We were gushing over these guys a couple of months back, a brutal Norwegian take on Am Rep style noise rock, like Tad, or Melvins, or Unsane, but heavier and crazier and with a singer that sometimes sounds like freaking Bobcat Goldthwait. Serious. So needless to say we are PSYCHED over this new 2-song platter from Norway Rat that boasts two tracks of total mangle, "Moneyshot" and "Reperbahne", the latter being a total destructo one-chord dirge freakout, and the former laying down some of the excellent/hateful noisey sludge rock these guys do so well. Here's what we said about their righteous Proposing A Pact With Jesus CD..."Freaking ripping primal noise rock from Norway, with badass hooks and a brootal Melvins meets Unsane meets Tad meets Six Finger Satellite assault that blew our doors off! Dirgy downtempo filth, high energy sludge tantrums, nasty barbed wire guitar crush and thuggish bass and pounding drum blitzkrieg, with distorted vocal spew that sounds a little like Bobcat Goldthwait fronting the best fucking psycho-hardcore Am Rep outfit you've never heard. Almost-NWOBHM riffs get rung thru brutal noise blowout. Catchy, scuzzed out, with massed punishing whiteout drone riffing and some golden hooks that'll bury themselves in your gristle...." Totally necessary for scum heads into Brainbombs, Unsane, Melvins, Scratch Acid, Jesus Lizard,and all gross discordant noise rock (with the emphasis on ROCK), this is great shit! PLUS, the 7" comes in a totally aggro color sleeve armed with a strip of some sort of sandpaper type material glued to the inside, so that the vinyl naturally rests against it, grinding at the grooves and fucking up the record (slightly) so that it's even noisier and more crazed and wrecked when you throw it on the turntable ! As far as skips, our copy does a little, but putting a quarter or something similiar on the needle corrects the situation. The concept is AWESOME, an amazing piece of self destructive art, like Amphetimine Reptile thuggery transmitted via Christian Marclay/Record Without A Cover style vinyl damage! Produced by low-end wiz Billy Anderson (Weedeater,Swans,Cathedral,etc.), and released in an edition of 300 copies!