Found out about this band when I was reading the latest issue of Brian Walsby's Manchild. Walsby plays drums for this hardcore punk band from Raleigh, North Carolina, and as soon as I heard that they were getting compared to Animosity-era Corrosion Of Conformity and legendary D.C. freakazoid punkers Void, I was scrambling for a copy of their album. Oh boy, did that comparison nail it. Double Negative (who have one of the raddest band names I've seen on a new hardcore outfit) perfectly nail that unhinged, climbing-the-walls quality that C.O.C. had on their 1987 album, ripping through a vaguely metallic brand of hardcore with an emphasis on serious speed, but they crank up the mania via the whakced out playing of guitarist Epic Warfare, who wrenches both shredding thrash riffs and clusters of bizarre dissonant leads and chaotic guitar noise out of his axe that reminds me of both Bubba Dupree and Greg Ginn. Killer! Then there's KC's yowling vocals that sound eerily similiar to a methed-up Guy Picciotto, and the band throws in some mangled noise rock riffage in amongst the highspeed HC. I love this band. At first it seems kinda short at eighteen minutes, but then I come to my senses and realize that anything more would be overkill. So great - these guys have definitely been around and have soaked up all of the best bits of late 1980's hardcore; might surprise some of you that this gnarly breakneck thrash is coming from a bunch of older guys who used to play in Polvo, Erectus Monotonen and The Patty Duke Syndrone! The disc also contains an enhanced-cd section with a video called Pulling Teeth Out Of Skulls, a fourteen minute collection of live footage of the band playing a bunch of their originals as well as furious covers of songs from Minor Threat, DRI and others.