Well, it’s actually been out for about 2 weeks and I’m down to about 50 copies out of the 300 pressed.. But anyway: This was one of my dream releases back before the label actually came to life. Sadly, the mastermind behind ZBZ, Seed Mouth AKA 種口裕人 (Taneguchi Hirohito), passed on a few years back but those handling his estate, along with band member Junko Hiroshige (Hijokaidan), gave me their blessing and I was able to make it happen with the help of audio engineer Josh Stevenson at Otic Sound and the great graphic design master Raoul Tinybear. Copies are available direct from the MTS Bandcamp and Webshop and also from Midheaven/Revolver, Fusetron, Goner, State Laughter, Jabs and many other places in the US I’m forgetting at the moment. World of Echo in London and Discreet in Gothenberg and Bis Aufs Messer in Berlin are handling Europe.
Mr. Tom Lax was kind enough to write a few words about this amazing recording for me so I will leave you with that:
Zyklon B Zombies ‘Skull’ has been floating around the sub underground for years. Originally released as a cassette on the Japanese tape label, Vanilla in 1993, ZBZ was the musical brainchild of sadly deceased noise legend Hirohito Taneguchi (Seed Mouth) & the equally legendary Junko Hiroshige (Hijokaidan, Genbakukaidan) & if you don’t know it, fear not. It’s now been formated & remastered to vinyl, courtesy of the Minimum Table Stacks label. Much like Michio Kadotani’s Rotting Telepathies recordings, ‘Skull’ possesses great tremors of blurred clamber that comes directly at you, sometimes sideways. It’s hard to know how much is premeditated or just what’s driven by organic impulse, which is what makes it such a great attestation of its era. In an instant, ‘Skull’ can move from a psychotic whoosh not unlike ‘Twin Infinities’, to an eerie gait similar to that of Dadamah. Plus, there’s everything in between. A true blue-blood of disparate vision, ‘Skull’ ranks right up there in the masterpiece department with un’s S/T lp, New Zealand’s Ziggy Stardust Band & those two solo albums from Eric Hysteric. It’s not for everyone, but for those who embrace the underground’s one percent like a long lost tree, it’s the only way to fly.
Tom Lax, Siltbreeze Records
