Tracklist Hide Credits

1	Ananga-Ranga	29:02
2	Klo Ken Phantasie Bass Guitar [On End Part Of] – Kazuyoshi Kimoto	9:22
3	I Lead You Towards Glorious Times Noises [Noise] – Reiko A*Recorded By – Mackeral Can Molding Company*Vocals [Vocal] – Bara*	5:29
4	Slave New Desart	6:22

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Release Entertainment
• Copyright (c) – Release Entertainment
• Recorded At – ZSF Produkt Studio
• Recorded At – Yaneura II
• Mixed At – ZSF Produkt Studio
• Manufactured By – KAO Optical Products – E38872

Credits

• Art Direction, Other [Color By] – Abtectonics*
• Artwork [Photos Transformation Assisted By] – Naomi Hosokawa
• Composed By [Decomposed], Mixed By, Producer – Masami Akita
• Design [Visual & Logo Interpretation For Production By] – Matt Jacobson/Relapse*
• Executive-Producer – William J. Yurkiewicz Jr.*, Matthew F. Jacobson
• Mastered By – Dave Shirk
• Research [Atrocity Photos Researched By] – Antoine Bernhart

Notes

Recorded and mixed at ZSF Produkt Studio during Jan-Feb 1994 except track 3 excerpt from Live at Yaneura II, 5 Feb, 1994.

Thanks for Matt Jacobson and Relapse, Reiko Azuma, Bara, Kazuyoshi Kimoto, Fumiyoshi Suzuki (MCMC), Naomi Hosokawa, Antoine Bernhart.

Merzbow would like to greetings for followings: Alchemy Records, Vanilla Records, RRRecords, Charnel House Productions, Way Out Sound, Verticle Records, Banned Productions, V2, Extreme, Cheeses International, Zero Cabal, Nihilist Recordings, Cinemagic, Cold Spring, Lusetti Guido, Kinbiken, Rightbrain, Hijokaidan, MB, Violent Onsen Geisha, Pain Jerk, Incapacitants, Solmania, Masonna, Monde Bruits, Aube, C.C.C.C., Controlled Bleeding, Anal Cunt, Macronympha, Selektion, Artware, Laughing Eskimo, Borbetomagus, Emil Beaulieu, Kapotte Muziek, TH20, John Duncan, Smell & Quim, New Blockaders, Boredoms, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Due Process, Achim Wollscheid, Animal Art, Anomalous Records, Seikyu-sha, S&M Sniper, DIA Press, Sanwa Publishing, The Haters, Sounds For Consciousness Rape, Hanayo Nakajima, Bizarre Magazine, Susei Sha, Asmus Tietchens, Silent Records, Giancarlo Toniutti, etc...

Fuck! for Artdirecte.

(P)+(C) 1994 Release Entertainment.
Printed in Canada.
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Sticker on jewel case.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode (Text): 7 81676 69102 9
• Barcode (Scanned): 781676691029
• Matrix / Runout: E38872-1 ***AA006969* 6910-2   MANUFACTURED BY KAO OPTICAL PRODUCTS

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
RR6691-2	Merzbow	Venereology ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Relapse Records	RR6691-2	US	2004
IROND CD 06-1120	Merzbow	Venereology ‎(CD, RE)	Irond	IROND CD 06-1120	Russia	2006
RR 6910-2	Merzbow	Venereology ‎(CD, Album)	Relapse Records, Release Entertainment	RR 6910-2	US	1994

Tracklist

1	Ananga-Ranga	29:02
2	Klo Ken Phantasie	9:22
3	I Lead You Towards Glorious Times	5:29
4	Slave New Desart	6:22

Notes

Released under license from Relapse Entertainment.

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
RR 6910-2	Merzbow	Venereology ‎(CD, Album)	Release Entertainment	RR 6910-2	US	1994
RR6691-2	Merzbow	Venereology ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Relapse Records	RR6691-2	US	2004
RR 6910-2	Merzbow	Venereology ‎(CD, Album)	Relapse Records, Release Entertainment	RR 6910-2	US	1994

Hellblade

Vinyl up for sale on Relapse Records! Splatter is already sold out.

Ximathewi

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Venereology-Remaster-Reissue-2xLP-VINYL/dp/B07LD4R5M1/ref=mp_s_a_1_26?ie=UTF8&qid=1545386229&sr=8-26&pi=CB1275598734_AC_SX118_SY170&keywords=merzbow Looks like a reissue is planned for early next year. Can't find out much else at the moment.

Usishele

Slave New Desart is up there with his finest ever work

Yndanol

Merzbow's most fine album and needs LP reissue at once~!

Painshade

After the recent Noisembryo and Pulse Demon releases, what are the odds we can finally get this on vinyl?

Tall

https://store.relapse.com/item/67770/deep-purple-and-white-merge-with-blood-red-splatter-ltd-to-100?goal=0_37232af94b-ad007b48ee-311775205&mc_cid=ad007b48ee&mc_eid=b152e611a4It's here!! Quick, the run of 100 copies already sold out!

Fek

I still don't get the alleged appeal of 1930...now OERSTED, that would be a nice one to press on vinyl!

Windworker

How about 1930? That'd be a spectacular album to get the wax treatment.

Granijurus

It HAS to happen. After all, Venereology is a true pinnacle in all of Masami's works. Have been looking forward to an eventual vinyl release of that masterpiece for years now.

godlike

This would be highly appreciated. I'm sure there's heaps of labels willing to do a quality pressing if Relapse is not interested.

Gardall

MERZBOW is name that carries undeniable clout in the noise world but sometimes it's easy to forget why with his current never ending stream of mediocre laptop noise. Before the digital switch MERZBOW released albums with a characteristically uncompromising and all encompassing in sound. Venereology is one of those albums. From the first second it is clear MERZBOW is taking no prisoners. Layers and layers of thick rumbling noise, constantly churning explodes from the speakers. Unlike Killer Bug or Masonna who split and slice piercing feedback like some kind of psychedelic disco ball of death, reflecting shards of pain everywhere, MERZBOW simply dominates all ranges of frequencies with punishing walls of sonic destruction. There's something happening in every inch of space leaving no respite for the listener. It's an endurance test for the listener not because its too heavy or harsh, but because there is so much to pay attention to it becomes hard to focus. Your mind runs in so many directions simultaneously that eventually you have to give into a Zen state of submission.

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