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Hell YEAH. Apartment 213 are fucking back on the map with this new 16 song album. Back in the '90's, the Midwest couldn't really compete with California or the East Coast when it came to extreme hardcore. I mean, c'mon...Cali had the whole Slap A Ham contingent, bands like Infest and Crossed Out and Man Is The Bastard that are still unchallenged in terms of sheer annihilating brutality. And out east, we had NYC bands like Disassociate and Black Army Jacket and Disrupt that totally killed. Don't get us wrong, there were LOADS of hardcore bands between coasts that shredded, but most of 'em were more punk, less obliterating extremity. Enter Apartment 213, whose hyperspeed, ultra downtuned toolshed grind came together in the early 1990's out of the dark industrial wastes of Cleveland, and channeled brutal Infest-style powerviolence through a bunch of blue collar Ohio dudes armed with power tools and some serious misanthropy. On this new album, Apartment 213 hasn't changed their sound a bit, still dealing out super sludgy metal riffs, blast beats, and over-the-top aggro barked vocals, but with MUCH better production than their previous stuff. And they are still rooted in the DIY punk aesthetic and a love of experimental and industrial noise. You think extreme blasting speedcore sounds tough? Try adding some fucking power tools and crazed feedback noise to the assault. Their use of noise and post-industrial sonics makes alot of sense seeing as how vocalist Steve Makita is also one-half of legendary industrial noise duo Lockweld. Plus, the last track "Freak War" is a nightmarish noise collaboration between Apartment 213 and Eric Wood of Man Is The Bastard/Bastard Noise ! Seriously crushing stuff. Cleveland Power Violence! Fight with tools!