Crucial Blast Newsletter :84: FRIDAY APRIL 17TH 2009
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Greetings-
The Human Quena Orchestra "Politics" CD is available now from Crucial Blast - all mailorder copies come with three 1" buttons with artwork from the album. This disc came out looking and sounding great, and it's easily the bleakest thing that we have ever released under the C-Blast imprint. The band just wrapped up their tour of the West Coast with Geronimo, and from all accounts, they freaking crushed. Their CD release show in Pittsburgh is coming up on the 25th with Brutal Truth, and it looks like it's going to kill - I'm even trying to make the three hour trip up there to see it if I can swing it. If you missed em on this tour, fret not, as the Human Quena Orchestra are gearing back up to tour the full US this summer and are planning on finally hitting the East Coast. Hell yes. In the meantime, I just found this insanely blown-out video of HQO playing live on tour - you can feel the speakers melting down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKp-e_cOSUw
Geezus!
Man, I love this band so much. I've been grooving on a lot of grim fringe lit lately, Apocalypse Culture, a bunch of Skipp And Spector novels from the late 80's, stuff like that, and The Politics Of The Irredeemable has been acting as my soundtrack for all of that over the past two months. It's a wonder that I haven't had to go on Paxcil.
If you like slow, unremittingly bleak and nightmarish industrial dirgescapes, I highly advise you to cruise over to crucialblast.net and check the album out on the streaming player for Politics on the main page.
Have a handful of new Crucial Blast releases that we're working on right now. The rerelease of the new album from Overmars will be coming out soon, as will the second Audiofilm 3" CD from Scott Hull. We also have a new Subarachnoid Space album coming down the pike this year, a posh CD release of the new Monarch, a new Gnaw Their Tongues disc plus Gnaw Their Tongues shirt designs, and more.
This weeks new arrivals list for Crucial Blast is below. It's kind of a doozy - lots of killer new titles, a bunch of restocks, three new titles from my new favorite whacko-death metal label Dan's Crypt, a bunch of new stuff from UK industrial label Unrest, and lots, lots more.
stay well...
Adam / Crucial Blast
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CRUCIAL BLAST WEBSTORE: NEW ARRIVALS FOR FRIDAY APRIL 17TH 2009
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We're back this week with a ton of new stuff, and we're especially stoked on two releases in particular - the brand new Human Quena Orchestra album The Politics Of The Irredeemable that we just released on Crucial Blast, first and foremost. This monstrous disc is one of the heaviest things that we've ever released, it's equal parts blackened glacial industrial, nightmarishly dosed dronemusic, and punishing slow-motion mecha-sludge, and I've been comparing to a cross between Corrupted and Sunroof whenever I've been talking this up to people. That's a really simplistic comparison for the apocalyptic aural visions that Human Quena constructs, but it gives you an idea of what's going on here. What you should do is head over to the main page at www.crucialblast.net and take a listen to the album on the streaming audio player that we have set up, and hear for yourself. Total crush!
And I've been hooked on another album this week, actually for the past couple of weeks, the brand new reissue of Whourkr's first album Naat. This French duo blew me away when I first heard them a couple of months ago after they sent their new album Concrete to me to check out, playing a brutal, complex hybrid of violent death/grind and extreme electronica that's so layered and chaotic yet catchy and loaded with AWESOME riffage that their music demands multiple listens to soak it all in. I've been bugging out over Whourkr so much that we're working on hopefully releasing new music from the band later this year, but in the meantime, their first album just came out this month, reissued on a new label, and it's a mindblowing slice of hyperfreak death/glitch that's essential for fans of Noism, Dataclast, Mulk, Drumcorps, Bong-Ra, and Reptiljan, and any other extreme, supersonic digital processor blastronica! THIS RULES!
Other new stuff in this week:
spectacular reissue of the live album Relaps from crucial RIO/dark prog legends Univers Zero; totally heavy stuff from the 80's...
a whopping FOUR discs of heavy British guitar-drone sorcery from To Blacken The Pages...
