UPDATE FOR SATURDAY DECEMBER 27TH 2008

GENGHIS TRON Board Up The House Remixes Vol. 5 COMING SOON - PREORDER AVAILABLE NOW
CBR75
$11.99


Track listing:
1. Board Up the House (Tim Hecker Remix) ::MP3 SAMPLE::
2. I Won't Come Back Alive (Dudes You Can Trust Remix) ::MP3 SAMPLE::
3. I Won't Come Back Alive (Nadja Remix) ::MP3 SAMPLE::

The fifth and final volume in the Genghis Tron Board Up The House remixes is heading to the plant and will be shipping out in the next five weeks or so. The pressing plant moves slower than usual this time of year due to the holidays, so I'm not stating a specific date that we'll have these in hand, but orders for the record should be going out in the mail by the beginning of January, if not sooner.
Board Up The House Remixes Vol. 5 is the final installment of the five-volume remix series that has been produced in co-operation between Genghis Tron and five labels (Relapse, Lovepump United, Anticon, Temporary Residence Ltd., and Crucial Blast), and features a myriad number of artists reshaping and reimagining various songs off of Genghis Tron's 2008 album Board Up The House (Relapse Records). Each volume is pressed in a run of 1,000 copies on colored vinyl that ties in with the sleeve art. Board Up The House cover artist, Jon Beasley, has provided each remix album with alternative artwork.
The Crucial Blast entry in the Board Up The House remix series features Tim Hecker (Mille Plateaux, Alien8, Staalplaat, Fat Cat) turning the title track "Board Up The House" into a fuzz-entombed bliss-scape, Aidan Baker/Nadja's fifteen-minute glacial vision of "I Won't Come Back Alive", and another remix of "I Won't Come Back Alive" rendered as a blur of distorted electro by Dudes You Can Trust, which is the solo project of Michael Sochynsky from G-Tron taking a heavy mangle approach. This remix platter is easily the most distortion-laden entry in the series!
REGARDING PRE-ORDERS: We are now taking preorders for the Genghis Tron Board Up The House Remixes Vol. 5, and the add-to-cart button for the pre-order is above, wiith the MP3 samples from the record. All pre-orders will be shipped as soon as the records return here from the plant. IF ANY OTHER ITEMS ARE ORDERED WITH THE PRE-ORDER, WE WILL WAIT TO SHIP ALL ITEMS WITH THE PREORDER. Contact us at orders@crucialblast.net if you have questions. We will send out an email blast to all customers who have preordered to notify you when the records ship. It will be approximately 5 weeks before the records will ship, so if you do not want to wait, DO NOT PREORDER THE RECORD. First 1,000 copies are limited to Magenta w/ Mint Green splatter!

WILDILDLIFE Peas Feast 12"+DROPCARD COMING SOON - PREORDER AVAILABLE NOW
CBR72
$11.99


12" track listing:
1. White Eyelids ::MP3 SAMPLE::
2. Violent ::MP3 SAMPLE::
3. Shining Son ::MP3 SAMPLE::
3. My Song ::MP3 SAMPLE::

The 12" vinyl for Wildildlife's Peas Feast is coming in January, too. The band released this EP as a handmade CD-R that has been sold at shows over the past year, but the songs on Peas Feast are so cool that we wanted to give this a proper vinyl documentation, and have been remastered for vinyl by Scott Hull at Visceral Sound. The record will be pressed on yellow wax with black splatter in an edition of 1,000 copies, and will also come with a digital dropcard that will allow you to download the tracks from the Peas Feast EP as well as a digital-only EP titled Drongolet Demos that has a bunch of unreleased tracks from Wildildlife.
The Peas Feast vinyl features four lengthy songs, starting with the zonked ultraheavy sludge and atonal, barbed wire guitar freakouts of "White Eyelidz" which goes from crushing glacial metal to drunken bassloaded punk rock in the bat of an eye, and then moves on to the pop genius of "Violent". "Violent" is the catchiest song these guys have, starting off slow with plaintive FX-soaked vocals swimming over pulverizing sludge metal riffage - think Harvey Milk but waaaaaay more freaked out and poppy and mutated by unnameable effects boxes....the hook here is so catchy it gives me a toothache, it's like hearing the saddest old alt rock song ever being played by Corrupted, complete with vocal harmonies. But then comes "Shining Son", another amazingly catchy pop song, still heavy but way more upbeat and driving, more noise rock than sludge, with a big burly bass riffs and ecstatic guitars that strafe the sky until the sludge rears it's head again, a massive swampy riff that rises up and flattens everything towards the end. MASSIVE. And then the final song, "My Song", formerly an acoustic song that appeared on Wildildlife's self titled debut 10", another amazing pop gem, but this time damaged and drunken sounding, the pop hook molten and oozing, the vocals a desperate howl, slow and sludgy and creeping but still unbelievably catchy and exuberant as it trails off into an almost Mammatus-like psych rock coda. Although this early material is more immediate and raw than the band's debut album Six, the music is crushing, catchy and totally spaced-out.
REGARDING PRE-ORDERS: We are now taking preorders for the Wildildlife Peas Feast 12" + Dropcard, and the add-to-cart button for the pre-order is above, wiith the MP3 samples from the record. All pre-orders will be shipped as soon as the records return here from the plant. IF ANY OTHER ITEMS ARE ORDERED WITH THE PRE-ORDER, WE WILL WAIT TO SHIP ALL ITEMS WITH THE PREORDER. Contact us at orders@crucialblast.net if you have questions. We will send out an email blast to all customers who have preordered to notify you when the records ship. It will be approximately 6 weeks before the records will ship, so if you do not want to wait, DO NOT PREORDER THE RECORD. First 1,000 copies are limited to Yellow w/ Black splatter!

