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Year of No Light - Nord (Crucial Blast)
Label info: "As part of our current plundering of the French art-metal underground, Crucial Blast presents the North American release of 'Nord', the colossal debut from French ensemble Year Of No Light that was originally released via the French label Radar Swarm in 2006. Year Of No Light bring an amazing set of songwriting chops to the 10 songs that make up 'Nord', a heavy, chugging metallic monster that channels both gloomy atmospherics reminiscent of The Cure, and crushing Neurosis-inspired dirgecore, heavy, raw, and lumbering, but at times extremely beautiful and epic. To us, YEAR OF NO LIGHT's Nord seems to orbit the guitar-heavy early 90's alt rock of bands like Swervedriver and Dinosaur Jr., The Cure and My Bloody Valentine, just as much as it draws from the arty, crushing metallic post-hardcore pioneered by Old Man Gloom and Neurosis. Sure, there are a ton of bands out there that touch upon similar influences, but we can't think of anyone recently that has delivered an album in this style that is quite this catchy and well-written. Nord flows seamlessly between passages of ultra melodic rock and frenzied bursts of dissonant, crushing hardcore, to austere radiant guitar figures and gorgeous ambient drones, to massive doomy dirge metal, utterly gorgeous Loveless-esque melodic bliss, and some almost folksy, but unbelievably EPIC riffs, with powerful, strained vocals fighting through their wall of sound. Presented in a 4-panel gatefold case from Stumptown Printers, and featuring all new artwork."
(CD, cardboard digisleeve, $12.00, last copy)
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Souvenir's Young America - An Ocean Without Water (Crucial Blast)
Label info: "Lush, shimmering guitar ambience and hypnotic, propulsive instrumental heaviness wind through the dusty highways and burnt twilight skies of "An Ocean Without Water," the sophomore album from Richmond's Souvenir's Young America. Divided into six flowing movements, "An Ocean Without Water" is filled with intensely beautiful melodies that drift on lonesome harmonica strains and sparkling, celestial electronics, shot through with mystic, western slide guitar, passages of crushing angular riffage, rolling tribal drumming, and transcendent blues. Through their intricate song arrangements and moody textures, Souvenir's Young America has created an epic, emotional narrative. The sound draws from the collected DNA of forebears like Popul Vuh, Earth, Labradford, and Neurosis, yet they form a powerfully evocative instrumental language all of their own. [...]"
(CD, multi-paneled digipak, $12.00, last copy)
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Gnaw Their Tongues - An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood (Crucial Blast)
CD re-issue of the 2007 LP with one extra track. For those of you not yet familiar with Gnaw Their Tongues, take the OTT aesthetic / vocal stylings of black metal, give them a lurching doom metal pacing and poison them with a thick layer of noise and symphonic horror movie score. Cataclysmic and utterly noxious, like a "Burning The Temple Of God"-era MZ.412 on benzodiazepines crossed over with Neuntöter Der Plage while "The Omen" plays on a flickering television in the background.
(CD, digisleeve, $11.00, last copy)
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[ black metal ] [ dark ambient ] [ doom metal ] [ noise ] [ orchestral ] [ soundtrack ]
Gnaw Their Tongues - All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity (Crucial Blast)
2009 album from this Dutch project, staying faithful to its black/doom metal meets horror movie symphonic score in hell sound. Compared to "An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood", the 9 tracks here can be both more chaotic and dense with heavy drums, strained shrieks and agitated strings rising from the sludge (the poetically titled opening track "My Orifices Await Ravaging" being a perfect example), and yet more controlled at others when they are wielded with orchestral precision, such as on the demonic dirge "L'Ange Qui Annonce La Fin Du Temps". Dreadful, infernal fanfare for wretched times.
