Monday, March 23, 2009

CRUCIAL BLAST WEBSTORE: NEW ARRIVALS FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 23RD








Greetings to all...we're back this week with the new Irepress album Sol Eye See I as our featured release. Available as both a digipack CD and a limited edition deluxe double LP, the second full length from these Boston prog-metallers is a mindblowing exercise in intricate melodic compostions, insane time signature changes, and stylistic experimentation that takes this album from super heavy math-metal to King Crimson/Mars Volta style prog to strange dubstep/jungle mutations. For anyone that liked their last album Samus Octology, this will blow your doors off, as the band's chops have improved exponentially and the drumming along will give you some serious whiplash. Awesome.

Other new stuff in this week:
the long-awaited new issue of Oaken Throne, one of the best underground metal magazines period!
Saros's first real full length, a vicious amalgam of progressive black metal and Bay Area thrash...
a colossal double-disc set of blackened hypnotic sludge from Belgian doomcore demons Amenra...
the drug-addled deathdoom weirdness of Finnish band Astral Sleep...
Stroma-Konkret, a collaboration between legendary Italian industrial artist Maurizio Bianchi and German percussive industrialist Siegmar Fricke...
Carrion Wraith's debut album of depressive, deer-ghoul obsessed black metal...
Cynic's awesome comeback album Traced In Air now available on deluxe vinyl...
the new concept album about dogs from Italian avant metallers Ephel Duath...
the fifth and final LP in the Genghis Tron Board Up The House Remix series, featuring remixes from Tim Hecker and Nadja...
a new reissue of Hawkwind's Text Of Light live album, featuring early BBC recordings from the UK space-rock gods...
album number two from German tribal/sludge maniacs Insuiciety...
a new collaboration of dark Western-hued guitar ambience and industrial amp-scapes from Destructo Swarmbots and MGR...
Nanda Devi's excellent debut disc showcasing their mix of sludgy atmospheric math-doom and looping drones...
a brand new CD single of crazed avant-jazzgrind from Psychofagist, now featuring members of Zu (Ipecac)!
the terminally weird prog-doom of Quercus that features a guest vocal appearance from Cudlik the cat...
a vinyl reissue of Robedoor's sludgedrone monstrosity Rancor Keeper...
a new disc of "True Sheffield Black Psychedelia" from the strange industrial/blacknoise/kosmiche duo Torture Gnosis...
a new three-way split CD from Ars Magna that features new and rare tracks from Chaos Moon, Frostmoon Eclipse and Benighted In Sodom...
the soporific, black metal inspired kraut/cosmic/ambient drift of Vinterriket's Zeit-Los: Laut-Los...
a colored vinyl release of Wildildlife's Peas Feast on Crucial Blast that includes a download card with additional exclusive tracks...
the fucked-up outsider black metal/psych folk chaos of Wormsblood...


Of course, there's much more mutant heavy music to be had, pards...so keep reading below to check out all of the amazing new music that we have in this week's new arrivals list!