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CRUCIAL BLAST WEBSTORE: NEW ARRIVALS FOR TUESDAY MAY 16th, 2012
Thirty new titles and a couple of restocks on the shelf this week. One of the discs that I've been playing non-stop is Minotaur's Obsession, the first full album from this transatlantic duo of James Keeler (of blackened ambient/industrial outfit Wilt) and George Proctor (from UK blackened hardcore thugs Sump). Minotaur specialize in a brooding, sexually charged brand of power electronics that is more atmospheric than brutal, but still manages to be one of the most unsettling PE albums I've heard all year. An excellent disc that I've been recommending to everybody around here.
In addition, we've gone through our inventory and lowered the prices on a bunch of labels that we stock here at Crucial Blast. For the following labels, most or all of the titles we have in stock have been lowered to $5.00 each: Amanita, Cold Current, Coagulated, Casus Belli, Chrome Peeler, DAC Productions, Unfortunate Miracle, Cudgel, CTR Records, Crionic Mind, Crimes Against Humanity, Carbon Records, and Coyote Records. Lots of dark ambience and weird grindcore on that list, and most of this stuff is in very limited quantities...
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL OFFER: Until May 25th, any orders over $150.00 are 15% off (not including shipping). Just use the code 150MAY at checkout when placing your order to get the discount. Order more, save more!
And here's a quick rundown of most of the other new releases and re-stocks that are on this week's new arrivals list:
the incendiary black noise extremism of Josh Lay and Crown Of Bones new split disc...
a new Cd collection of out of print vinyl material from blackened noise/psych outfit Burial Hex...
Charnel House's amazing new disc of delirious black metal barbarism and ghostly black psych...
Heldentod's new album of ghastly death industrial and Fortean influenced power electronics...
In Somniphobia, the latest disc from Japanese avant black metal freakazoids Sigh...
the new album from dark ambient legend Sleep Research Facility, drawing from the sounds of the notorious B-2 bomber...
the dark organ-driven kosmische ambience of WASTELANDERS's II: Cosmic Despair....
Ominous Telepathic Mayhem, the latest album of duo improvisational blast-jazz from Weasel Walter and friends...
a new re-issue of the debut album from southern space rock heavies U.S. Christmas...
a gorgeous new re-issue of Nekronology, the collection of Hermann Kopp's film score pieces from the experimental splatter films of German director Jorg Buttgereit...
two different albums from German black ambient project Inade, both shot straight out of the abyss...
three seperate deluxe reissues from the avant garde blackened soundtrack metal band Bal-Sagoth, on Metal Mind...
the latest album of cyclical heaviness from Portland, OR hypno-drone-sludge trio Tecumseh...
a limited disc of vile industrial sludge/noise from Slave Auction...
Shaidar Logoth's excellent debut album of mangy hypnotic black metal and grim abstract ambience...
the pounding industrial black metal of France's Pavillon Rouge, recommended to Aborym and Dodheimsgard fanatics...
a bunch of Lustmord stuff, crucial out of print discs and a new 2xLp edition of Monstrous Soul from this dark ambient legend...
a re-issue of the complete recorded works from the obscure but PUMMELING Finnish noise rock band Forkboy...
unearthed copies of the rare industrial metal/death electronics album Thanatos Descends from Dead World, total devastation...
a skulldozing set of cassettes from the horror-themed HNW project Burial Ground...
the re-issue of Circadian Rhythm from Lull and Beta Cloud, now joined by a deranged "remix" from Andrew Liles...
Blixt, the new disc of heavy improvised jazz/rock/metallic prog from Bill Laswell, Morgan Agren, and Raoul Bjorkenheim...
There's much more mutant heavy music on the new arrivals shelf...keep reading below to check out all of the new music, print and art that came in this week.
Head over to the new and improved Crucial Blast Webstore to check out all of the new stuff.
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If you've been following the Crucial Blast stock lists for awhile, you've probably noticed my love of the Pennsylvania based folk group Stone Breath. Folk music isn't something that you see all that often here at C-Blast, but Timothy Renner's group (and assorted other projects) travel along darker roads than most, evoking ancient, crumbling cemeteries and dark hollows covered over with undergrowth and moss. These places exist outside of the omnipresent buzz of the modern world, and I never tire of visiting their shadowed corners. Undeath is a new full length disc from Renner's latest offshoot, Time Moth Eye, and it follows some of the same spectral trails as Stone Breath but also possesses a noticeably creepier feel, a kind of graveyard drone-folk that echoes over overturned headstones and partially exposed bones in long forgotten burial plots along the back roads of rural Pennsylvania, possessed of an ancient, cobwebbed ambience. Along with the music, this release also includes a thick artist's chapbook that contains forty-four pages of eerie illustrations and scratchboard drawings that are deeply connected to the moldering sounds captured on the disc.
The Undeath art zine / disc set is limited to two hundred hand-numbered copies.
Go here for more details for TIME MOTH EYE's Undeath art zine and disc set:
UNDEATH
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