Stalaggh

by Eduardo Rivadavia
Basing their name on the term for German WWII prisoner-of-war camps (Stalag), the mysterious conglomerate known as Stalaggh was rumored to be composed of several well-known musicians from the Dutch and Belgian extreme metal scenes, but their "music" is a lot harder to pin down, comprising all manner of experimental noise creations that are often as obscure as the men behind them. After all, releases such as Stalaggh (EP, 2001), Projekt Nihil (CD, 2003), Projekt Terrror (CD & DVD, 2004), Nihilistik Terrror (CD, 2006), and Projekt Misanthropia (CD, 2007), covered a wide scope of tempestuous sound, ranging from extreme metal to industrial collages, to, unusually, ambient electronics, to Dadaist noise experiments; all of them generally topped with incensed screaming instead of actual words and lyrics. In 2007, the project announced its own conclusion, but promised to return presently enough as a new entity, imaginatively renamed "Gulaggh."