Here's a real crazed album from a few years ago that I just got tuned in to, the second full length from a South Carolina band unfortunately named Avenging Disco Godfathers Of Soul. I'd seen this record around but never checked it out due to that ridiculous name and the assumption that this was going to be more godawful screamo, but that's not the case at all. The vocals are for the most part screamed, a harsh bloody howl, but the music turned out to be pretty cool and way more interesting than some run of the mill metallic modern hardcore. These guys play a weird breed of sinister mathy metallic core, chaotic grindcore, electronic synth parts that sound kind of like old 8-bit/chiptune melodies, abstract jazz, and some instrumental stuff that sounds like a spastic take on Carl Stalling's cartoon themes, with xylophones, electronic rototoms and other synthetic percussion, and John Carpenter-esque synths turning up in these manic blasts. Naked City is one obvious reference point here; Avenging Disco Godfathers sound like they might have been chugging down long sessions of listening to Grand Guignol and Torture Garden alongside Daughter's Canada Songs, old Goblin soundtracks and Riz Ortolani's score for Cannibal Holocaust, Converge's Petitioning The Empty Sky and the robotic punk of The VSS'Nervous Circuits. The grind stuff disappears almost completely towards the end of the record, as they band descends into total electronic horror music with warbling tape and synths swirling together into a mass of electronic noise and hysterical screams, weird burbling sounds and tinkling chimes, like some Delia Derbyshire acid trip from hell. After this came in and I started spinning it a bunch, we dug around online and found out that this band actually has former members of Index For A Potential Suicide, whose killer LP was reviewed not too long ago here at C-Blast. I can see the connection between the warped nerve-damaged avant grind of IFAPS and this weird jazz/mathmetal/punk/horror experimentation that Avenging Disco deals on this ten song LP.