They made their mark on everyone that saw them perform live throughout the 1990s, the fire breathing and pounding gang-drum rhythmic marches and dionysian/psychedelic vibes unlike much else happening back then in the American underground, but lately Crash Worship seem to have become a footnote in the heavy psych/post-punk annals. I've gotta admit, it had been awhile since I last pulled out any of their recordings to spin, but when I finally got my hands on this old, hard to find 7" that Charnel Music put out back in the mid-90's, the drumlust and creeped out psychnoise brought it all back for me. Pyru features the title track on the A-side, a monstrous drum-circle thump attack that sounds like tribal beats being banged out in a syrupy herion haze, while the air all around is thick with deformed funk riffs, droning Hammond organs, damaged acid-psych guitar leads, deep chanting, and looping tape sounds. Heavy stuff, and this jam is a perfect example of why so few bands have matched Crash Worship's hypnotic tribal industrial power. The B-side opens with a variant on the title track, "Pyru Sodium Di Hexaride Dub", which cranks up the narco-effects and reverb really heavily on the core Hammond drone and voodoo beats, and the second track on the side "ICHE Horn" blows some sinister brass horns over massive, MASSIVE tribal drums en masse, and as the track slithers through the huge rhythmic crash and pound, it becomes a demonic snake-chamer tune with a vaguely Middle Eastern melody being squawked by a combination of mutant woodwind or voice (or both). The jacket for the 7" is pretty wild, with a freaked out cover depicting a psychedelic collage and a cosmos-cruising avatar shlopping his wang across the CW logo.