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.

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Crucial Blast Newsletter :85: TUESDAY MAY 12TH 2009

Couple things to report on this week.There's a big new C-BLAST webstore update this week, check out the partial list below.

Also, coming up in early June is an amazing fest taking place in Chicago called MATCHITHEW. There arent any C-Blast related bands playing, but there alots of killer black metal, industrial, and blacknoise bands that we love and stock in the C-Blast shop performing at this thing, like MARBLEBOG, BLOODYMINDED, SWORD HEAVEN, VELNIAS, HEATDEATH, BONE AWL, RUSTED SHUT, WORMSBLOOD and BURIAL HEX. Looks like it's going to be awesome. Check this out at www.matchitehew.com

We'll have some details coming really soon on the upcoming OVERMARS and GNAW THEIR TONGUES releases that we have coming up, and I'll also be posting some info on releases from SUBARACHNOID SPACE and WHOURKR that are coming later this year.

stay well...Adam / Crucial Blast

----CRUCIAL BLAST WEBSTORE: NEW ARRIVALS FOR TUESADAY, MAY 12th-------

Here we are with the latest list of new arrivals at Crucial Blast, and man is the list sizeable this week. There's a load of new stuff, lots of reissues, and TONS of older titles that are restocked this week, including a bunch of Skepticism releases, a handful of killer no wave/progpunk discs from the French label Amanita, and more.We should be posting another, much shorter new arrivals list next Friday (May 15th) if all goes to plan, as I'm still working to get our webstore updates on a bi-weekly schedule, instead of the tri-weekly routine that I've been stuck in for what seems like forever. Hopefully I can get my act together this month. Also, keep an eye out for some preorders that we're going to be making available soon. We're putting together a package for our reissue of the latest album from French sludge titans Overmars, Born Again, which should be appearing shortly, and we've just finished up the details for an amazing limited-edition package for the new Gnaw Their Tongues disc that will be coming out on C-Blast in the next month and a half. Might just have this stuff for you to check out next week...

Our featured release this week is the brand new album from Black Vomit, which just came out on Rusty Axe, that home of all things raw, black-as-fuck, and demented. I'd been listening to some of Black Vomit's previous releases on Frequency Thirteen lately, and had already been grooving on this bizarre UK band's brand of psychedelic black metal delirium, but their first actual CD release Jungle Death is even more whackoid and hallucinatory than their cd-r releases, a drawn-out feverdream of ultra-distorted black metal, hypnotic ambience, seriously damaged krautrock, and an endless stream of what-the-fuck fx and samples that turn this into something totally different from any kind of black metal I've ever heard...

Other new stuff in this week:all of the new/recent releases from SMTG Limited, every one an essential slab of esoteric dark ambience, including vinyl from Xela, Jasper TX/Anduin, and Svarte Greiner...an amazingly eerie reissue of the cult all-girl Norwegian necro-ambient duo Aghast from the 90's...a new reissue of the Harvey Milk Anthem DVD, this version with an unreleased bonus DVD and limited to 500 copies...long out-of-print first Butthole Surfers 12" vinyl finally back in print, crucial LSD-damaged hardcore from 1983!amazing cd-rs of "True Sheffield Black Psychedelia" from Dukkha, Skulltrol, Black Vomit, Rape Rack...the mucho anticipated vinyl editions of Flipper's Generic Flipper and Gone Fishin, classic narco-wrecked sludgepunk...killer debut full-length of ultra-heavy French space-sludge from HKY on both cd and vinyl...

new Southern Lord vinyl including Iceburn's Power Of The Lion and Weedeater's God Luck on heavy colored wax...three Finntroll albums back in stock after several years, each one loaded with fun, ferociously heavy Finnish polka-deathmetal...the latest blistering disc of radioactive industrial hellnoise from 20.SV...new digipack cd release of crushing noise/shoegaze/cinematic metallic rock from France's Alkalys...a new split cd of damaged ambient black metal weirdness and chaotic black filth from Funereal Moon and Circle Of Ghosts...reissues of two early releases from uber-satanic black metal gods Gorgoroth, Antichrist and Pentagram...

two older albums of blazing Ukrainian black metal from Astrofaes...the debut LP of psychedelic powerviolence from Manslaughterer...an out of print, super limited EP from Euro prog rockers Guapo, only a couple in stock...the demented Goblin-meets-GGFH-meets-Thergothon horror doom soundtrack music of Wraith Of The Ropes...the first three Witchcraft albums back in stock - killer time-travelling retro doom from Sweden...a bunch of new/out of print discs of texan blackdronerock from Korperschwache...a bunch of discs of blazing electronically-enhanced grindcore from Japanische Kampfhorspiele...last copies of the now out of print Peace For Animals disc from Merzbow...

a new digipack disc of rhythmic cosmic tronix and fucked-up drum n' bass mutation from KK Null...Mr. Bungle's infamous debut album of John Zorn produced freakout rock/carnival funk/thrash metal weirdness now on 180 gram vinyl...four different Striborg reissues, almost more mindmelting New Zealand black metal weirdness than a mortal can withstand...a limited edition digipack cd from Lasse Marhaug, dishing out high-speed violent junknoise destruction and field recording manipulation...another split cd of damaged black metal from Rusty Axe, this time featuring doomy depressive Marks Of The Masochist and the speaker-blowing blackblast of Enecare...new vinyl release of Vaz's 2005 album The Lie That Matches The Furniture; a strange mix of heavy noise rock and Joy Division-esque gloom...a bunch of reissues from the satanic industrial/black metal band Black Funeral...

two albums of strange classical/ambient/black metal mutation from Aussie outfit Inward Escape...the debut EP of pounding, jazzy ultra-crush from Inappropriate Tough Guy Behavior in an awesome 3D jewel case package...weird dark orchestral ambience and industrial what-the-fuck from Russian band Tsaraas...Black Cascade, the new album from eco-conscious black metallers Wolves In The Throne Room...a new reissue of an old out of print cassette release from the extreme funeral doom master Mistress Of The Dead...the new Altar Of Plagues and Ameoseurs discs from Profound Lore, awesome black metal-tainted heaviness from both...a new disc of crushing noise-dirge from Winters In Osaka...a strange new disc of creepy ambient drone and Burroughsian spoken word from Z'ev and Bryan Saunders...a killer new reissue of Koenjihyakkei's Nivraym, feirce hyper-Zeuhl prog from this Ruins-related project, like Magma on crank...

an oddball debut from Leeches Of Lore that blends together wistful country western and raging old-school thrash metal ???!?!?!....the sole album of awesome flute-driven prog-sludge from Like A Kind Of Matador...recent albums on Glass Throat of dark sylvan doomfolk from Fearthainne and At The Head Of The Woods...more Russian Katatonia-worship from The Morningside...a restock of Moss's extreme doom masterpiece Cthonic Rites...stomping, prog-tinged Swedish stoner metal from the strangely named New Keepers Of The Water Towers...the second album of chiptune-grindmetal from Next Life, awesome Nintendo-metal...a new album of utter life-hating black metal negativism from Paroxysmal Descent...

the debut full length of Sleep-influenced psychedelic heavy metal from Black Pyramid...the debut album from Pelican side-project Chord, who create massive guitar-generated dronescapes that thunder like a metallic Rhys Chatham jam...import reissue of the long out-of-print album Lex Talionis from British apocalyptic folk group Sol Invictus...the brand new album Sacrifice And Bliss from Philly jazz-doom wizards Stinking Lizaveta...

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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