SIDE-LINE magazine (Belgium) 1999
ATRAX MORGUE featuring MÖRDER MACHINE - DeathShow CD (slaughter productions)
Atrax morgue combines forces with Mörder Machine to create sinister noise constructed around processional percussion injected with static laced electronics, machinery hum and Death's own coarse vocals (as chazzeled by Atrax morgue's Marco Corbelli, sick medium to shadows doused in blood and semen and smelling of rot). "I'm So" throbs with demented percolating rage, growing quite caustic and menacing in the process;"Andei Ice(Destructive Element)" threateningly repeats the title throughout, while some ugly, squiggly noise agitatedly squirms from the speakers; the terror-rippling hum of "Terrortory" is overlaid with hideous samples of some serial killer's exploits. The whole disc caters to the Atrax Morgue murder, sex and death obsession; what Mörder Machine seem to have is given Marco a more streamlined sonic canvass upon which he is allowed to corrupt as he pleases (it is , at times VERY reminescent of the torturous, mind-crushing hum of early Brighter Death Now). Of course, the canvass is freshly skinned off the body of one of the victims, and Marco makes much use of the entrails in his creation…( i didn't say this was art, did I? This is the sonic equivalent of regulating the blood flow through a severed jugular, the life slowlydraining, the hands kept warm and stickly in the process…
JC SMITH

GAZE INTO A GLOOM #7 magazine (Latvia) 1999
Atrax Morgue featuring MÖRDER MACHINE - DeathShow CD (Slaughter Productions)
"DeathShow" most definitely reminds me "Great Death" trilogy by Brighter Death Now. An atmosphere of, and death itself expressed through the leaking noise and scary voice - this is the only definition i could find. Everything else is your own reaction on what is happening on the recording. It acts like an hypnosis and, i think, could provoke irreversible consequences if you yeld to it. This work is really able to provide some physical action.
Apart from everything else, i like its exclusive packing- the folding book of A5 format.

JUDAS KISS #7 magazine (England) 2001
Mörder machine - "DeathShow" CD (slaughter productions)
Imagine, if you will, what makes a man kill another human, not for survival but for the unadulterated sadistic rush of adrenaline. What goes through his mind as he prepares himself for the kill and how does he justify it to himself afterwards? What makes him tick? What draws him to do this? What are his thoughts prior, during and after the kill? Now imagine a glimpse into that mind has been set to music. Welcome to "DeathShow", one of the most powerful and painfully dark death industrial releases i've had the pleasure to experience. Like a knife jabbing through the speakers that shrilled sounds bark forth from as slow, pounding, malevolently evil electronic drones and textures that spiral from the very dephts of the primordial ooze that has spawned this monster. Vocals, with distorted clarity, act like distant voices in your mind, unsure what their commands are, they captivate and punish you whilst you fucked over by the intensity of the electronics that surround them. Where others before have dabbled, Mörder Machine has excelled. A fucking incredible release that will push you as far as you can go, then push you that final bit further. You can't get any darker and more evil than this. The CD comes housed in an excellently designed and executed a5 card foldout sleeve which sets the mood for this release even before you hit the play button, pure brilliance A must for those of you who have the balls to face it.
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THE RAPE OF ANGELS (newsletter june 1996)
Atrax Morgue : Sickness Report [Relapse] / Cut My throat [Slaughter productions]CD
While we have reviewed ATRAX MORGUE several times in past issues, as well as releasing their "Autoerotic Death" cassette, it is quite a time for celebration as their first two cd's are simultaneously released. With over a dozen tape releases under hist belt, some of which are maddeningly short, Marco Corbelli, ATRAX MORGUE's death obsessed creator, has unleashed teo very different recordings on an only partially suspecting public. Truly, i do mean public, because with relapse's distribution resources, there is no doubt that "Sickness report" will be ending up in malls all across america.
Even, one can assume, in these record stores' heavy metal bins, nestled in front of Autopsy CD's (appropriate!). This is a humorous thought, as the nine track that make up "Sickness report" are among the heaviest thing that Corbelli has ever committed to tape. Aided by once resident uber-mastering fiend Dave Shirk (Merzbow, Dead World etc.), these sickening instrumental blasts (mostly in the three to four minute range) resonate with a power generally unheard on previous tape releases. Dynamics are the call of the day, as Corbelli allows for peaks and valleys in the moans and groans that his analog synth makes. The "medical" graphics making up the packaging help complete an already very clear picture , in this case. "Cut my throat", released by Corbelli on his own label, Slaughter Productions, is a much different beast. Comprised of merely two tracks, "Before" and "I cut yours" (clever!), this cd, aptly dedicated to Maurizio Bianchi, has a more spacey, strange feel to it. While it may have something to do with a different mastering technique (Shirk "maximizes" - exceeding recommended level requirements - if you are to believe everything you read)
, "Cut my throat" is more exploratory where "Sickness Report" is totally invasive. Where the american disc is more of a brutalist workout (track eight, "Chronic Disease, is reminescent of the best musical moments of Whitehouse's "My cock's on fire"), the italian release heads into that strange MB territory (hence the dedication) where an artist gets lost somewhere amidts the oscillations and thoughts of murder and suicide. While both sessions could fit on one Mettalica CD (clocking in at about seventy-eight or seventy-nine minutes), the distinctly different sounds makes these two discs unique and necessary additions to your power-electronics cachË.
(Mark Solotroff)

