Just turned up some of the original, cheaper Troubleman Unlimited version of the debut EP from Behold...The Arctopus. This one is essentially out of print, and when these are gone, they're gone.

The follow up to the NYC shredmasters debut 3" on Epicene, their Nano-Nucleonic EP on Troubleman serves up three dizzying explosions of tech-metal shredtasticness highlighted by the presence of shredmaster Colin Marston, who is also a member of the Dadaist ambient-metal-clatter duo Infidel?/Castro! as well as Dysrhythmia and Byla. Colin's virtuoso Warr tap-guitar skills is shit that must to be heard/seen to be believed...hyper-speed prog runs and lightspeed guitar tapping are shot out faster than your ears can follow, with jazz-informed composition and complexity getting down with straight thrash metal insanity, further bolstered by a display of insane octopoidal drumming that tumbles out of jams like "Estrogen/Pathogen Exchange Program", "Sensory Amusia", and an ambient jazzy bliss out that surfaces in the middle of "Exospacial Psionic Aura" that'll flip your wig. All instrumental and all epic, swarming over your eardrums like the nexus of progressive Atheist/Meshuggah/Cynic tech and the kind of underground, hyperactive avant-shred that you get from ADD-addled nuts like Orthrelm (who shared that split CD single with Behold...The Arctopus on Crucial Blast), Naked City, and Melt Banana.