��Back in stock. Before that blistering self-titled album came out on Candlelight last year, before the band started to actively knock skulls with their reactivated Animosity-era lineup (bassist/vocalist Mike Dean, drummer Reed Mullin and guitarist Woody Weatherman) at events like Maryland Deathfest, they dropped this pummeling 2010 7" EP via Southern Lord Records that featured a single, monstrous eight-minute song called "Your Tomorrow" that was split across the two sides. Even though it was the first time that these guys had played with this particular permutation of the band in years, this was not the return to the classic crossover sound of the Animosity record that many confused it for. Instead, the seminal North Carolinian hardcore band dived even deeper into the sort of sludgy, Sabbath-obsessed metalpunk that started to emerge on their Technocracy EP, fusing driving, rocking grooves to bursts of amplifier-imploding fuzzshock.

�� "Your Tomorrow" kicks off with pummeling, metallic hardcore punk that almost feels like a more feral, fanged Kyuss for a moment. There's been a lot of muttering about how different this (and the self-titled album that followed) sounded from their Animosity-era stuff, but to me this sounds like real-deal COC, from the lurching angular riffing and fucked-up guitar noise that has always been a reminder of how much these guys were like an uglier East Coast answer to Black Flag early on in their career, to the sudden descents into bone-crushing Sabbathian heaviness. Of course, a lot of listeners were sorta shocked by Mike Dean's newfound wailing vocals, giving this a bit of an Ozzy-esque feel, but I really dig 'em. And when the song picks up on the other side, it's a wailing mess of freeform drumming and nasally, screaming feedback before the band lurches right back into that killer propulsive riff, driving this song into the distance before finally fading out on that crushing doom-laden sludge.

�� Now sold out from the label, the few copies we have in stock are the last we're going to get...