Swiss turntable dronester Strotter Inst. and his amazing new disc of dark, heavy, cyclical machine-loop trance...
a hilariously/righteously over-the-top album of breakbeat-laden, vaguely industrialized death metal scumfunk from Soldered Poon...
return of Houston noise dominator Richard Ramirez with another brutal flogging of ultra black static powerdrone, this one on CD....
a stunning mini-album of monolithic vocal-chorale-ultradrone from Joe Preston (Thrones/Harvey Milk) and Daniel Menche...
awesome debut disc from Murkrat, mixing haunting female vocals, batwinged goth vibes, ultra grim doom, and totally 80's synths - total doom genius....
both the new full length from Human Quena Orchestra on Crucial Blast + the debut CD on Daft Alliance - monstrous industrial doom/ambience from both...
two new reissues of classic, previously out of print albums from the French industrial metal band Treponem Pal...
some dark n' heavy metallic psych blowout from Tokyo rockers Up Tight, on Archive...
another split CD of scorching damaged black metal, this one from deformed rawmeat blackthrasher Raw Hatred and Denver necronoiseblasters Misanthropy...
more harsh, unfriendly industrial droneology from Luasa Raelon...
a reissue of the 1995 debut from cult Aztec death metal oddities Mictlan...
blazing warmarches and terraforming industrial black metal from Terrodrown...
the now out of print limited edition cassette of the new Xasthur album, only ten copies in stock...
pummeling Polish metalcore/deathmath from Mothra...
Wizzards awesome debut album of muscular basement prog, back in stock...
out of control French digital/gore metal/ragacore/jungle insanity from the mighty Mulk...
limited 7" of heavy electronica-flecked post rock superdrone from Nudge...
the noxious black industrial mania of Pestdemon's vicious Hidden Temple cassette...
more psychedelic black metal from solo shadowtripper Procer Veneficus...
a lost stash of Stinking Lizaveta's smokin' 2001 album III, on the long-gone Tolotta label...
super limited fan-creaming vinyl EP from the mighty Torche...
the new slab of rocking, dual-guitar harmony spewing, Pentagram-meets-Thin-Lizzy retro heavy metal doom glory from Valkyrie on vinyl and cd...
awesome free-noise/vomit jazz/powerviolent sludge demolition from Vennt...
one cassette, two sides of orgasmic harsh noise wall splatter from Vomir and Concrete Threat, out of print, last copies...
long-awaited new vinyl release of the reissued first album from Canadian proto-metal heavies Warpig...this album f'ing SMOKES...
ripping Austrian black metal via Vobiscum, f'ing feral to the max....
the debut album from Egoist, a Polish prog/avant/funk/math/death metal monstrosity featuring guest solos from the guitarist from Pestilence...
Cobalt's newest album of hard-drinking, cerebral black metal...
the new EP from French theological black metal avant-gardists Deathspell Omega...
an out of print split cassette of dark industral creep from Messiah Complex and Death Factory...
the final posthumous album from Khanate, this time moving into a new heavy psych territory...
Analog Clash, a killer collection of remixes and out of print 12" tracks from some of the heaviest dubstep artists...
the crushing new double LP split with Nadja and A Storm Of Light (including a cd copy of the album)...
the long-awaited new album from Texas prog-tinged occult-thrashers Absu...
a lost stash of Melt Banana's power-pop-grind masterpiece Cell-Scape on VINYL...
a brand new split 7" of bizarro powerviolence/ultragrind destruction from Agoraphobic Nosebleed and Crom...
both of the early double CDs from legendary British doomsters Esoteric, back in print...
Recycled Music cassettes on RRRecords from hypno-noise-rockers F/i and Finnish industrial goatworshippers Haare...
limited colored LP of An Albatross's awesome Blessphemy album...
a super-limited gatefold double LP from Everlovely Lightningheart with some of their most beautiful chamber/drone ambience ever...
the warped noise-infested black metal of Ganzmord on limited-edition 7"...
a SHITLOAD of Hirax imports, including their awesome live DVD/CD set, two EPs of ripping thrash, and the full length reissue of their classic 80's output on Metal Blade - totally essential for fans of quirky, supersonic crossover thrash...
