Cult Love Sound Tapes

Where does one even start with Bonemagic? Established in 2013 by underground pillar and Tru noise mastermind, Matt Hex, in rugged Stilwell, OK, Bonemagic is the embodiment of the raw, rural honesty of US Flyover Country. A uniquely Midsouthern project, the greater decade of Bonemagic has yielded a bewitching blend of industrial, gothic darksynth, and of course, teeth gritting harsh noise through a lens more akin to black magic ballet than any sort of "traditional" experimental music practice; irreplicable with no clear comparison. To understand Matt Hex and Bonemagic is to realize the indescribable spirit of a place as complicated and diverse as Oklahoma. A highly emotional, evocative essence that is jagged, unrestrained, even primitive at times; a mirror to the soul. Bonemagic epitomizes it all, in performance and in sound.

To speak in less ethereal terms and more explicitly express the sonic qualities of the project, Bonemagic offers sentimental outpourings through lofi screams buried in blown out 808s within a forest of witch house-esque synthesizers ranging from goth club, high BPM dance tracks to slower, intimate swan songs. Of course, these are broken up with soaring rockets of feedback, eardrum punishing rumbles, and rapidly shifting glitches of noise synthesizers, digital deconstruction, and no input mixing that provide punishing panoramas of top tier, pro-grade harsh noise. Bonemagic seamlessly hybridizes Matt Hex's upbringing of vast musical experiences and diverse mail-order-era media digestion.

Matt Hex the individual of course has many accolades and is a widely recognized veteran of the noise and experimental music scene of the last fifteen years. He has headlined and performed at numerous noise festivals and events across the country, was an organizer of Tulsa Noise Fest and Tarot Fest, and runs the popular noise-meme page, Noise Lawyer. He has seen releases through many high quality, well known labels such as Deathbed Tapes, Phage Tapes, and Damien Records, collaborating with the likes of artists such as The Rita, Astro, and Richie Culver. Other endeavors of his include Video Nasty, Licking Wounds (collaboration with Ritual Chair), Flora Morte (collaboration with Nathan Young), Gospel, Snub Nose, Mirrored Fatality, Stalking, and more. If you know noise, you know Matt Hex.

We feel privileged and honored to present this retrospective to the public; and newly mastered for tape by Gabriel Wheat, Matt Hex's mainstay and flagship project, Bonemagic, has never sounded so good! Limited run of 50 hand numbered cassettes, dubbed by LoDrum, curated and arranged by Natty Gray, and designed by George Christ.

https://cultlovesoundtapes.bandcamp.com/album/pitfalls-and-the-promise-a-bonemagic-best-of

Six years after the release of their self titled, Oklahoma's premier grindcore and or power violence group (and one of Natty's favorite "local" bands), the hardcore soaked, face pummeling duo, WITHOUT EMPATHY (aka WOE aka W/OE), have finally returned to grace our ears with riffs and blasts of the utmost foul nature.

For those unfamiliar, W/OE are more or less the supreme collaging of all the best parts of the greater umbrella of extreme punk music. The blasts of blistering grind are there, the breakdowns of the heaviest beatdown bands slam you in the head, the conscious, pinpoint lyricism of the most pi**ed and frustrated power violence acts keeps you dialed in, and to top it all off, their music is littered with comical samples, highly technical playing, and vocal styles spanning pv-tough-guy-yells to goregrind pitch shifts. They're a perfect band.

LESSER BEINGS is an exceptional display of anger and the subtle complexities of extreme music performance while addressing ongoing social and political issues within the land of Oklahoma and the state fabricated plights endured by its people; it recognizes Oklahoma as a microcosmic reflection of the national chaos, corruption, and disarray that impacts the lives of individuals all over the world. LESSER BEINGS also sees an expansion of the sonic palate of WITHOUT EMPATHY. They're not necessarily dramatic changes (as WOE has always been a band willing to push the envelope and implement out-of-the-box writing and playing styles), however they are markedly distinguished from their self titled. Though a somewhat avant-garde inclination has always towed beneath the surface of WOE, we see it surfacing a little more plainly on LESSER BEINGS with increased fervent, noisy, freeplay-esque moments, as well as a very surprising use of droney clean vocals singing "Ring-Around-The-Rosies" accompanied by guest vocals and a toy keyboard outro.

Overall, WITHOUT EMPATHY once again delivers, without single fault, an exceptional piece of aggressive. heavy music. Their capacity to aggregate and amalgamate so many stylistic tropes of extreme punk music so succinctly and masterfully is, as usual, the highlight of their songwriting and the band's greatest strength. To top it all off, their highly regionalized and recognizable Oklahoma flare provides an additional degree of uniqueness that sets them aside from the sea of grind and pv bands so widely proliferated in our day and age. A delicious return from arguably the Midsouth's best, a contender for heavy music's album of the year.

Limited run of 50 hand numbered cassettes.

https://cultlovesoundtapes.bandcamp.com/album/lesser-beings

WITHOUT EMPATHY "LESSER BEINGS". Oklahoma City, OK grindcore blended with power violence and beat down. Limited run of 50 hand numbered cassettes.

https://cultlovesoundtapes.bandcamp.com/album/lesser-beings