It's hard to believe that these maniacs are even still alive, let alone still performing as Anal Cunt after all of these years of substance abuse, overdoses, comas, brawls, and rampant assholism. But the nefarious AxCx has been pretty busy this past year, with a full US tour and performances at some of the bigger metal festivals here in the U.S....I actually caught them at a show right outside of Hagerstown last spring when they were on tour, and the fact that Anal Cunt were performing in our little 'burg was surreal enough, but there they were, ripping through a half hour set that had them berating the crowd of rioting kids over an ear shredding assault of ultraheavy punked-out grind noise. In betwixt all of this activity, AxCx dropped this disc called Defenders Of The Hate on Menace To Sobriety Records last summer ('07), which was touted as a new release from the band. It's not though, so AxCx collectors need to take note; Defenders Of The Hate is actually a twenty-minute mini-album that collects the remastered eleven tracks from the Defenders of the Hate EP from 2001, and ten bonus tracks from their split wih Flachenbrand, the 13 Bands Who Think You're Gay compilation LP, and the Thrash Of The Titans compilation LP. And the "music" is exactly what you'd expect, short minute-long blasts of impossibly fast, downtuned grindcore pushed to the limit, usually turning into a blurr of violent Merzbowian noise, although bits of fucked-up punk, deformed rock, and grooving sludge riffs show up here and there. Super pissed off and offensive, with song titles like "Obviously Adopted", "You Quit Doing Heroin, You Pussy", and more that I can't even print here. These cretins are still completely out of control.