Press:
"Isolation Diary is a blazing fire built on the embers of self-introspection, splinters of loneliness, and the fuel of mourning and frustration." -Toilet Ov Hell
toiletovhell.com/the-storyteller-borrows-his-authority-from-death-premiering-isolation-diary-from-mother-anxiety-and-s-h-r-i-e-k-i-n-g/

"In a not-yet-post-COVID-world, the impact of isolation is a sore subject, and living through the eyes of not one but two distinct projects was intimidating. After many, many listens, it still is. I think that's a good thing. " -Sleeping Village Reviews
www.sleepingvillagereviews.com/reviews/fresh-meaterm-saturday-april-9th-2021-feat-bushido-code-and-mother-anxiety-s-h-r-i-e-k-i-n-g

www.growlsandshrieks.com/2021/05/mother-anxiety-and-shrieking-interview.html


West Coast one-person ambient metal project S H R I E K I N G brings a continuously shifting textural soundscape to this split release with Mother Anxiety - channeling an amalgam of drone, industrial, post metal, black metal, and ambient found samples.
In this split effort, they are experimenting with meditative themes of loneliness and personal sonic imagery of grasping through the endless reaches of outer and inner space. Burning through well after well of inspiration before ending on a progression towards a final note of self-inspection and surrender.


FFO: MONO, Spectral Lore, Greymachine, ANDROMACHE

Mother Anxiety is a PNW experimental electronic project by author and musician Ben Serna-Grey. Isolation Diary is fueled by the frustration and hopelessness of every little plan falling through. Staring down the barrel of being 30 years old and feeling absolutely stuck,coming home exhausted each night after work. Temporarily living with parents before moving across the country became more permanent due to the COVID pandemic, the temporary day job at the coffee shop turned into a tenured position. Meanwhile the world, and especially America fell deeper and deeper into fascism and he found himself no longer in the town he remembered growing up, but a city full of militant and angry brown shirts. Isolation Diary is a work of mourning and frustration, of intense loneliness, and an aching for change.
Ambient, noise, industrial, folk, jazz, and classical weave together across 4 separate pieces, peppered by the occasional spoken word fragment.

FFO: Coil, NOISEPOETNOBODY, Mamiffer

Cover art by OSHred