This split album from 2003 is a crucial document of two of the Southeast's most adventurous hardcore outfits, a snapshot of each band as they were further evolving into their unqiue, psychedelic attacks. Cream Abdul Babar starts the first half of the split, and deliver 4 tracks of awesome doomy, chaotic heaviness with 2 ferocious singers and those multiple keyboards and trombone punctuating around the crushing riffs, their triiumphant blasts of mania channeling Karp, Unsane and Neurosis in the same breath, a dirgey, quirky noise rock inflected sludge assault. Their last jam, "Rose In The Mouth", breaks up the aggro with an almost kraut-ish zoneout section that is particularly choice. Then comes Kylesa, fully transforming from swampy post-Damad sludge into the apocalyptic psych-crust warriors we now know them as. I've become a huge fan of Kylesa recently, and of how their music draws from both brutal crustcore and punishingly heavy dirge-metal as well as Pink Floyd, krautrock, and other classic psych forms. Their half of the split is the amazing five part suite "Curse Of Lost Days", which opens with a brief, trippy wash of electronic effects and delayed guitar clank. The second part then kicks into an awesome anthemic crustmetal dirge fronted by Laura's feral screams and Philip's gruff shouts , with spacey electronic effects soaring over, finally breaking down into insectoid electronic noise. The third part appears in a storm of grinding hypnotic riffage and even more ethereal cosmic effects, and again the music gradually winds down into a trippy, freeform psych jam, this time with simple slow drumming and the keyboards (sounding almost Fender Rhodes-ish at some points!) and guitars taking off into some lysergic deep-space exploration. Imagine a combo of Neurosis, Dystopia, and early Pink Floyd. I was surprised by how killer this split is, honstly it's some of the best work either of these band's have done. Cool packaging too, with smeared metallic silver inks screenprinted onto a coarse matte stock.