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Los Angeles grind weirdos Crom team up with Agoraphobic Nosebleed to deliver a short but brutal 7" that features five tracks of what-the-fuck powerviolence from the former and two new tracks of blazing drum-machine powered ultragrind from the latter. It's comin' to us courtesy of German scum peddlers R.S.R., who released the 7" on black vinyl in a limited run of 500 copies, and packaged it in a full color double sided sleeve which includes all of Agoraphobic Nosebleed's lyrics (thank christ) along with bizarre liner notes from Crom.

These are the first Agoraphobic Nosebleed tracks that I've heard with new vocalist Kat (from doom/sludge creeps Salome), and both "Pantheon Crack Torche" and " Home Invasion" seriously fucking shred. The first one is a blasting holocaust of angular grind/speed violence with paintscraping screamed vocals, monstrous growling, punishing sludge riffage, and ultra heavy drum programming. The second song is the longer of the two, and it's total fucking chaos, with singers Kat, Jay and Richard splattering their shrieks/screams/roars across Scott Hull's schizoid mangle of jagged thrash metal riffs, clusterbomb blastbeats revved up to an insane 500 bpm velocity, and slurred, lurching sludge, complete with crack epidemic metaphors and lyrics about having the LAPD run roughshod over your apartment and killing your entire family.

Crom spew five new tracks of hesher weirdness on their side: the Bavarian Metal tribute, Conan samples, boogie rock collage and discordant neanderthal powerviolence of "Swords And Sandals; "Talons Of Ibis" and its phased speed metal defrag that clocks in at 30 seconds; the longest track is "The Black Ring", it's sludgy feedback infested verse, whooshing Hawkwind effects and delayed snarls trailing off into infinity; "Mystics And Heretics" breaks off a ten second blurt of Infest-esque hatred; and closer "Tree Of Woe II" drifts in on a wave of fucked up effects and pounding drums, launches into what sounds like it's going to be an absolutely crushing doom metal riff, then suddenly vomits up an 80's pop sample and stops.