FALSE PROPHET CAMPAIGN (web site)
Atrax Morgue - Slush of a Maniac CD (Crowd Control Activities)
Italy's favorite necrophiliac power electronics maniac is back again with his fourth CD release, Slush of a Maniac. Unlike the previously reviewed Cut My Throat, this is a long disc consisting of 17 different tracks, all rather harsh. From the ominous rumble and distant vocals of "From: The Fifth Cord" to the multidimensional buzz of the final track, "Torture", Corbelli serves up some deranged vocals mixed with dense, noisy analog electronics. Unlike the recent digital reissue of Woundfucker, the vocals on here are much noisier, with the yells from Marco on "Necrophile Lust", form most of the basis of the track. "Blade Penetration" is based around an analog squeal and distorted, deranged rantings. "Sexycorpse (New Version)" is once again power electronics noise, but with the same vocals from the original. "Lock the Door" features some gross sounding analog pulses mixed with squeaking high end tones. Rhythmic and instrumental. "Cold Pleasure 2" has this totally ominous sounding synth line, with more weird vocals. "Corrupted" is closer to harsh noise than power electronics, with a sound that is like a long, distorted scream running throughout the whole track. "You Asked For More" cops some of Whitehouse's high end torture for the whole track, with other odd sounds popping up. "Cry, Baby, Cry" almost makes me think Marco heard some of Mummy and Daddy while working on this album, because the track has a variation of the mechanized noise layer underpinned with very quiet, subtle vocals throughout. And "It Was A Dangerous Game" is probably the most mellow Atrax Morgue gets, with a dark ambient type under layer and other odd sounds, although it sounds like Marco actually pulls a KMFDM by mentioning the band name in the song (which was unexpected). Overall, another great AM release. Much better than Cut My Throat and up there with Woundfucker. Won't convert those that don't like the style, but those that do should dig. (C. Dunton)

Atrax Morgue - Woundfucker CD AVA/ES1, 1998
Style: If you have the stomach for it, it's worth a listen
Were it not for the existence of John Dixon, Marco Corbelli would hands-down be the sickest, most revolting human being on the planet. (And tell me he doesn't bear a passing resemblance to Steve Buscemi towards the end of _Con Air_ in that picture in the liner notes!) Even the track listing for this compilation (twelve previously released hard-to-find tracks, two unreleased before this) would be enough to put most folks off; Corbelli branches out from his usual focus on necrophilia here (though there's more than enough of that) and wanders into other, albeit similarly stomach-turning, areas of sexuality. What makes this worth listening to, assuming you're not one of the like-minded sociopaths who think songs like "Hungry for Human" and "Sexycorpse" are actually documentaries, is the forethought. The majority of Atrax Morgue I've heard is recorded straight into the mixing board, usually in one take, and comes off sounding like a live performance. While this is a valid way to record, and gives valuable insight into the creative process, it ain't for everyone. With a few exceptions, the tracks here are thick, layered affairs, and it seems to me Corbelli spent more time on many of these tracks than he did in, say, the whole recording of _Sickness Report_ (which took approximately an hour). In fact, "Rosy" and "Morte, " the recording of which are described in the liner notes (both borrow heavily from the Mario Bava film _Telephone_), sound as if they may have taken longer to set up and record than all the other AM releases I own combined.
It's also, again with a few exceptions, the most laid-back material I've encountered from Corbelli. His MO most of the time is simple: take a very simple rhythm made with loud synthesizers, repeat very simple lyrics in heavily-accented English (Corbelli is Italian), offend people everywhere. While it doesn't sound like a formula that could be labeled "extreme, " it most certainly is; it has always seemed to me as if Atrax Morgue releases are mastered by turning every knob up to 11, adding an extra hit of distortion at every juncture, and leaving the poor fools who buy the stuff to fend for themselves in purchasing replacement speakers. This sounds as if he actually did some mixing when he worked with this material. (Of course, since twelve of these fourteen tracks are the earliest stuff I've ever heard from Corbelli, that too may have something to do with it.) This one came to me with a slew of recommendations, and I have to say they were justified. If you have the stomach for it, it's worth a listen. And even if you don't, go ahead, see how far you can push yourself before you lose your lunch.
3.5/5 r. beveridge