OVERMARS Born Again CD COMING SOON
Previously released through the French label Appease Me overseen by members of Blut Aus Nord, Born Again is the latest full length from the French sludge band Overmars, a single album-long piece that descends deep into themes of self-immolation, horror, and rebirth. France's Overmars have already established their atmospheric, electronically-tainted sludge-metal sound with their previous splits with Donefor,Iscariote, Fugüe and Icos, and their excellent 2005 album Affliction, Endocrine...Vertigo, but Born Again is something new from the band; this forty-minute epic moves from pulverizing industrial dirge blanketed with heavily textured layers of guitar and fearsome gutteral roars intermixed with captivating female vocals, to passages of haunting dark ambience and bottom-heavy churn, and a magesterial finale that stretches gloom-ridden, moody riffage, vaporous electronics and dramatic singing out over the song's last fifteen minutes, building into an earth-shaking crescendo. Immensely bleak and heavy, Born Again brings together elements of Godflesh's industrial pummel, black metal, tribal dirge , the crushing nihilism of Swans, death metal, and psychedelia into an austere sound of their own that moves them even further away from the Neurosis comparisons that have surrounded their earlier releases. As soon as I heard this, it became one of my new favorite French metal albums. We are doing a deluxe CD edition for the US release of the album through Crucial Blast, with different packaging than the original Appease Me release, and we'll be putting together some other cool stuff for the release of Born Again here in the US. The band is also looking at touring here in the States later in 2009, and I'll be posting information on that as it comes together. In the meantime, here are a couple of MP3 samples from Born Again for you to check out: Born Again (Sample I) MP3, Born Again (Sample II) MP3, Born Again (Sample III) MP3.

WEBSTORE UPDATE: SATURDAY DECEMBER 27th 2008
Hope everyone has enjoyed their holiday - we're back with our last new arrivals update for 2008, and as usual, we've got some killer stuff in this week from the fringes of heavy underground music. Also, just to let you know, we'll be following up with another new arrivals update that will be going out/appearing here on the site next Friday, and from there we plan on getting on track with our bi-weekly updates to the Crucial Blast store. The featured release this week is from Tjolgtjar, a band that most people have never heard of, but one that consistently kicks my ass every time a new album appears with it's blackened low-fi guitar-rock insanity, a twisted brand of primitive black metal infused with a serious obsession with the sounds of 70's hard rock, Ted Nugent in particular. Listening to Tjolgtjar is like hearing this gnarly cross between Venom, Havohej and Ted Nugent and The Amboy Dukes, with grizzled boogie rock erupting into blazing blastbeats and screeching black metal buzz, and the music and songs and everything else about the band is intrinsicly connected with a weird religious cult that was created by The Reverend, the man behind this loner black metal acid rock project (you need to dig into the lyrics and mythology of Tjolgtjar to see what that's all about...). This new Tjolgtjar album on Suffering Jesus is the best yet, an set of all-new songs with slightly beefier recording quality than past albums, ripping hard rock hooks galore mingling with blasting blackened filth, and even a cover of the Nuge's "Free Flight". Bitchin!

Plenty of other heavy weirdness and fresh blasts for yer cranium: the new debut full length from Ala Muerte, a beautiful, dreamlike melange of Latin instrumentation, floating ambience, heavy drones and dreamy vocals; the final vicious assault of precision grindcore from ASRA on vinyl and CD; the out of print Jesu/Battle Of Mice split CD (sold out from pretty much everywhere else - these are the last available copies!) and the same mighty split on limited edition vinyl; quirky, progressive death metal from Ulcerate, Devast, and Nefas; weird industrial black chaos from Brobdingnagian; Burial Hex's amazing new disc of blackened "Necro Electronics"; two different discs of mutant grindcore-meets-gypsy-music insanity from Tremor; and two different discs from some psych/drone/ambient duos that feature Johan Sebenne from Year Of No Light. Some of the new vinyl releases include the limited edition split 10" featuring Austrasian Goat's ripping black/doom/ambient holocaust on one side and one of the final Never Presence Forever tracks, a terrific waft of ominous dark ambient that fans of Lustmord and Troum will love, and the recently released double LP edition of Earth's latest, The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull, bound like an oversized bible in a heavy textured gatefold package with stunning interior artwork.
Head over to the new and improved Crucial Blast Webstore to check out all of the new stuff.