One brutal platter of sludgecore brutality, served on transparent red vinyl courtesy of the UK imprint Calculon! Black Eye Riot were a band that we'd

heard about previously through Terrorizer and a couple of other prominent metal magazines, but hadn't actually gotten the chance to hear 'em up until now.

Man, are these guys ferocious! Featuring members of Acrimony, Iron Monkey, Helvis, and Dukes Of Nothing, BER are like a sludgemetal soundtrack to a stabbing,

ripping through two ultra negative tracks ("Bitch Slap" and "Battered By Elephants"), a super harsh and aggro hybrid of crusty hardcore punk and dissonant

wah-freakout sludge, like a mashup of Eyehategod, garage rock guitars, and Discharge with fucking murderous dual vocalists trading off between gruff hardcore

shouts and feral screams. Fucking awesome! Charger appears on the B-side with "The Amputee", opening with a syrupy blob of sampled music and noise before

raging through the song proper, another monstrous jam meshing violent hardcore with saurian sludge riffs, a totally damaged number that reminds us of an even

more fucked up Fistula before the band devolves into a skull stomping dirge that gradually melts down into diseased feedback. Pressed on transparent red

vinyl in a limited edition of 500 copies.