2018 was a huge year for Dominick Fernow. His record label Hospital Productions celebrated its 20th anniversary, doing so with a series of stacked-bill concerts. His noise project Prurient collaborated with Godflesh's Justin K. Broadrick, Philly shoegazers Nothing and highly touted thrashers Power Trip. His industrial techno outlet Vatican Shadow opened for Nine Inch Nails. Through it all, he never stopped listened to new music; below are his favorites from the last year.
Varathron - Patriarchs of Evil
JK FLESH - New Horizon
Demdike Stare - Passion
Marshall Spector - AUDINT Archive file
Martyn - Voids
SONOIO - fine
O/V/R - The World Remade
Function - Recompiled Vol 2
Pictureplane - Degenerate
Old Tower - The Rise of the Spectral Horizons
SUMAC - Love in Shadow
Ancient Methods -
Kelly Moran - Ultraviolet
Nothing - Dance on the Blacktop
Linekraft - 33 Purgatories
Oneohtrix Point Never - The Station
Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods
Medieval Demon - Medieval Necromancy
Low Jack - Riddims du Lieu-dit
Below, go inside Hospital Production's 20th anniversary show featuring a one-off collaboration between Prurient, Nothing and Justin K. Broadrick:
