Released in 1998 on Italian grindcore label Headfucker Records, the debut album from Denver's demented, pot-smoking tech-jazz-death-grind freakoids Cephalic Carnage was often unavailable to those of us here in the US for long stretches of time due to spotty distribution; eventually, the album was reissued in a remastered version by Relapse with some bonus tracks added on, and the new version sounds fantastic. I just came across a couple copies in our warehouse of the Subordinate/Headfucker release however, which might be of interest to collectors; this version, which is apparently now out of print from the label, features two tracks from their split with Impaled ("Observer to the Obliteration of Earth" and "Regurgitation Adnauseam and Fecal Decay") that don't appear on the current Relapse reissue. Here's the original review that I wrote for the album years ago when we first got the Headfucker release in stock :

This is the dizzying debut full length from Colorado hydro-grinders Cephalic Carnage, reissued by the Italian label Subordinate. Even on their first album, Cephalic were aeons ahead of the rest of the grindcore scene, combining ultra-lethal blastbeat action and chainsaw riffage with a bizarre combo of jazz breakdowns and electronic noise that comes from out of nowhere. The guitar playing and song structures brandish skull-melting technicality, yet the band manages to invest killer hooks and catchy riffs in all of their songs. The drumming is positively octopoid, and it takes multiple listens to Conforming to Abnormality to be able to follow everything going on behind the kit. Lenzig�s multi-faceted vocals range from inhuman death metal bellows to insane monkey shrieks and the band employs some unpredictable production techniques like sub-bass drops and fucked-up electronic break beats that take this way out of the parameters of traditional death/grind. Critically acclaimed upon its release, it�s good to have this seminal blast of experimental grind available again. Essential for fans of hyperblasting, dopesmoking, fucked-up hydro math grind...