Exmortes

 

Exmortes is kind of an odd selection, this is true.  This Dutch one-man band (Jan List being the one man in question) is somewhat notorious in the underground for being raw to the point of being bad.  But one man's treasure is another man's trash.  Exmortes put out two demos, 1988's Hear the Saw...Coming Near and 1989's Fuckin' Nightmare.  Most of the songs that appeared on those demos later appeared on Exmortes' few EPs.

From the EP--not the demo--Fuckin' Nightmare

One listen to Exmortes' material and you can hear why some people think their rawness is so terrible.  The drums overpower the mix to the point where the guitar is hardly audible.  Some have gone so far as to label this style "raw black noise," and if you listen to more recent black noise bands (Stalaggh, TOMB, Gnaw Their Tongues, etc.) you can hear resemblances.

From 1990's "Lord of Temptation"single

After those two demos (which I have not heard), Exmortes put out the Fuckin' Nightmare EP in 1989.  This had four of the six songs from the demo of the same name.  In the following year, Exmortes put out a single, "Lord of Temptation" which contained the title track and "Forced to Be Silent".

Someone managed to upload the entire 1991 EP, Hear the Saw...Coming Near

In 1991, the EP Hear the Saw...Coming Near was released.  Followed by only one more release (the Total Hate split with Apator, also released in 1991), Exmortes was on the scene only briefly.  I think that any fan of raw black noise can hear the influence Exmortes left on the scene.  The rawness of these early releases has seldom been equalled, in my opinion.

Select Discography:

Hear the Saw...Coming Near (demo) (1988)

Fucking Nightmare (demo) (1989)

Fuckin' Nightmare 7" (1989)

"Lord of Temptation" (single) (1990)

Hear the Saw...Coming Near EP (1991)

Total Hate 7" (split with Apator) (1991)

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