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Skullflower

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Skullflower is one of Matthew Bower's earliest projects (along with Total). Although his thirst for noise and drone is ever present, regardless of which of Bower's many projects we are talking about, Skullflower is the one who has gone through most transformation throughout the years. Starting in the late eighties, the Skullflower sound started off as psychedelic drone improvisations and kosmische space rock. As the years went by, Bower slowly abandoned his Skullflower project after he began exploring much heavier soundscapes (which could also be heard on his Skullflower album Transformer). He then worked as Sunroof!, an even more psychedelic free form mess of noises and drones and then as the all-out harsh noise assault that is Hototogisu (along with Marcia Bassett of Double Leopards). From this point on, Bower's music has been almost exclusively noise-oriented. Even when he finally brought his Skullflower project back from the dead in 2003, his music kept on becoming more and more abrasive and violent. You're never exactly sure what to expect with the next release, but regardless of the varying degree of psychedelic touches, you can be sure your eardrums will be taking a beating.

I've been wanting to start collecting Skullflower and Sunroof! material for over ten years now (after hearing a bunch of mp3s of his VHF releases), but seeing how prolific Bower is, I flipped a coin and fate made me concentrate on his work as Hototogisu. I've only recently started trying to find all his albums as Skullflower after the release of an extremely rare triple CD under this name. it will probably take a while before I find them all, but slowly, more albums will find their way into my collection.

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Album Cover Form Destroyer
Label: Broken Flag
Release: 1989
Format: LP
Cat. no: BFV 10

Song list:

  1. Elephants Graveyard (11:47)
  2. Big Muff (4:56)
  3. Thirsty Animal (5:20)
  4. Woodland Death March (5:28)
  5. Solar Anus (4:36)
  6. Procession Of Eternity (8:57)


Album Cover Rift/Avalanche
Label: Majora
Release: 1990
Format: 7"
Cat. no: None

Song list:

  1. Rift (5:26)
  2. Avalanche (4:06)


Album Cover Slaves/Satan My Black Ass, Steve Albini = Jim Steinman
Label: Forced Exposure
Release: 1990
Format: 7"
Cat. no: FE-022

Song list:

  1. Slaves (2:12)
  2. Satan My Black Ass, Steve Albini = Jim Steinman (4:12)


Album Cover Xaman
Label: Shock Records
Release: 1990
Format: CD
Cat. no: SX008CD

Song list:

  1. Slaves (11:25)
  2. Sunset (3:21)
  3. Xaman (7:43)
  4. What Did You Expect? (6:46)
  5. The Shit Hits The Fan (5:04)
  6. Barbed Wire Animal (6:48)
  7. Wave (26:38)


Album Cover Bad Alchemy/Blues For H.M.
Label: Dying Earth Records
Release: 1992
Format: 7"
Cat. no: DE 002

Song list:

  1. Bad Alchemy (6:00)
  2. Blues For H.M. (5:43)


Album Cover Evel Knievel
Label: Sympathy For The Record Industry
Release: 1992
Format: 7"
Cat. no: SFTRI 202

Song list:

  1. Evel Knievel (7:51)
  2. Teenage Lightning (2:53)
  3. Diamond Bullet (5:15)


Album Cover IIIrd Gatekeeper
Label: Crucial Blast
Release: 1992
Format: CD
Cat. no: CBR63

Song list:

  1. Can You Feel It? (6:38)
  2. Black Rabbit (4:13)
  3. Larks Tongues (4:31)
  4. Center Puss (6:11)
  5. Saturnalia (7:37)
  6. Rotten Sun (7:01)
  7. Vanadis (6:34)
  8. Godzilla (11:12)
  9. Spoiler (8:54)


Album Cover Ponyland/Fake Revolt
Label: Sympathy For The Record Industry
Release: 1992
Format: 7"
Cat. no: SFTRI 275

Song list:

  1. Ponyland (7:20)
  2. Fake Revolt (5:12)


Album Cover Last Shot At Heaven
Label: Noiseville
Release: 1993
Format: CD
Cat. no: #40

Song list:

  1. Caligula (9:58)
  2. Get The Horn (6:28)
  3. Dufus (9:59)
  4. Bad Alchemy (6:07)
  5. Elf Piercer (5:17)
  6. Rotten Sun II (9:18)
  7. Mystic Eye (6:39)
  8. Blown Dukes (10:00)


Album Cover Obsidian Shaking Codex
Label: RRRecords
Release: 1993
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: None

Song list:

  1. Sir Bendalot (9:13)
  2. Circular Temple (12:37)
  3. Crashing Silver Ghost Phallus (11:15)
  4. Diamond Bullet (15:35)
  5. Smoke Jaguar (24:57)


Album Cover Choady Foster/Spent Force
Label: Helter Skelter Records
Release: 1994
Format: 7"
Cat. no: HS94745

Song list:

  1. Choady Foster (7:02)
  2. Spent Force (6:08)


Album Cover White Fang #2/Glassy Essence
Label: Freak Records
Release: 1994
Format: 7"
Cat. no: FR 001

Song list:

  1. White Fang #2 (5:22)
  2. Glassy Essence (5:34)


Album Cover Village Sorting
Label: Self Abuse Records
Release: 1994
Format: 7"
Cat. no: SAR-05

Song list:

  1. Village Sorting Pt. 1 (6:17)
  2. Village Sorting Pt. 2 (6:58)


Album Cover Argon
Label: Freek Records
Release: 1996
Format: CD
Cat. no: FRR012

Song list:

