Black Chaos Rules is the imprint that handles the leaks, the experiments and the noise of Chaos Rules. The main releases, even if published now, are sounds created between 2008 and 2012, sometimes reworked with modern elements. Either way, nothing that could be played on a stage in front of sane people. Some of the artists featured are no longer alive, and that's exactly why Black Chaos Rules is also a tribute to them.
We owe a real debt to the Telegram channel «Chaos Rules DarkNet Radio», which preserved some of these sonic leaks and is helping us gradually publish all of it. Black Chaos Rules has its own distribution, separate from Chaos Rules, but it lives mainly on Bandcamp.
Why disturbing? Beyond the music itself, mostly defined by pure chaos, noise and absurdity, most of these releases carry a story behind them — often a sad one. Let's look at a few releases.
«Hazard Gasmask» (2009), Hazard GM — This is a genuine leak: not official tracks, but findings recovered from his hard drive. The tracks are unfinished, mostly early production attempts. «Incomplete Mix» is a clearly minimal track with no real structure, built in Magix Music Maker using vocals grabbed from here and there, that just keeps repeating itself while occasionally adding elements. The second track looks like nothing more than an attempt to build an LFO using the Massive plug-in.
Hazard GM passed away in 2009, so unfortunately we don't know much about his intentions.
«R.I.P. 91-18» (2018), EaFrench — This collection isn't an original Chaos release as such, but a compilation of every track EaFrench ever posted on his SoundCloud profile. Some, made with video-game software, blend tribe, tekno and frenchcore.
EaFrench was Mestizia CRK's cousin, and probably the person who first introduced him to electronic music.
Among the tracklist are experiments like «Little Bastard», inspired by an indie game called Tabboz Simulator — the 1998 simulator of Italian street-punk swagger. When at school you picked the option to threaten your teachers into raising your grades, the game would answer: «Trying to intimidate me, little bastard?». Then there's «Go Mad in The Summer», an incoherent account of a police chase one summer — the only voice on the track says, in dialect, «Here they come, run!», before a drop that back then could pass for frenchcore in rave circles, but today sounds closer to SNES music. «Hazard's Anthem» is clearly the completion of «Incomplete Mix»: from the original track it keeps only the vocal, and stands as a kind of tribute to his passing.
Moving forward you can hear Ea drifting more and more from frenchcore toward tekno and the tribe world. The collection is a dedication to Ea, who is no longer with us, after a very hard life carried by a heart that was often too good.
«Heroin Looperman» (2011 / 2026 remake), Narcan Squad — As the title suggests, this album tells the looped life of a heroin user. Though it opens with slow-techno dynamics, continued listening brings out whistles and noises closer to noise music. The mix is deliberately chaotic and the track's BPM climbs to symbolise how fast life becomes under those circumstances. The whistles, according to the producers, represent «the pins in your head».
The second track is a continuous loop symbolising obsessive, single-minded thought — commonly called «the monkey». The third track is actually the first one again, but played back inverted underneath itself, to give the sense of a loop: what's already been done repeats, you're back at the starting point, without moving forward.
«The Greed of a Few is The Death of Many», N36 — This EP is a proto-EP, an attempt to turn noise into music. What you hear is nothing but amateur recordings made inside a working metalworking factory. Beyond the ambient echo from a recording made with nothing more than a smartphone, you can hear hammers striking iron and aluminium, grinders and drills.
The third track is the second one, reworked and stretched out: it represents how all this chaos keeps echoing in the brain even at night. Only the first track, «Money Driller», tries to hold a 4/4 using the recorded sounds, with a bit of kickbass added. The almost obscene attempt to make something coherent doesn't fully succeed, but we can tell you a more polished remake of the experiment is coming.
Black Chaos Rules is like an archive of ghosts and psychiatric files, holding on to what remains and still hurts, refusing perfection — a niche label made for the few, a cluster of fragile candles in a room abandoned in complete darkness.