I seriously doubt that Seth Putnam would have wanted to be eulogized, but I gotta say that I'm glad that the final record from Anal Cunt is as over-the-top offensive and hateful as anything the band ever did, a big stinking thumb in the eye of extreme music all the way to the end. This one-sided Lp came out earlier this year, just after front man and founding member Putnam died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of forty-three, leaving behind a legacy that included some of the most vilified music to ever come out of the grind/death underground. Released on the boutique label Limited Appeal, this hand-assembled Lp comes in a white jacket with full color artwork pasted to the front (courtesy of artist Sean Linehan, who also did the hilarious cover art for AxCx's I Like It When You Die) and the liner notes and track listing affixed to the back, with a minimal insert and hand-stamped labels. Each copy is hand-numbered in an edition of three hundred and ninety-four copies, and like the other Anal Cunt records that Limited Appeal has put out, this is going to be out of print pretty soon.

If you were never a fan of Anal Cunt before, listening to Wearing Out Our Welcome sure wouldn't convert you. The needle scrapes through the eleven songs of standard AxCx blurr that blast your skull with a mix of gnarly midpaced metalpunk and filthy hardcore blasting off into whirlwind distorted noise, labeled with some of the band's most outrageously PC-baiting song titles and lyrics ever, such as "Get On Your Knees, Cunt" and "One Man Ghetto"; there's also some humorous self-awareness when you see other songs on this record like "Nothings Offensive Anymore" and "Wasting Time Writing Anal Cunt Songs". While their earlier albums would be packed to overflowing with super-short blasts of noisecore, their more recent stuff have featured longer songs, with more hardcore thrown into the mix, and less fifteen-second blurrcore eruptions. It's still hard to call these "songs", though, even with the catchy punk riffs and sing-along choruses...this is extremely noisy, chaotic shit, shapeless guitar noise and anti-riffs whipping out mangy hardcore thrash, all fronted by Seth's screeching panther vocals. The song "Caring About Anything Is Gay" that appears second to last could just be their ultimate nihilistic anthem, and is as perfect a final statement from AxCx as you could expect.