Saturday, April 10, 2010

CRUCIAL BLAST WEBSTORE: NEW ARRIVALS FOR FRIDAY APRIL 9TH 2010


The featured release for this week is the new full length Clivages from the legendary, Lovecraft-obsessed Belgian chamber-prog band Univers Zero, their first in five years. As a HUGE fan of the French avant-prog sound, Univers Zero has long been one of my favorite bands to come out of this era of prog rock, and on their latest album, the band works with both the sinister chamber music side of their sound, and the amplified, doom-laden prog/fusion of their Heatwave-era. The disc is a must-hear for fans of bands like Magma, Shub-Niggurath, King Crimson, but Univers Zero are capable of sounding way more evil than any of those bands ever do (well, maybe not Shub-Niggurath). Clivages comes highly recommended if you are a fan of dark, malevolent prog...
Some of the other new titles and restocks that have come in:
a KILLER new vinyl reissue of the first two demo/EP releases from Swedish avant-death metallers PAN-THY-MONIUM, on gold vinyl...
the awesome Gas-meets-black-classical-ambient techno dread of NORDVARGR's Resignation II...
Mer Morte, the new cd reissue from French doom/drone entropists MONARCH, on Crucial Blast...
the newest full-length cd from the master of dark industrial subterranean ambience LUASA RAELON...
a new limited cassette from LOCRIAN, Falling Towers / After The Torchlight ...
the latest cd-r of speaker-blasting noise/psych rock from VEEE DEEE...
the newly discovered industrial speed-metal infested noize-ridden breakcore apocalypse of ZOMBIEFLESHEATER...
the new split cd/lp from NADJA and KODIAK, amazing ambient sludge and celestial mega-drone from both... Aquarian Darkness, a new super-limited 7" from black drone/psych/noise demon HAARE...
the new 8xCD discography set Below And Beyond from the pre-Torche sludge metal outfit FLOOR...
Only Death Is Real, the fantastic new hardcover book from Tom Gabriel Fischer on the history of Hellhammer and the evolution into Celtic Frost...
Pakt, the killer new black/drone/psych/doom album from Norwegian duo Detritivore, on limited edition cd and vinyl...
the new vinyl release for Cuzo's Amor y Muerte en la Tercera Fase, a killer album of Spanish prog-doom...
two new 7"s from Deer Healer: the mutant Flipper-esque hardcore of Condominium, and a new slab from Chicago black metal punkers Exalted...
a rare Maurizio Bianchi cd on the defunct Slaughter Productions label...
ASH POOL's newest album of blazing, majestic black metal, featuring Dom Fernow of PRURIENT...
the monstrous gothic sludge of AATHMA's The Call Of Shiva CD...
the long-awaited reissues of 16's long out-of-print albums Drop Out and Curves That Kick...
classic Swedish death industrial from Brighter Death Now...
a bunch of limited Southern Lord vinyl, including Lps from jazz-sludge duo Ascend, Velvet Cacoon, the out of print Glorior Belli LP, and more...
the new album from melodic trad doom band Apostle Of Solitude on Profound Lore...
unearthed copies of the DARK NOERD 12" on Flapping Jet, bizarro black metal drum n' bass noise as heard on the Gummo soundtrack...
the debut Lp from weirdo hardcore band DRY-ROT out on Parts Unknown (Pissed Jeans/Violent Students)...
a couple of 7" imports from the killer Italian new-wave black metal industrial band IVS PRIMAE NOCTIS...
a reissue of the very first album Multiple Personality Disorder from legendary German post-industrial droners MAEROR TRI...
the new deluxe 2xLP release of NADJA's Under The Jaguar Sun...
brand new album of super-chunky 70's riff rock worship-gone-metal from POSITIVA...
a crushing album of harsh industrial noise and apocalyptic break beats from RISE OF BECAUSE, like Kevin Martin meets Merzbow...
the foul crawling black doom and Fushitsusha-esque guitar howl of SEKTARISM's L'Offrande...
devastating black industrial/sludge noise of SEWER GODDESS's With Dirt You Are One...
a new limited 7" from SISSY SPACEK, ripping improvised power violence/fastcore annihilation...
TRANCELIKE VOID's latest Ep of gloomy acoustic dronefolk and dark sylvan post-rock...
a new 7" featuring damaged blacknoise weirdoes UNO ACTU and quirky midwestern black metal maniacs MALEDICERE...
the new Lp reissue of Zu's 2005 album The Way Of The Animal Powers, heavy dirgey free-jazz crush on heavy swirled vinyl...

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.