Skullflower

Skullflower

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Evolving out of Pure (6) and then Total (2), Skullflower debuted in 1988 with the self-titled EP on Broken Flag (aka Birthdeath).

Over the next decade the band would release a lot of loud noise/psychedelic rock-albums (with Matthew Bower and Stuart Dennison as the only members to appear on all their releases from that period) before going on hiatus after the 1996 release of This Is... Skullflower....

The band returned as a solo vehicle for Matthew Bower in 2003 with the release of Exquisite Fucking Boredom and continues to release new material even now.
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Albums

Form Destroyer

(LP)
Broken Flag 1989

Xaman

(3 versions)
Shock 1990

IIIrd Gatekeeper

(4 versions)
hEADdIRT, Permis De Construire Deutschland 1992

Obsidian Shaking Codex

(3 versions)
RRRecords, RRRecords 1993

Last Shot At Heaven

(CD, Album)
Noiseville 1993

Carved Into Roses

(CD, Album)
VHF Records 1994

Argon

(CD, Album)
Freek Records 1995

Infinityland

(CD, Album)
hEADdIRT, hEADdIRT, Permis De Construire Deutschland 1995

Transformer

(CD, Album)
Sympathy For The Record Industry 1995

Skullflower / Ramleh - Adieu, All You Judges (CD)

Broken Flag 1995

This Is... Skullflower...

(CD, Album)
VHF Records 1996

Exquisite Fucking Boredom

(CD, Album)
tUMULt 2003

Orange Canyon Mind

(CD, Album)
Crucial Blast 2005

Tribulation

(CD, Album)
Crucial Blast 2006

Abyssic Lowland Hiss

(CDr, Album, Ltd)
Heavy Blossom 2007

Taste The Blood Of The Deceiver

(LP, Album, Ltd)
Not Not Fun Records 2008

Circulus Vitiosus Deus

(3xCD, Album + Box, Ltd)
Turgid Animal 2008

La Noche De Walpurgis

(CDr, Album, Ltd)
Not On Label (Skullflower Self-released) 2008

Desire For A Holy War

(CD, Album)
Utech Records 2008

Pure Imperial Reform

(CD, Album, Ltd)
Turgid Animal 2008

Skullflower / Limepit - Split (LP, Ltd)

Posh Isolation 2009

The Paris Working

(CDr, Ltd)
Not On Label (Skullflower Self-released) 2009

Vile Veil

(LP, Ltd)
Noiseville 2009

Malediction

(CD, Album, Ltd)
Second Layer Records 2009

Strange Keys To Untune Gods' Firmament

(2xCD, Album)
Neurot Recordings 2010
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Review by thezovietdada Apr 16, 2008
Despite the fact that it has recently turned into more or less a different incarnation of Hototogisu (not a bad thing really, but it isn't really Skullflower either), Skullflower in its early days was a glorious antecedent to everything people thought noise, psychedelia, and punk were supposed to be. It combines everything that sounds perfect on paper (and it's perfect in real life too), stomping doom-garage riffs, harsh layers of hallucinatory feedback, open but dark isolationistic ambience, a power electronics derived (considering the resume of its members) obsession with death and deviancy, a tendency to break open into extended, unstructured improvisation, but return to form just when it gets excessive enough (that doesn't mean any god damn fade offs once everyone starts soloing, to half quote Steven Stapleton). This is noise and this is rock, but this ain't goofy mathcore made by college students. It's everything hard psychedelic music ever wanted to be (I think of how much territory Skullflower covers that stoner rock is supposed to but fails miserably).
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