Kylesa's newest album of epic psychedelic crustmetal, Static Tensions, plus a new limited edition 7" featuring a thunderous dual drum jam...
new reissue of the early recordings of Finnish blackskumnoisemetallers Beherit...
morose, crushing doom from Eibon....
an out of print cassette of murky, heavy free-psych-drone from Jazzfinger...
Kuaun's debut album of doomy, proggy gloom-metal that sounds kinda like a jazzy Agalloch...
heavy droning rhythmic industrial from Koeff...
the new album of proggy melodic black metal from French weirdos Blut Aus Nord...
two limited-edition cdrs of heavy dronerock discordance and industrialized blackened dirgenoise from Korperschwache....
a brand new split 10" with Wreck Of The Hesperus and De Novissimis, both Irish, both vomiting massive gouts of blackened demonic doom...
crushing hypnotic sludge and winding mathrock from Death Of Her Money, who remind me of a cross between early Isis and Gore...
insanely complex Australian avant death metal from Decaying Form...
restocks of the silkscreened self-titled LP from Ludicra, Lysergene's awesome album of dark, doomy electro/industrial, and Pig Destroyer...
another killer slab of icy black metal from Italian shred mistress Climaxia and her band Melencolia Estatica...
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.
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CRUCIAL BLAST LIVE ACTIONS
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ACROSS TUNDRAS
4/23/2009 Nashville TN @ Exit/In
5/15/2009 Columbus OH @ Ruby Tuesday
5/18/2009 Milwaukee WI @ The Borg Ward Collective
5/19/2009 Minneapolis MN @ Uptown Bar
5/20/2009 Sioux Falls SD @ Nuttys North
5/22/2009 Columbia MO @ Eastside Tavern w/ Admiral Browning
5/23/2009 Nashville TN @ Springwater
AUN
4/22/2009 Montreal CAN Casa Del Popolo
BLACK ELK
4/17/2009 Los Angeles CA @ Echoplex w/ Kylesa, Intronaut, Made Out of Babies
4/18/2009 Oakland CA @ The Stork Club w/ Kylesa, Intronaut (early show)
4/18/2009 Santa Cruz CA @ Blue Lagoon (night show)
GENGIS TRON
4/17/2009 Indio CA @ COACHELLA w/ Paul McCartney, Morrissey
GNAW THEIR TONGUES
4/23/2009 Tilburg NETHERLANDS ROADBURN 2009
GREY DATURAS
4/22/2009 Glasgow UK @ 13 Note Cafe
4/23/2009 London UK @ Barden’s Boudoir
4/24/2009 Amsterdam NETHERLANDS Occii
4/25/2009 Tilburg NETHERLANDS O13 Beyond the Pale @ ROADBURN 2009
4/29/2009 Bilbao ES @ El Balcon de la Lola W/ Year Of No Light
5/1/2009 Porto PORTUGAL Porto Metal Fest
5/2/2009 Lisbon PT @ ZdB
5/3/2009 Madrid ES @ Barracudas Rock Bar
5/4/2009 Badalona ES @ Estraperlo (Club Del Ritme)
5/5/2009 Geneva SWITZERLAND L’Usine
5/7/2009 Munich GERMANY Orangehouse
5/9/2009 Berlin GERMANY Schokoladen
HUMAN QUENA ORCHESTRA
4/25/2009 Pittsburgh PA @ 31st Street Pub w/ Brutal Truth, Total Failure (HUMAN QUENA ORCHESTRA CD RELEASE SHOW)
OVERMARS
5/23/2009 Hannover Germany @ UJZ Korn (Alerta Antifascista Festival) w/ FALL OF EFRAFA
SKULLFLOWER
4/23/2009 Paris France @ Instants Chavires
4/25/2009 Tilburg Holland @ Roadburn "Beyond The Pale" Festival
5/17/2009 Brooklyn NY @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg NO FUN FEST w/ Merzbow, Con-Dom, Jazzfinger
YEAR OF NO LIGHT
5/1/2009 Barrosselas PT @ Barosselas Festival
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