{"title":"Bong-Ra @sw@if@band-music-26550@","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"bong-ra-black-noise-cd-digipak","title":"Bong-Ra - Black Noise - CD DIGIPAK","description":"\u003cp\u003eDefying convention since their mid-1990s formation, avant-Metal breakcore pioneers BONG-RA arrive on DMP in monolithic style with the cold Industrialised wallop of new album \"Black Noise\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBONG-RA are the central project from Jason Köhnen (THE LOVECRAFT SEXTET, THE KILIMANJARO DARKJAZZ ENSEMBLE, CELESTIAL SEASON), who over the past 25 years has used the alias to craft a diverse body of consistently challenging experimental work as one of the primary acts to meld underground Metal with electronics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBONG-RA has always been deeply rooted in and possessed of the same energy, rawness and rebellion as Metal and Grindcore. \"Black Noise\" finds Köhnen returning to the fuck-you extremity of his heritage: blending visceral and weighty stabs of guitar with mechanical electronics, interweaving polyrhythmic relentlessness with grim-faced, steely-eyed Industrial Metal heft - the nervous psychopathy of breakcore bubbling at the edges to boil over in cascades of propulsive energy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe early trademarks of the raw electronic BONG-RA sounds and drum patterns all remain, only now the distorted guitars and confrontational vocals take a more prominent lead in the compositions. 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A spiritual successor to 2025's \"Black Noise\", the record delves deeper into the shadows and luminescence of the occult, expanding the ritualistic atmospheres explored on \"Antediluvian\" (2018) and \"Meditations\" (2022) while forging a harsher, more industrial sonic architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComposed of five immersive, long-form pieces, \"Esoterik\" is a study in tension: where the slow-burn melancholy of doomjazz collides with machine-driven industrial textures, where ancient mysticism meets modern existential dread, where darkness and illumination spiral together in a single hypnotic ascent. 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