There was a band in the late 90's from the UK called Scalplock that were never very well-known over here in the States, but a handful of hardcore freaks that really dug their crust noisy and gnarly, myself included, took a shine to their ultra harsh, grinding hardcore. Scalplock's blend of raw UK crust, death metal, lightspeed blastbeats, and ferocious social commentary that focused obsessively on condemning Western foriegn policy towards third world countries was some heavy, heavy stuff, and the band released a couple of scorching albums on Sound Pollution and legendary black metal label Cacophonous before disappearing around 2002. I had been wondering whatever happened to those guys, and had at least part of the question answered when this 2006 album came across my desk: a six song debut from the one man band Derelict Sermon, a.k.a. Martin Daniels, who was the drummer for Scalplock. I was stoked to hear what this sounded like, but instead of the venomous crust of his former band, Derelict Sermon's self-titled disc opens with a jet of black vomit that I can only compare to a really gnarly, damaged version of Electric Wizard circa Dopethrone if they had been feasting on a heavy diet of underground black metal instead of Cathedral LPs. This is nasty shit, huge low-slung detuned doom riffs dripping with slime, lumbering, pounding drums, and spiteful shrieking vocals. Fucked up, diseased sounding scum doom, inspired by Hellhammer, Abruptum, crust, and ritual blackness...totally recommended!