  1. Argon I (15:00)
  2. Argon II (The Golden Saw) (16:47)
  3. Argon III (Each Builds His Own Wall/Cruising At 31,000 Ft.) (29:41)
  4. Argon IV (17:06)


Album Cover Infinityland
Label: Headdirt Recordings
Release: 1995
Format: CD
Cat. no: HD 04

Song list:

  1. The Idiotsburgh Address (12:54)
  2. White Fang (5:30)
  3. Pixie Dust (9:46)
  4. Abraxas (10:16)
  5. False Magic Kingdom (11:06)
  6. Blood Orange (4:15)


Album Cover The Art Of Skullflower: Total
Label: Vinyl Communications
Release: 1996
Format: 7"
Cat. no: VC66

Song list:

  1. Untitled (5:47)
  2. Untitled (6:28)


Album Cover Exquisite Fucking Boredom
Label: Tumult
Release: 2003
Format: CD
Cat. no: TM 212

Song list:

  1. Celestial Highway I (12:40)
  2. Celestial Highway II (13:49)
  3. Celestial Highway III (14:35)
  4. Saturn (9:54)
  5. Return To Forever (9:19)
  6. Celestial Highway IV (12:34)


Album Cover Orange Canyon Mind
Label: Crucial Blast
Release: 2005
Format: CD
Cat. no: CBR45

Song list:

  1. Starry Wisdom (8:32)
  2. Orange Canyon Mind (5:53)
  3. Annihilatung Angel (6:55)
  4. Vampires Breath (7:25)
  5. Ghosts Ice Aliens (9:54)
  6. Goat Of A Thousand Young (7:00)
  7. Star Hill (8:37)
  8. Forked Lightning (6:44)


Album Cover Tribulation
Label: Crucial Blast
Release: 2006
Format: CD
Cat. no: CBR55

Song list:

  1. Lost In The Blackened Gardens OF Some Vast Star (9:18)
  2. Black Wind (4:07)
  3. Saragossa (7:13)
  4. Dying Venice (7:28)
  5. Tribulation (7:55)
  6. Void Of Roses (6:28)
  7. Dwarf Thunderbolt (8:05)
  8. Silver Stars Rot Mindlessly... (7:07)
  9. In The Depths Of A Stagnant Pond (8:52)


Album Cover Desire For A Holy War
Label: Utech Records
Release: 2008
Format: CD
Cat. no: URCD015/URSK1

Song list:

  1. Your Cities, Your Tombs (7:01)
  2. Moses Conjured A Blood Niagara (7:26)
  3. Eve's Dream (8:26)
  4. Frozen Spectres (7:08)
  5. Serbonian Bog (9:42)
  6. Unholy Inhuman (8:06)
  7. Divinus Deus (7:26)


Album Cover La Noche De Walpurgis
Label: Self-Released
Release: 2008
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: None

Song list:

  1. Black Flame (7:30)
  2. Rose Of Hell (9:05)
  3. Devourer Of Stars (8:43)
  4. Accursed Lava (5:20)
  5. Vinum Sabbati (10:28)
  6. Serene & Terrible Noontide Abyss (7:54)


Album Cover Pure Imperial Reform
Label: Turgid Animal Records
Release: 2008
Format: CD
Cat. no: TA309

Song list:

  1. Forest Chasm/Nailed To The Stars/Mist Of Solitude (42:07)


Album Cover Circulus Vitiosus Deus/Valley Of Scorpions/Circle Of Serpents
Label: Turgid Animal
Release: 2008
Format: 3CD
Cat. no: TA378

Song list:

Circulus Vitiosus Deus :
  1. Sinister Solitude (4:27)
  2. Accursed Region (6:19)
  3. Disastrous Twilight (7:21)
  4. Technical Assault (5:50)
  5. Malign Harmony (7:33)
  6. Depraved Majesty (7:14)
  7. Abyssic Betrayals (7:22)
  8. Chasm Of Funeral Stars (7:53)
  9. Divine Malediction (5:02)
  10. Orgy Of Frozen Light (9:37)
Valley Of Scorpions :
  1. A Shower Of Hail - On All Orchards (4:52)
  2. Divine Disharmony (8:26)
  3. Inscribe With Black Flame - On The Walls Of The Abyss (4:44)
  4. Clay Of Death - Infernal Abode - Of Geburah (5:07)
  5. Serpents Of The Dust (6:35)
  6. Rivers Of Swords & Daggers (7:27)
  7. Valley Of Scorpions (5:01)
  8. Bliss Of The Abyss (11:46)
Circle Of Serpents :
  1. Vexed Abyss (4:50)
  2. Lungs Of Hell (3:52)
  3. Xipe Totec (5:24)
  4. Nechesh (5:58)
  5. Flickering Skull (6:00)
  6. Depraved Wreckage (7:32)
  7. Ein Jeder Engel Ist - Schrecklich (6:57)
  8. Serpents Of The Abyss (4:37)
  9. Mists & Exhalations (7:40)
  10. Tomb Of Zigea (6:16)
  11. Incaranation By Divine Suicide (9:11)


Album Cover Taste The Blood Of The Deceiver
Label: Not Not Fun Records
Release: 2008
Format: LP
Cat. no: NNF133LP

Song list:

  1. The Silent Beauty Of Undifferentiated Persons Undergoing Soul Destruction (4:46)
  2. Sewing Shut The Blessed Virgin (4:39)
  3. Mutilated Angel (3:51)
  4. Church Of Anguish (5:21)
  5. Frankenstein (4:18)
  6. Silver Horns Of Lilith (4:36)