Isolant: Oblivion 12"

Featuring current and former members of various Boston bands, Isolant have resurrected the "industrial crust" sub-genre from the dead. Taking influences from Godflesh, Pitchshifter, Coil and mixing it with a thick late 1980s UK crust influence of bands like Deviated Instinct, this EP represents a resurrection of the long dead style. From selecting an IBM Selectric font for the back cover text to retain the feel of the time period, to using Pantone spot-ink printing to achieve that '80s hue, to the skillful mastering of Carl Saff for maximum loudness, no detail was spared in the process of making this EP and capturing the spirit of the industrial crust style.Our take: Social Napalm Records’ first release after Savageheads’ phenomenal LP from last year is a total left-turn musically. The label’s description refers to Isolant as “industrial crust,” and in a lot of ways it sounds like some strange fusion of Ministry and Amebix, borrowing the former’s layers of harsh, distorted percussion a