(CD, digisleeve with booklet, out of stock)
[ black metal ] [ doom metal ] [ noise ] [ orchestral ] [ soundtrack ]
Gnaw Their Tongues - L'arrivée De La Terne Mort Triomphante (Crucial Blast)
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(CD, gatefold digisleeve, $11.00)
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[ black metal ] [ dark ambient ] [ martial industrial ] [ neoclassical ] [ orchestral ]
Gnaw Their Tongues - Per Flagellum Sanguemque, Tenebras Veneramus (Crucial Blast)
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(CD, multi-paneled digipak, $11.00)
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[ black metal ] [ dark ambient ] [ noise ]
A Crown Of Amaranth - Love Lies Bleeding (Crucial Bliss)
Label info: "Malevolent plunder ambient and knife-wielding nocturnal electronics. Heavily saturated field recordings of inter-dimensional beasts breaking through to this world. Mega sinister drones from deep space freighter missions. Sad chorals emerge from circuit wars. Awesome epic planet-destroying guitar instrumentals. A CROWN OF AMARANTH follows up the Manuscript/Winterupt release on Audio Savant with this eerie and surreal noise/ambient/post-rock/mutant electronica sound exploration."
(pro-printed CD-R in oversized color sleeve, out of stock)
[ abstract electronics ] [ field recordings ] [ noise ]
Fulci - Dead Lights Red Sky (Crucial Bliss)
Label info: "The first recorded offering from twilight-psyche dronerock duo FULCI. Deep, rumbling, and eternal speaker-buzz worship, wrapped around lumbering riffs drunk on cough syrup and shimmering distortion overload. Howling feedback mantras repeated ad infinitum. Major key rustic lullabies are reduced to primal string scraping drones that climb over mountains of echoing hum. Intensely melodic and repetitious, like SKULLFLOWER covering EARTH's 2 in an old, empty farmhouse. FULCI is Eric Crowe (formerly of Social Infestation, currently of Marax) and Adam Wright. [...]"
(pro-printed CD-R in oversized color sleeve, $7.00, last copy)
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[ guitar drones ]
Encomiast - Havens (Crucial Bliss)
Label info: "This disc contains three exquisite new driftworks from ENCOMIAST, entitled Havens. Formed from vaporous clouds of guitar, gamelan, shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute), violin, vina, voice, flute, and field recordings, Ross Hagen and Megan Garland have stretched these sounds into infinite ribbons of metallic shimmer, twisting and swirling into gorgeous hum. The three tracks on this disc are extended works that range from eleven to twenty-five minutes in length, and drifts within the angelic regions between Andrew Chalk's minimalist explorations, the dream music of Troum (and their predecessor, Maeror Tri), and the bleary melodic smear of My Bloody Valentine. Havens distills the bliss of deep dreams and early morning haze into captured hymns, and is one of ENCOMIAST's finest drone offerings to date."
(pro-printed CD-R in oversized color sleeve, out of stock)
Aidan Baker - Exoskeleton Heart (Crucial Bliss)
Label info: "Following up his amazing Periodic disc that was issued through Crucial Bliss two years ago, acclaimed Toronto drone-guitarist Aidan Baker is back with Exoskeleton Heart, his newest entry into our ongoing Crucial Bliss series. And this 2-track, hour long excursion into deep feedback bliss is stunningly beautiful. Split into two halves, "Interior" and "Anterior", Baker once again taps into his visions of the bodycage using only his electric guitar, performed and recorded live; the result is an evocative feedback-heavy dronescape drifting with the gritty hum of the amplifier, layers of shimmering, chiming feedback, crushing distorted ambient dirge that borders on Sunn O)))-levels of sonic weight, and shafts of elegiac melody breaking through the stormclouds of Baker's cavernous rumbling like rays of sunlight. Aidan Baker is without question the North American counterpart to the Tuetonic guitar drones of Troum, and Exoskeleton Heart delivers some of his most massive, meditative, crushing, and beautiful subterranean drift yet. Hell, the final 10 minutes of "Anterior" is without questions one of the most beautiful things we have ever presented through this label, an angelic glacial melody that builds inexorably into a wall of blissed out fuzz a la something you'd expect from Aidan's drone sludge band Nadja. Essential. [...]"
(pro-printed CD-R, oversized sleeve, out of stock)
[ guitar drones ]
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