One of the most recent C-Blast new arrivals lists, I reviewed a 7" that we got in stock from an upstate New York band called Gas Chamber, which impressed me with it's mix of blazing power violence tainted hardcore and quirky, skilled bass playing. Well, now we've got the debut full length from the band, and it's just as cool as that Ep was, once again with a burly, ferocious blastcore sound that draws from the combined influence of bands like Siege, Crossed Out and Infest, as well as the spasmodic hardcore of early Die Kreuzen and United Mutation, injecting their own noisy wildness into the mix. The album spins a series of tales of familial murder and apocalyptic visions as "Price For Greatness" opens with Lp with some crackling, abrasive electronic noise before launching into the speedy chorus-heavy thrash. The spastic heavy hardcore is shot up with jangly, effects-soaked guitars blasts of crazed speed and manic snarling vocals, and later heads into some slower noisy dirge and a few powerviolence-inspired blasts of total chaos. And again, the bassist really stands out in the mix, playing these weird but very cool jazzy runs and angular bass parts that at one point actually had me envisioning some bizarro meeting between Jaco Pastorius and Mike Watt from the Minutemen against a brutal hardcore backdrop. With those killer quirky bass parts adding a manic, technical edge to the songs, that first side of this record is a goddamn rampage. Over on the b-side, things get a little weirder; they start back up with another hardcore blast with the twitchy, Void-esque brutality of "The Nineteenth Hole", but after driving spikes into your skull for a minute with that song, Gas Chamber suddenly drops into the scraping post-industrial noise barrage "Experiment On Direction" that builds into an explosion of blistering thrash. There's some trippy noise experimentation that pops up on "Last Of The Dogs", and the record closes with the oddball psychedelic HC of "Drug Induced Coma" and it's moody death rock bass intro and ramshackle thrash. And throughout all of this, the songs sink their hooks into you, delivering an offbeat but vicious hardcore album that's really moved these guys to the top of the hardcore heap. Recommended!