The Skull Defekts: Open the Gates of Mimer
CD - AA, Sweden - 2005

Reviews:

THE SKULL DEFEKTS - OPEN THE GATES OF MIMER (CD by A Double A)
A lot of the computer microsound glitch whatever musicians have their backgrounds in rock music and some even occasionally return to rock music, just for the fun of it. The Skull Defekts is such a band, consisting of Joachim Nordwall (of the Ideal label) and Henrik Rylander (who made some fame of his own), later with Eric Olofsson and
Jean-Louis Huhta (of Oscid). On 'Open The Gates Of Mimer', however still a duo with the help of Lasse Marhaug and Thomas Ekelund. The Skull Defekts play a heavy, loud and slow guitar music, in which feedback plays an important role. 'Open The Gates Of Mimer' is a live recording and that's something of a pity. There is definitely a plan
behind this piece of music, making it grow heavily throughout the fifty-five minutes that this piece lasts, but it seems that the Skull Defekts sometimes loose their grip on the piece, and the mighty break up of the crescendo sometimes is a bit lost. But in the end they reach whatever they want to reach, and the CD ends in complete noise mayhem (probably thanks to good ol' Marhaug). A somewhat shorter and tighter studio version would have been it's place, but this is certainly quite enjoyable too, if you like to cross the boundaries of noise and rock music. Heavy duty shit, I guess is what they say then. (FdW, Vital Weekly)

The Skull Defekts: Open the Gates of Mimer
Open the Gates of Mimer includes a single, 55-minute track documenting The Skull Defekts' live set at Sweden's 2005 Norberg Festival. Featuring core members Henrik Rylander (ex-Union Carbide Productions) on electronics and drums and Joachim Nordwall (ex-Kid Commando) on guitar and effects plus Thomas Ekelund (electric guitar) and Lasse Marhaug (Powerbook G4), the group generates a monolithic noisefest of incinerating feedback and raw guitar fuzz. Violent ripples and tears collide with deathly guitar stabs, conjuring apocalyptic images of charred bodies strewn across immolated landscapes. Opening rather tamely with guitar stabs puncturing the silence, the piece grows progressively noisier, especially during the last third when even hounds from Hades appear. Hellish and harrowing it may be, but it's also one of those sets you wish you could have witnessed just to see the combustible monstrosity coming to life before your eyes. Issued in a limited run of 500 copies, the disc comes packaged in a distinctive hand-printed and numbered cardboard case covered with Constructivist graphics. (textura.org)