Absolutely one of the most fucked up, outrageous releases ever to come out of the Bay Area powerviolence scene. This band formed out of the ashes of Plutocracy (who were pretty out there in their own right) and this takes a step further into absolute nonsensical drugged out madness. Takes off from a basis of grind/punk but throws in all kinds of hip-hop samples, tribal samples, samples of whatever other music appearing between and during songs in a chaotic, disorienting manner (sometimes overtop of the middle of a song for no reason, sometimes multiple ones will occur at once, sometimes the band will play along to them in their own demented, noisy manner), a bunch of different vocal styles come and go from the action but the most memorable are the over the top high pitched yelps you'll hear plenty of. Lots of weird, noisy guitar riffs and nutty song structures, plenty of brutal blasts and grinding hate, just an essential and painfully overlooked entry into the Slap-A-Ham Records output. Released in 1997, a bunch of tracks appear on the "Le$$ons 93-98" compilation but unfortunately not the whole thing (which is stupid considering said release claims to be a "discography", oh well). Long out of print but it's not too difficult to come across a reasonably priced copy if you know where to look (got mine for $3 at Hits and Misses in Toronto, fans of this shit or just punk records in general should make a point of hitting that place up).
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