my project: gruntsplatter

[scottsplatter]

I started the project in 1993, with my first release in 1995. Since then I've had releases on a number of labels, most notably Dark Vinyl, Eibon and Desolation House. In addition to Gruntsplatter I have done a handful of collaborations over the years as well.

here's the little blurb from my site on the ideas behind the project :

"I tend to draw, if somewhat esoterically, from literature, and the death rattles and rituals of our eroding gene pool. As the project has evolved it has become largely based around personal and sociological themes that deal with the erosion of humanity and a dystopian inevitability.

Gruntsplatter has always been a malleable creature that congealed somewhere in the gray area between Noise and Dark Ambient. Through the detail of harsher textures mixed with layered atmosphere I am best able to achieve what I am working toward. My intent is to make something evocative and subtle in its detail."

When I read Ligotti for the first time, just last year, it was a revelation. His stories personified what I had been trying to do with my music for years.

There are some samples: a couple tracks from each of the Gruntsplatter records and a track or two from each of the side projects. - here

[Dr. Valzer]

As someone who listens to an admittedly unhealthy amount of Dark Ambient, I rate Scott's work very highly (as you know, Scott) and urge TLO members who've a taste for clanging, doom-laden soundtracks to investigate gruntsplatter.

Richard

[scottsplatter]

Thanks much, Richard. I appreciate it.

[hypnogeist]

By turns induced visions of an orchestra of demons wielding various diameter and rpm buzz saws slowy and intently upon metallic angle bones; a juggernaut like the one on Alfrey's dj for the Subterranean Press ed. of SOADD, grinding ponderously onward on some grim errand; and several times distinctly had the impression I was listening to radio signals transmitted from the Twilight Zone whose currents of edying static and pneumatic hisses thinly yet opaquely veiling strange, nebulous meanings ever threatening, yet never quite breaking through, to lucidity.

A thoroughly enjoyable listening experience. Thanks for he sample tracks.

[scottsplatter]

Thanks for taking the time to check it out Hypno, glad to hear you enjoyed it.