It Will Eclipse All Land And Sea

It Will Eclipse All Land And Sea is the only album by Rock Bottom based group It Will Eclipse All Land And Sea. The album was recorded a decade before it was released, as the label that planned to release it folded a few days before the anticipated release date.
It was released across two C120s by the Rock Top Recordings label, situated in the band's hometown of Rock Bottom. Both were sold in a plain white box, sometimes signed by the individual band members.
== Style and Influence on the later scene ==
The playing is noisy and atonal, which drew comparisons to the no-wave scene around the time of the album's release, and the vocals are all screamed.
The album was produced to sound broken. The vocals clipped through the mix at times, and the tape was often spliced and re-arranged during long instrumental passages, and noise bursts were prevalent throughout the release.
The closing track is two hours long, and is a looped instrumental that gets steadily more layered with radically different looped instrumentals.
Bands like Builder and Cog, both fronted by prolific musician Squidward Tentacles were heavily influenced by the sound on this album.
== Tracklist ==
# Caesar (4:26)
# There's Nothing To See (15:34)
# A Collection Of Experiments With Tape (31:55)
# Outside (7:57)
Side 2
# Christmas, 1966 (25:03)
# Start Again On Tuesday (1:24)
# How Do You (2:21)
# Disposing Of Broken Electric Guitars Through Means Of Violence (31:00)
Side 3
# Songs that were too short to warrant their own titles (30:00, contains about 17 different compositions)
# Gated Community (29:33)
Side 4
# Gated Community (59:00)
== Reception ==
The album was well received by indie publications upon its release, but gained a cult following in the late 90s and early 2000s.
== Mystery ==
No musicians on the album have been identified, as the signed tapes were signed under pseudonyms, although Harold Squarepants has alluded to being at the sessions as an audio engineer.