CRUCIAL BLAST WEBSTORE: NEW ARRIVALS FOR WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 3RD 2010
Well, we're back after an extended delay due to having some major site issues that popped up last month (and which we're still dealing with - you may notice some wonky behavior on the Crucialblastshop.net site right now) that we're in the process of getting sorted out and fixed as quickly as possible. We do have a huge list of new titles and restocks for you to trake a look at, though, starting with the new album from Circle Of Animals, an excellent new duo from Chicago that features Sanford Parker (Minsk) and Bruce Lamont (Yakuza) resurrecting the iron rhythms and hypnotic chug of the late 80's Chicago industrial scene as filtered through a contemporary underground metal lens. They first appeared a couple of months ago with a limited 12" on Relapse that we reviewed here (and which we still have in stock), and their debut album Destroying The Light has just come out on the same label, a heavy, mesmeric slab of mechanical metallic heaviness that had me all misty thinking about the glory days of Wax Trax and The Land Of Rape & Honey and Swans, but they inject this industrial rock sound with a spacey, often psychedelic quality and a heavy dose of crushing dirge that remind you of who is behind this. I thought that 12" pointed to good things to come, but this debut full length turned out to be even better than I had expected...
Here's some of the other mutant heaviness that has come in to Crucial Blast this week:
La Otracina's latest album of spiralling psych-metal, which sounds like 70's prog crossed with Hawkwind crossed with NWOBHM... two new vinyl reissues from Swedish sludge-punk scumbags Brainbombs, Urge To Kill and Singles Collection... the crucial new reissue of Brutal Truth's Need To Control, which changed the face of grindcore in the early 90s... a bunch of tapes from Rainbow Bridge, including Boar's harsh noise wall feast Teen Cribs, Dreaded, Demonologists, and Skin Graft... the latest album from Rhode Island avant-sludge duo The Body, an ambitious mix of proggy doo, choral music, and blackened drone... some skull-pounding breakcore/gabber/Amigacore platters from Bong-Ra, Stagediver, CCDM, Teknoist/Eustachian and Dispyz... a super-limited disc of vicious harsh noise from Brandkommando... a limited disc from NY improv-sludge-psych blasters Burnt Hills... a host of killer new metal cassettes from Hospital Productions, including the corroded sci-fi death of Time Crypt (featuring Dom from Prurient), the low-fi symphonic dread of Curved Blade, the blackened noise metal of Vegas Martyrs, and the blistering necro-noisecore of Terrorism... a couple of issues of the humorous underground show-review comic Feedback... a bunch of tapes (and one cdr) from the ultra-misanthropic, ultra-hateful black industrial project Goat Thron... restocks of crucial discs from The Goslings, Lords Of Bukkake, Master Musicians Of Bukkake, Negative Approach, Nadja, Miss High Heel, and much more... a handful of vinyl editions from KNVBI that includes limited edition Lps from Infection Code, Hoor-Paar-Kraat, two new discs of psychedelic sludgecore from Finland's Fleshpress... a new black-as-pitch art zine called Call And Response from Locrian's Terence Hannum... a hard-to-find 12" from black metal influenced breakcore sorceress Hecate... the heavy dystopian drum-n-bass-meets-doomdrone of Imaginary Forces... Human Quena Orchestra's newest disc of apocalyptic scorched-earth industrial doom... a restock of Howling Void's Shadows Over The Cosmos, a killer mix of extreme funeral doom and orchestral ambience... a very limited 7" featuring UK noise rockers Hey Colossus and Field Boss (formerly known as Tractor)... Vve Are The End, a brand new 7" from holy terror hardcore legends Integrity... a new split disc of crushing HNW from Vomir and Dead Body Collection, and another featuring Vomir and awesome gaseous satanic doom-laden death metal from Father Befouled... a double LP collecting the entire recorded output of British psych-prog sludgecore heathens Gruel... new Disaro darkness from occultic folk troubador King Dude... Cephalic Carnage's stunning new album of avant-math-grind Misled By Certainty...
And that's just the beginning. There's much more mutant heavy music to be had...keep reading below to check out all of the amazing new music that we have in this week's new arrivals list.
You can now click on the cover image for any title that we carry here at Crucial Blast to see a pop-up photograph of the actual item! Not all of our older titles that we have in stock have product photographs attached to them, but almost anything new that we get in stock will have this feature. The pop-up photo feature can be wonky (like most things) if you are using Internet Explorer, but works perfectly in Firefox and other browsers.
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