Long unavailable, I just turned up a handful of this hard-to-find 7" Ep that was one of the earliest releases on extreme metal powerhouse Relapse Records, the first release from an obscure Pennsylvania duo called Candiru that featured Pat McCahan (also a member of eco-grinders Exit-13 and a one time member of Scorn, and later the founder of death/black metal imprint Red Stream) on vocals, guitar and samples, and Kipp Johnson (later of dub/industrial heavies Solarus and noise/sample terrorists Namanax) on bass, drum machines and samples. Candiru weren't just one of Relapse's earliest signings, but also one of their weirdest, with a plodding, electronic-enhanced lurch that sounded sort of like a wonky version of Godflesh or Pitchshifter crossed with the surreal demonic industrial/EBM of early G.G.F.H..
This 7� featured two songs from Candiru, the first side with "Tranced & Trampled", a heavy, primitive industrial metal dirge with noisy, downtuned metallic riffage, weird samples and clanking industrial rhythms, very Godflesh/Scorn-influenced but powered by it's own demented propulsion system. The b-side "Hammer" is weirder stuff, a nightmare trudge through processed moans, dissonant guitar noise, metallic percussion and weird dub/electronic effects that start to creep in towards the end, giving this grinding slow motion industrial-doom dirge a seriously druggy and zonked-out feel. There are only a handful of copies of this rare 7� in stock, and chances are that it�s not going to be available again once these sell out. Comes on red vinyl.