From the same label that brought us the bitchin' art-damaged thrashcore of Verse & Radiation last month comes this inaugural disc from indie-metal crushers Ganon. This is definitely heavy stuff, with huge tidal riffs building up and crashing down, twin guitar harmonies spiralling outward from volcanic dirgescapes, the heavy crushing passages positioned in the realm of burly post-metalcore alongside the likes of Neurosis,Isis,etc. But then there's also Ganon's melodic, almost indie rock-ish side, their brutal sludgy riffing often plated in major key hooks, and killer, spacey instrumental sections. The album opens with a blast of burly dirgey riffing and math-crush guitars and ferocious war bellows, all crushing angular post-metal like Neurosis meets Keelhaul, monstrous and apocalyptic sounding...but then the second track comes in with a slow paced melodic crunch that sounds to me like a metallized, sludgy version of pre-Green Mind Dinosaur Jr. Hell yeah. Theres alot of that on In The Dead Of Sleep, fusing really catchy hooks to crushing post-Neurosis art metal and wandering,hypnotic post-rock. The last song even closes out in an awesome wash of radio static and a fuzzy, blurred piano loop, suspended above some cavernous Lull-style cave drones. Fans of the new breed of post rock / metal hybrids (Isis, Conifer, Tides, Pelican, Mouth Of The Architect), the sludgy technicality of bands like Mastodon and Keelhaul, and the indie-sludge goodness of Floor and Torche need to get blasted by this album fast.