The Last Sanctuary, by Grave New World

The Last Sanctuary

by Grave New World

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Vinícius Damazio A hidden gem from from the 80's japanese underground hardcore, GRAVE NEW WORLD is a essential listen for fans of CROW and GHOUL, featuring a unique mix of hardcore, psyche and primitive noise influences. Guitarist HITOSHI is a rare example of a single vkei musician in a non visual band, a snapshot from the time bands such as X, LIP CREAM and DEATH SIDE coexisted in the same scene. Glad this got properly reissued. Favorite track: The End.

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The Last Sanctuary Vinyl LP + T-Shirt Bundle
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This is a preorder package deal of one (1) Grave New World - The Last Sanctuary LP on black vinyl and one (1) Grave New World - The Last Sanctuary t-shirt with white ink on a black t-shirt. This particular design is a variation of the classic logo drawn circa 1991 by legendary artist Sugichan. These will be made to order and will no longer be available to be purchased come the release date nor will they be sold separately outside of this bundle. Customers will also get a download of the entire album.

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Limited Edition Black & White Smoke Vinyl LP
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This is the black & white smoke color vinyl version of the Grave New World - The Last Sanctuary LP. The record is pressed on 150 gram virgin black vinyl with 24 pt SBS board matte jackets with silver spot gloss.

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Limited Edition Black Vinyl LP
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This is the standard black vinyl version of the Grave New World - The Last Sanctuary LP. The record is pressed on 150 gram virgin black vinyl with 24 pt SBS board matte jackets with silver spot gloss.

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	1.	Never Ending Winter 04:05
	2.	Grave New World 04:27
	3.	Spiral Moment 07:10
	4.	God Breathed His Last In Agony 04:53
	5.	Apocalypse 05:00
	6.	The Last Sanctuary 12:10
	7.	The End 12:39

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Grave New World - The Last Sanctuary LP (BLR-017)

Active for four years, Tokyo's Grave New World is the unfamiliar work of familiar faces. The group's lone album, 1992's experimental crust epic The Last Sanctuary, is uncommonly challenging and immune to easy comparisons. The band took the post-apocalyptic crust blueprints of Amebix, cut them into jagged pieces, tie-dyed them in a Jonestown punchbowl, and made a papier-mâché bust of Maurizio Bianchi. It's the shockingly unexpected output from a supergroup that rose from the '80s hardcore ashes of Asbestos, Crow, Last Bomb, and Crisis Kill. The band set out with the explicit goal of defying expectations, and has suffered a legacy of relative obscurity as the result.

Grave New World was formed in November of 1989 by drummer Kenji (Asbestos), visual kei guitarist Hitoshi (Crisis Kill), and an ex-Asbestos bassist who was soon replaced by Bondage (Last Bomb). Considering the direction their sound ultimately took, the group surprisingly began as a relatively straightforward Discore band, though this quickly changed with the addition of industrial noise addict Crow, who relocated to Tokyo in 1990 to join the band following the dissolution of his namesake, Osakan band the year prior.

The band's sole release The Last Sanctuary was recorded in September of '91 at Shinjuku Antiknock and released by Never Again Records (run by Yoshikawa of DON DON, Nouzui Records) on vinyl and CD a year later. Following in the unfortunate footsteps of Asbestos' The Final Solution.... and Crow's Last Chaos (both ~200 copies), The Last Sanctuary LP received a tragically identical low press run and has since become a collector's nightmare. In the words of Crow, audiences at the time were mostly "indifferent" and the small press run reflected the low demand.

Although only representing a momentary chapter in the lives of its members, Grave New World remains an ambitious project worthy of its talent. As such, The Last Sanctuary has grown in stature and now stands as one of the greatest audial examples of outsider music within the world of hardcore punk. Bitter Lake Recordings is supremely honored to reintroduce to the world one of our favorite records in a pressing of 100 copies on black/white smokey vinyl for mailorder only and 800 copies on black vinyl with black and silver artwork as originally intended.

-Description mostly copied with permission from "Dawning of an Era: Tokyo's Grave New World and When Death Came Along," originally published by Negative Insight.

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released July 10, 2020

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