A US/Euro split featuring two underground breakcore producers who have both had their share of flirtations with extreme metal elements, which has us scurrying to check out anything and everything that these cats have releases thus far...

Teknoist are first up with a side loaded with Shitmat-style chaos-breaks and splattery junglist mayhem, fucking crazed stuff that won me over instantly. The first track "Have You Seen" is a combination of monstrous breakcore frenzy and haunting dark ambience, the massive rhythms surging beneath traumatized cries and eerie strings, getting even more frantic and spastic as it goes on, throwing out all kinds of rhythmic fuckery and drum loops and sudden jarring blasts of gabber beats, and then suddenly it stops and reverses itself, grinding backwards to the end of the track, a dark assault on your nervous system from start to finish. The other track "No Suck Luck" is in a similar mode, with more of that insane Shitmat-style gabber / jungle / speedcore chaos now mixing with somber choral voices and Gregorian style chants.

On Eustachian's side, the breakcore producer gives us some awesome death metal influenced break/blast insanity, a series of massively splattery blastbeat/jungle concoctions that fuse deathgrind with ridiculously convoluted drum n' bass, chopping up grind riffs and howling high-pitched screams and bizarre electronic noises and scattering it all over hyperfast beats and industrial pounding. Sounds a LOT like Whourkr, actually, although Eustachian don't get as far out and abstract as those guys. Sort of similar to Drumcorps, too; fans of either of those aforementioned outfits will obviously love this stuff. The highlight of their side, for me, was the "Trifecta Fecal Factor Mix", a remix of the song "Smear Campaign" from Napalm Death's album of the same name, the song stretched out and dissected and re-assembled into a deliriously choppy blast of abstracted gabber-grind, with added freaked-out psychedelic vocal weirdness and MASSIVE speedcore beats laid over the ferocious riffing.