Vinyl collecting sludge fans, prepare to bug out - we just located a small stash of this long out of print 7" featuring an exclusive song each from sludgecore dopelords Bongzilla and the Japanese deathcore band Hellchild. This EP has been out of print and unavailable for years, but we found some of these hidden away in the warehouse of one of our distributors and were able to pick them up for Crucial Blast. These are pricey for a 7" but our cost for them was pretty high, and no matter how you slice it, we're offering them at a much cheaper price than you'll likely find it going for on Ebay. And this EP is a scorcher: Bongzilla drop a screeching, bluesy sludge jam recorded by Steve Austin from Today Is The Day, and it's called "Witch Weed", which I can only imagine is an ode to one of their preferred strains of marijuana. Sickening, strained screams and slow, crushing swamp riffs recall Eyehategod, but Bongzilla always had a crustier tone that made them a fave among fans of
sludgecore, doom, and crust.
Hellchild's contribution is "Voice From Far Away", and from the opening blast of chugging, ultra detuned death metal riffage reminds the listener that these guys are one of the heaviest goddamn bands on the planet. Churning, slightly funky and devestatingly heavy death metal combines with bursts of mid tempo rock and atmospheric arpeggios and guitar textures make this jam a fucking destroyer. These guys take the brutal deathcore and grind sound of bands like All Out War and Disassociate, made it a little more progressive with inventive guitar work and rhythmic patterns.
This 7" was released by HG Fact, the same label that has brought us all of the Corrupted albums and that recent featured release from Noise A Go Go's as well as ton of other awesome Japanese bands; the record is on black vinyl and comes in a full color sleeve.