CHILDREN OF CAINE issue 2 magazine (usa)
ATRAX MORGUE - Woundfucker C46 (Slaughter Productions)
Ten new track from one of the most interesting artists in the field of power-electronics. This cassette is packaged in a sleeve adorned with grizzly Otto Dix design and shows Marco musically at his best. With this forty six minute release Marco utitlizes his bizarre phased vocal's over a surreal analog back-drop of sinister oscillations. Sexual atrocity at it's most severe, with song titles like "Sperm on dead faces" and "Sexycorpse". Who can doubt Marco's sincerity (H. Unruh)

ATRAX MORGUE "Disconnected" CD-R (sin organisation)
Undredth new release from Mr.Corbelli's living nightmare - ATRAX MORGUE, one of the most well known power electronics projects around - this time released by Sin Org. I'm sorry but this time, unlike monuments to the noise density as Sickness Report, a little bit of strenght dissipation appear on the surface of the digital wakes, this is the ATRAX MORGUE's more psychic and less musical CD so far, mainly based on the Corbelli's psychotic thoughts than on music… Thin sounds, not that much flesh to chew this time… Limited to 226 copies.

ASSUME POWER FOCUS (web site)
ATRAX MORGUE Sickness Report cd
This is wicked; minimalist improvised death industrial. I wasn't too sure if I'd like this or not, as I wasn't too into the one Atrax Morgue track I had heard before this, but I'm glad I took the chance on it. Very scary and disturbed analog synth action, truly brutal in a somber and un-macho sort of way and as such is highly recommended. Pick of the issue.

tina, aaron, and baby makes 3 (web site)
ATRAX MORGUE - Sickness Report CD (release)
One of the crazed loners with whom I once shared a boarding house acquired a stray kitten from the dumpster behind our building. Whether asthmatic or ill, "Percy" came afflicted with a condition that left his mew sounding like an army of fire ants cleaning the meat off a dead chicken's skull. Set free nightly by his owner, Percy roamed the hallways till the wee hours, screeching as he scurried past my door. In retaliation I began playing Sickness Report at high volume to drown out Percy's chattering, only to find that the bastard was enjoying it! So much, in fact, that a duet ensued, Percy's unholy gurgle chiming in unison with Atrax Morgue's deep, purring noise improvisations. At low volume, this 33-minute power-electronics implosion provokes terror, like a giant asthmatic kitten whispering "Satan" repeatedly into your ear. Played loudly, it's the soundtrack to Percy's autopsy as performed by a cloven-hoofed Dr. Mengele. More blood, please! (Originally published in Magnet)

DOOMHAULED #18 magazine (USA) 1997
Atrax Morgue - Sickness Report CD (Relapse)
It's really odd that i have so much to say about something that offers me so little to listen too. I'll be brief, for space reasons, but i could go on for days about this one-man band being part of Relapse's summer noise campaign (along with Merzbow and Namanax). I could go on about the supposed tortured soul of Marco Corbelli, the man who is to blame for ATRAX MORGUE, and his claim that " Death is absolute perfection", and how, "these cold, sintetic squeezy sounds come directly from my heart." Yeah, whatever. If the supposed pain of your existence is reality, and you think life suckes that badly(like the "music" on this album), why don't you fuck off and kill yourself and save us from your infernal whining. I could relate the tale of how this album came packaged in a "bloody" latex hospital glove. Unfortunately, that was the most entertaining and endearing aspect of this cd. Brass tracks: there is no music here. Put me in a studio for an hour, surrounded by a bunch of equipment, and i'm sure i could create as pointless an endeavour as you'll find on "Sickness report" - Kevin

