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 is a massive accursed sound-collage, finding its way to the sound of gasping, desperate prayer. Unheeded. Ignored. Asphyxiated.

The darkest work from Jason Walton yet.

“Dark Sky Equilibrium” is based on live improvisations during performances in Oregon, Washington, California, Vancouver B.C., and New Hampshire. The piece was constantly changed, re-arranged, and manipulated over dozens of shows until it reached its finished form in late 2023. Now that “Dark Sky Equilibrium” has been recorded, it is now being laid to rest and performed for the final time April 21st, in Los Angeles, California.

Limited to 100 copies on purple shell and full-color tape label and sleeve.