This 2005 album from the New York band Ed Gein takes the first half of it's title from the practice of the "judas goat", which is where meat processing facilities will use a trained goat to lead other animals to the abattoir for slaughter, while the slaughterhouse spares the life of the goat for as long as it is deemed useful. It's a horrific metaphor that ties in with Ed Gein's bleak, ultra-nihilistic worldview. Their music matches that grim outlook on this album with thirteen tracks of seriously skull-crushing metal that comes from the same grimy gutter of Amphetimine Reptile influenced heaviness as Engineer and Coalesce. Ed Gein crank the speed up tenfold though, combining a brutal grindcore attack with their jagged, angular sludge and caustic, noise-rock infected hardcore that ends up sounding like a cross between Coalesce and Brutal Truth. That's one heavy combination that they batter you with nonstop on songs like "Robert Flaig" and the herky-jerky thrash stutter of "Amen", the dissonant angular crawl and hollow percussive dirge of the instrumental jam "Christianity As Foreign Policy", and blastbeat scorched bludegeonings like "Small Towns, Small Minds". Their sound and bad attitude is as rooted in hardcore as anything, which is really apparent in the bile-filled lyrics that condemn everything from redneck racism to the military industrial complex. Heavy as fuck and pissed off beyond belief, these guys hammer home their filthy, spiteful beatings with ridiculously fast blastbeats, fucked up technical riffing, the kind of lopsided sludgy grooves that Coalesce patented, and tons of scummy, Am-Rep-on-steroids distorted power.

We've got this crusher on 180 gram limited edition colored vinyl in red/clear splatter, and packaged in a posh gatefold jacket that has killer new artwork that is largely different from the CD version.