A.P. #101 magazine (USA) 1996
Atrax Morgue - Sickness Report CD (relapse)
Brutality must be in the ear of the beholder, 'cause what this disc is and what it's hyped to be are two totally different things. Given Marco Corbelli's reputation as a death-obsessed misanthrope, the sleeve's invasive-brain-surgery graphics, and song titles such as "Massive Vulval Warts" and "Sphrenix Nor", you'd expect Sickness Report to be another brutal round of spontaneos sonic masochism squeezed into a overly tight cock ring.
It's surprising and gratifying to find that none of these powerelectronic clichËs fits. Atrax Morgue is improvised analog electronics, but the noise product is very loud, beautiful, unfamiliar and specific.For the genre, pieces are short, clocking in around four minutes, and they go through the paces of standard music composition: some low-tone oscillation makes the underlying rhythm, then all manner of wheezes, squiggles, hums, drones and taser blasts decorate time on top. Corbelli "plays" his knobs and levels great precision and control, so the overall effect is closer to futurist Luigi Russolo's machine arias of the 1910s than it is to modern Nipponese musicks of cruelty. The production is miraculously topographical, allowing Morgue emissions to exist in a realistic, 3D space (of your freaked-out design)
Spider.

ATRAX MORGUE "In Search of Death" cassette (Slaughter Productions T.01)
More amazing aural violence… Atrax vomits up some of the more amazing stuff i've heard lately; combining the darkness of the Italian and Swiss dark-atmo-ambio guys with some guttural electronics that occasionally verge near crude Whitehouse territory (square waves! agh!). The style reminds me of Megaptera a bit, with mixed in dialogue and samples from movies of all types floating through dense waves of black sound. Pieces like "Rape Time" and "Necrolessia" make me almost cringe from the shuddering, horrific drone - the mellowest piece here is the into "The Next Door" which is about as unsettling as you can get. It's just a low frequency drone, really, but you can feel it in your bowels and your skull, rattling and twitching. GREAT stuff, obviously.
[grievous]

chronicle of chaos #15 (web site)
Atrax Morgue - Cut My Throat CD (Slaughter Productions, 1996)by: Andrew Lewandowski (6 out of 10)
After producing numerous cassettes under the Atrax Morgue monikerthroughout the past three years, Marco Corbelli has released hisfirst four CDs in 1996. The most recent of which is this limitededition CD (250 copies with a bandage on the jewel case), theominously titled _Cut My Throat_. This one continues the sparsity ofhis past works; one constantly moving sound pattern occupies theforeground, while random distortion and noises dwell in thebackground. During the first track, "Before", these sounds are quitedocile; they evoke images ranging from sirens and chainsaws to morechildlike (ie: something that would appeal to a four year old)patterns, and never become overbearing. The second track, the longer"I Cut Yours", is comparatively harsher, largely due to morebackground distortion and a pulsating foreground, yet still never reaches an unlistenable level. Although this makes for an intriguinglisten, it lacks both the harsh and disturbing nature of better noiseartists.

AUDIO DRUDGE magazine #6 (USA)
ATRAX MORGUE - Basic Autopsy Procedure C30 (Slaughter Productions)
This is by no means ground breaking material, but it is an enjoyable little trip into the rather deranged and death-obsessed mind of it's creator, Marco Corbelli of Slaughter Productions. Bitter cold electronic currents ondulate and pulse in a post-mortem haze, as visions of rotting cadavers and ghastly surgery come prancing through you head. A voice talks you through the procedure while the music beneath provides a suitable and macabre adieu for your departed soul. Maggoty!
JM

CHILDREN OF CAIN issue 2, magazine (USA)
ATRAX MORGUE - Esthetik of a Corpse C60 (Slaughter Productions)
[…] the latest we received from Marco is the ATRAX MORGUE "Esthetik of a Corpse" tape. A quick overview of the 50 min tape; harsh electronics, sounds from obsessions and visions, death as sex, madness, pleasure, orgasm, cadavers and plastic bags. Although titles like " Bloodbath for my cock" and "talkin' to a decapitated head" may fit confortable on the latest Cannibal Corpse LP, Atrax Morgue has a way of, well, not making it so immature. Maybe because this is the reality of a sick mind, a perverse psychopath. If i heard these sound's and voices consistetely, I too would keep " Sex organs in formaldehyde". Again excellent A5 packaging with transparent acetate sleeve and insert, all pro done with a very underground charm. [BC]

