��� After a couple of years of silence, this new song from Japanese sludge-metal titans Corrupted came out of nowhere earlier this year via a limited 7" on the Japanese punk label Crust War. Totally missed the boat on this when it first came out as it sold out pretty quickly, but after a repress we've managed to finally get this in stock.

��� Featuring the band's new vocalist Mother Sii, also a member of the Japanese punk band Lastsentence, "Loss" is a single song split across the two halves of the record. For nearly ten minutes, the band drifts and descends through an increasingly benighted volcanic zone, at first swelling up from the depths in a dim blur of choked voices and minimal dark ambient drones. And when the whole band kicks in, it's a monstrously heavy and apocalyptic blackness that overtakes that first side, a churning mass of eerie, dissonant guitars and downtuned sludge, the shrieking vocals stretching out over a pummeling, frenzied commotion of tribal rhythms and booming low-end heaviness. Everything is blown out, the sound super abrasive and chaotic, more than any other recent Corrupted offering in fact, a violent, seething sludgecore assault that eventually begins to burn out as the side fades to a close

��� When the song picks back up on the other side, though, that heaviness has been replaced by a long stretch of billowing abyssal ambience, a threatening darkness that spreads out across the second half of the song, all low murmuring drift and Lustmordian drones slowly moving through a lightless, frozen void. Occasionally ghostly voices drift up from the deep, agonized cries lost in the depths, subsumed into the vast, amorphous gloom that overtakes the record. Punishing stuff, the band hasn't sounded this vicious in years; hopefully it's just a taste of what migh be coming soon in the form of a new full length, since it's been four years since Garten Der Unbewusstheit. Looks fantastic as well, housed in a black matte sleeve with grotesque artwork from Solmania's Masahiko Ohno and a printed insert that includes an English translation of the lyrics, and of course, extremely limited.