黒い樹海 | Kuroi Jukai (2025 Remaster)
黒い樹海 | Kuroi Jukai (2025 Remaster)
Release date: May 30 2025
Catalog: SRUIN104-10
Genre: Noisegrind/Hardcore
Format: mini album
Versions: 7" | Digital
Band Info
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Professional DTG front print on black classic Gildan 5000 Tee.
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SENTIENT RUIN MERCH ON DEMAND
Professional DTG front and sleeves print on black Gildan 2400 long sleeves.
This item and the others in our BAND MERCH & LABEL MERCH menus are Merch on Demand products (unless noted otherwise) prepared/printed especially for you as soon as you place an order. The item is not stored and shipped to you by Sentient Ruin, but ships directly from our merch supplier’s fulfillment center connected to our shop. If you order Merch on Demand items from the MERCH menus and other items from the RELEASES menu (Vinyl, CD, MC etc. shipped by us), you will be charged two separate shipping costs.
Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction and is a more sustainable and environmentally friendly way of producing merchandising. Thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions today.
All sales are final and non refundable, and items’ looks may be subject to change or update any time, with or without notice, per our Shipping Infos, Terms & Conditions. Thank you for your understanding.
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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.
Digital download included with the purchase of physical copies.