Also available on limited edition vinyl with a digital download code.

Reissues and releases of the recordings of legendary drug-chugging sludge maniacs Buzzov-en have been few and far between, with the last collection of out-of-print material Welcome To Violence coming out back in 2005 (and itself now out-of-print!). I'll take what I can get though, especially when it's rare studio stuff that I've never heard before. The latest document from Buzzov-en is a short collection, five songs, that were recorded way back in 1994 around the same time as their amazing album Sore, their sole release for Roadrunner Records, and while the recording quality is pretty grotty and raw, it's still primo Buzzov-en sludge, super heavy and crawling and noise-spattered, smeared in vile black feedback and vomitous screams wallowing in the depths of the mix, more tweaked and freaked-out than Eyehategod but sharing a similar punk-influenced slow-mo crush. The four shorter songs on Violence are punishing, grinding brutality, from "Mainline"'s droning hypnotic sludge and the herky-jerky stop/start groove and delirious samples of "Breed", to the pounding slo-mo drums and feedback-soaked dirge "Paintake" and the short, brutal blast of thrashing hardcore skuzz of "I Never", all of 'em ferocious and pissed and violent, the band swirling in the throes of a murderous narco-fueled rage, totally negative and hateful and psychotic. Then there's the almost sixteen minute "Nod", a seriously slow narcotized dirge with random percussion, swirling slurred and mumbling vocals, an endlessly repeating Sabbathoid riff churning through it, while suspended guitar feedback and super detuned guitar rumble hovers in the murky atmosphere, super heavy but also really abstract, a killer slab of noisy psychedelic drugsludge.

Needless to say, anyone into Buzzov-en's early releases will love this unearthed collection of tracks, especially the four shorter tracks that deliver the amazingly ferocious punky sludgecore that these guys helped pioneer. Comes in digipack packaging, and includes some brief liner notes from Buzzov-en singer/guitarist Kirk Fisher that suggests that a new full length may finally be coming soon from the band!