Friday, October 31, 2008

BloodLust! New Release - Out Now:

Artist: Sleep Museum
Title: "Home"
Format: CD in jewel box
Catalog Number: BloodLust! 118
Genre: Minimal Synth / Industrial / Experimental



"Home" is the fourth and final disc in a short series of Sleep Museum EPs on BloodLust!; Easily, one of my favorite artists of the last couple of years; The first four tracks - totaling over 23 minutes - feature rhythmic, darkly melodic synth- and drum machine-driven TRUE MINIMAL SYNTH music, with unrepentantly eccentric vocals, and dour lyrics; Utterly contemporary, yet also reminiscent of certain late-1970s and early-1980s "cold" music - a hint of Joy Division mood and a dose of electronic-era Death in June; The fifth track is a nearly 36-minute long experimental analog synth piece, far closer to the M.B. and Lustmord-styles of dark electronics; We are calling this an EP, even though it clocks in at nearly 60-minutes; Professionally duplicated CD, single panel, double-sided insert; color artwork; in jewel box with shrinkwrap; Released in 2008.

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Tracklisting:
1. "Virtue" (6:44)
2. "Give it Away" (6:40)
3. "Solace" (4:27)
4. "Without Foresight" (5:53)
5. "Bone in Leg" (35:38)

Price: $10.00 USA/$12.00 Canada+Mexico/$14.00 Rest of World @ postpaid

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BloodLust! New Release - Out Now:

Artist: Locrian
Title: "Rhetoric of Surfaces"
Format: CD in jewel box
Catalog Number: BloodLust! 113
Genre: Drone / Metal / Experimental



As a follow up to the "Plague Journal" 7-inch [B!089] released earlier this year, which showcased the group's distinctive style of deconstructed metal trance music, I am pleased to announce this new Locrian release, which deftly unites a grouping of out-of-print and previously unreleased material from the duo, charting live and studio work that pre-dates their recent shift into more black metal-influenced territory; Rich, heavy, guitar/keyboard/voice-based drone for those who usually find such music to be too gentle or uneventful; This sequence of songs was mastered for this release by Jason Soliday, creating a cohesive collection that functions as a true album, not like a cumulation of odds and ends; Professionally duplicated CD, single panel, double-sided insert; color and black and white artwork that includes an appropriately "Ummagumma" and "Kollaps"-influenced photograph by Kelly Rix, shot at the long-abandoned Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois; in jewel box with shrinkwrap; Released in 2008.

Tracklisting:
1. "Drosscape" (6:34)
2. "Burying The Carnival" (12:57)
3. "Gruen Transfers" (8:17)
4. "Visible/Invisible" (20:11)
5. "Chladni" (3:19)
6. "Amps Into Instruments" (18:32)

1, 2 and 4 Recorded by Philip von Zweck on "Something Else" WLUW 88.7 FM (1, 2 - 2008; 4 - 2007)
1 Previously unreleased
2 Released on split C-30 with Continent
4 Released on split C-40 with Colossus (Heavy Nature Tapes)
3 Recorded on "Pure Hype" WHPK 88.5 FM (2007); Released on "No More Noise" compilation C-48 (Scissor Death)
5 and 6 Recorded by Terence Hannum at two live gigs (2006); Released on the "II" CD-R and on 2 x C-60

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Price: $14.00 USA/$16.00 Canada+Mexico/$18.00 Rest of World @ postpaid

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Please use bludlust@mindspring.com for PayPal payments


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