If you’d like to put the split release between Brooklyn doomers Unearthly Trance and Wooden Wand into some kind of context — and hey, who doesn’t love context? — the year it first came out on Chrome Peeler Records, 2010, was the same year that Unearthly Trance released their final to-date album, V (review here), on Relapse. They also had a collaborative release out that year with Swedish outfit Suma, with whom they toured. Wooden Wand, in the meantime, released the Death Seat album through Michael Gira‘s Young God Records after working with Thurston Moore‘s Ecstatic Peace imprint on 2009’s Hard Knox.

Neither outfit, then, coming into the split in anything resembling a slouch. Unearthly Trance would call it quits soon enough — I think in no small part because of the aforementioned tour — but the Manson split remains a curio, with Unearthly Trance and Wooden Wand both taking on songs written by the serial killer, and both working in a decidedly dark but quiet aesthetic, the underlying threat of the material made plain across its relatively brief span.

Chrome Peeler, in order to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the release and Unearthly Trance‘s return to activity this month with a West Coast tour, has made the tracks available as a name-your-price download. The particulars:

Unearthly Trance / Wooden Wand “Manson” 7″

Celebrate the 5th anniversary of UNEARTHLY TRANCE / WOODEN WAND “Manson” 7″. Now available to download HERE.

About the record:
Unearthly Trance reach into the hole of the infinite with their haunting version of Charles Manson’s “People Say I’m No Good” while Wooden Wand programs the young love with a version of “Get On Home.” Originally released in an edition of 200 that sold out instantly.

UNEARTHLY TRANCE side recorded at SIR, NYC 2010.

WOODEN WAND side recorded at Pagan Sound, Lexington, KY spring 2010.

UNEARTHLY TRANCE WEST COAST TOUR
Nov. 13-14 – Midnite Communion III at The Breakers, Long Beach CA w/ Morne, Brainoil, Dopethrone & more
Nov. 15 – The Golden Bull, Oakland CA w/ CHRCH, Abstracter
Nov. 16 – Club 66, Ashland OR
Nov. 17 – Star Theater, Portland OR w/ Samothrace, Ephemeros
Nov. 18 – The Highline, Seattle WA w/ Samothrace, MG?A, Weregoat
Nov. 19 – Hindenberg, Vancouver BC w/ Usnea, Haggatha

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Unearthly Trance & Wooden Wand, Manson Split (2010)