Greetings-Bunch of updates from the CRUCIAL BLAST compound this week.
First off, if you've preordered the new GNAW THEIR TONGUES Dread Magnificence shirt that we've had available for preorder on www.crucialblast.net, your order shipped out on Monday, and you should have yer goods in yer hands within the next few days. The shirts came out GREAT, it's one of my favorite Crucial Blast shirt designs so far. Thanks to everyone that has ordered this design.
Subarachnoid Shirts are shipping out shortly, the films for the shirts had be redone by the printer last week so we're running behind with these, but they should be shipping to us any day now, and we'll be mailing all Subarach shirt and package orders the same day that they arrive.
Subarachnoid Space are making their way down the East Coast on the second leg of their current US tour, and if you have a chance to see them play your burg, definitely don't pass it up. I went up to Philly this past Saturday to see the band play at Kung Fu Necktie, and while it was a super small show (and ridiculously early, due to the venue's dance music event taking place at 10pm), Subarachnoid Space thoroughly melted my brain with a powerful half-hour set of crushing acid-metal and improvised effects blowouts that achieved jet-engine resonance at times. So great! And their tourmates Ovo were nothing to sniff at, either; I've been waiting years to see these two Italian freaks in the flesh, and Ovo delivered the weirdness in grand form with a short but crushing set that was made up of mostly material off of their new album on Load (total Yoko Ono meets Melvins art sludge) that was offset with some droneological messing about and a few minutes of Stefania bowing her dreadlocks while drummer Bruno sat on the floor, looking like he was about to commit seppeku at any moment. Very cool people, too, as were the Subarachnoid folks - again, don't miss out on this tour!
In the BIG NEWS department, Crucial Blast's favorite PDX riffthugs Black Elk have been personally invited by Jesus Lizard to accompany them on four of the Lizard's West Coast dates this month. I'm freaking ecstatic that a) Black Elk are appreciated to this extent by a band of such stature, we're talking about one of the greatest underground rock bands of the past two decades, and b) that their music will hopefully turn on a whole new audience at these shows. No matter what, these shows promise to be spectacles of debauched aggression and total riff fury.
Here's when they are going down:
10/15/2009 Henry Fonda Theatre - Los Angeles, CA w/ The Jesus Lizard, Black Elk
10/17/2009 The Fillmore - San Francisco, CA w/ The Jesus Lizard, Black Elk
10/22/2009 Crystal Ballroom - Portland, OR w/ The Jesus Lizard, Black Elk
10/23/2009 Neumo's - Seattle, WA w/ The Jesus Lizard, Black Elk.
Black Elk will be heading over to Europe for their first-ever tour of ye olde country directly following these dates; look below for the full skinny on their tour.
Also on the road on the West Coast: Totimoshi, who have a handful of shows in October, including one in LA with Subarachnoid Space. Look below for the details.
The webstore has been updated with a bunch of new releases and restock, the new arrivals list is online now at www.crucialblastshop.net and you can see some of what we have to offer below...
And with the recent switch in distributors that we just made this summer (which has Crucial Blast now exclusively distributed by Revolver USA, in such esteemed company as Neurot, Young God, Alternative Tentacles, Robotic Empire, 20 Buck Spin and Profound Lore), we've had to take in some older stock that frankly we don't have room for in the Crucial Blast warehouse. Thus, prices have been dropped on a bunch of our older releases from 2007 on back, with some titles under $5! It's a perfect opportunity for any of you collectors to fill in those holes in the C-Blast corner in your music library.
That's it for this week. As always, thanks for reading and using Crucial Blast for your mutant metal/noise fix...stay tuned for another update and new arrivals list in about another two!
- Adam / CRUCIAL BLAST
CRUCIAL BLAST WEBSTORE: NEW ARRIVALS FOR WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 30TH
The featured release this week is the new Yoga album Megafauna, out on Holy Mountain. If you heard their split with Ghast from last year, then you are no doubt as enamoured with this enigmatic band's blend of hallucinatory psychedelic murk, Gobliny film score creepiness and damaged black metallish heaviness as I am. As amazing as those Yoga tracks on the split cd were, their first full length goes even further into their bizarre dreamworld of melted looping melodies and blackened dread.
