This one's not the first noisecore release that I review and it's not the first time when I doubt if I manage to review it correctly. Noisecore is unexplored space for me and I constantly promise myself to get into this genre more, but perhaps there's no such big need that this is still a promise to myself. Though I'm absolutely green in the genre, I know Seven Minutes of Nausea. They are one of the bands that should be known by default if you ever wondered what's there, further than grindcore. The same "known-by-default" status would be Anal Cunt, weird Japanese shyzo bands with Gore Beyond Necropsy at the front lines and so on. Seven Minutes of Nausea started in ninth decade in Australia. Despite their long existence, they haven't released that much albums. Almost all of these were cassettes and 7". This CDr, released by Spanish R.O.N.F. label is the only release in such format. Old Noises of the Roses is compilation of old and remastered, not published tracks, tracks from compilations etc. All of them were created during 1991-1993. Length of this album is almost an hour. A more or less common template for the tracks would be - attack of guitar, drums, bass + voice that lasts for a second or two, then several seconds of conditional silence, samples or something like that and the attack again. All these short bursts are blended with ambient or noise track that plays in the background. By the structure of songs it seems as if these would be songs in songs, like matrioschkas. E.g. all the track is covered with ambient and under that (or above that perhaps), many short bursts of sounds are placed. The first track in this CDr is unused recordings from 1991 record. It's being the longest, but also the nicest/most interesting track to me. Weird multilayered song. You hear violins, synth, bells, rudiments of melody, whispers floating in the background. As opposed to that - constant outbursts of feedback, distortion, voice and instruments. Strange schizophrenic atmosphere. Sometimes it seems as if three separate tracks would be playing at the same time, but in a second these seemingly separate sounds blend into one monolith and you wouldn't even dare to think that it could be other way. The second song is from the split in 1992. Background is not that dreamy as in the first track. Darker and gloomier, but hypnotism remains the same. Live performance that goes third is the noisiest of all. Feedbacks, rough pulling of bass strings, disconnecting cables and crowd. The rest two tracks are the shortest ones, taken from compilations. The last one seems as if it'd be oi! skinhead tape, just every couple of seconds were deleted. oi!oi! and the sound breaks, burst of bass and drums and break. A rather complicated, but interesting record. Thanks goes to R.O.N.F. label which released this CDr and gave opportunity to taste a bit of history. First edition was quickly sold out so if there are some of the reissues left, I'd advice not to wait too long for fans of noisecore. I don't promise that I'll be listening to this record often, but I was happy about the possibility to get my ears on records of legendary 7MON.

Format: CDr
Released: 2010
Label: R.O.N.F. Records
Edition: 99