SVN OKKLT

13.4.24

COST - KOS / LOST GERMAN SHEPHERD 503

COST - KOS
COST - LOST GERMAN SHEPHERD 503

REST IN PEACE DANNY COSTA!!!!
COST FOREVER!!!

Country: USA

Style: Harsh Noise

Length: 35:46 / 45:11

Year: Both albums 2021

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31.3.23

COMMUTER - NO LONGER PENITENT

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Country: USA

Style: Harsh Noise

Length: 52:14

Year: 2023
BIGCARTEL

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"No Longer Penitent" is the new full-length from Commuter, a project from Portland's Jackson Abdul-Salaam (Herukrat, Junta Cadre) that blends harsh noise and urban field recordings. Building on the highly regarded 2021 album "Inner SE Industrial" released on Phage Tapes, this new effort pushes Commuter's sound and atmosphere even further. Says the artist:

"No Longer Penitent acts as a direct follow-up album to "Inner SE Industrial", the previous full-length on Phage. When it released in 2021 I didn't feel any closure with the theme, location, or experiences the album draws from, and work on this next album began straight away. In theory, the structure is simple; the albums are built from personal field recordings of time spent walking through the inner city's most abject blocks. But the nature of these areas, with their piercing sights and sounds, has seeped into me mentally and emotionally. This album serves as a companion to my complete exhaustion and consumption, leading me to this ultimate offering: a burnt-out and desperate cataloguing of the urban drug, mental health, and housing crisis presented through extreme noise. My goal remains the same—to bring the listener as vividly as possible into the defiled world this album grew from, to listen to it as if they were next to me with the field recorder in hand. Nights spent walking alone in the rain, a woman screaming at visions in the darkness, a man recounting a story about trying to wash a cop's mace from his eyes, the compulsive sounds of a lighter flicking over and over from the hunched figure freebasing meth next to me at a train station. The memories are all here."

Packaged in a 6-panel digipack, mastered by Grant Richardson.

1.10.22

Expensive Tastes - Your Beautiful White Teeth

EXPENSIVE TASTES - YOUR BEAUTIFUL WHITE TEETH

Country: USA
Style: Power Electronics
Length: 31:21
Year: 2022
BANDCAMP
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Explosive psycho-sexual power electronics, 30+ minutes of punishment with constant vocal abuse, detailing memories of spit, teeth fetishism, anxiety, shame and lust.

3.2.22

Junta Cadre - The Enemy is Listening

JUNTA CADRE - THE ENEMY IS LISTENING
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Country: USA
Style: Power Electronics
Length: 37:37
Year: 2022
BANDCAMP

Following the red thread of history that wove its way through the 20th century, Junta Cadre previously targeted the development and overtake of Communism throughout China and South-East Asia. Now, the iron-sights are set on the era of the red scare and Cold War - “The Enemy is Listening” draws heavily from personal research and reading, aiming to document the years of paranoia, intimidation, and political terror of Soviet Communism, and its tense relationship with the United States.

Recorded directly after “Vietnam Forever”, this debut LP picks up sonically where the previous full length left off, introducing the most massive and expansive sound for the project so far. With the help of featuring artists Deterge, Striations, and Death Kneel, “The Enemy is Listening” delivers oppressive synth lines, scathing vocals, crushing noise, and meticulous sampling.

Keep it to yourself, the enemy wants to know what YOU know.

26.12.21

Junta Cadre - Unflinching Patriotism

JUNTA CADRE - UNFLINCHING PATRIOTISM

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Country: USA

Style: Power Electronics

Length: 20:50

Year: 2021

BANDCAMP

11.9.21

10th Anniversary

SVN-OKKLT turned 10 years old this year on May 30th. It's been a good journey, but one that obviously hasn't seen much activity in the past few years. Despite this, the site personally remains a massive archive of good memories and music found/shared throughout the years — especially in the early days. Thanks to all the people who have contributed, reached out, and especially to the artists whose music formed the cornerstone of this project. Starting with a focus on underground black metal in early 2011 I fell deep into the rabbit hole of lo-fi and hard to find recordings, channeling the early DIY essence of mysterious labels like Rhinocervs and CN. The site focused primarily on this raw blackened punk and underground black metal sound for the first few years, before landing to the more permanent genres of harsh noise and power electronics. Despite it being focused on the latter mentioned genres from 2014 til the present, I think Svn-Okklt has, and will always be remembered, as an outlet where many people first discovered some of the raw and underground black metal that defined it in the early days.

Many old image links are now broken and won't be repaired, however almost all of the download links have remained active throughout the past decade. I will see that they continue to be kept alive as long as I'm feasibly able to do so. People have told me over the years that they found something through this site that became a life-defining album, artist, or moment in their eventual path of discovery through music, sub-culture, and their own creativity - this is ultimately what propelled the site over the years, and what I am most grateful for.

The Svn-Okklt youtube channel (although now under a different name) continues to be updated more frequently than this blog, and can be found here. As always, I can still be reached at svnokklt[at]gmail.com if need-be.

Forever charging forward, with lance pointed toward the heart of God
SVN-OKKLT

Commuter - Inner SE Industrial

COMMUTER - INNER SE INDUSTRIAL

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THERE IS NO LIMIT TO THE PUNISHMENT WE DESERVE

Country: USA

Style: Harsh Noise

Length: 56:01

Year: 2021

BANDCAMP

Inner SE Industrial logs years of obsession with one of Portland’s most sordid districts.
The area is lined with makeshift tents, garbage, drug use, and graffiti, set against a backdrop of railroad tracks, dirty warehouses, and echoing overpasses.
The idea for this album first started during my countless nights of walking the district with my camera and field recorder, documenting the sights and sounds extensively over four or five years.
Over time it began to take shape, slowly turning into this hellish memoir of industrial decline, waste, and Portland’s drug/health crisis.

All tracks are built using field recordings personally gathered, layered with noise, scrap metal, people calling out to hallucinations, freight trains ripping through the darkness, and garbage trampled underfoot.
All photos are taken on location, and all track titles based on time spent in the area. Welcome to the South East Industrial District.