Illinoisan Thunder and Dipsomaniac records have just released The Tyrant of Manchester's new album, "Rough Musick - Bad Blood". Thirteen tracks and over seventy minutes of white-out, head-nod blackness, electronic incoherence, bloody-fingered acoustic guitar and diseased orison.

The cd is available here: www.geocities.com/illi...anthunder/

and here: www.dipsomaniacrecords.com/

Low res rips of two tracks are on-line here: www.myspace.com/thetyr...manchester

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Review of the demo (not the new album), from Metal Maniacs:

"However, there's at least one dude challenging those one-man BM conventions, a lone Briton named The Tyrant of Manchester -- or perhaps that should be the Tyrant of Bristol? Yes, the two of you who caught the reference, much like Tricky before he lost the plot, mainman Kwim's essentially a sound sculptor and, as such, excels at creating a headspace so disembodied and claustrophobic yet unsettlingly vulnerable and, daresay, emotional. He torches tones with the menace of Richard James, records exclusively on acoustic guitar through an (intentionally) noisy FX rack, makes his crappy drum-machine sinisterly crappier, displays a capably schizophrenic sense of songcraft and even manages to sample Nsync -- I could be wrong but I think it's one of them poofter boy-bands -- to sincerely creepy effect. Originally recorded in 2004 and now finding official release through trend-bucker Illinoisan Thunder, The Tyrant of Manchester is meant to blow minds. Who among you's brave enough?"

-- Nathan T Birk, Metal Maniacs

"Rough Musick - Bad Blood" is now available from Todestrieb in the UK and Suffering Jesus in North America (more distros to follow when I get off my arse and sort it):

www.todestrieb.co.uk/distro/

http://www.sufferingjesus.info/

"Another mind-bending experience from this English project, this time we offer the debut album from August 2006: Rough Musick - Bad Blood. Over an hour of material, the new recording takes tToM's experimental lunacy five steps forward. Traces of black metal, industrial, ambient, punk, 'gabba', noise, acoustic, doom and I'm sure many other styles can be found here. It even includes a track which comes close to the Basilisk 'outro' song on the Urfaust split.
Consistent creativity and lack of "genre constraints" allows the album to veer in any direction it chooses, you are only the passenger - but you can be confident the experience does not get tired.
Contrasting atmospheres: Scratching noise followed by an ambient guitar instrumental; a weird duel-percussion, mechanical guitar track with roared vocal rant subtly leading into a soft guitar-drum jam. More generally it can lead from a peaceful distorted guitar-only interlude into an anarchic indus/noise attack. The description may sound fragmented but the result is far from that. While there are highlights it's always best understood within the context of what comes before or after or during."

-- From Todestrieb's site

"Even more OUT THERE, we’ve got the previously praised Tyrant of Manchester, the lone noisenik finally unleashing his debut album, Rough Music/Bad Blood [Dipsomaniac/Illinoisan Thunder], which just about sums up this wholly whacked-out record. I mean, this is straight fucked – an utter and literal assault of sonic sensations, sometimes minimalist by design and, others, earbleedin’ mish-mashed. And that’s simply the sounds themselves. With seemingly occult energy, mainman Kwim takes each and every tone at face value and turns them on their respective heads, their relation to other respective tones organized yet diabolical, in and out and quite LSD-trailed, altogether forming the alternately dense/barren palate by which the pigfucker ramrods post-BM, laptop glitch, free folk, martial ambient, Wax Traxy breakbeat-down, even a nod to the Cramps, each song boasting its own woozy, make-you-vomit-from-sensory-overload character. Seriously, it’s a lot to stomach – almost too much. And therein lies the challenge, and its ultimate reward. Blown minds, very much beware. "

- Nathan T Birk, Metal Maniacs (forthcoming)