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Here is a list of our latest arrivals and restock items. For pictures, samples and more details of the items listed please feel free to visit the NHR Records shop page. For more information or questions send us an email at order@nhr-records.com
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Nadja - Desire In Uneasiness CD (Doom/Sludge Metal)
Desire In Uneasiness is an album of all new material from the acclaimed Canadian dreamsludge weavers Nadja. Five colossal jams of eternally-fuzzy, ethereal dirge that are powered by the interlocking bass guitars of Leah Buckareff and Aidan Baker, who set loose a wave of monstrous grinding bass riffs amidst a fog of beautiful, swirling electronic effects. Desire also marks the first Nadja album to feature a live drummer in place of the drum machine programming that has driven the band's previous recordings, and the difference in the band's sound is apparent from the first crushing beats of album opener 'Disambiguation'. The organic drumming here takes Nadja's music into new realms of spacious jazzy exploration, dubby rhythms and cavernous psychedelia, while also delivering some of the band's most grooving, crushing hypno-bliss yet. Desire also stands out from the rest of the Nadja catalog for it's bizarre artwork that Aidan commisioned from his friend The Reverend Aitor.
Forest - Like a Blaze Above the Ashes CD (Black Metal)
Legendary raw Black Metal band from Russia, which truly achieved the levels of coldness and darkness only underdreamt by Norse BM masters of 90's. Freezing melodism meets haunting trancelike obscurity of endless russian forests at night. Re-release with proper and enchanced artwork.
Forest - As a Song in the Harvest of Grief CD (Black Metal)
Musically what we have here is an hour-long album of slow, grim and repetitive old-school black metal executed in a similar way to other Blazebirth Hall bands, mostly Raven Dark and Branikald. This is inspired by Burzums work, although theres a solid difference as this is much grimmer and less accessible. What is probably the biggest influence by Burzum is the hypnotic effect caused by the entire album. Kaldrad has managed to create something much more evil though.
Forest - Foredooming the Hope for Eternity CD (Black Metal)
Forest's music overall, on this album can be described as an inspirational mix between the raw black metal of Darkthrone with a certain Burzum twist to it, so as to add some atmosphere, but the atmospheric part is in no way dependent on any use of keyboards or other such instruments at all. This is pure raw black metal, the fuzzy guitar sound being present from beginning to end, evoking the dark coldness of the Russian winter spread across endless landscapes of forests in the night. This lasts for an hour with little actual changes and seemingly no variation outside the first and last songs, although it's excellent to listen to, the music itself being of supreme quality.
Skogen - Svitjod CD (Black Metal)
Swedish atmospheric Black Metal second album in the best vein of DRUDKH, ULVER, PRIMORDIAL. Inspiring journey through the mighty northern forest shaped in excellent solo melodies with great nature sympho background, pure classic acoustic parts, clean and grim vocals. Skogen essentially comes out of the blue with an excellent atmospheric black metal record. With Svitjod this Swedish duo brings nothing new to the table but they make up for that with strong compositions that wholeheartedly deserve the label epic. The mostly long songs unravel themselves at predominantly mid-paced speeds but boredom is avoided through strong riffs, tension arches and very beautiful lead guitars. One could imagine the latter as a subdued Windir of Cor Scorpii with an even more pronounced sense of longing and melancholy. Skogen also have their folk influences, as exhibited by acoustic guitar parts offering the needed diversity.
Trees - Lights Bane CD (Doom Metal)
The debut album from the Portland quartet Trees delivers two epic tracks of monolithic, blackened doom metal with a twisted, noise-damaged approach and a dank basement vibe. Trees craft glacial abstract riffs and rivers of ashen amplifier goo that fans of feedback-laden heaviosity will find highly satisfying, a kind of grinding, slow-motion black hole psychedelia that has a similiar hypnotic death-ritual quality as artists like Bloody Panda and Khanate, but with their own unique trance state of swirling guitar textures, horrific jet black dronescapes and ghoulish, excoriating vocals. Features members of the PDX psych-sludge outfit Tecumseh (Important Records). This CD edition of the TREE's debut comes in a Stoughton printed 4-panel gatefold case.
Ehnahre - Taming The Cannibals Digi CD (Black Doom)
The new full length (number two) from the Boston based avant-black/death/doom band Ehnahre, Taming The Cannibals, is one of the more cerebral and challenging "death metal" albums to have come through the Crucial Blast headquarters this year. After being turned on to their excellent debut from 2008 The Man Closing Up, I've been itching to hear more from these warped death abstractionists; their debut instantly dazed me with its jarring, alien approach to bestial slow-motion death metal, drawing heavily from the twelve-tone serialism of composer Arnold Schoenberg and the outer fringes of free-jazz and free improvisation as much as they do from the foul black pit of early 90's death metal and doom.
Trees - Freed Of This Flesh Digi CD (Doom Metal)
The mysterious Portland ensemble Trees return with their second offering on Crucial Blast, Freed Of This Flesh, with two new fetid death rituals scraped from the crypt. Each of these tracks averages around fourteen minutes, an extended death-rattle formed from black glacial riffs suspended in space, tectonic percussive rumbles, anguished shrieks of torment and abject suffering, deep guttural demon-toad throat singing, and endless sheets of glistening metallic feedback that spill and drift to the far edges of their extreme time-stretched ambient doom, a crumbling, blighted majesty, noxious ambient blackdoom adrift on putrescent tides.
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