Just got the A Momentary Sense Of The Immediate World Ep that avant-grinders Flourishing released last year, a taste of the roiling chaos of their new album that I'll hopefully be getting in stock at some point soon. This New York band features a member of the mighty Wetnurse, and like that band plays a seriously heavy, violent mix of hardcore, death metal, grind and noise rock, but where Wetnurse combines those sounds into a kind of lurching, progressive noise rock crush, Flourishing blast off into a much more chaotic, dissonant direction on their debut Ep. It opens with an unsettling din of wailing tones that resemble warped high end strings or air raid sirens, as the song "Harvesting" lunges through a manic blur of spastic grindcore drumming, woozy dissonant riffing and gruff, howling vocals. This angular, chaotic deathgrind assault has echoes of the atonal ferocity that Gorguts created on their Obscura album (no doubt a big influence on Flourishing's avant garde deathblast) and the strange riffwarps of Immolation, but that alien riffing and atonality is run through some crazed metallic noise rock/hardcore along the lines of Today Is The Day or Deadguy, with a singer who veers from wheezing screams to burly mid-range death metal style bellowing. The production is nice and rough, giving this churning violence an ugly blood-stained patina, and the songs are bookended with subtle industrial noise textures and factory ambience. Bits of creepy melody surface throughout the chaotic skronk and angular, wiry grind, even breaking into a souple of quick flashes of chiming math rock, but the meat of Momentary Sense is that atonal, convoluted death metal / prog-grind that continuously assaults the listener across the five songs on this disc.