synths, sampling
JOHN 3:16 is Philippe Gerber [guitars, synths, electronic drums]
Artcover: Mimusa
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Be the Hammer [B_Γ_H] is a Belgium-based collaborative project revolving around its sole constant member, Raoul Puke, surrounded with various contributors depending on the release. He started with recording material alongside thereminist / vocalist Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock (Baby Fire, von Stroheim), thus giving birth to Be the Hammer's first album, Tangled Mass, released in 2015.
Later on he teamed up with guitarist / co-producer Jean-Marc Nicoletti (UnSoNiC), forming the project's current line-up.
Their music comes from a combination of drone and spoken word, but keeps exploring various paths, and lately has been including more and more rhythmic elements.
JOHN 3:16 is the guise of Philippe Gerber, formerly one third of the London-based trio Heat From A DeadStar (2004 – '09), who became the first non-US band to be signed by Rick Harte's Boston-based Ace Of Hearts Records. As JOHN 3:16, Gerber's music has been released by Alrealon Musique, Flood Records, 75orLess, White Label Music and more. Gerber has collaborated with the likes of Oxbow's vocalist Eugene S. Robinson, Pas Musique, I-Symptom, Peter Webber and Mark Harris.
Recently, his work as a trailer music composer has helped to inform a new direction in his own studio albums, making them sound more and more cinematic.
Swarm is the outcome of a remote collaboration between these three, resulting in a 44 minute long sonic nightmare, the score to a horror film that doesn't exist.
credits
released June 29, 2022
Written, recorded and produced by Be the Hammer & JOHN 3:16
Lyrics by Raoul Puke
Mixed by Jean-Marc Nicoletti
Mastered by Philippe Gerber at All Real Sound
Be the Hammer are:
J-M. Nicoletti: guitars, synths, programming
R. Puke: vocals, synths, sampling
JOHN 3:16 is Philippe Gerber [guitars, synths, electronic drums]
Industrial Complexx is a media linked to dark, transgressive, experimental, eclectic and dissonant electronic music. It first emerges as a digital platform but, its activity expands as a record company, and also, as a printed medium.
Massive and very well produced, a monster of an album. When I say monster I mean it. This record can be frightening, huge, quiet and aggressive all at the same time. The Ambient/Industrial sound J316 creates moves, which is good as most of that music stays in one place all the time. Woven into that is some excellent guitar work that I can't categorize, which to me is always a good thing. Sliding inside an empty oil tanker is what this feels and sounds like. Recommended. Anthony Washburn
A stellar cast of artists put their own shadowy spins on recent Bestial Mouths material—toward the goth club floor or into pure noise. Bandcamp New & Notable May 11, 2021
This brilliant compilation from UK label Under My Feet offers scorching songs from a who’s who of experimental electronic music. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 2, 2023
A gripping journey through dark places we should not venture. If you like to stimulate your subconscious to the buddings of awareness, dig into Yoldath Aloho and the entire JOHN 3:16 discography. Mr. Conner