So weird seeing a black metal album on Youth Attack. This is the same label that released the awesome arty thrashcore of Das Oath and some really killer hardcore from Japan and Chicago, including the notorious fastcore band Charles Bronson, but their latest release is pure fucking blackness, a super limited vinyl release of an out of print cassette from the enigmatic Ancestors. Don't confuse this band with the Hawkwind-worshipping psych-doom band on Tee Pee - this Ancestors is an entirely different beast, an ultra blown-out blackpunk holocaust that showers you in insane levels of caustic distortion. Jesus christ, is this noisy. The mysterious album artwork shows photos of a basement staircase and a dressing room mirror obscured by fog that seems to reflect the image of someone, faceless and formless, their image completely blurred and unrecognizeable, strange images that don't give you any indication of the carnage within...but as soon as this record begins to spin, a rush of ultra distorted, crushing, venomous black metal filth spills out, intensely raw and low-fi and damaged. This band is right up there with Bone Awl, Akitsa and Ildjarn, a violently fucked up blast of blackened punk with stomping, midpaced riffs crumbling off of immensely distorted, speaker-blowing guitars, bestial blackened shrieks, drums mixed so far in the red that they become pounding grenade blasts, and everything is smeared in a thick layers of white noise and grit. More punk than metal, the songs veering through the overdriven murk on hypnotic sledgehammer beats that come close to the fucked up techno-like pummel that Ildjarn was known for, but way more noisy and drowned in malfunctioning amplifier vomit. This record is CRUCIAL if yer a fan of ultrablown, distorted punky black metal a la Bone Awl and Malveillance! Released in a limited edition of 333 copies on heavy white vinyl, this record is already sold out through the label!