Artist: LOCRIAN
Album: THE CLEARING & THE FINAL EPOCH (2CD DIGI)

Year: 2012
Media type: CD

For the better part of a decade Chicago’s Locrian have been creating sprawling, blackened drone masterpieces.  With ‘The Clearing’ (previously release in late 2011 on vinyl only) Locrian’s signature sound of ominous crescendos mixed with powerful atmospherics and pulverizing tension reached its highest point to date, earning the record glowing reviews across the board from Decibel Magazine to Pitchfork.  Locrian achieve what many bands set out for, but few accomplish:  making truly terrifying music without sounding campy, contrived or corny.  Now renamed ‘The Clearing/The Final Epoch’ the record is finally available in CD form complete with a full second CD consisting of almost an hour of rare and unreleased material.  Limited edition first pressing comes housed in a gorgeous mini “tip-on” gatefold LP package.

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THE CLEARING:

1. Chalk Point
2. Augury in an Evaporating Tower
3. Coprolite
4. The Clearing

THE FINAL EPOCH:

5. This is the Final Epoch
6. On a Calcified Shore
7. Omega Vapors
8. Falling Towers
9. After the Torchlight