MoonBladder - "Dark Sky Equilibrium" Limited Edition Cassette

Limited to 100 cassettes.

The latest in a series of ongoing collaborations between Crucial Blast and Jason Walton of Agalloch / Snares Of Sixes / Sculptured and a host of other imaginative bands both within the realm of extreme metal and without. Nothing that he has brought us before is like this, though.

Unholy dread electronics. Agonal cyber-ritual. Nightmare audio cut-up. An act of horror.

Walton's MoonBladder reveals itself as a vaporous nightmare with Dark Sky Equilibrium, a single sprawling eponymous piece of music that seeps into your world like a shadowform summoned from a combination of infernal electronic signals and ancient ritual acts. It's utterly surreal, a constantly shifting soundscape seething with demonic ramblings and crushing rusted drones, black pulsating blots of negative energy, swells of thunderous distorted chaos and the sounds of cities being devoured, fried-out circuitry sprouting new bio-mechanical appendages and crawling across entire energy grid systems, washes of deathly orchestral ambience a la Cold Meat Industries giving over to bizarre and monstrous gibberish, grinding industrial screech and hum...it's all quite horrifying, god knows where some of these sounds are coming from, but the sum total...  more

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released April 21, 2024

All instrumentation by Jason Walton.
Recorded and mixed by Jason Walton at Earth in Sound Studios, February 2024.
Mastered by Jori Apedaile at JWA Recordings.
Produced by Jason Walton for Earth in Sound Productions.
Photography by Cody Keto.
Cover art by Unexpected Specter.
Design by Adam Wright.
MoonBladder logo by Jason Roberts.
Art direction by Jason Walton and Cody Keto.