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Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth (Crucial Blast)
Label info: "Dead Mountain Mouth is the first full length album from GENGHIS TRON, and the follow-up to their imaginative debut EP, Cloak Of Love. Recorded at Godcity Studios with Kurt Ballou (Converge), Dead Mountain Mouth moves beyond the rapid-fire electro/grind genre-splicing of Cloak Of Love, and forms something more fluid and cohesive, an arcane union of digital dreams and brutal heaviness, where speedcore eruptions blossom from clouds of maximum beat-driven electronic bliss, and futuristic metal riffage seethes from your speakers. These ten gloriously-dense and triumphantly catchy jams soar through valleys of immense crush and alien vistas of 8-bit wizardry unlike anything you've heard before..."
(CD, clear jewel case, $12.00)
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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)
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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, $11.00)
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[ black metal ] [ doom metal ] [ noise ] [ orchestral ] [ soundtrack ]
Skullflower - Orange Canyon Mind (Crucial Blast)
Label info: "The new full length from the legendary UK free/drone/psych outfit Skullflower, featuring some of the most searing, synapse scorching droneworks that Matthew Bower (the man behind Skullflower, as well as Sunroof!, Total, and The Hototogisu) has unleashed to date, in our humble opinion. Orange Canyon Mind is the follow up to 2002's awesome Exquisite Fucking Boredom (Tumult Records), and continues that albums utter mutation of stoned out riffs pulled taffy-like into eternity/oblivion and star-rupturing blasts of sonic white light. Over the 8 tracks/60 minute running time, Bower and cohorts build massive horizontal drones and melodic supernovas. Superb, beautiful, brain melting stuff."
(CD, clear jewel case, $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)
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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)
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