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DISCOGRAPHY
BLOODBOX (Michael J.V. Hensley)
Victim Selection - CS (Circle 9) 1994
A World of Hurt - CD (Malignant/Katyn) Sunday Sacrifice - business card cdr (PACREC) 2003 ...absolutely stunning dark ambient that, while certainly on the more ominous side of things, is far more calm and musical than I had expected it would be - layering synth tones in various forms both musical and textural to create an excellent composition. ~ Aversionline
The Iron Dream - CD (Eibon) 2004 Blood Box places you directly in the midst of a tragic aural nightmare. Snarling beasts and whispering demons haunt the nether regions of bleak reverberating dronescapes, giving way to majestic swells of minor key orchestral fragments.... Morose, creepy, and gorgeously frightening. COMPILATIONS (BLOODBOX)
Signs of Infection - CS (Malignant) 1996 - track title "Spanish Boots"
Audio Odditions #2 - CD (Influx Comm.) 2000 - track title "the sky is falling"
An Element of Space - CD (RequiemDG) 1998 - track title "visionary" VEIL OF SECRECY (Steve Hall)
Deadtech - CDR (V.O.S.) 2004 BUY Full-length live performance at DEADTECH in Chicago, IL., (mastered from sound board recordings).
".... 4 live tracks from 2001 full of cavernous dark ambient lots of ominous passages, spacious echo and drifting, ultra dynamic textures. Like Yen Pox, has that great ability to suck you into a bottomless void, capturing and unleashing a stream of effects laden atmospheres in surround sound-styled glory. A fucking beaut." ~ Jason Mantis - (Malignant Records)
Veil Of Secrecy - CD (TRIUMVIRATE) 2001 BUY (see reviews) "Slow paced, grinding sheets of sound hover over dark vibrations, intoned with cold, metallic scraping that stews together in a reverberating, expansive landscape of ambient noise. The repetition is soothing and hypnotic, as mysterious masses of thick tonality envelope odd, distant noises that invoke a bleak, industrial landscape thriving with the slight hum of engines and the muffled throes of machinery." ~ Ben Didier - (Outburn)
"...dark echoes, reverberated distant beats and bass filled windy atmospheres: welcome to another incarnation of calm darkness put into sound." ~ Nicolas Chevreux - Recycle Your Ears
All Is One - CDR (V.O.S.) 2001 "...massive melting pot of cosmic noise, darting comets and colliding asteroids of the first minutes to the estathic space chant of the last, leading the listener into a journey among distant stars, into silence and infinite void, reminding the Tangerine Dream myth of "Zeit" and "Alpha Centaury" and the Cosmic Couriers of the 70s'." ~ (Commando Terreur) - Babylon Magazine COMPILATIONS (V.O.S.)
Circles of Infinity - 2xC60 (MYOTIS) ....sold
out
An Element of Space - CD (RequiemDG) 1998 - track title "luminous beings"
Subsnow 02-02 - A Tarmvred Tour Compilation - CD (Ad Noiseam) 2001 - track title "Procession of the Servile" BUY "...V.O.S., who contribute an excellent dark ambient skull-f*ck piece that, like all good dark ambient tracks, seems to just swallow you whole." ~ Chris Zaldua - Brainwashed
The Salt of Space - CD (RequiemDG) 2004 - track title "moving forward through a vacuum I" YEN POX (Michael J.V. Hensley & Steve Hall)
S/T - CS (CIRCLE 9) 1993 .....sold out "Music for nibbling at the dead" ~ Daniel Plunkett - ND Magazine
"Absolutely amazing extended subterranean darkness...." ~ Eric Lanzillotta - Anomalous Records
Blood Music - CD - (MALIGNANT) 1995 ....sold out ...blood soaked ambience....guaranteed to take you over and beyond. ~ Malignant Records (press release)
Deliver/Remove - 7" - (DRONE RECORDS) 1st ed. 1995 / 2nd ed. 1998 BUY 'Deliver' and 'Remove' show YEN POX working in the most dark, glowing ambient mood possible. This is stirring food for your burning soul. ~ Drone Records (press release)
Hollow Earth - 7" - (COHORT) 1996 "...brings to mind the tortured sounds of the living molten metal underneath the earth's crust." ~ Stephen Klusza - Grinding Into Emptiness
New Dark Age - CD - (MALIGNANT) 2000 BUY "While the last album explored suffocating and confined subterranean depths, this has a less obvious organic edge lending itself to spacious territory as if illustrating a lifeless barren wasteland as the twilight quickly recedes." ~ Richard Stevenson - Spectrum Magazine
"...physically suffocating...Thick, throbbing drones, dense percussion, and a strange feeling of being in a giant cavern (or Hell)..." ~ Chris Z. - Remote Induction
TROUM/YEN POX - "Mnemonic Induction" - CD - (MALIGNANT) 2002 BUY (see reviews) The collaborative album, Mnemonic Induction, is a near perfect blend of Troum's signature blurred guitar drones and Yen Pox's characteristic gaping bass rumbles, and the resulting music rivals the work of such historical precedents as Lustmord, SPK and Nocturnal Emissions. But what distinguishes the Troum/Pox merger is the paradoxical sense of urgency, drama and majesty that they bring to this hitherto shadowy crossroad. ~ THE WIRE COMPILATIONS (YEN POX)
Invisible Domains (Malignant) 1994 - track title "Incubation" .........sold out
Release Your Mind 2 (RELEASE) 1997 - track title "Second Skin" GOREHALLREIDER (Steve Hall, John Gore & C. Reider)
A Blow to the Head - CDR (Cohort Records) 2005
HOLLOW EARTH (Michael J.V. Hensley & Jonathan Canady)
Dog Days of the Holocaust - CD (Crowd Control Activities) 1998 There's dark sonicscape (Raison D'Etre, In Slaughter Natives), eyes plucked out, pitch black sonicscape (Megaptera, specifically "The Curse Of The Scarecrow), and then there is Hollow Earth, who pour gasoline into the vacated sockets, followed by a lit match, charring spirit and soul, leaving nothing but a brittle, empty husk. For Michael J.V. Hensley (Yen Pox, Blood Box) and Jonathan Canady (Dead World, Deathpile, Blunt Force Trauma), darkness has no depths. ~ J.C. Smith - OUTBURN MUD (Steve Hall & Traig Foltz)
S/T - CS (>U) 1994 BUY "echoing, strange and mysterious sounds..." ~ Eric Lanzillotta - Anomalous Records
Burning Bush - CS (>U) 1996 BUY
Men In Black - CS (>U) 1996 BUY
USED (Steve Hall & Traig Foltz)
S/T - CS (>U) 1993
How To Crawl - 7" e.p. (>U) 1994 BUY
"...sludgy rock full of off-key chords, yelled vocals, and drum bashing. Swirling guitar and high end screeches ( a la Chrome or Helios Creed) and an underlying chaotic element to it's already loose structure." ~ Jason Mantis - Audio Drudge, #6
S/T - CS (>U) 1995
BELT (Joel Bender & Steve Hall)
Exposure to Gunfire - 7" e.p. (BELT) 1990 "Imagine dragging your head in gravel while being shouted at in a deep guttural voice that demands you comply to a request that you can't decipher... ~ PMZ - Factsheet Five, #41
"...buried post-'bini aggression from a state not generally known for it's excellence in belligerent sound. Thuddy and at times almost Red Transistor-like in it's whirlwind capacity..." ~ Jimmy Johnson - Forced Exposure, #17
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