The debut release from new avant-heavy imprint 20 Buck Spin (Pentagram , anyone?) unloads a 3 part earthquake in the form of BLACK BONED ANGEL, the sub-

harmonic drone alter ego of New Zealand drone favorite Campbell Kneale, a.k.a. BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL and head of Celebrate Psi Phenomenon. Now, comparisons to

SUNN O))) would be inevitable, if only due to the limited number of artists working in this spectrum, but Supereclipse could really only be compared to that

band's Flight Of The Behemoth, all sawtooth drone and bestial speaker hum. BLACK BONED ANGEL actually leans more towards the Tony Conrad / John Cale /

Theatre Of Eternal Music end of the "drone" sphere, and the transcendental feedback wash of Skullflower. That's not to say that SUNN O))) fans and doom/drone

heads won't lose their minds over this-they most definitely will; there is just a lot more to Supereclipse than free-feedback and detuned metal guitar. It's

more like SKULLFLOWER moving at a glacially slow pace, nightmarish and black as midnight, but with a monstrous undercurrent of melody.

Black Boned Angel traffics in pulverizing low-end dirge-drone, absolutely pitch black stuff, but remains anchored to Campbell Kneale's shimmering skree-

drone, free-noise aesthetic, with thunderous, high-end chord progressions seeping over the horizon like an apocalypse, as the earth shakes from monumental

tremors. There is CORRUPTED -esque ultraslow drumming and ghostly shades of rhythm and vocal incantations glimpsed from behind the suffocating thrum, which

add an incredibly epic feel to these 3 pieces. By now, you should know if this is up yopur alley or not; extreme doom freaks and drone heads are going to

LOSE THEIR MINDS over this. Supereclipse comes in a nice black digipack with white print and clear tray, with the mandate "Transcendence Can Only Be reached

At Maximum Volume" clearly stated on the interior.