According to the noise he creates, Masami Akita – the artist behind Merzbow – should be a certified maniac, but if the remastered release of 1994’s Venereology, out now on Relapse Records, is the result, then who are we to judge?

UK’s hardcore warriors Continents have released “Scorn,” the second track from their upcoming full-length, Reprisal, available everywhere October 30, 2015.

Denver blackened doom nihilists Primitive Man – featuring within their ranks current and formers members of Clinging To The Trees Of A Forest Fire, Reproacher and Death Of Self – are preparing to unleash the forbidden fruit of their debut full-length. Recorded by Dave Otero at Flatline Audio (Cephalic Carnage, Catheter, Cobalt etc), the fittingly dubbed Scorn finds Primitive Man commemorating a slow-roasted apocalypse through seven asphyxiating odes of hatred, disease and despair.