Venereology (album)

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Venereology
Venereology cover
Studio album by Merzbow
Released September, 1994, reissued 2006
Recorded January - February, 1994 at ZSF Produkt Studio, Tokyo, Japan
Genre Noise music
Length 50:16
Label Release Entertainment
Producer Masami Akita
Merzbow chronology
Electroploitation
(1994)		 Venereology
(1994)		 Noisembryo
(1994)

Venereology is a studio album by the Japanese noise musician, Merzbow. It was the first of five Merzbow albums released by the American heavy metal label Relapse Records, under their Release imprint, and as such was responsible for bringing Merzbow's work to a much wider audience in the United States and was reissued in 2006. This album is Merzbow's take on death metal. The liner notes for Venereology are much more detailed than most of the ones for Merzbow recordings which usually only inlcude a few websites and a tracklist.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All music by Masami Akita except where noted.

  1. "Ananga-Ranga" – 29:02
  2. "Klo Ken Phantasie (Kimoto)" – 9:22
  3. "I Lead You Towards Glorious Times" (Azuma, Bara) – 5:29
  4. "Slave New Desart" – 6:22

[edit] Personnel

  • Masami Akita
  • Abtechtonics – art design, colour
  • Reiko A – noise
  • Bara – vocals
  • Kazuyoshi Kimoto – bass

[edit] Production

Track 3 was an excerpt of a live performance at Yaneura II on February 4, 1994.

[edit] Liner Notes

Merzbow sends greetings to following:

Alchemy Records, Vanilla Records, RRRecords, Charnel House Productions,Way Out Sound, Verticle Records Banned Productions,V2,Extreme,Cheeses International,Zero Cabal,Nihilist Recordings,Cinemagic,Cold Spring, Lusetti Guido,Kinbiken,Rightbrain,Hijokaidan,MB,Violent Onsen Geisha,Pain Jerk,Incapacitants,Solmania,Masonna,Monde Bruits,Aube,C.C.C.C.,Controlled Bleeding,Anal Cunt,Macronympha,Selektion,Artware,Laughing Eskimo,Borbetomagus,Emil Beaulieu,Kapotte Muziek,TH20,John Duncan,Smell & Quim,New Blockaders,Boredoms,Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock,Due Process,Achim Wollschied,Animal Art,Anomalous Records,Seikyu-Sha,S&M Sniper,DIA Press,Sanwa Publishing,The Haters,Sounds for Consciousness Rape,Hanayo Nakajima,Bizarre Magazine,Susei Sha,Asmus Tietchens,Silent Records,Giancarlo Toniutti,etc...[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Liner Notes

[edit] External links