MARBLE MOON #11 magazine (1998)
ATRAX MORGUE - Slush of a Maniac CD (Crowd Control Activities)
Ecco un capolavoro, un'opera monumentale nel senso più profondo e vero del termine ossia, risalendo alla radice latina, monumentum nel significato di ammonimento. Ma monumentale anche nella sua stessa struttura, costruzione architettonica del suono seguito dalla sua epifania al suo divenire (in Ultraviolence, Cold Pleasure e Corrupted) e per il suo quadro avvolgente che tende ad assumere in sè, attraverso citazioni esplicite, rimandi interni, i tratti del moderno-primitivo: dall'idea della forma del diario (De Sade) ad un'opera che fosse l'incontro tra tensioni eterne ed immediatezza reale (Pasolini) all'ultraviolenza di Kubric. Esiste, alla base, un passaggio da compiere, un passaggio che non è spostamento del senso ma riconoscimento e collocazione di coordinate senza le quali andrebbe perduto molto, non tanto del significato, ma della logica interna… La griglia di riferimento a partire dalla quale si attua questo passaggio ha le sue radici nelle performance e negli happening del teatro del dolore in cui erano officiati rituali chi includevano la flagellazione, torture, pratiche di scarnificazione, piercing nel tentativo di replicare riti pagani e cristiani (crocefissione, martiri).
Atrax Morgue muove dal teatro del dolore verso una musica del dolore, ne accetta l'idea di distruzione nella rappresentazione e, invece, ne muta i segni e le forme alla ricerca della costruzione di un linguaggio autonomo. Tutto questo elaborato in un processo verso la trascendenza che non è solo tra-ascendenza ma anche tradiscendenza.
C'è qulacosa di profondamente divino…
(G. Episcopo)

RITUAL # 2 (2000)
ATRAX MORGUE - Overcome LP (Slaughter Productions)
L'affermazione potrà sembrare fuori luogo per alcuni di voi, ma Atrax Morgue è in questi anni uno dei pochissimi nomi ad ereditare il suono e l'effetto annichilente della scuola powerelectronics dei primi anni '80. AM resta fedele a quel tipo di (anti)suoni, senza allegorie politiche da lemmings dell'estremismo da due soldi, nessun arricchimento strutturale, nessun tentativo di "migliorarsi". Ma come, proprio adesso che anche l'industrial più radicale riesce a moltiplicare i suoi adepti, proprio ora che questi suoni sono riconosciuti come veri generi musicali istituzionalizzati per fighetti annoiati, proprio ora che c'è la prospettiva di vivere anche producendo pattume, AM non partecipa all'allegro banchetto? Niente da fare, AM rimane ciò che è sempre stato: lo scheletro del nulla, il punto di non ritorno assoluto, la rappresentazione del non essere, l'apologia dell'inapprendimento, il deserto più totale; AM non è altro che ciò che ci circonda, ne è l'espressione più critica e reale. "Overcome" esce solamente su vinile, un album crudo che rispecchia l'annullamento più totale non solo negli intenti teorici, ma è tabula rasa globale anche nei suoni ripetuti, ossessivi, distorti, monolitici; la musica di AM si ricurva su se stessa, diventando il non-suono e negando ogni possibilità di esistenza propria. Inquietante e minimale, l'album scorre con rassegnazione totale per tutte le 7 tracce, senza concedere minimi "sconti di pena" a chi gli si avvicina.
(G. Santoro)

RUMORE magazine (italy) 2001
ATRAX MORGUE - Paranoia CD (OEC)
I paesaggi sonici di Marco Corbelli, in arte Atrax Morgue, sono la nuda e cruda rappresentazione della follia psichica, l'anfratto istintivo e viscerale del nulla, dell'instabilità esistenziale… della morte. Paranoia, in ordine di tempo l'ultima escursione psichica di Atrax Morgue, esamina in particolar modo la psicosi sessuale deviante, il legame inconscio che matura l'amplesso necrofilo tra sesso, morte ed isolamento mentale. Chi conosce la scena power electronics, e per essa intendo quella minimale, isolazionista ed espressionista dei primi anni '80 (che in Italia ha avuto come suoi rappresentanti tra gli altri Maurizio Bianchi e Mörder Corporation) può comprendere tutto ciò e rendersi partecipe di un universo angusto e raccapricciante ma anche, e proprio per questo, terribilmente affascinante. Considero Corbelli uno degli esponenti più significativi dell'avanguardia estremista e non ho alcun remore nel porlo sul medesimo piano di Diamanda Galas, primi Current 93, Throbbing Gristle e perchè no… il buon vecchio John Cage…
"…entrai nella mia stanza e trovai una bambola sul letto, con una lunga lama tagliente conficcata nel suo culo di plastica… Pensai… e alla fine realizzai che mia sorella era tornata di nuovo, talvolta è davvero cattiva e ne sono spaventato, so che può essere estremamente malvagia con me…".