Ripping psychedelic hardcore, dressed up on a scorhing little platter wrapped in great acid-skull art and bad attitudes. Both of these bands are from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and each deliver their own unique brand of thrashy noise-damaged punk violence that has the same kind of scum vibe I get from bands like older Clockcleaner and Violent Students. Be Bad's debut album was reviewed a few weeks back in one of our store updates, and their two songs here ("The Slaves Who Buried The Pharoah" and "Ruin Your Life") continue down that same path of twitchy hardcore fused with 90's noise rock, pummeling stop start drumming launching into driving thrash, the singer shouting ambiguous threats, wall-of-noise riffs bashed out on the guitar and revving up into tornado blasts of droning monochord, and weird oscillator effects breaking down in the mix. I'm getting into these guys more and more with each new dose of music I'm getting from them, and anyone into the current hardcore/noise rock fusion needs to check Be Bad out. Attack Mode are really cool too, with a sound that crosses burly hardcore like Negative Approach and Black Flag with creepy No New York art skronk, their songs "Piece Of Shit", "Society's A Prison", and "Straightfaced" loaded with damaged riffing, wiry breakdowns, and frenzied screams. Their songs have a spooky, reverb overload atmosphere that hangs over their side of the split, there's an almost vintage sound to their music that makes me think of the obscure art-damaged, hardcore-connected post-punk stuff that Homestead was putting out in the late 80's. This EP is a rager!