Hidious In Strength

About

Hidious In Strength emerges from the shadows of the early '80s, a transient yet indelible force within the industrial noise scene, their existence marked by a torrent of 11 cassette releases through the conduit of Inner-X-Musick and Korm Plastics. This was no mere dabbling — this was a total immersion into harsh soundscapes and the unfathomable depths of tape manipulation. From 1983 to 1986, they sculpted aural chaos, layers of found sounds and dark atmospheres enveloping listeners in a maelstrom that was both obliterating and ecstatic. The cassette format — intimate, tactile, raw — was their battlefield, and each release a campaign in a war against silence. Within Wires (1986) stands as a saturated testament to their capacity for total sonic assault, while Cold Dark Tales A Smell Of Death (1985) and Slow & Painful Sex (1984) offer a visceral embrace of noise as both medium and message. These tapes are not merely recordings; they are experiences, transmissions from a realm where conventional music dissolves under the tectonic weight of industrial suffocation. In the vibrant, underground network of the time, Hidious In Strength found kinship with acts like 7 From Life, Mahcanik, and Women of the SS, each contributing to a scene where the boundaries between performance and provocation, sound and sensation, were obliterated. They left an indelible mark not through mass appeal, but through the overwhelming intensity of their output — a legacy encapsulated in the hiss and hum of magnetic tape.