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A decade of Kuroi Jukai’s unrivaled noisegrind masterwork, celebrated through its ultimate and most definitive presentation: a second, final, 10-year anniversary vinyl pressing with updated art, new vinyl colors, and completely redone 2025 remastering courtesy of Will Killingsworth of Dead Air Studios. 

In 2015 elusive and now defunct Canadian noisegrind enigma 黒い樹海 (Kuroi Jukai - Japanese for “The Black Sea of Trees”) emerged from the Edmonton, Alberta’s hardcore scene with thirteen untitled tracks of pulverizing sonic abandon comprising a debut full-length album of only ten minutes and forty seven seconds in duration, but endless in its destructive and boundary-shattering scope. The enigmatic self-titled work first saw the light in early April of 2015 on cassette tape format via Canadian noise label Aught/Void (this release also included a live recording of the band’s only ever show), and was subsequently re-released for the first time on 7” vinyl (minus the live track) five years later in 2020 by Sentient Ruin as a genre-defining document of weaponized musical syncretism in which grindcore, hardcore, powerviolence, noise, power electronics and industrial all imploded into a near-instantaneous spasm of destruction.

Despite the band having barely existed at all and having dissolved without a trace soon after completing the work and playing a single show, Kuroi Jukai’s only self-titled album remains an enduring fan-favorite and cult classic despite its short playing time and nebulous origins. And the aura of timelessness that has maintained the work still unrivaled and unprecedented ten years after its original emergence is solely explainable through the boundless burden of sonic ruination beheld within it. Less than eleven minutes is really all that is needed to immerse oneself into and be dissolved by one of the most pristine and visionary synthesises of industrial noise and grind ever conceived, with a plethora of convergences reminiscent of bands like The Endless Blockade, Column of Heaven, early Knelt Rote, Iron Lung, Hatred Surge, and Bastard Noise all compounding into a terminal singularity of annihilation.

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