Genghis Tron followed up their 2006 album Dead Mountain Mouth on Crucial Blast with the claustrophobic, desperate Board Up The House, their first album for metal behemoth Relapse Records. The band had a lot to live up to for their sophomore album - Dead Mountain Mouth was a pretty amazing debut from the young band, and they've spent the past couple of years touring on that material. They ended up coming out with their most epic music yet with Board Up The House, and it's a stunning album that moves beyond the spastic, magesterial grind and video-game electronica of Dead Mountain Mouth into tension-riddled prog territory. Their sound here is darker and moodier than before, the chaotic metallic grind blasts laced with complex drum programming, skittering electronica, weird production tricks, lush new wave synthesizers, and singer Mookie's newfound range of vocals that add clean, vocoded crooning to his arsenal of psychotic screams. The synth sounds and longer dronier section on Board sound a lot at times like the 70's synth soundtracks of Italian prog rockers Goblin or John Carpenter, and by default Zombi too, but these epic sprawling soundracky bits are tangled together with the jagged grindcore and crushing riffing and Hamilton's shredding leads. The ten minute closing track "Relief" brings it all together, starting off as a heavy dreamy dirge, slow and languorous and kind of Neurosis-y, a grinding bassline building over pounding programmed drums, the clean vocal melody shifting into panic as the track turns into a devestating melodic groove that loops over and over, the dreamy guitars and buzzing synthesizers and vocal harmonies locked into a hypnotically repetitive dirge, keyboards swelling and building in volume, the song finally disappearing in a cloud of crashing cymbals.