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Early Locrian

Posted by Loren on November 10, 2026

Early Locrian
photo by Kelly Rix

Locrian has a new fivve-Cd box set of older material, coming as a limited release of 200 copies under the Land of Ruins title. The set ocmes via label Arsenic Solaris and focuses on the 2005-2009 period when the band was still forging their sound.

Read a full tracklist with all the infos behind. It releases on Dec. 16 -- just in time for all those holiday wishlists.

Per the release statement, "The set is housed in a printed box designed by Terence Hannum, with a 16-page booklet built around a muted steel-blue palette and a barcode motif that erodes from disc to disc. The artwork features Brian Ulrich’s photographs of Dixie Square Mall, the abandoned shopping center outside Chicago. Writer Jonathan Rosenthal and André Foisy contribute essays on the period, alongside live photographs, flyers from the band’s early shows, and a complete discography of the 2005 to 2009 releases."

Tracklist:

1. Setting Yr Jetta on Fire
2. Amps into Instruments
3. Chladni (Extended Version)
4. Freehand Plateaus
5. Galleria Malaise
6. VisibleInvisible
7. elbisivnIelbisivV
8. VisibleInvisible (LIVE)
9. This is Normal for Me
10. Void (Wilt)
11. Plague Journal
12. Apocryphal Cities, Portents Fallen
13. Plague Journal (LIVE)
14. Gruen Transfers
15. Drosscape
16. Burying the Carnival
17. Exhuming the Carnival
18. Endless Plains
19. Flat Horizons
 

Early Locrian
photo by Kelly Rix

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