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BLINDING LIGHT, THE  Glass Bullet  7" VINYL   (Init)   4.98
Glass Bullet IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

Another Init title that went out of print as soon as we picked up the last available copies! This Sioux Falls band featured a bunch of dudes from some fairly well known midwestern hardcore bands like Threadbare, Floodplain, and Caligari (whose album of crushing, cybernetic metalcore is listed eslewhere in this weeks list), but The Blinding Light may have been heavier than them all. Their sound is unmistakeably influenced by late 80's/early 90's Slayer, even down to Brian Lovro's vocals, which sound exactly like a snottier Tom Araya. The discordant guitars of Tim Munce and Chad Petit summon the spectre of Slayer as well, weaving crazed Hanneman style leads around their brutal detuned riffs. But if they sound a bit like Slayer, it's a Slayer that's slower, rawer, sludgier, with thick, murky riffs and splashes of vomit-green whiskey rock licks, blasting double bass drumming, jarring stop-start rhythms and blastbeats thundering behind the rest of the band who seem to lurch in hal

f-time. This EP had also come out as a CD on Deathwish, but the 7" on Init was limited to 400 copies on black vinyl, and we only picked up a couple of these from the label before they totally ran out.