Other new stuff in this week:
the limited edition vinyl release of ANAAL NATHRAKH's latest album of hellish death/black/industrial metal In The Constellation Of The Black Widow...
limited edition vinyl from ASVA...
a recently released vinyl LP-split from blacknoise/industrial demons BLUE SABBATH BLACK CHEER and PENETRATION CAMP...
the blitzkrieg electronic noise/PE/digigrind mayhem of CATHODE TERROR SECRETION's Spectre Of Historys Design...
the dark orchestral ambience of CAUL + KIRCHENKAMPF's Sleep Night Death CD...
the new album from blackened French metallers CELESTE, who combine Neurosis style apocalyptic heaviness and grisly black metal...
an excellent collaboration between legendary UK free jazz saxophonist EVAN PARKER and American noisician JOHN WIESE...
the Brotzmann-led aggro-jazz group FULL BLAST's Black Hole, back in stock as a single disc release...
the limited edition LP of GINNUNGAGAP's Return To Nothing, featuring members of Khanate...
the latest vinyl piece from Flingco, the blacknoise/necro drone of GRIEF NO ABSOLUTION's Eurostopodus Argus/Crypsis...
crushing dark ambient/industrial heaviness from HYIOS...
the early 90's oddity of KINETIC DISSENT's weirdo thrash metal/progressive rock/funkadelic album I Will Fight No More Forever...
an oldie from the Malignant vault, crushing death industrial from KRISTOFFER NYSTROMS ORKESTER...
LAST EXIT's blazing improvised assault-jazz album Koln, finally in stock...
an eerily beautiful album of Summoning-meets-shoegaze epic BM from LUSTRE...
the tech-death meets trip-hop mindfuck of LUX OCCULTA's The Mother And The Enemy featuring members of Decapitated...
vinyl and cd releases from cello-led crust/doom/thrashers MALACHI...
a restock of the dual-disc set from French satanic ambient masters MELEK-THA & DAPNOM...
crushing longform psych-doom from MILLS OF GOD, on both cd and limited import vinyl...
the new vinyl release of the NADJA / BLACK BONED ANGEL collab album...
a deluxe double cd release from NADJA called Under The Jaguar Sun with both discs designed to be played at the same time...
NO ANCHOR's heavy duty stoner/sludge/drone assault Steam...
the posthumous album from witch-obsessed UK spacedoom bruisers OLDE CRONE...
a long awaited reissue of ORODRUIN's doom metal opus Epicurean Mass, with bonus tracks and new packaging...
the stunning Celtic Frost-meets-Deep Purple-meets deathdoom prog of PANTHEIST's Journey Through Lands Unknown...
a reissue of the PESTILENCE classic Spheres, essential listening for fans of avant-garde death metal...
the nightmarish tribal-ambient of RAAN's The Nacrasti...
the ultra-kult 1994 demos from Norwegian black metallers RAVEN, featuring members of BM weirdos Forgotten Woods...
gorgeous import double LPs for each disc in ROSETTA's The Galilean Satellites...
the metallic minimal dronescapes of RST...
perverted operatic avant-blackness from nudist freakos SATARIAL...
the vinyl reissue of SERPENT THRONE's instrumental Sab-worship fest Ride Satan Ride...
brutal ultra-heavy power electronics from SHIFT...
the dark cinematic ambience of SHINJUKU THIEF's The Scribbler...
the latest disc from SISSY SPACEK, featuring caustic noisescapes formed from the sound of breaking glass...
the heavy math-rock of SLEEPING IN GETHSEMANE's Burrows...
ripping black industrial/Luciferic death industrial from STEEL HOOK PROSTHESES...
a cd of remixed/reconstructed black ambient/doomic dronescapes from TENHORNEDBEAST...
the Lacuna Coil-meets-Mr Bungle progmetal of THANATOSCHIZO...
THEME's new album Valentine (Lost) Forever, dark post-industrial drones from former members of UK noise rockers Splintered...
a restock of doomdeath classic Stream From The Heavens from Finland's THERGOTHON...
the amazing new album of avant garde death metal from THY CATAFALQUE...
the wild jazz/fusion/death metak of WAYD's Decadence...
Of course, there's much more mutant heavy music to be had...so keep reading below to check out all of the amazing new music that we have in this week's new arrivals list.
http://www.crucialblastshop.net/
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